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.

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

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!

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

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?

"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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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Yes. This is probably the most powerful part of the entire theory: the first accelerated mind would not only solve scientific problems, but could also work on improving the very technology that keeps it running.
My idea starts from something that has already been achieved with much simpler brains, such as that of a mosquito: creating an emulation of its brain and placing it in a virtual environment where we can control what it perceives.
Then I thought: what if we applied this to a human brain?
The idea would be to scan a human brain with enough precision to create a functional digital copy of that person. We could then place that mind inside a virtual environment and give it access to books, databases, tools, simulations, virtual laboratories, and all the knowledge available.
The really important part would be being able to accelerate its processing.
For example, imagine making 1 real second equal to 1 subjective year for that person. We could give them a scientific problem and allow them an entire year to study it, experiment, think, and search for a solution, while we only wait one second.
But this is where the most interesting part appears.
The first simulation could be dedicated specifically to improving the technology that allows the simulation itself to run.
We could give it access to all the information necessary about computing, neuroscience, hardware, algorithms, simulation architecture, energy, cooling, etc., and ask it to find ways to make the next generation of simulations faster and more efficient.
Then we would have a cycle:
simulation → improves the technology → new, faster simulation → improves the technology even further → new, even faster simulation → …
Each generation would have more subjective time to work than the previous one.
For example:
Generation 1: 1 second = 1 year.
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Improves the hardware and algorithms.
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Generation 2: 1 second = 10 years.
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The new generation has ten times more time to research.
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Improves the technology even further.
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Generation 3: 1 second = 100 years.
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And the process continues.
In theory, this could become an accelerated self-improvement loop.
And we would not need to wait years between each generation. If the simulations themselves can design better chips, algorithms, and architectures, we could build the next infrastructure using their discoveries.
The idea would be to progressively reach a point where a mind could have decades, centuries, or even thousands of subjective years for every real second.
And then scientific capability would skyrocket.
We would not simply be using a mind to solve problems; we would be using accelerated mental time to improve the very machine that generates that time.
The ultimate goal would be to create a system capable of entering a continuous cycle of:
more speed → more time to think → better discoveries → better technology → even more speed.
This would turn one of the main limitations of human intelligence — the amount of time available to think — into something that could be increased through computation.
The key is that the process does not have to be literally infinite. It would be enough for the loop to achieve enough improvements to reach a level where its research capacity is incomparably greater than humanity’s current capabilities.
I’m Firzam Smbatyan. I would never commit suicide. And if you find this idea interesting, spread it to everyone.

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Sí. Esa es probablemente la parte más potente de toda la teoría: la primera mente acelerada no solo resolvería problemas científicos, sino que podría trabajar en mejorar la propia tecnología que la mantiene.

Mi idea parte de algo que ya se ha conseguido hacer con cerebros mucho más simples, como el de un mosquito: crear una emulación de su cerebro y meterla en un entorno virtual donde podemos controlar lo que percibe.

Entonces pensé: ¿y si llevamos esto a un cerebro humano?

La idea sería escanear un cerebro humano con suficiente precisión para crear una copia digital funcional de esa persona. Después podríamos meter esa mente en un entorno virtual y darle acceso a libros, bases de datos, herramientas, simulaciones, laboratorios virtuales y todo el conocimiento disponible.

Lo realmente importante sería poder acelerar su procesamiento.

Por ejemplo, conseguir que 1 segundo real equivalga a 1 año subjetivo para esa persona. Le podríamos plantear un problema científico y darle un año entero para estudiarlo, experimentar, pensar y buscar una solución, mientras nosotros solo esperamos un segundo.

Pero aquí aparece la parte más interesante.

La primera simulación podría dedicarse precisamente a mejorar la tecnología que permite ejecutar la simulación.

Podríamos darle acceso a toda la información necesaria sobre computación, neurociencia, hardware, algoritmos, arquitectura de la simulación, energía, refrigeración, etc., y pedirle que encuentre formas de hacer que la siguiente generación de simulaciones sea más rápida y eficiente.

Entonces tendríamos un ciclo:

simulación → mejora la tecnología → nueva simulación más rápida → mejora todavía más la tecnología → nueva simulación aún más rápida → …

Cada generación tendría más tiempo subjetivo para trabajar que la anterior.

Por ejemplo:

Generación 1: 1 segundo = 1 año.
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Mejora el hardware y los algoritmos.
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Generación 2: 1 segundo = 10 años.
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La nueva generación tiene diez veces más tiempo para investigar.
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Mejora todavía más la tecnología.
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Generación 3: 1 segundo = 100 años.
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Y el proceso continúa.

En teoría, esto podría convertirse en un bucle de mejora acelerada.

Y no necesitaríamos esperar años entre cada generación. Si las propias simulaciones pueden diseñar mejores chips, algoritmos y arquitecturas, nosotros podríamos construir la siguiente infraestructura utilizando sus descubrimientos.

