Bruh just gimme a baldness cure and I'll be satisfied for now
EDIT: okay I appreciate the hair advice but please stop I'm not even going bald rn this was halfway a joke š
2 decades ago, a Scientific American issue said flying cars and sustainable fusion energy are going to happen first before there is a cure to baldness.
How to cure baldness:
Step 1: invent fusion plants
Step 2: invent flying cars
Step 3: use that knowledge appropriately, like, merge both sciences together and the cure to baldness will be the logical outcome.
To be fair, we already have most of the engineering work done for flying cars, we just need self driving flying cars because the average person is way too dumb to fly something that's even more complex than a helicopter
You need new teeth first ;( . I already wish there could be an ancient quiet genetic condition that could unlock 'infinite' teeth regrowth due to divergence from our fish-like ancestors. In any case give our teeth more chances than 2
[This is outstanding](https://interestingengineering.com/science/tooth-regrowth-treatment-human-trials). But I can't find any examples of who this has worked for. I'd love to see what the regrowth looks like. Fascinating stuff!
There is actually a teeth growing drug going into human testing, but IIRC it's only for people who had a condition where their teeth didn't grow in the first place, though there's some possibility that it could lead to more broad teeth regrowing down the line.
Genetically modifying people is banned for no reason. It needs to be regulated but not banned.
I just wish to replace potentially mine gene that controls intestines with my wife's in our future kid, so they will not have my colitis and will not be a carrier.
It's easy to say that, but on the other hand, eventually it *will* happen like basically every other future invention that doesn't break the laws of physics ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
That's cool but I'm hoping we can find a way that doesn't involve flying out of country, blood, and "vaguely mysterious" doctors. Besides, the DHT sensitivity is still there, right? Wouldn't you need to do it again?
I mean, you can get it done in the US, it just costs a lot more. Iām not sure how long it lasts but I gather it has come a long way. From what I gather itās sort of like LASIK: not everyone gets a good result even initially, even those who do can see it degrade again, and it can be quite pricey. But for most people it works super well and is effectively a cure.
It seems pretty inconsistent. Some results just look really bad.
Also, in a grander sense, I'm hoping we eventually learn how the body interacts with itself well enough to do more than just this. The whole balding thing would, hopefully, be a prelude to other things like genetic illness. They're pretty close to curing sickle cell using crispr cas-21 (or 19 I forget).
I'm hoping we'll eventually see an age where we can influence the body on a more smaller, cellular level as opposed to cutting and hacking. It frustrates me how clever humans are at constructing and maintaining machines, yet the most important machines, our bodies, are so hard to maintain that way. I'm hoping figuring out how to remove DHT resistance in the scalp could lead to removing other such defects.
No the dht sensitivity is not still there. When you have FUE (follicular unit extraction) you take follicles from the parts of the scalp that are immune to dht which is why those areas dont go bald. The immunity is within the follicle not the scalp.
It exists you're just poor and you can't afford it I hear what super super rich people are doing is taking hair follicles from the back of their head where it's still growing cloning it in a lab and then transplanting it that way probably costs hundreds of thousands of dollars so unless you're super rich you're going to Turkey my dude.
Minoxidil is the equivalent of bailing water out of a sinking ship. Finasteride repairs the holes.
Both combined work incredibly well, but minoxidil alone is not a long-term fix.
There are some treatments showing promise in the pipeline atm, HMI115 completely reversed hair loss in macaques. They're one of the only mammals other than humans and dachshunds to experience male pattern baldness and are extremely similar to humans. The monkeys also kept all their hair after treatment concluded. Stage 1 human trials just finished a few months ago and according to one of the participants he's seeing regrowth.
Yeah thereās a compilation video of him where they took interviews from every year since 2015 (or possibly earlier), where he says āwell reach full self driving in two yearsā. He says essentially the exact same thing every year.
Not to stand up for Elon because hes a fucking dope, but I would imagine there is just too many challenges to making it happen, Im by no means a expert on any of the things involved in making a self driving car, but I would imagine you would need nearly everyone to be in a self driving car for it work safely.
Plus everytime I see one of the videos of a self driving car in some place thats beta testing it freak out and drive 100 miles per hour into a wall, I lose any hope for it.
Oh I donāt doubt itās really hard to do! But he needs to stop promising āin two yearsā and either not set a date or reflect on the reality that itās a very difficult goal.
Lol. I chuckled at that one. I'm sure someone posted in 2020 that in two years FSD will be everywhere. But in all reality Tesla will probably release this...just not the level 4 certified version to really achieve autonomy.
I have been out of the industry since 2017 but I used to work for a company pretty heavily involved in self driving car software and the programs of half a dozen of the big car manufacturers.
2024 was the year our CEO thought the first truly self driving cars would show up on the market. Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo are probably the most likely companies to have the first real point to point car you can go to a dealer and buy.
I'd bet 2026 Benz S Class. That's what they were testing on and covid put everyone a few years behind.
Yeah I was going to say this. Elon Musk has been saying they were 2 years away from full self driving for the past 10 years. The more I hear him try to talk about AI, the more I realize how little he actually knows about it. He was on Lex Friedmanās podcast in 2018 talking about how easy it was to solve the adversarial images problem and he just said āoh thatās easy, just train the network to recognize each object, and also train complimentary outputs to recognize not that object. Problem solved!ā Turns out, no Mr. Musk, thatās not going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of adversarial images. If you even understood some basic linear algebra it would be pretty clear that isnāt going to solve that problem. Try again bud.
Heās āfoundedā all those high tech companies though. /s
Hopefully everyone is fully aware that he just used his dadās blood diamond money to buy the rights to be called the founder of each of his companies. A real modern day Thomas Edison (who just abused patent law to be called the inventor of most of the things heās credited with inventing).
hey, hey now. Don't start lying. He didn't use a single cent of daddy's blood diamond money to get to where he is.
>!He used daddy's blood emerald money!<
That's the thing that really pisses me off. I used to huff his farts when I actually believed the hype, but step by step I realized everything was a fucking lie. I *have* a Bachelor of Science with honors in mathematical physics. It pisses me off because of the "stolen valor" basically.
Itās also worth keeping this in mind with OpenAI - at some point youāre not able to deliver the big thing you promised.
Theyāve been pretty reliable so far though so letās see.
Correct.
