Futurism
- World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024mainichi.jp World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 - The Mainichi
OSAKA -- Clinical trials of the world's first
- Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivitytechxplore.com Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity
A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of precision and control of force.
- Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the roadfortune.com Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road
Mercedes is the first automaker to sell level 3 autonomous cars to U.S. consumers, after announcing plans to do so last year.
- Waymo self-driving cars are delivering Uber Eats orders for first timewww.cnbc.com Waymo self-driving cars are delivering Uber Eats orders for first time
Uber Eats customers may now receive orders delivered by one of Waymo's self-driving cars in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
- The Chief Ideologist of the Silicon Valley Elite Has Some Strange Ideaswww.nytimes.com Opinion | The Chief Ideologist of the Silicon Valley Elite Has Some Strange Ideas
The reactionary futurism of Marc Andreessen.
- Why Korea is Dying Out | Kurzgesagt
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If I'm #childfree, am I part of the problem or the solution? Discuss ;)
- $260 Million AI Company Releases Undeletable Chatbot That Gives Detailed Instructions on Murder, Ethnic Cleansingwww.404media.co $260 Million AI Company Releases Undeletable Chatbot That Gives Detailed Instructions on Murder, Ethnic Cleansing
Mistral, an AI company founded by former Google and Meta alums pushed an “unmoderated” model into the world that will readily tell users how to kill their wives or restore Jim Crow-style discrimination.
The article and release are interesting unto themselves. However, as this is c/Futurism, let's discuss what happens in the future. How do you folks think this ideological battleground plays out in 5, 50, or 500 years?
- Mass Extinction Predicted: Extreme Heat Likely To Wipe Out Humans and Mammals in “Triple Whammy” [in 250M years]scitechdaily.com Mass Extinction Predicted: Extreme Heat Likely To Wipe Out Humans and Mammals in “Triple Whammy”
A study predicts a mass extinction of mammals in 250 million years due to extreme heat from the formation of a supercontinent. The research highlights the lethal combination of a hotter sun, increased CO2, and continental effects, underscoring the importance of landmass layouts in evaluating the hab
- World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials - National | Globalnews.caglobalnews.ca World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials - National | Globalnews.ca
Toregem Biopharma is slated to begin clinical trials in July of next year after it succeeded growing new teeth in mice five years ago.
- XKCD 2820: Inspiration
Alt text: An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious.
Hit me with your ridiculous futurism shower thoughts.
- Scientists close in on fifth force of nature - BBC Newswww.bbc.com Scientists close in on fifth force of nature - BBC News
Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.
tl;dr: maybe.
Experimental uncertainty still exists, and the error bars of the experiment still overlap with the error bars allowed by the Standard Model. Reproducibility in another facility also still required.
- Fusion Is Having a Momentspectrum.ieee.org Fusion Is Having a Moment
Physicists have proven it’s possible. Now it’s up to engineers to harness fusion energy to generate electricity
- How long could you survive in space without a spacesuit?www.space.com How long could you survive in space without a spacesuit?
The vacuum of space is unforgiving, and time is not on your side.
tl;dr; pass out at 15s, brain death in 4m.
More interestingly though, what developments in technology do you think may happen to boost this number should we become a spacefaring civilization?
- Is Star Trek’s Warp Drive Possible? - JSTOR Dailydaily.jstor.org Is Star Trek’s Warp Drive Possible? - JSTOR Daily
The concept of the warp drive is currently at odds with everything we know to be true about physics.
Tl;dr: no.
- EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025www.theverge.com EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025
The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.
The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.
- The evolution of space food: from squeezable tubes to cosmic culinary marvels – AeroTime
Can you imagine dishes that are only possible in low or zero gravity? Like, your souffles on Mars might never collapse!
- What are the different branches of futurism?
As the title says, what are all of the different futurisms, or like imaginings of the future?
So far in my sphere, i know of a few: solarpunk, cyberpunk, retrofuturism, and transhumanism.
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solarpunk: green new decolonialized future where we use technology, natural systems, and cultual wisdom to live sustainably and in harmony with the Earth and others
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cyberpunk: dystopia where technology is capable of many things, but is used in all the wrong ways. Megacorps control everything, and tech is ubiquitous
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transhumanism: future where humans can overcome their linitations through technology, and we also delve into deeper questions of how technology and its use affects people
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retrofuturism (i'm probably thinking more of atompunk, help me here???): Star Trek-esque, optimistic, 1900s view of the future with the typical flying cars, space hotels, and luxury comforts in a utopic setting
Can you guys think of any others? And if i'm wrong, please do correct me
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- When we all have pocket telephones (a 1919 comic)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1708144
> On March 5, 1919, cartoonist W.K. Haselden published a comic in the British newspaper The Mirror, illustrating what the world would be like if telephones were portable.
- Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricitycosmosmagazine.com Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity
Onshore wind and solar photovoltaic technologies have maintained their position as the lowest cost form of new electricity generation, despite global supply
There's going to be this interesting inflection point where solar will be cheaper than the wiring in the grid. That will come with all sorts of societal side effects. In particular, it further increases the gap between the rich (those with land for panels) and the poor (those that need to buy from the grid).
