For me it’s Open Source AGI not controlled by the enshittifying power of capital

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    523·
    7 months ago

    I’d like to see fusion power (or some other good power source) become a thing. It’d be nice to live in a society where energy usage was basically safe and free.

    If we’re being unrealistic, easy access to ftl spacecraft for everyone would be nice. Exploring the galaxy sounds fun.

    • merari42@lemmy.worldOP
      103·
      7 months ago

      The last time I checked fusion was …check notes… just about fifty years away.

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

      What’s funny is that we DO have access to fairly clean energy already! Nuclear and renewables (not as much solar, until we solve the rare earth metals problem) are pretty darn clean. I mean… have you looked up Thoroum reactors? Those things are really neat, much safer and better for the environment, etc., but came just a bit too late combined with the nuclear scare.

    • ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works
      133·
      7 months ago

      He said “technological” advancement, not “political”. I think the greed and slow politics is what is holding us back here, not technology.

  • BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world
    21·
    7 months ago

    Lab-grown meat that is both indistinguishable from animal-grown and is cheaper. Bonus points if they can make bacon have 100% of our daily vitamins and minerals.

  • promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi
    232·
    7 months ago

    Evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. It would be so cool. I just hope its far enough we cant get there and fuck everything up for them (or that they cant do the same to us)

    • AToM.exe@lemmy.worldދިވެހި
      4·
      7 months ago

      Sustained net positiv fusion.

      It’s plausible that we’ll see it in our lifetime.

    • t_berium@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      That’s the first thing that comes into my mind when people say ‘you can’t spend that much money’, when thinking of being a billionaire.

      I would finance the living shit out of fusion technology. You know. For mankind and such.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    7 months ago

    Sending someone to mars and keeping an eye on how he lives his life and survives.

    Would feel like a survival game let’s play.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 months ago

    Flexible, plug-n-play solar energy capture methods with more versatile applications than inside aluminum frames glued to huge hunks of glass.

    Like, a paint. I could just paint the south side of my house with the stuff and it handles my electricity demand.

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    7 months ago

    Room temperature superconductors. Not for any of the particular uses per se, but just because the world would go nuts and it would be interesting to see.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      7 months ago

      so no more inheritance? no more younger generations getting their turn to control things? sounds like a nightmare scenario.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        10·
        7 months ago

        The previous poster spoke about defeating aging, not death.

        I mean if we kept the same lifespan as we have today, but everyone basically stopped aging at 35, you keep the energy and clarity of mind all throughout your life, but still die at 82 or whatever, I’d call that a win.

  • Tazerface@lemmings.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    I want to see wide-spread adoption of organ transplants using decellularization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decellularization

    A 3d printer in every home and a larger one in each neighbourhood. Design our own stuff instead of buying garbage that falls apart.

    A self-hosted AI, which isn’t controlled by any bigtech company, would be pretty sweet.

    The end of surveillance capitalism.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      7 months ago

      This is the big one. With infinite energy you can basically do matter transmutation and end most forms of commodity scarcity.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        I think the “promise” of fusion is a huge misunderstanding.

        I mean we already have a nearly infinite source of clean energy, it’s called fission. The only difference between fission and fusion is that fusion will be much more expensive.

        If you want a truly unlimited source of energy, we have those too, they’re wind and solar.

        Seriously though, the expectations for fusion are completely rediculous, when we finally do get it working, it will be the most expensive form of energy ever concieved. If the reactors use the standard method of generating energy, heat capture to run a turbine, it will also require enormous amounts of beryllium as part of the “blanket” around the reactor. How much beryllium will be needed? In the whole world, we probably have enough beryllium for 4 grid scale reactors, the cost of which would be astronomical.

        Here’s the worst part, over time those blankets would absorb neutrons, the materials would degrade and eventually the now radioactive blanket would have to be disposed of and replaced.

        The tldr is this - tokamak and stellerator style fusion reactors work great in theory, they will probably successfully make sustainable fusion reactions quite soon. But they may never generate electricity in practice, they’re a logistical and economical nightmare.

        I do think fusion could make a fantastic spacecraft engine however, I expect that will be a huge application.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 months ago

    I want robot body parts.

    I want to live forever, or at least until I get lazy and flash some shady firmware to my robotic heart…