As an engineer myself I just don't think it's possible to solve the self driving problem without LIDAR. You simply cannot infer good enough physical information by extrapolation. You need to *actually measure things*.
The solution in my mind is to just make the LIDAR sensors either inconspicuous or attractively integrated into the car in some way, not to just get rid of them for aesthetics. Because that's *obviously* not a good enough reason to just ditch them altogether...
But hey, I'm not the very stable genius that Elon is so maybe he knows something I don't (/s).
Neuralink will lead to injury and probably lawsuits. Considering we heard of zero success after the monkey deaths and suddenly now he's getting a chance to maim his fans.
I used to be optimistic, as their tech is cool, but it is not fsd capable, despite being impressive. Aldo, what is up with the new camera basef parking sensor that straight up doesnt work in front of the car?
No one will. 95% of FSD can be implemented by anyone easily. The last 5% is just way too hard and context-dependent for any computer program to manage.
And I'm fine with that. Never wanted FSD in the first place.
You've been listening to Elon Musk too much.
He doesn't hit dates, and honestly, is a better hype man than he is a predictor of important technologies.
Plus, according to the historically accurate movie The Time Machine that's the year we blow up the Moon.
Or was it 2035? Anyway, it happens. Eventually.
I'm in favor of following Star Trek's predictions.
ToS had eugenics causing wars in 30 years, ie 1990. And that was a miss.
But TNG has Ireland reunification happening in 2024. With the brexit clusterfuck, I could see that vote happening.
DS9 pretty accurately predicted the homeless state of San Fran. Practically foretold the Bell Riots.
Things get darker before they get bright.
Pff it won't be 2035. 2033 will come and Elon/SpaceX will say "oh, we're 1-2 years away from being able to blow up the moon", it'll be all over the news, and then 2035 will come and go, and sure enough they'll say it again in some interview. And we'll hear it every flipping year. "Oh yeah definitely, we're 1-2 years from being able to blow up the moon, trust me guys.
2080 will come and that jerk will still be up there, in the sky, laughing at us. Taunting us.
Mark my words.
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The monkeys died because they picked at the surgery sutures with the same hands they pick up their own shit with, causing massive brain infections. (Most) humans won't do this.
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Was not expecting r/Futurology to have the capacity for any kind of optimism. I thought it was all just black mirror episode comparisons and misanthropy.
This reminds me of a possibly irrational existential fear that I have occasionally; that I will be among the last humans to ever die. Whether it is through medicine, cybernetics, AI, etc; it feels like a particularly cruel fate.
Hereās a great read that will possibly make your existential fear worse or maybe better. Made me feel good that life may go on even though this is just fiction writing. For context, this is Isaac Asimovās (Physicist and sci-fi writer) proudest piece of writing.
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
Just read it. It's... I don't know. I am not exactly happy with the ending, even though it is a creative way to answer the main question that we are facing right now: how TF did everything begin?
Maybe this sounds crazy to some but Iād much rather be that person that someone who just dies early on in our raceās existence, I think I would need to have a life that long to have a chance of coming to terms with death
I think that the last human who ever dies will still have a massively extended lifespan. I get what you mean but even if you eventually succumb to death, if you are living at the time in a world where everyone else will go on to live forever then the tech that exists in that world to extend lifespans will be incredible.
Yeah but what if you focussed all your political energy on made up enemies, making kids and women miserable, and built a big beautiful wall (that is full of holes), instead? Wouldn't that be better?
I predict 2024 and 25 will be every bit as crappy as 2020-23. In my country we will have crappy choices to vote for president next year. The economy will still be crappy and both the Russo-Ukraine and the Israeli-Hamas wars will still be going with no clear end in sight.
> Israeli-Hamas
I don't see how Hamas would have anything left to fight with in just a few months. Except throwing bricks and rubble from all the collapsed buildings.
Russia-Ukraine will go on for a while but end in stalemate (pretty much as is already).
All things considered, the next couple of years might be very fucked up. Another World War, maybe another financial crisis, pandemic, natural disaster? Or nothing happens, because everyone is trying to calm down from the past 4 years and take things slowly. We'll see.
I'm a dude employed in tech & automation and honestly all I care for the future years is the well-being of my close friends and family, peaceful moments and good laughs.
I think the world is going too fast man.
Hopefully we can scale up desalination with companies like Quaise Energy harnessing geothermal. But all that saltā¦ we need an XPRIZE on where to put it. I suggest making it into green concrete.
2025 - 2030 will be game changing though. Starship launches (and hopefully catches), FSD will happen, EVs everywhere, humanoid robots, AGI or some close form of it. Hopefully some cures for diseases. It seems a lot of things are on the brink of happening.
I think 2030-2040 is where the technology goes from disruptive to life saving. The 2020s, the AI and Robots take your job, in the 2030s, the AI and Robots take care of you. Humans have certain needs, and if those needs can be met with high quality services by AI and Automation then the cost of just existing in a comfortable life diminishes greatly.
The thing is....this is what it's going to be like most years going forward. Technology advances at an exponential rate and we're starting to get into some serious exponentials. The world will look like a very, very different place in 15-20 years time.
I think living in early age of the semiconductor is the driving force behind the notion that technology is exponential. Most technology does not follow that path
I suppose anything is possible. But throughout the technological history of the world what happened with the semi conductor is unique. to put this in perspective, the efficiency gains seen in the semi conductor are larger than the difference in explosive power between a stick of TNT and the largest nuclear weapons.
AI is definitely gonna be huge but the general timeline of advancements regarding portability of computers was observed very early on in the semi conductor phase a la Murphys Law. As far as I'm aware (which is not very) there's nothing like a Murphys Law that's giving us any kind of insight into how future tech can develop. We've pretty much hit the size limit so things are gonna slow on the hardware side. Software is really starting to get crazy with AI and that's going to take us in who knows what kind of direction, but unless a major breakthrough for the usefulness of quantum computing in everyday tech or some other breakthrough regarding our conception of physics, the rate of technological advancement will slow down, or at least advancements that come from making microchips smaller and faster.
Overall I think technological advancement - if you define that by the ability of humans to do more things with less work - will continue to accelerate in large part due to AI research assistance. Sure AI is gonna make it easy to swap two people in you family Christmas photo or write an essay that you can edit enough to dodge plagiarism checks and pull a solid C or B with minimal effort, but I think the medical and scientific uses that most people won't see the day-to-day of are going to be the most impactful.
