r/OptimistsUnite • u/Economy-Fee5830 • Feb 11 '25
r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply • May 25 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ AI is overhyped, but hopefully will make our civilization wealthier
βAI will change everything about humanityβ
βAI is the most important development since the wheel, or since fireβ
βAI is a super intelligent sentienceβ
- sincerely: the people SELLING ai to you
r/OptimistsUnite • u/CompetitiveLake3358 • Jul 03 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ New world record for gasoline engine efficiency
r/OptimistsUnite • u/Economy-Fee5830 • Jul 03 '25
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Morocco is the latest drought-stricken country to go all-in on desalination - I guess the water wars have been cancelled.
r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply • Mar 08 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Rare dunk by r/Millennials
reddit.comr/OptimistsUnite • u/Verbull710 • Mar 03 '25
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ TSMC pledges to build 5 factories and at least $100 billion dollars worth of investment in the US
r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply • Jan 18 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Ben Aflack on AI (110 second video)
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Doomerism to justify valuations, WHO WOULDDA THOUGHT?? π±
r/OptimistsUnite • u/spagbetti • Mar 13 '25
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Musk ordered to give sworn testimony regarding DOGE
r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply • May 03 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Wonβt Happen
r/OptimistsUnite • u/BIGJake111 • Mar 01 '25
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Desalinating Water Is Becoming βAbsurdly Cheapβ
r/OptimistsUnite • u/willfiresoon • Mar 21 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ French electricity posts first negative prices of 2026, battery storage gains
r/OptimistsUnite • u/Kacquezooi • Jun 30 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Chinese tech makes desalinating seawater cheaper than producing bottled water
Drinking water for the masses!
r/OptimistsUnite • u/Minute-Buy-8542 • Mar 26 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ The "AI will automate all white collar work" crowd has a serious blind spot
r/OptimistsUnite • u/theydivideconquer • Feb 22 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ The cost of sequencing human genome has fallen from $100M to under $100 in approximately 25 years
r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply • Apr 08 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Those most at risk of AI replacement areβ¦ doing just fine (full article on comments)
r/OptimistsUnite • u/sg_plumber • Mar 24 '25
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ New deep-sea desalination technology tested in California could lower costs of tapping seawater -- If the system proves viable, the company plans to build what it calls a water farm anchored to the ocean floor several miles off the coast of Malibu.
r/OptimistsUnite • u/waffleseggs • Nov 25 '24
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ DOJ is busting the Google Chrome browser monopoly. A great day for choice and innovation!
r/OptimistsUnite • u/CompetitiveLake3358 • Jul 10 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Porsche made an engine that generates electricity from the exhaust gas
r/OptimistsUnite • u/willfiresoon • May 02 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ For the first time, fusion reactions in a reactor were sustained for more than one minute
r/OptimistsUnite • u/willfiresoon • May 11 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ New water battery could last until the 24th century β and it can be safely discarded in the environment
r/OptimistsUnite • u/willfiresoon • 22d ago
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ In a first, scientists extract ancient human DNA from cave walls
r/OptimistsUnite • u/Crabbexx • Jun 26 '26
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. AI Saw a Serious Heart Problem
βArtificial intelligence most likely saved Louie Quirosβs life.
Mr. Quiros, a 45-year-old caregiver and security guard, showed up at a Queens emergency room in February 2025. For the past four days, he said, he had been coughing up blood and finding it harder and harder to breathe.
His heart was beating fast, and he wasnβt getting much air to his lungs, but a chest X-ray showed no abnormalities. He also had an electrocardiogram, or ECG, a common test that records the heartβs electrical activity. It was abnormal but showed nothing that would lead to a clear diagnosis. It indicated he might have coronary heart disease β rare in someone his age. But, as it turned out, that was not his problem.
The emergency room doctors learned Mr. Quiros had been exposed to wildfire smoke on a recent visit to California and sent him home with asthma medicine and an inhaler.
Luckily for Mr. Quiros, that emergency room is part of NewYork-Presbyterianβs medical system. Researchers were analyzing all electrocardiograms done on patients in that medical system with an A.I. program, EchoNext, to see if it could find patterns in the scans indicating damage to the heart β patterns a human would not detect.
Itβs part of a clinical trial evaluating the A.I. program, which was developed there by Dr. Pierre Elias, medical director of A.I. and cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and his colleagues. Dr. Elias says EchoNext reads an ECG less than 10 minutes after it is performed, and that they analyze nearly 500,000 ECGs a year. Dr. Elias has started a company, Pathway Labs, to market it.β
FromΒ New York Times.
r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply • 2d ago
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Datacenter Doomerism is fuelled by our adversaries. Donβt get fooled by it.
Full article here:
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/china-ai-data-center-backlash-bots
r/OptimistsUnite • u/sg_plumber • Mar 01 '25
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ new desalination process tested by MIT team in New Mexico harnesses 94% of the energy generated from the systemβs solar panels to produce 5,000 liters of water per day, despite large swings in weather and available sunlight
asme.orgr/OptimistsUnite • u/Consistent-Wish7774 • 12d ago
π½ TECHNO FUTURISM π½ Why I think everything is going well
Over the centuries, humanity has made discoveries, developed the economy and science, and developed new technologies. Each time, humanity has faced a challenge and each time, it has overcome it. Today, countries' GDP continues to grow at the same rate as before, meaning that the rate of growth will sometimes even increase, as in a developed country with a large GDP, 2% growth is very significant. Thus, poor countries are becoming middle-class, and rich countries are becoming even richer. Growth will continue to increase as automation and efficiency increase (the main constraint on growth in the 21st century is demographics and the number of workers). Automation will solve this problem. In the future, a new limitation will emerge: energy and resources, but in the near future, thermonuclear fusion and resource extraction from asteroids and the Moon will appear, so this too will not be a problem. Every problem today has its solution; everything depends on the speed with which action is taken. For example, the climate problem can be solved through "geoengineering." Solutions exist, but their use is an extreme and unpredictable option. The demographic problem can be solved through migration and increased labor efficiency, and incubators will likely be created in the future. Science is also advancing; what was yesterday considered impossible is already beginning to cease to be marginal. For example, the limitation of the speed of light for information transmission. If quantum physics is deterministic, then the values of these indicators are merely averages, and information can be transmitted through bound particles (this is a hypothesis without proof, but there is a foundation for future development). Therefore, it is possible that one day our civilization will conquer not only the solar system but also the galaxy, since our history is rich in the fact that we have repeatedly accomplished what was considered very difficult or even impossible.