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

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

Something that really got to me about technology recently was an advert for a water charity - along the lines of looking for water on Mars when there are so many on earth without access to water and it struck me how technology and progress can almost be a pointless hobby for some when the focus could be on helping people

Not technology as such, but new teeth grown from stem cells.

I first read about the possibility in 2007, when the current articles were dated 2004. I've looked it up more recently and those same articles are still there, without much further happening. It would be a game changer for so many people with missing teeth.

Hydrogen fuel for cars.

I heard this discussed on the radio- there were medical uses for it being developed. Unfortunately I can’t remember exactly what they were but they were going to reduce the need for some invasive surgeries. I guess like many technologies it’s not the technology per se that’s the problem but how it it used.

There is substantial research happening at the moment into hydrogen propulsion, particularly in aviation and maritime. Cars seem to be wedded to electric but there are some massive issues to solve, battery manufacturing capability being right up there!

A superfast shower pod which will wash and dry me.
With options for hair washing and skin lotion application after drying.

I saw that article when I had a tooth removed in 2009 and asked my dentist about it at the time - I think it was an article about a rat growing a new tooth and at the time they predicted it would be 15 years before they could do the same thing in humans? I showed it to my dentist and asked if this would be an alternative to an implant? He laughed and said this technology will not be available in our lifetime

I submit articles to scientific journals. On author instruction pages, We are now getting statements about the use of AI in writing our articles. Allowed but only to improve / fix grammar. And must be acknowledged. It could be very useful for some non-English-speaking authors, tbh.

AI as pre-print reviewers of scientific articles could be useful. Spot the basic problems.

What it takes to write scientific articles after a set of humans did the research is way more than AI can do now, but dunno about future.

A transition to preventative and personalised health management. We will all have a digital twin where genome is mapped and whole load of data will allow for very specific, individualised I.E dosage of medicine

Also a universal basic income

there will (have to) be enormous shifts in farming and food production

nuclear energy

I think batteries and power cables will be replaced by a method of wireless charging.

no Chat GPT is very powerful, it can write incredibly well given the correct prompts. People with teenagers should really pay attention as it’s getting pretty easy to write essays with it. South Park have done a lot of satire on it, but it’s actually pretty accurate.

I honestly think with the rise in AI we are going to see a seismic shift in the workplace. A lot of professions are going to become redundant as more can be automated. The new graphic design AI from Adobe - Firefly - alongside AI In various other tools is really going to hurt graphic designers. It won’t be long before we can get AI to do data management, accounting, statistics, marketing, etc. A lot of white collar jobs will go imo.

Could also be used in earthquake scenarios to get into the rubble and find survivors. Or mining. Caving. Construction.

Automated/self driving trains. They'd be a game changer for cost savings, efficiency, faster/more frequent services. If the trains could "talk" to each other, you'd need less "safety space" between them, even better would be if they could couple up and uncouple on the move. At the moment, we've basically just got humans controlling computer controlled signals and points, and a human controlling a computer controlled train. That causes the whole system to be slower than it needs to be. If not fully automated, then at least have control room operators "driving" the trains in a similar way to how pilots control drones from a control room. Then you can have one member of staff on the train to act as guard, conductor, etc - personally I think that's better than having driver-only trains with no staff in the passenger areas.

Prof David Nutt has made alcoholic drinks that have eliminated all the harmful effects of alcohol. By genetic coding I believe. But you still get the buzz etc. I think they'll do a similar thing for foods. So you can eat all the burgers but not gain weight, high blood pressure, diabetes etc etc . Although there'd be strong lobbying from the massive diet industry. <Also people would not be able to be judge>

Also, medication to safely get you off to sleep and wake you up at the right times at night. Then, later on, medication so you can go to sleep for, say, an hour and you'd feel like you'd slept for 8 hours. Although if robots are doing all our jobs we'd need to have something to fill the time! 🤔

Translators. Point your phone at somebody then talk into a microphone in English and it comes out your phone in another language. That sort of thing is just about starting to come in now.

Those we do need

That's the thing with the rise of machine, what about humans etc

Amazing - thank you!! I really want to have a go on one

I've already used ChatGPT to write code. And Boris Johnson speeches.

Last thing I asked was for it to create an SSL monitoring plugin for Icinga. Which it did flawlessly.

And it's already worked out that Brexit was a shit idea.

Yes, absolutely, and sooner than we think. Although, the cost would be unaffordable for the most.

Significant advance in genetic engineering.