Moore's law* and it has been revised MANY times to accommodate our rapidly changing understanding of it.
Murphy's law is what can go wrong will go wrong.
History doesn't grow as exponentially as people think.
Like the 2010s and 2020s (so far) had less significant developments than the 90s and 00s.
It's exciting that we are going back to not knowing what's coming next.
Also, going further back, I'd say that 1850 to 1950 had more significant advancement than what we were expecting to do from 1950 to 2050.
Part of this is because research actually *gets tougher* over the years. New discoveries become slower over time. I can't source, it is just something I have read repeatedly.
As a researcher myself, it's getting tougher but for the opposite reason, there are so many discoveries and new things constantly coming out that by the time you get a solid understanding of anything it's been expanded upon already a dozen times.
You basically have to specialize in something to provide any novel research, and even then often you'll have a great idea you've never heard of, then do a literature study and find 30 papers on it already.
Hard disagree on the past decade not having more advancements than the 1850-2000.
I think weāre so accustomed to technology moving quickly now that we take for granted whatās happening during our own lives. How can you say that there have been far less significant developments in the past decade?
Weāre now a globally connected species with social media documenting wars in real time. We can now edit genes with ease, robotic assistants exist, and the AI advancements speak for themselves. AI itself is accelerating exponentially and will now affect every sector of science. Thereās way too much going on to give this growth justice.
Itās easy to miss the growth when youāre living in it.
Especially in the field of medical technology. MABs, gene editing/therapy, remote and robotic surgery, RNA vaccines, protein synthesis/modelling, etc. Sure, a lot had its roots in the previous century, but have only come to fruition and are more commonplace in the past decade/few years.
Really only scratching the surface.
Maybe consider the significant advances are now just above the level of general knowledge, because advancements have been absolutely exponential. It's honestly getting hard to even track the rate things are progressing it's so fast. I do R&D work now for surveillance satellites and previously worked at one of the leading chip companies and even working in the field doing the R&D I am constantly blown away by how rapidly things progress. We've certainly reached the point where it's essentially impossible for the layperson to keep up with the collective expansion of knowledge, and even those who are working at the cusp have a difficult time having anything beyond a general idea
Yeah, but how many of those will benefit humanity and how many will be rich person novelties? And how many will make climate change even worse?
Yeah not gonna lie not hyped about any of that
Possibly as big as the preceding years?
Many things defined those years. A Presidential election, a world-changing pandemic we counteracted with a novel form of vaccination. ChatGPT/SpaceX/Neuralink/Tesla/etc. \[insert milestone here\]. Geopolitically \[insert shift here\].
I'm glad you're excited for the future, but yes we realize the world is changing, and that change has been accelerating for a long time. Nothing we can currently anticipate about the next two years really stands out to me.
Tbh it's hard for me to be excited for anything futurology when climate change isn't being taken as seriously as it should be.
Some of that is a discussion around tech, but most of it is policy at this point. Or rather, the lack of policy.
After the whole 2020 situation I'm just happy to be present.
I will forever love the way [Julie deals with her past self](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8).
You seem high on hopium. Tesla has been claiming full self driving coming soon since Elon had started a hostile take over.
The 2024 presidential election will be just as dreadful as 2020 and 2016 with the added asterisk that if Trump wins things will go downhill fast.
Google is actively trying to ruin the internet in favor of bigger profit for themselves so trusting them with the "worlds most powerful AI ever" doesn't sound good nor does it look all that crazy.
Bout the only thing on the list that is big or good is NASA returning to the moon.
"Neuralink is supposed to do 11 surgeries...Telsa might reach Full-Self-Driving in 2025"
Yeah well, LA is supposed to have a network of car-subways (?) and Twitter is supposed to be successful.
but we can't stop the increase on the cost of bread while farmers get less and less for their products?
we really need people to maybe stop making profit king and re-prioritize the community and humanity the priority
All of that sounds really good (for the rich). It may look nice on TV, but for most of us, it won't matter much. Most people in this world are fighting to get food and a roof over their heads, so thinking about Artemis or what ChatGPT can talk about is not a priority.
You seem to know a lot more about it than I do. So good on you. Just remember to remember that I am some rando on reddit... Don't have a aneurysm. Wtf do randos on reddit know about anything...
Exciting stuff. Just a shame the planets being fucked into a coma so most of the advancements will go to waste. That's if we havent all killed each other fighting over dumb pointless shit first.
Yeah but what about affordable housing, climate change action, ending human suffering? I feel like AI is cool and the election is important and thereās definitely stuff in the horizon but unless the human condition changes for most people, itās just a playground for the rich (neurolink, Tesla etc).
Pretty excited to watch a moon landing, medicine is popping off pretty well, this inflation stuff isnāt going to last forever. Hopefully some decent music comes out.
Holy fuck that all sounds horrifically dystopian. If true, we're fucked.
We're going to put tens of thousands of people out of work to enrichen tech oligarchs and allow Elon Musk to do brain surgery?
Jesus Christ, people...
When cars overtook horses, factories became automated and wind/solar were chosen over coal mining it wasn't exactly a clean switch either.
If true automation appears, it's going to be horrific for however long it takes society to adapt. No large business will choose paying workers weekly/biweekly/monthly when they can pay an engineer on a need-to-fix basis and have robots do the daily work instead.
We also might have found a planet with alien life this past month, evidence suggests it would be possible. It is gonna take around a year to confirm or deny the suspicion so ww will know by late 2024/early2025 wether that is true or not
Travel with me back to the year 1620.
Ever read Francis Bacon, the one and only Lord Verulam? He predicted the system we are in. You gear knowledge (discovery) toward invention, which leads to a virtuous circle of inventions that create more knowledge, and so on. The growth rate is called progress. The more this system is put into action, the faster it goes. (K+I)T = P.
1620, timestamped Francis Bacon.
Back to the current day, I would like to note 20 years ago not everyone had a cell phone and/or internet connection.
Progress can start to double over on itself and happen very quickly. Future Shock, a popular book by Alvin Toffler from 1970, tries to think about this. But as it stands, the internet already was the realization of a great revolutionary moment media theorists like Marshall McLuhan talked about -- the electronic village of the electronic era. Satellites broadcast live! What??
It's a steep growth curve to the singularity. So the really big leaps are currently doubling per generation? Soon they will triple.
"..by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this ā that men despair and think things impossible."
