Either that, or having developed the ability to spot any oxygen-atmosphere planets or planetary/system scale giga-engineering out to several thousand light years, we will be astonished to find that against all expectations our galaxy appears to be a desert. Then the Fermi Paradox will be reformulated as “where’s all the life that should be there?”.
My only argument against this would be - how do you know which miniscule trace in a bank visited by hundreds to thousands of people is the one specific to the single person who stuck it up?
I have a distinct distaste for leaving a sample of my DNA as I can see a reason for me to be almost anywhere, dropping skin and hair debris legitemately and would really not want to get arrested for having done my routine banking.
Hell, if you did a luminol scan of our house it would probably look like an axe murder took place between a pair of my dogs getting into a fight in the living room, to me slogging from various places to the bathroom bleeding out menstrually for almost 20 years. I feel like one of those ads - Talk to me about the benefits of hysterectomy!! :dubious:
and mrAru cutting himself variously doing projects around the farm.
Leaving behind DNA isn’t a crime. You’re not guilty simply because you were there at some point. If one of your dogs got axed in half, and we found residue of yours and only your menstrual blood at the scene though, it could be used as a PIECE of the evidence though.
That’s my biggest fear: The parties are all happening in the next galaxy over, and we just happen to be located in the middle of Kansas.
Or maybe it’s like two lines I remember from a Star Trek novel (which would also be good for the Two Sentence Horror Story contest):
“As expected- or feared- the sensors still showed no evidence of life.”
“There was, however, ample evidence of death.”
I’m pleased to see the growing number of believers in automated cars/roadways. Puny humans shouldn’t be making all those high speed decisions and the technology is improving steadily.
For my fellow advanced transportation geeks, a reminder that Elon Musk is scheduled to reveal his high speed people moving concept tomorrow.
Innovation comes in pairs. In my lifetime we could very well see:
**Dome-Covered Intelligence; Artificial Cities
Moving Organs; Vat-Grown Sidewalks
Cold cars; Flying fusion**
Video game AI is currently as smart as your average dumbass. To have a fully immersive holodeck would require computing and programming power that we don’t have now and may never have.
Dishwashers that don’t require pre-rinsing.
Coclear implants can restore hearing in some people and research is continuing to be done to improve them.
Hey man, the future is here now! Maytag’s JetClean range seems (in my experience) not to require pre-rinsing; as a matter of fact the book says not to.
The combination of these to is going to result in people being able to indulge in all kinds of stuff that’s illegal or simply impossible to today. Wanna experience sex from the other sex’s perspective; sure go right ahead. Indulge in paedophilia and/or bestiality to your heart’s content? Tentacle porn; would your rather be the squid or the person? Torture and murder political figures/celebrities/friends/family/etc all you want. How’s society going to deal with that?
IIRC the problem wasn’t that the Federation didn’t have that technology; it was that Voyager didn’t have the necessary facilities on-board. If it happened closer to home Neelix wouldn’t just been put in stasis until they could transfer him to the nearest equipped starbase. It was already established that the replicators can’t create living matter (yes, I know this opens up all kinds of plot holes regarding the transporters or why can’t they just replicate a bionic lung).
Health insurance companies would probably love it.
Well, fusion has been pretty well funded already for many decades and the more we test and learn, the more complicated it turns out to be. No one really knows when or if it will ever be commercially viable, and throwing more money at it probably won’t speed it up.
Space represents infinite energy, resources and living space. Regular funding results in regular improvements in various technologies. We’d be lost without satellites for instance, and that alone makes it worthwhile to bring the cost of space launches down, and make access to space a routine, affordable and relatively safe endeavor.
You sound like a commercial. Hahaha. Sorry
But he’s right. Regardless of brand name.
My post was actually half tongue-in-cheek trying to sound like a 1950s commercial, so I succeeded!
But yeah, the newer good dishwashers don’t require pre-rinsing. The cheapo models, not so much.
We bought a GE for about $400-450 a couple of years ago, and it sucked- we basically had to pre-WASH everything, lest it still be greasy and/or get crap from other dishes stuck to it.
We got our kitchen renovated recently and got a new dishwasher (the Maytag JetClean I mentioned earlier), and it doesn’t require pre-rinsing, just knock the big chunks off, and go. It doesn’t even require particularly high-end detergent; cheap stuff will do just fine.
Another vote for organ replication. They’ve already done this successfully with a trachea using stem cells and a 3-d printer. It’s possible that within my lifetime, most organs will be fully replicable, except the brain. The brain might be replicable as well but if you get a brain transplant it wouldn’t really do you much good. I don’t think we’ll be able to master a partial brain transplant that would still leave you “you” within my lifetime.
I dunno, you’d just have to program it to say “What?” and “I don’t understand!” and “Where’s the tea?” Who’d know the difference?
I’m 28, so…
- Moon Colony
- Full Human Cloning
- Wireless electricity
Wireless transmission of electricity, doing away with the need for cords and to plug anything into the wall.
We already have the technology to do away with all LAN cables, it just is a bit too expensive for the average consumer. According to a friend in the business, the hardware is out there for a totally wireless home – phone, TV, Internet. Problem is who will go first? Right now there are devices that convert your cell phone signal into a landline device, smart TVs and of course, wireless devices of all kinds. Imagine a single “black box” with one cable going in and nothing coming out – just a strong enough signal to run every tech gadget in the house.
Now, go the next step and run all your gadgets without power cords.