More improvement in the area of vaccine technology, acceptance, and adoption of these techniques: alternative forms of administration, less reliance on boosters, improved thermal stability. A better understanding of the immune system, neuroscience, and human biology in general. I expected more infectious diseases to be eradicated such as HIV, TB, and malaria.
These things are progressing and I see hope in how technologies are progressing, but I believe vaccine and infectious disease research and development have been severely limited by the industry’s obsession with intellectual property and pursuit of profit. Our understanding of human biology has improved, but thinking back to my teenage years, I was naive as to how complicated biology is and how little we actually understand.
I’m still a bit salty no one ever brought dinosaurs back from the grave. Our progression in flight technology has been disappointing without flying saucers too.
The Bell Riots.
Self driving cars and fusion. I’m still optimistic about fusion.
The one thing I feel deprived of, is the proper sci fi aesthetic in our devices.
The beeps, the switches, the UI. All forsaken for an asinine black mirror .
TBF all those sci-fi transparent displays would be terrible to use
Member the matrix all white control room? I want that.
Fully automated luxury communism
Universal Healthcare.
Hoverboards, RePet and a hangover cure
more international cooperation for global benefit. instead we have more profit taking from everyone
First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.
After that: people.
And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.
A blue whale would be impressive.
South Park tried it
OH I CAN SEE THE WHAAAAAAAALES
And a bowl of petunias.
Very suspicious if you ask me
Maybe there’s a secret program that They don’t want us to know about.
What would be the point?
“we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
But really I was just pretending to misunderstand the early test flights as a progression of sending larger life-forms, and that we should continue sending larger and larger animals.
Honestly thought I’d see more phones, with desktop modes, replace laptops in day to day life.
Samsung does have dex which is pretty good!
This is happening soon. USB-C seems to be empowering this, and many of us are now running phones with gargantuan specs. The sole remaining issue is the keyboard. If we continued down the keyboard-smartphone route, this would be a no brainer.
I guess with the switch to Arm on laptops this can be possible real soon.
I grew up in the '80s. I was expecting either nuclear annihilation or cities on the moon.
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
One could certainly speed up the other
Laptops with good build quality, I mean the type of build quality Thinkpads used to have
Honestly, Tuxedo Computers and Framework I think do that.
Advanced cybernetics. From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
It’s saddening to see the slow slow progress of cybernetics.
Me too. Every morning I wake up and scream in existential terror at the slimy corpuscle that is enveloping my soul.
You what?!
Not backsliding into feudalism?
You don’t like the extra steps we added?
Something, anything in the freaking moon.
Why haven’t we been back there in, like, 50 years? That mission was done with computers that were less powerful than my stupid phone.
Anything, a telescope, a transmitter of I-don’t-know-what shit, a lunar farm, a Coca-Cola or Disney advertising, ANYTHING!
Yeah, there was a period in time where people were discussing Helium-3 as a source of fuel that we could very easily and efficiently farm on the moon, which was seen as a key step in becoming a space-faring species. Okay, so we know where the fuel is and we can get there, so companies can start using Earth fuel to send helium-3 extraction machines, which can then be used to collect fuel for them to use in further missions and eventually, a small amount of helium-3 will be used to fuel a mission that returns with massive amounts of it, so we have a fuel, and now we can start exploring space even further, with people. It was the clear direction to take.
Yeah, and then use a slingshot thingy to move a container into low earth orbit in exchange for a container being shot to the moon thingy
It’s a bit of a fantasy, I think. There is nothing profitable about space exploration. It’s either science experiments or nationalist dick measuring.