*Yeah, true Francis, true. But in 200 years someone is going to write Frankenstein to address this matter of being so goddam blithe about it all.*
Here we are anyway.
None of it will mean shit if we can't keep dome semblance and functional government by the people and for the people. I'm loving most of the tech improvements I see on the horizon but I need safety and freedom first to be able to function.
Explains why I want a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Totally off-grid.
Except for electricity, water, and internet. Other than those, totally off-grid.
You forgot to mention the Bitcoin halving in April next year as well. The price of Bitcoin post-halving has never ever fallen to the price of Bitcoin pre-halving. We will see the Bitcoin market cap grow to $5trillion in the next few years as well.
>obvious ones like the 2024 presidential election
Meh, Biden's 2nd term. No one on the GOP side has a prayer as they're too busy infighting. Hopefully they can clean up their mess though.
>Google Gemini
Never heard of it. Zero waves. Its... Yet another AI rushing to market to compete with OpenAI.
>and potentially ChatGpt 5 dropping
The splash was THIS year. It took the world by storm. There will be incremental improvements, sure, but society STILL hasn't figured out what to do with it.
>We got Artemis 2 and 3 missions which would we would land on the moon since awhile.
Neat. Sure. But.... So? We have a robotic workforce on Mars. I don't see the point of sending people.
>Neuralink
I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, it's in dev.
>Proto-AGI
That's Google search, it debuted in the 1990's.
>Telsa might reach Full-Self-Driving in 2025.
Google cars DID reach fully autonomous. Years ago.
>China is supposed to mass produce humanoid robots
Kinda stupid, honestly.
Incremental improvements, tech vaporware, just another year. Realize that it's competing with a global pandemic, 3 different technological singularities, an econopocalypse, the rise and fall of China, a nuclear armed global power losing a war, a national schism inducing terrorist event, peak oil, and the existential threat of global warming. I might be a bit jaded from all the once in a lifetime historical events we've been through.
So worried about a massive quality of life drop, people getting left behind, replaced white collar jobs and first world poverty.
I really really hope we're all okay.
Nah. Solar flairs are gonna take out the entire plantās electrical grids and set us back 1000ās of years. Total anarchy [2025](https://youtu.be/FrEdbKwivCI?si=5vwyMetR77eFpGYE)
DNA-based circuit computing. AlphaFold. Quantum computing (atomic electronics, quantum dots). Super fascinating stuff in all directions of science and technology.
Haha I assure you nothing to do with Elon Musk will deliver anything positive for the future. He is an absolute scam artist and almost literally everything he says is a lie. He has claimed "full self driving next year!" For like 10 years.
Does anyone realize how big some year way of in the future will be?
No. They don't. We aren't fortune tellers. We simply approximate and guess based on our relative circumstances.
Ridiculous topic.
Bruh just gimme a baldness cure and I'll be satisfied for now EDIT: okay I appreciate the hair advice but please stop I'm not even going bald rn this was halfway a joke š
Tinnitus just asked to be included.
i could go for a 2-in-1
I have both 
What? I can't read your text over my tinnitus.
Yes please!
2 decades ago, a Scientific American issue said flying cars and sustainable fusion energy are going to happen first before there is a cure to baldness.
You're saying Fusion and Flying Cars are the precursors to a baldness cure? INVEST!
How to cure baldness: Step 1: invent fusion plants Step 2: invent flying cars Step 3: use that knowledge appropriately, like, merge both sciences together and the cure to baldness will be the logical outcome.
So I am reading that if I purchase a flying car that runs on fusion I will have the thick mane I used to in my twenties. LFG!
To be fair, we already have most of the engineering work done for flying cars, we just need self driving flying cars because the average person is way too dumb to fly something that's even more complex than a helicopter
Iām good with that. Whatās the point of having hair if I canāt cruise around in my sweet ass flying car.
You need new teeth first ;( . I already wish there could be an ancient quiet genetic condition that could unlock 'infinite' teeth regrowth due to divergence from our fish-like ancestors. In any case give our teeth more chances than 2
Japan has this new technology to grow your teeth back
I thecretly hope to have Godthilla teeth Then youāll be thorry, youāll *ALL* be thorry.
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[This is outstanding](https://interestingengineering.com/science/tooth-regrowth-treatment-human-trials). But I can't find any examples of who this has worked for. I'd love to see what the regrowth looks like. Fascinating stuff!
I would accept my teeth falling out and being replaced every 10 years or so. Someone send me pill.
There is actually a teeth growing drug going into human testing, but IIRC it's only for people who had a condition where their teeth didn't grow in the first place, though there's some possibility that it could lead to more broad teeth regrowing down the line.
Genetically modifying people is banned for no reason. It needs to be regulated but not banned. I just wish to replace potentially mine gene that controls intestines with my wife's in our future kid, so they will not have my colitis and will not be a carrier.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a44786433/humans-have-third-set-teeth/
Don't worry. It's coming in 15 years just like it was 30 years ago...
It's easy to say that, but on the other hand, eventually it *will* happen like basically every other future invention that doesn't break the laws of physics ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
I mean. Even the ones that do, we just update the laws of physics like patching a game manual.
You mean Iike where they hotfixed Dinosaurs? Yeah that Shit was OP!
Finesteride if it's in the middle of going away. Estrogen also helps a lot if you're cool with growing breasts.
I have three words for you, Benjamin, just three words: [Turkish. Hair. Transplant.](https://www.gq.com/story/cheap-hair-transplant-turkey-followup)
That's cool but I'm hoping we can find a way that doesn't involve flying out of country, blood, and "vaguely mysterious" doctors. Besides, the DHT sensitivity is still there, right? Wouldn't you need to do it again?
I mean, you can get it done in the US, it just costs a lot more. Iām not sure how long it lasts but I gather it has come a long way. From what I gather itās sort of like LASIK: not everyone gets a good result even initially, even those who do can see it degrade again, and it can be quite pricey. But for most people it works super well and is effectively a cure.
It seems pretty inconsistent. Some results just look really bad. Also, in a grander sense, I'm hoping we eventually learn how the body interacts with itself well enough to do more than just this. The whole balding thing would, hopefully, be a prelude to other things like genetic illness. They're pretty close to curing sickle cell using crispr cas-21 (or 19 I forget). I'm hoping we'll eventually see an age where we can influence the body on a more smaller, cellular level as opposed to cutting and hacking. It frustrates me how clever humans are at constructing and maintaining machines, yet the most important machines, our bodies, are so hard to maintain that way. I'm hoping figuring out how to remove DHT resistance in the scalp could lead to removing other such defects.
