What kind of technologies would you like to see one day made real?

[Gingerbread Demon]

What kind of technologies would you like to see made real one day?

I'd love to have a visualizer. Something that would let you write stories without having to physically touch a keyboard. You would just think your story after putting on a cap connected to your computer either directly or via a small external box. It would let you create either text or images or both and be as creative as possible.

A device like this would also have very practical applications like communicating with coma patients or other illnesses where a patient can't easily communicate with people.

Well that's my idea what else would people like to think could be made in the future?

 

[Cryogenator]

In the distant future, artificial intelligence will be able to read your mind and instantly create an ideal immersive narrative experience for you without you even needing to consciously imagine it.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

In the distant future, artificial intelligence will be able to read your mind and instantly create an ideal immersive narrative experience for you without you even needing to consciously imagine it.

AI could be the way to talk to coma patients, if you also meant a means of actually reading the brains thoughts as well.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

In the distant future, artificial intelligence will be able to read your mind and instantly create an ideal immersive narrative experience for you without you even needing to consciously imagine it.

It does this now already! Do you ever get creeped out by tailored ads showing up on your newsfeeds? And that the stuff you were thinking about a moment ago has a story show up while you're scrolling?

Yikes!

But I do see your point about AI "creating your own reality."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

How about this? Long lasting batteries

Scientists produce world's first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years

Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully created the world's first carbon-14 diamond battery.

techxplore.com

 

[JLA]

Bio beds, replicators, transporters and warp drives

 

[IMC Headquarters]

How about this? Long lasting batteries

Scientists produce world's first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years

Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully created the world's first carbon-14 diamond battery.

techxplore.com

Microwatt power systems. Definitely ideal for use in medical devices like hearing aids, infusion pumps, pacemakers, etc. Reduce surgeries, waste, and painful recovery.

I hope these will be regulated so each battery can be recycled indefinitely.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Suicide booths.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Microwatt power systems. Definitely ideal for use in medical devices like hearing aids, infusion pumps, pacemakers, etc. Reduce surgeries, waste, and painful recovery.

I hope these will be regulated so each battery can be recycled indefinitely.

If such batteries have a potential life of hundreds of years, or even thousands recycling wouldn't really be an issue

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Suicide booths.

I have an incurable illness that will eventually kill me slowly and painfully. Who would deny me swift release?

 

[Santaman]

^^ Extremely sorry to hear.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

^^ Extremely sorry to hear.

No worry - at least assisted dying looks like it will be legalised in my country, so I won't need to travel to a different one. I'm much more worried about debilitating pain than I am about death.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I wish every country could adopt this but it feels like such a hard thing to sell and people are stupid

 

[Cryogenator]

Many stasists such as myself are interested in legalizing active euthanasia in order to enter biostasis with greater ease and quality, which we call "cryothanasia." In this way, lethal injections could ultimately help save lives.

Reanimation is the technology I most want to see developed because it could enable me to see all other possible technologies develop.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I have an incurable illness that will eventually kill me slowly and painfully. Who would deny me swift release?

Sorry to hear about that, you have my condolences.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Keep dreaming about that reanimation stuff. Cryonics is a fad

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Thank you for the kind thoughts. I really shouldn't have made the suggestion, but it's been on my mind a lot.

I hear people like Elon Musk want everyone to be forced to have direct neural implants to create a kind of group mind like the Conjoiners in the Revelation Space universe of Alastair Reynolds. To me, such transhumanism sounds horrific and I can well believe a creepy dude like Musk would be into it.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Thank you for the kind thoughts. I really shouldn't have made the suggestion, but it's been on my mind a lot.

I hear people like Elon Musk want everyone to be forced to have direct neural implants to create a kind of group mind like the Conjoiners in the Revelation Space universe of Alastair Reynolds. To me, such transhumanism sounds horrific and I can well believe a creepy dude like Musk would be into it.

Either that or it turns into the Borg, life imitates art. He is full of bullshit.

He was always anti AI but now he's pivoted towards loving AI. He's full of shit

 

[Cryogenator]

Keep dreaming about that reanimation stuff. Cryonics is a fad

It is certainly not a fad.

Cryopreserved rat kidneys were recently reanimated without damage and healthy humans have been born from embryos kept in cryostasis for up to three decades.

Perhaps no one currently in biostasis can ever be reanimated, but with 100% certainty, human reversible suspended animation is physically possible. If you disagree, then you simply don't understand basic physics.

 

[Cryogenator]

I hear people like Elon Musk want everyone to be forced to have direct neural implants to create a kind of group mind

He doesn't want to force anyone and his neurointerfaces are already helping people who have voluntarily had them implanted.