What advanced in technology are likely in the near or far future and or people think are poss ?

[Hawkins003]

Was following a previously similar thread but it vanished so to make a new version. There's this thread.

Mine is teleportation, and a device to help with learning and speed reading ect

They've already made those robots from terminator (the metal ones that melt and reform) - I've seen a video of it behind bars, then it melts, slides through the bars.and reforms... this is scary shit.

Translation is getting pretty good on apps now where by you just speak into the app and it translates instantly.

Anyone know much about ChatGPT or Bard AI. Just sounds a bit like Alexa from what i read?

I'm only guessing but I believe "ChatGPT" is basically you give it some prompts or commands and it creates what you try to command it to do, e.g. Make a short story about e.g. Pirates ect.

Similar to how midjourney is for art.

Holy smoke

I am waiting for jet packs we can wear on our backs to get around.

The MN website to be transported to the 21st century and upgraded??? 😁As a basic, what about being able to tick a post to acknowledge reading the header, but not needing to read the same header for hours on end when its irrelevant to me???

It does have it's quirks

Yes thats a good example. I hear they can write essays for students. Would each one be unique? Nightmare for teachers to detect.

You can use the robot chat thing to do homework and write essays. It can give a different answer each time meaning plagiarism can't be detected.

ChatGP is scarily intelligent, I'm hoping it can advise our government to stop making such stupid mistakes! ;)

@Egghead68 just in case you hadn’t seen - this is a jet pack example

You over estimate the stupidity of the students who plagarise.

In theory this is a boring one, However - the biggest one we can all hope for is Graphene being able to be mass manufactured. It's used a lot today but if we work out how to do it at the levels we do steel etc, It could change the world in a leap we haven't seen since the industrial revolution and I don't think that's hyperbole either.

Some examples being:

• hugely reduce the need for batteries globally
• change how buildings are made (significantly stronger than steel, significantly lighter than aluminium),
• massively reduce our need for non-renewable energy *is 1000 times more conductive than copper
• Can enable salt water to be used/filtered for drinking water at low cost *and loads of uses in medicine too.

It's a game changer and could impact the world in many ways if someone can work out how to mass produce it at the levels required.

Self-driving cars should become mainstream on the mid-term I think.

Possibly the expansion of H2 powered vehicles? Though this depends on the advancement of renewable energy so that H2 can actually be extracted "cleanly".

Lab-grown meat will get there I think though might take a while.

Bit more out there, but perhaps artificial wombs? Not for the whole of gestation (at least not any time soon) bit something that can support a foetus from much earlier than we can now by means of an artificial placenta.

Medication to drastically reduce the ageing processes that lead to ill-health. A lot of fascinating and promising work being done on this already.

I'm still hoping someone will invent a home printer that bloody works all of the time.

That's very true

That's the thing, it could be used as a base for an essay then if a person puts their creative spin on it, then a lot faster produced than if they wrote it themselves.

Very cool

I do wonder why they did that , where’s the benefit ? Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should

Sometimes I wonder if that's the situation with a lot of scientific development.

I think Office jobs will be taken over by computers and robots. We are already on our way. Staff less ships are already in existence and increase. A computer is far better than a GP at diagnosis etc already. Many people trust Doctor Google and doctor Amazon already. Bring it on!! But I do feel for those who can't tackle technology as they are being left behind. Technology doesn't understand that correctness without understanding is not right!!

Digital cash. And we should ALL do our bit to resist it even if we don't use physical cash much now and apple pay everything for convenience (guilty!). Digital cash is not apple pay, but they will probably bank on (pardon the pun) the naive believing it is in order to push it through.

Fetches tinfoil hat

Nuclear fusion for clean, free energy.

That's what I thought.