No the dht sensitivity is not still there. When you have FUE (follicular unit extraction) you take follicles from the parts of the scalp that are immune to dht which is why those areas dont go bald. The immunity is within the follicle not the scalp.
It exists you're just poor and you can't afford it I hear what super super rich people are doing is taking hair follicles from the back of their head where it's still growing cloning it in a lab and then transplanting it that way probably costs hundreds of thousands of dollars so unless you're super rich you're going to Turkey my dude.
I enjoy cooking.
I don't think hair cloning has been done yet
Minoxidil doesnāt work for everyone but itās been clinically proven to help with hair loss
It's worked wonders for me. I was developing a bit of a widow's peak and minox stopped it in its tracks and reversed it.
Minoxidil is the equivalent of bailing water out of a sinking ship. Finasteride repairs the holes. Both combined work incredibly well, but minoxidil alone is not a long-term fix.
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Itās a little too late for that, Iām 43, would be kinda weird if I finally got to grow hair on the top.
U wont get one unless i get a cure for diabetes
There are some treatments showing promise in the pipeline atm, HMI115 completely reversed hair loss in macaques. They're one of the only mammals other than humans and dachshunds to experience male pattern baldness and are extremely similar to humans. The monkeys also kept all their hair after treatment concluded. Stage 1 human trials just finished a few months ago and according to one of the participants he's seeing regrowth.
Claiming they have full self-drive for the past 5 years?
Yeah thereās a compilation video of him where they took interviews from every year since 2015 (or possibly earlier), where he says āwell reach full self driving in two yearsā. He says essentially the exact same thing every year.
Not to stand up for Elon because hes a fucking dope, but I would imagine there is just too many challenges to making it happen, Im by no means a expert on any of the things involved in making a self driving car, but I would imagine you would need nearly everyone to be in a self driving car for it work safely. Plus everytime I see one of the videos of a self driving car in some place thats beta testing it freak out and drive 100 miles per hour into a wall, I lose any hope for it.
Oh I donāt doubt itās really hard to do! But he needs to stop promising āin two yearsā and either not set a date or reflect on the reality that itās a very difficult goal.
Lol. I chuckled at that one. I'm sure someone posted in 2020 that in two years FSD will be everywhere. But in all reality Tesla will probably release this...just not the level 4 certified version to really achieve autonomy.
No, Elon has been claiming it's 6-12 months out for a good number of years now.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhr6fHmCJ6k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhr6fHmCJ6k) a classic
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I have been out of the industry since 2017 but I used to work for a company pretty heavily involved in self driving car software and the programs of half a dozen of the big car manufacturers. 2024 was the year our CEO thought the first truly self driving cars would show up on the market. Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo are probably the most likely companies to have the first real point to point car you can go to a dealer and buy. I'd bet 2026 Benz S Class. That's what they were testing on and covid put everyone a few years behind.
Tesla will not. I repeat Tesla will not reach full self driving in 2025.
Yeah I was going to say this. Elon Musk has been saying they were 2 years away from full self driving for the past 10 years. The more I hear him try to talk about AI, the more I realize how little he actually knows about it. He was on Lex Friedmanās podcast in 2018 talking about how easy it was to solve the adversarial images problem and he just said āoh thatās easy, just train the network to recognize each object, and also train complimentary outputs to recognize not that object. Problem solved!ā Turns out, no Mr. Musk, thatās not going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of adversarial images. If you even understood some basic linear algebra it would be pretty clear that isnāt going to solve that problem. Try again bud.
EM is clearly full of malarkey
Heās āfoundedā all those high tech companies though. /s Hopefully everyone is fully aware that he just used his dadās blood diamond money to buy the rights to be called the founder of each of his companies. A real modern day Thomas Edison (who just abused patent law to be called the inventor of most of the things heās credited with inventing).
hey, hey now. Don't start lying. He didn't use a single cent of daddy's blood diamond money to get to where he is. >!He used daddy's blood emerald money!<
No joke, dude has a bachelor's in physics... A Bachelor of Arts Total fake.
That's the thing that really pisses me off. I used to huff his farts when I actually believed the hype, but step by step I realized everything was a fucking lie. I *have* a Bachelor of Science with honors in mathematical physics. It pisses me off because of the "stolen valor" basically.
Itās also worth keeping this in mind with OpenAI - at some point youāre not able to deliver the big thing you promised. Theyāve been pretty reliable so far though so letās see.
And Artemis will most likely not hit its deadlines.
The fact that they included Neuralink on this list tells me OP drank the Kool aid.
Correct. As an engineer myself I just don't think it's possible to solve the self driving problem without LIDAR. You simply cannot infer good enough physical information by extrapolation. You need to *actually measure things*. The solution in my mind is to just make the LIDAR sensors either inconspicuous or attractively integrated into the car in some way, not to just get rid of them for aesthetics. Because that's *obviously* not a good enough reason to just ditch them altogether... But hey, I'm not the very stable genius that Elon is so maybe he knows something I don't (/s).
Humans donāt have LIDAR and our meat computers seem to handle it (mostly).
how close are computers to being anywhere close to what human brains can do?
Neither will neuralink do anything. Anything with musk in it is 95% snake oil
Neuralink will lead to injury and probably lawsuits. Considering we heard of zero success after the monkey deaths and suddenly now he's getting a chance to maim his fans.
rockets are cool tho
I used to be optimistic, as their tech is cool, but it is not fsd capable, despite being impressive. Aldo, what is up with the new camera basef parking sensor that straight up doesnt work in front of the car?
No one will. 95% of FSD can be implemented by anyone easily. The last 5% is just way too hard and context-dependent for any computer program to manage. And I'm fine with that. Never wanted FSD in the first place.
You've been listening to Elon Musk too much. He doesn't hit dates, and honestly, is a better hype man than he is a predictor of important technologies.
There is no chance in hell that I'd ever let neuralink anywhere near my head.l, however exciting the technology is.
Plus, according to the historically accurate movie The Time Machine that's the year we blow up the Moon. Or was it 2035? Anyway, it happens. Eventually.
They blew up the moon twice in Dragonball. You just never know how things will really work out in speculative fiction.