- A break from the lawn: can an iconic meadow seed wider change?
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/science/t/205362
> A new study at King's College, Cambridge reveals the striking benefits of letting lawns go wild. But can others be persuaded to break with a 300-year old social norm?
- Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paintwww.businessinsider.com Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint
According to one professor, we may be able to stop climate change if we used a new super white paint to cover the entire United States
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1578660
> Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint::According to one professor, we may be able to stop climate change if we used a new super white paint to cover the entire United States
- Tokamak Energy’s Demo4 magnet system can carry 12 million Amperes of electricityinterestingengineering.com Tokamak Energy’s Demo4 magnet system can carry 12 million Amperes of electricity
With the Demo4 system, Tokamak Energy aims to test fusion power plant-relevant scenarios for the first time. It will be tested by 2024.
- What is sun blocking and does it really work?www.euronews.com What is sun blocking and does it really work?
A White House report confirms that the US is open to researching solar radiation modification, or sun blocking.
- Batteries Are Advancing According to Their Own Little-Known Moore’s Law (Wright's Law)themobilist.medium.com Batteries Are Advancing According to Their Own Little-Known Moore’s Law
Meet two of the very few bullish observers of ‘Wright’s Law’
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Wright's Law (more generally) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
> Frith’s group puts the battery cost decline at 18% per production doubling at the pack level. As an example, from 2010 to 2015, lithium-ion battery capacity doubled seven times, from 0.48 gigawatt-hours to 62 GWh. The average price of batteries at the pack level plunged from $1,194 per kilowatt hour to $384. Strictly speaking, the 18% rule should have taken prices down to about $261 ($384 is about what Wright’s Law calls for with six doublings). But it was still a roughly two-thirds plummet.
> From 2015 to 2020, battery capacity grew 2.7 times and the price again plunged by two-thirds, to an average of $137/kWh. That overshot the 18% rule, by which the price should have dropped only to about $213/kWh. But if you had strictly tracked the 18% rule from 2010 to 2020, the price ended up right around where it should have been.
> Now, BNEF is using the rule to project what happens next. Following Wright, battery prices should drop to $84 per kWh in 2025, well below the holy grail milestone of $100/kWh. In 2030, they should be an astonishing $58/kWh, and $45 in 2035. The price movements in the 2030s seem dramatic, but they are less so than the prior two decades, namely because it will be harder and harder to double total capacity, Frith said.
Assuming no breakthrough in battery materials, there's still a somewhat predictable price drop. What are the side effects that you see?
- Chatbots can be used to create manipulative content — understanding how this works can help address it | TheConversationtheconversation.com Chatbots can be used to create manipulative content — understanding how this works can help address it
Artificial intelligence could be used to generate content intended to manipulate people. Addressing this problem means understanding how communication works to influence people.
- Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Decades of research are still needed before fusion can be used as clean energy | TheConversationtheconversation.com Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Decades of research are still needed before fusion can be used as clean energy
While the nuclear fusion scientific breakthrough is indeed historic, it’s important to pause and reflect on the way ahead for fusion energy.
- How to Build a Power Grid on the Moonspectrum.ieee.org How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon
To supply outposts sunk in the lunar night, solar power must come from the south pole regions
- Hot Take: Chinese-style social credit systems will exist in all future civilizations
I posit that even the utopian futures will require something like it to preserve the utopias. Defensive Democracy will eventually see it as a necessary evil. The questions become: when? where first and where last? etc.
Discuss :)
- Meme: And thus the problem of Global Warming was solved once and for all
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/323511
> But that- > > ONCE AND FOR ALL!
- USDA Approves First Lab-Grown Chicken in the United States | Smithsonian Magazinewww.smithsonianmag.com USDA Approves First Lab-Grown Chicken in the United States
Two companies have received the green light to produce and sell chicken they have cultivated from cells
- Research Identifies Factors That Make Correcting Misinformation About Science More Successful | University of Pennsylvaniawww.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org Research Identifies Factors That Make Correcting Misinformation About Science More Successful | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
On average, correcting misinformation in science did not succeed but a meta-analysis identifies factors that make them more successful.
tl;dr:
> Although on average the corrections failed to accomplish their objectives, they worked better when the issue in the correction was emotionally more positive than the misinformation, the correction matched the ideology of the recipients, the issue was not politically polarized, and the correction provided abundant details as to why the earlier claims were false.
- Cooking on gas stoves emits benzene | Stanford Newsnews.stanford.edu Cooking on gas stoves emits benzene | Stanford News
About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Stanford researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke.
Is this one of those things we will look back at from the future and say: "I can't believe that we did that?" like leaded fuel?
- Coal consumption affecting planet (1912)
Some veracity checking: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/
- There'll Be No Escape in Future From Telephones (1953, AP)
Mark R. Sullivan, San Francisco, president and director of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., said in an address Thusday night:
"Just what form the future telephone will take is, of course, pure speculation. Here is my prophecy:
"In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, perhaps as we carry a watch today. It probably will require no dial or equivalent, and I think the users will be able to see each other, if they want, as they talk.
'Who knows but what it may actually translate from one language to another?"
- Has NASA selected SpaceX Starship to replace ISS? Top 7 Space Stations!! (Angry Astronaut)
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