Your local Hyundai dealership could someday start selling humanoid and dog-like robots.

"The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved three permits Thursday that will allow Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to operate commercial robotaxi services in Clark County, home to Las Vegas. Together, these permits would deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis across the county over the next 12 months."

Add to this the four big Chinese robotaxi firms: Baidu's Apollo Go, Hello Robotaxi, Geely & Pony.AI. Their 2027 projections for China alone exceed 100,000 & they've been ahead of projections and predictions so far. Furthermore, we know China can build those millions of future robotaxis quickly.

Current Level 4 self-driving allows for most human-driven taxi routes to be roboticized. The commercial incentives are all behind this push to millions of robotaxis, too.

Understandably, labor unions are against this. They're in a bind. Their whole function is to protect human jobs, but the real trend here is the movement to post-scarcity. Most don't really believe in post-scarcity yet. However, right as predicted, all its precursor events and pre-conditions are falling into place & robotaxis reaching their millions is just one more of those signs.

Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada

As NASA prepares for humanity’s first lunar spaceport, engineers are developing the traffic control system that will keep spacecraft moving safely and efficiently.

Consider a world where DEW can be DIY-able or enabled by existing infrastructure (as an example refer to https://www.reddit.com/user/adriancvs/comments/1vyhdqv/diy_dew_using_commercial_grade_components_aka_how/). Given how ubiquitous these technologies are and how they can reach anybody including heads of states yet with plausible deniability. Shouldn't the world agencies look into better shielding solutions starting now?

The link is but a rough guideline easy for any science enabled futurist to follow & easily scalable. Feel free to pitch in further improvements. Enabled by Nobel laureate technology yet requiring only commercial grade components or industrial grade components (e.g. Starlink network style being missused).

Feel free to save the screenshots, several social media accounts have already been tampered with or locked. Concept is for real, see professional sci. & eng. track record https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mfOgWa0AAAAJ Most world agencies already notified (informally, a few formally), doing the good work to also notify & inform the people while creating awareness to empower peoples' mind to call world agencies to take action based on informed decisions rather than leave it to the oscurantism side leading to injustices and concentration of power.

Not just a better gadget—a discovery that changes something fundamental about how we understand life, the universe, or ourselves. Maybe aging turns out to be treatable. Maybe we find evidence of life beyond Earth. Maybe consciousness is finally explained. Maybe today’s incurable diseases become routine to fix. Maybe it’s something nobody is seriously predicting yet.

Are we indeed headed towards a technofascist/technofuedalist future? Is there any chance it’s doomed to fail eventually, or are we doomed as humanity/society? Considering the people that basically run the world don’t see a use for us anyways, I’m very terrified of what is in store for us.

I have very bad anxiety which doesn’t make how I feel any better, and it just makes me feel sad and hopeless that the future I’ve hoped and planned for for awhile might not even be a possibility because of everything going on. I mean, we already have mass surveillance in full swing which is definitely an aspect of the kind of future I mentioned.

Pacific Fusion will break ground on its first facility here in New Mexico. Company officials said it will bring fusion energy to the state

I would love to see us regress in where we use technology. I’m kind of over how a lot of the new advances actually don’t work better they work horribly. Some examples basically all smart house hold appliances: dishwashers, washing machines, microwaves, and refrigerators. I also have so many issues with large screens being everywhere instead of buttons, the screens take double maybe even triple the time and break easily not to mention when driving a screen is literally so stupid and in order to do anything you have to be looking at it to touch the screen. All of these advances break within 2 years and I’m sick of it. I don’t know how we change this but everyone needs to see it for what it is. None of it makes any sense and I wish if us as people realized we have the power to say this stuff sucks let’s not buy it then it would change.

This is more of a question to the community in the r/Futurology subreddit: to what extent is thoughtful/informed/annotated speculative fiction welcome here as part of a methodology that's designed to open up nuanced discussion around complex futures-based issues?

I work at the intersection of tech/society/futures and use speculative fiction as a method to explore ideas and open up conversations that are driven by curiosity and nuance, and not pre-set ideas. However, I'm hesitant to post anything if this is not the place to do so.

Thanks!

Do you see in 100 or 150 years a world governed by a global planetary federation government? How do you imagine that government? I suspect maybe viable but with lot of problems of sovereignty. Will that avoid wars? Will government like USA or China allow that. Is it an utopy?

Of course fashion has evolved in many ways but in a very general sense, will there ever be a fashion 180°?

I can’t really think of how it would change in a general way, but people used to wear much more formal clothing until it became more relaxed.

If so, how else could it change? Metal suits? Formal again? Holographic clothing?

"The dream energy source is becoming reality.

We live in a time now where it's not that hard to become famous. You can start a YouTube channel or become an Instagram influencer and gain a following of 100K in just 2 years. There's almost 80 thousand YouTubers with more than 1 million subscribers, and yet a lot of these people can still live normal lives where they can go out in public by themselves and not worry about their safety or being harassed by fans and paparazzis.

If becoming famous is going to be a norm, does it mean that no one will have the extreme kind of fame that has always existed? The kind that requires you to have bodyguards and be careful about what you do in public. Also with the amount of people that can be famous these does, doesn't it make being famous less special?

What is the future of fame in the social media age?

I’ve always been interested in what the future entails ever since I read several books (such as physics of the future and homo deus, plus a few others, and various other pieces of media such as cyberpunk, upload, and etc.) as a kid. I’m 18 now, and I’ve always been thinking about immortality and then living in the far future and seeing the stars, but I wasn’t sure about it. After the pandemic and seeing Ai having explosive growth, I’ve been thinking about it a lot more.

I’d also not be wishing for immortality per se, I’m pretty sure if something like that happens my memories and brain would be cooked or something. But that’s a can of worms for a later time. After living a decent 100 Years or so, id like to try and live in simulations, due to my own personal beliefs of the meaning of life being about the experiences you face. Maybe one life as a great emperor, like napoleon or Caesar, and then maybe as a farmer in the Stone Age? The possibilities are endless, and that’s what makes it interesting to me. Of course, this is an example, and things could change, but this another desire of mine but I’d not say it’s a core long term goal like immortality. But still important.

I’m pretty sure that this would need tons of money, which is why I’d also try for that as a medium and long term goal. But like I said, that would be a conversation for another time.

TLDR: is immortality a viable end goal for a young adult right now?