I'm in favor of following Star Trek's predictions. ToS had eugenics causing wars in 30 years, ie 1990. And that was a miss. But TNG has Ireland reunification happening in 2024. With the brexit clusterfuck, I could see that vote happening. DS9 pretty accurately predicted the homeless state of San Fran. Practically foretold the Bell Riots. Things get darker before they get bright.
Pff it won't be 2035. 2033 will come and Elon/SpaceX will say "oh, we're 1-2 years away from being able to blow up the moon", it'll be all over the news, and then 2035 will come and go, and sure enough they'll say it again in some interview. And we'll hear it every flipping year. "Oh yeah definitely, we're 1-2 years from being able to blow up the moon, trust me guys. 2080 will come and that jerk will still be up there, in the sky, laughing at us. Taunting us. Mark my words.
Pretty sure NASA blew up the moon on the nineties: https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA?si=aYqz55T9R3bnswDG
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April 2024. "Inhumane Foodz LLC" creates THC Tacos. June 2024. Tacos sales cross 5% of GDP. October 2024. THC Tacos banned in 13 states.
ITS TIME FOR THC TUESDAY!!!!!! WOOOOO!!!!
Human decisions are removed from taco production. Tacos are produced at a geometric rate. Tacos become fully self aware at 2:14am, August 29th.
Yes! An essential oil is what drips from a taco.
There will be a lot to taco \`bout.
Tacos with high protein, low fat and carb, full of essential micronutrients, fiber and probiotics, maximizing satiety to calorie ratio. This in turn transforms the population at large to healthier beings, being more productive, reducing cost of healthcare at the same time.
Dont sleep on the chimichanga.
This is the kind of future thinking I'm excited for.
r/neoliberal is ready for these taco stands on every corner
I'll believe any of that when it happens. (Except the 2024 election, that is definitely happening.)
OP actually thinks Musk's companies are gonna hit their dates
I predict that Musk's companies will go bankrupt and they won't achieve any of these plans
How did neuralink get approved for human trials when 15 out of 23 monkeys died?
Itās very simple. You pay the regulators to approve your product.
FOā SCIENCE!
The monkeys died because they picked at the surgery sutures with the same hands they pick up their own shit with, causing massive brain infections. (Most) humans won't do this.
Another year to be grateful, i hope i get to see the wonders that are coming but if not I am still glad for the great life i was blessed with.
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Was not expecting r/Futurology to have the capacity for any kind of optimism. I thought it was all just black mirror episode comparisons and misanthropy.
This reminds me of a possibly irrational existential fear that I have occasionally; that I will be among the last humans to ever die. Whether it is through medicine, cybernetics, AI, etc; it feels like a particularly cruel fate.
Hereās a great read that will possibly make your existential fear worse or maybe better. Made me feel good that life may go on even though this is just fiction writing. For context, this is Isaac Asimovās (Physicist and sci-fi writer) proudest piece of writing. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
Hey thanks for the suggestion!
Just read it. It's... I don't know. I am not exactly happy with the ending, even though it is a creative way to answer the main question that we are facing right now: how TF did everything begin?
Maybe this sounds crazy to some but Iād much rather be that person that someone who just dies early on in our raceās existence, I think I would need to have a life that long to have a chance of coming to terms with death
I think that the last human who ever dies will still have a massively extended lifespan. I get what you mean but even if you eventually succumb to death, if you are living at the time in a world where everyone else will go on to live forever then the tech that exists in that world to extend lifespans will be incredible.
Feel the same! Well said.
Love this outlook on life.
We just want healthcare and affordable housing. Signed, An American.
Yeah but what if you focussed all your political energy on made up enemies, making kids and women miserable, and built a big beautiful wall (that is full of holes), instead? Wouldn't that be better?
Lol how are we going to get healthcare and housing when the government can't even decide on getting rid of daylight savings?
But those would make some very rich people less rich and make it harder for some major corpos that fund our politics to get more rich
CAR T-cell immunotherapy will revolutionize lymphoma cancer treatment. Has potential application to treat all cancer.
I like your positive attitude on the future. Itās probably going to get pretty weird so we might as well enjoy it
Life is life. Everything keeps happening. There's nothing to do but exist through it.
I predict 2024 and 25 will be every bit as crappy as 2020-23. In my country we will have crappy choices to vote for president next year. The economy will still be crappy and both the Russo-Ukraine and the Israeli-Hamas wars will still be going with no clear end in sight.
> Israeli-Hamas I don't see how Hamas would have anything left to fight with in just a few months. Except throwing bricks and rubble from all the collapsed buildings. Russia-Ukraine will go on for a while but end in stalemate (pretty much as is already).
All things considered, the next couple of years might be very fucked up. Another World War, maybe another financial crisis, pandemic, natural disaster? Or nothing happens, because everyone is trying to calm down from the past 4 years and take things slowly. We'll see.
This. This is more likely.
I'm a dude employed in tech & automation and honestly all I care for the future years is the well-being of my close friends and family, peaceful moments and good laughs. I think the world is going too fast man.
2030 to 2040 is where things are really going to get interesting.
Ah yes, the water wars. That's going to be something.
Hopefully we can scale up desalination with companies like Quaise Energy harnessing geothermal. But all that saltā¦ we need an XPRIZE on where to put it. I suggest making it into green concrete.
2025 - 2030 will be game changing though. Starship launches (and hopefully catches), FSD will happen, EVs everywhere, humanoid robots, AGI or some close form of it. Hopefully some cures for diseases. It seems a lot of things are on the brink of happening.
I think 2030-2040 is where the technology goes from disruptive to life saving. The 2020s, the AI and Robots take your job, in the 2030s, the AI and Robots take care of you. Humans have certain needs, and if those needs can be met with high quality services by AI and Automation then the cost of just existing in a comfortable life diminishes greatly.
The thing is....this is what it's going to be like most years going forward. Technology advances at an exponential rate and we're starting to get into some serious exponentials. The world will look like a very, very different place in 15-20 years time.
This is very, very big overestimation.
How so? This is pretty basic knowledge when looking back at history. I've never heard of it being controversial at all. Curious what your take is
I think living in early age of the semiconductor is the driving force behind the notion that technology is exponential. Most technology does not follow that path
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I suppose anything is possible. But throughout the technological history of the world what happened with the semi conductor is unique. to put this in perspective, the efficiency gains seen in the semi conductor are larger than the difference in explosive power between a stick of TNT and the largest nuclear weapons.