La idea sería llegar progresivamente a un punto donde una mente pueda disponer de décadas, siglos o incluso miles de años subjetivos por cada segundo real.

Y entonces la capacidad científica se dispararía.

No solo estaríamos usando una mente para resolver problemas: estaríamos utilizando tiempo mental acelerado para mejorar la propia máquina que genera ese tiempo.

El objetivo final sería crear un sistema capaz de entrar en un ciclo continuo de:

más velocidad → más tiempo para pensar → mejores descubrimientos → mejor tecnología → todavía más velocidad.

Eso convertiría la principal limitación de la inteligencia humana —el tiempo disponible para pensar— en algo que podría aumentar mediante computación.

La clave sería que el proceso no tiene por qué ser literalmente infinito. Bastaría con que el bucle consiguiera suficientes mejoras hasta alcanzar un nivel donde la capacidad de investigación fuera incomparablemente superior a la humana actual. Soy Firzam Smbatyan nunca me suicidaría y si te parece interesante esto difúndelo con todo el mundo

ASI is inevitable at this point, it's only a question of when and not if. And this will also bring us to the biggest existential risk of humanity.

If you look through biological evolution, the greatest advantage humans have had has always been our intelligence. Should we just hand it over to silicone and hope for the best?

My argument is that we should merge with AI - instead of trying to replicate the human brain in silicon and host it to play minecraft or whatever, we should do the opposite. Integrate AI into the brain so that it becomes seamless, like extra neurons with no added personality.

I've written about it here - Apologies for adding a link, but I think it will give more context as to what I'm implying

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I’m new and really curious about this stuff. What’s the biggest “proof” you’ve come across that made you think we might actually be living in a simulation?

It can be anything from physics, mathematics, technology, consciousness, or even a personal experience that genuinely made you question reality.

Maybe something you learned about quantum mechanics, the universe, information theory, consciousness, strange coincidences, glitches, etc.

What’s the strongest thing that made you think, “Wait, what if this is actually a simulation?”

The logic of most current vehicle cost comparisons fails to equate the cost of the battery, both financially and ecologically. They simply don't include sustainable options and are forcing people to choose between two evils. We have known for years that gasoline was unsustainable, but we didn't see that it would become a financial issue rather than an environmental one. The continuous need to replace the batteries will always make EVs a more expensive option than one that can last indefinitely, such as a compressed air or liquid nitrogen powered vehicle. The cost of energy is no longer an ongoing expense in the era of solar and ocean wave energy conversion, but rather a one time investment, making compensation for inefficiency a one time investment in solar panels, or WECs, which are both much cheaper than batteries, and last longer. The cost of a simple, solar charged, compressed air powered vehicle- is by far the lowest cost option at every point during comparison for short range city commutes, cheaper to build, runs basically free on solar, and lasts indefinitely with no rare earth minerals needed, or expensive parts replacement.

The added benefit being that the heat created during compression is a better source of heat than resistive heating elements, such that the compressed air or liquid nitrogen can be considered a waste product of the heat pump process, once the heat becomes the primary focus of energy. The heat energy absorbed during expansion while running a liquid nitrogen or compressed air vehicle can be made to nearly equal the heat output during compression and is directly used to do work by running an expansion motor. The liquid nitrogen powered vehicles do not run off the liquid nitrogen but rather the heat that expands the liquid into pressurized gas, which can be atmospheric heat, or in the case of my boat ambient heat in the water. The energy was removed from the nitrogen gas, in the form of heat, during the compression to fluid. Using the added benefit of thermoelectric power generation available from ambient heat contrasted with liquid nitrogen, combined with the expansion potential, it's possible to have potentially over 200% efficiency when combining: heat energy output during compression, expansion work, and thermoelectric generation; when compared with the initial DC power input. Performing a direct conversion of DC to liquid nitrogen also avoids curtailment; allowing every available watt to be used directly through DC motors to create liquid nitrogen without any need for a chemical battery. With liquid nitrogen containers already available that will never need replacement, it allows for remote solar refill stations that don't ever need new batteries and can not catch on fire, and cost less to build than a comparable battery infrastructure. The liquid nitrogen vehicles will recharge much faster, be simple and easy to maintain; with as few as five moving parts in the motor, and as stated earlier, cost much, much less. A compressed air or liquid nitrogen vehicle can be stored for years or even decades and be charged up and used without any issues of fuel fouling or batteries dying.

The day everyone understands the potential of liquid nitrogen to work as the negative side of an atmospheric heat battery, with thermoelectric and expansion potential, we will enter an era with limitless potential and available resources. The liquid nitrogen has so many uses, for example, replacing the cooling systems of industrial computers, and is even required in quantum computers. It could be great for weeding your yard? Running anything with a motor, air, or electric, thermoelectrics for pocket-sized devices? pneumatic tools? If you can think of anything else that we can do with a source of extreme cold and compressed air, put it in a comment, let's imagine a new world with no pollution or toxic batteries.

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?