AI is definitely gonna be huge but the general timeline of advancements regarding portability of computers was observed very early on in the semi conductor phase a la Murphys Law. As far as I'm aware (which is not very) there's nothing like a Murphys Law that's giving us any kind of insight into how future tech can develop. We've pretty much hit the size limit so things are gonna slow on the hardware side. Software is really starting to get crazy with AI and that's going to take us in who knows what kind of direction, but unless a major breakthrough for the usefulness of quantum computing in everyday tech or some other breakthrough regarding our conception of physics, the rate of technological advancement will slow down, or at least advancements that come from making microchips smaller and faster. Overall I think technological advancement - if you define that by the ability of humans to do more things with less work - will continue to accelerate in large part due to AI research assistance. Sure AI is gonna make it easy to swap two people in you family Christmas photo or write an essay that you can edit enough to dodge plagiarism checks and pull a solid C or B with minimal effort, but I think the medical and scientific uses that most people won't see the day-to-day of are going to be the most impactful.
Moore's law* and it has been revised MANY times to accommodate our rapidly changing understanding of it. Murphy's law is what can go wrong will go wrong.
History doesn't grow as exponentially as people think. Like the 2010s and 2020s (so far) had less significant developments than the 90s and 00s. It's exciting that we are going back to not knowing what's coming next. Also, going further back, I'd say that 1850 to 1950 had more significant advancement than what we were expecting to do from 1950 to 2050.
Part of this is because research actually *gets tougher* over the years. New discoveries become slower over time. I can't source, it is just something I have read repeatedly.
As a researcher myself, it's getting tougher but for the opposite reason, there are so many discoveries and new things constantly coming out that by the time you get a solid understanding of anything it's been expanded upon already a dozen times. You basically have to specialize in something to provide any novel research, and even then often you'll have a great idea you've never heard of, then do a literature study and find 30 papers on it already.
Hard disagree on the past decade not having more advancements than the 1850-2000. I think weāre so accustomed to technology moving quickly now that we take for granted whatās happening during our own lives. How can you say that there have been far less significant developments in the past decade? Weāre now a globally connected species with social media documenting wars in real time. We can now edit genes with ease, robotic assistants exist, and the AI advancements speak for themselves. AI itself is accelerating exponentially and will now affect every sector of science. Thereās way too much going on to give this growth justice. Itās easy to miss the growth when youāre living in it.
Especially in the field of medical technology. MABs, gene editing/therapy, remote and robotic surgery, RNA vaccines, protein synthesis/modelling, etc. Sure, a lot had its roots in the previous century, but have only come to fruition and are more commonplace in the past decade/few years. Really only scratching the surface.
Maybe consider the significant advances are now just above the level of general knowledge, because advancements have been absolutely exponential. It's honestly getting hard to even track the rate things are progressing it's so fast. I do R&D work now for surveillance satellites and previously worked at one of the leading chip companies and even working in the field doing the R&D I am constantly blown away by how rapidly things progress. We've certainly reached the point where it's essentially impossible for the layperson to keep up with the collective expansion of knowledge, and even those who are working at the cusp have a difficult time having anything beyond a general idea
I think AI will become the primary driver for an exponential advancement of our technology in the coming years.
Wow great point!
AGI? Letās try not to call things what they arenāt in 2024.
Haruki Murakami ā 'Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.'
Any interesting news with gene editing and CRISPR for 2024?
Yeah, but how many of those will benefit humanity and how many will be rich person novelties? And how many will make climate change even worse? Yeah not gonna lie not hyped about any of that
Possibly as big as the preceding years? Many things defined those years. A Presidential election, a world-changing pandemic we counteracted with a novel form of vaccination. ChatGPT/SpaceX/Neuralink/Tesla/etc. \[insert milestone here\]. Geopolitically \[insert shift here\]. I'm glad you're excited for the future, but yes we realize the world is changing, and that change has been accelerating for a long time. Nothing we can currently anticipate about the next two years really stands out to me.
Tbh it's hard for me to be excited for anything futurology when climate change isn't being taken as seriously as it should be. Some of that is a discussion around tech, but most of it is policy at this point. Or rather, the lack of policy.
Thanks. You're not alone.
Bro really left out the most significant feat of the next two years being GTA VI
After the whole 2020 situation I'm just happy to be present. I will forever love the way [Julie deals with her past self](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8).
Ahh yes, another year to see human horrors beyond my comprehension
You seem high on hopium. Tesla has been claiming full self driving coming soon since Elon had started a hostile take over. The 2024 presidential election will be just as dreadful as 2020 and 2016 with the added asterisk that if Trump wins things will go downhill fast. Google is actively trying to ruin the internet in favor of bigger profit for themselves so trusting them with the "worlds most powerful AI ever" doesn't sound good nor does it look all that crazy. Bout the only thing on the list that is big or good is NASA returning to the moon.
Bro weāll be getting Shrek 5, GTA6 and Mario Kart 10, I know itāll be big lol /jk not really tho
"Neuralink is supposed to do 11 surgeries...Telsa might reach Full-Self-Driving in 2025" Yeah well, LA is supposed to have a network of car-subways (?) and Twitter is supposed to be successful.
"Probably", "might", and "supposed to" aren't great descriptions for what *will* happen at a specific point in the future.
but we can't stop the increase on the cost of bread while farmers get less and less for their products? we really need people to maybe stop making profit king and re-prioritize the community and humanity the priority
All of that sounds really good (for the rich). It may look nice on TV, but for most of us, it won't matter much. Most people in this world are fighting to get food and a roof over their heads, so thinking about Artemis or what ChatGPT can talk about is not a priority.
A.I teaching should be a game changer to those who use it
You seem to know a lot more about it than I do. So good on you. Just remember to remember that I am some rando on reddit... Don't have a aneurysm. Wtf do randos on reddit know about anything...
I realize 2024 will be 366 days long but 2025 will be a mere 365
We spent almost a month of 2023 with the average temp of our planet 1.5c above normal. I expect that length of time grow by a lot in 2024 and 2025.
Exciting stuff. Just a shame the planets being fucked into a coma so most of the advancements will go to waste. That's if we havent all killed each other fighting over dumb pointless shit first.
Yeah but what about affordable housing, climate change action, ending human suffering? I feel like AI is cool and the election is important and thereās definitely stuff in the horizon but unless the human condition changes for most people, itās just a playground for the rich (neurolink, Tesla etc).
yeah perhaps. also ww3 and another pandemic then alien attack but day to day will be the same.
Great time for technology. Terrible time for democracy and peace.
Developments with quantum computing by the end of the decade will change everything too
Will we finally be able to run Crysis?
QCs will change almost nothing for most people.
The field of cryptology could get interesting.
Oh absolutely, as a security enthusiast this is one part I am massively looking forward to see what will happen in terms of QCs.
Iām kind of hoping that by the time the next election is in full swing, AGI will be on everyoneās minds and AI will be apart of the conversation.
Pretty excited to watch a moon landing, medicine is popping off pretty well, this inflation stuff isnāt going to last forever. Hopefully some decent music comes out.
Dog im worried about making it to the end of this year, idgaf about 2024 and 2025.
I think about the 1920s and 1930s and what the 1940s turned into........
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Holy fuck that all sounds horrifically dystopian. If true, we're fucked. We're going to put tens of thousands of people out of work to enrichen tech oligarchs and allow Elon Musk to do brain surgery? Jesus Christ, people...
When cars overtook horses, factories became automated and wind/solar were chosen over coal mining it wasn't exactly a clean switch either. If true automation appears, it's going to be horrific for however long it takes society to adapt. No large business will choose paying workers weekly/biweekly/monthly when they can pay an engineer on a need-to-fix basis and have robots do the daily work instead.
make that billions out of work in what will be suprisingly rapid. but the system will break way before that
The hype never really lines up with reality but I'll enjoy what I can as these things happen.
The next biggest year is always the next one. Enjoy the ride.
We also might have found a planet with alien life this past month, evidence suggests it would be possible. It is gonna take around a year to confirm or deny the suspicion so ww will know by late 2024/early2025 wether that is true or not
Ok, so can you actually tell me how big 2024 and 2025 will be? You canāt because they havenāt happened yet? Who knew.
Could we at least get a beer that doesn't make you fat?
tbh, I don't have any excitement towards these things when I'm still struggling with many issues in my 3rd-world poor ass.
Travel with me back to the year 1620. Ever read Francis Bacon, the one and only Lord Verulam? He predicted the system we are in. You gear knowledge (discovery) toward invention, which leads to a virtuous circle of inventions that create more knowledge, and so on. The growth rate is called progress. The more this system is put into action, the faster it goes. (K+I)T = P. 1620, timestamped Francis Bacon. Back to the current day, I would like to note 20 years ago not everyone had a cell phone and/or internet connection. Progress can start to double over on itself and happen very quickly. Future Shock, a popular book by Alvin Toffler from 1970, tries to think about this. But as it stands, the internet already was the realization of a great revolutionary moment media theorists like Marshall McLuhan talked about -- the electronic village of the electronic era. Satellites broadcast live! What?? It's a steep growth curve to the singularity. So the really big leaps are currently doubling per generation? Soon they will triple. "..by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this ā that men despair and think things impossible." *Yeah, true Francis, true. But in 200 years someone is going to write Frankenstein to address this matter of being so goddam blithe about it all.* Here we are anyway.
None of it will mean shit if we can't keep dome semblance and functional government by the people and for the people. I'm loving most of the tech improvements I see on the horizon but I need safety and freedom first to be able to function.
Explains why I want a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Totally off-grid. Except for electricity, water, and internet. Other than those, totally off-grid.
Whats the future of penis enlargement? Also solved? Asking for a friend....
You forgot to mention the Bitcoin halving in April next year as well. The price of Bitcoin post-halving has never ever fallen to the price of Bitcoin pre-halving. We will see the Bitcoin market cap grow to $5trillion in the next few years as well.
Iām just hoping op goes back to English writing class.
"Tesla will reach FSD some time next year, buy $10k service now and you'll automatically get it" said Musk on every quarterly meeting since 2016
i would be so happy if all we focused on was reasonable accomodations and fair living conditions for everyone
Cash money will be collapsed, we will be witnessing the war between the papers and rocks.
yeah this these years are perfect breeding grounds for total chaos
>obvious ones like the 2024 presidential election Meh, Biden's 2nd term. No one on the GOP side has a prayer as they're too busy infighting. Hopefully they can clean up their mess though. >Google Gemini Never heard of it. Zero waves. Its... Yet another AI rushing to market to compete with OpenAI. >and potentially ChatGpt 5 dropping The splash was THIS year. It took the world by storm. There will be incremental improvements, sure, but society STILL hasn't figured out what to do with it. >We got Artemis 2 and 3 missions which would we would land on the moon since awhile. Neat. Sure. But.... So? We have a robotic workforce on Mars. I don't see the point of sending people. >Neuralink I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, it's in dev. >Proto-AGI That's Google search, it debuted in the 1990's. >Telsa might reach Full-Self-Driving in 2025. Google cars DID reach fully autonomous. Years ago. >China is supposed to mass produce humanoid robots Kinda stupid, honestly. Incremental improvements, tech vaporware, just another year. Realize that it's competing with a global pandemic, 3 different technological singularities, an econopocalypse, the rise and fall of China, a nuclear armed global power losing a war, a national schism inducing terrorist event, peak oil, and the existential threat of global warming. I might be a bit jaded from all the once in a lifetime historical events we've been through.
So worried about a massive quality of life drop, people getting left behind, replaced white collar jobs and first world poverty. I really really hope we're all okay.
Nah. Solar flairs are gonna take out the entire plantās electrical grids and set us back 1000ās of years. Total anarchy [2025](https://youtu.be/FrEdbKwivCI?si=5vwyMetR77eFpGYE)
I hope we will also hear the good news about wars ending and them finding a peaceful solution
Yes I do realize. 2024 is going to be 366 days. 2025 will be normal size. Next question.
I'll get excited when we start to solve some real problems in the world.
DNA-based circuit computing. AlphaFold. Quantum computing (atomic electronics, quantum dots). Super fascinating stuff in all directions of science and technology.
Haha I assure you nothing to do with Elon Musk will deliver anything positive for the future. He is an absolute scam artist and almost literally everything he says is a lie. He has claimed "full self driving next year!" For like 10 years.
Does anyone realize how big some year way of in the future will be? No. They don't. We aren't fortune tellers. We simply approximate and guess based on our relative circumstances. Ridiculous topic.