For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
The steady improvement in computer speed and efficiency (unfortunately brought down by bloated software, but in some areas you feel it in absolute terms), storage and memory size, and EV technology. I hope in 2040 there will be cheap powerful e-scooters and e-motorcycles.
I really hope that storage increases faster than our recording tech, to the point that everyone can easily store the sum total of the internet (videos and all) on a single portable drive.
You underestimate the amount of crap (which is mostly porn, whether you like it or not) on the Internet. And resolutions will increase as cameras get better.
But in some metrics, we have already gotten there. You can download the entirety of Wikipedia and it fits in a few gigs. You could download everything (including the 800+ videos which would span multiple weeks long end to end) I made and have it be less than 1TB.
I hope so too. Nice, affordable transport for many
Also e-scooters are just plain fun. 20mph on an e-scooter feels like 40mph on a motorcycle that feels like 80mph in a car.
Excited and scared for quantum computing
Yeah, my understanding is the NSA stores all encrypted texts they intercept so when they can get a good quantum computer they can break them.
Glad groups like signal have started updating their encryptions to help handle that
Mulvad too are rolling out “quantum-resistant encryption” (read: they add another random key after the first key handshake is established)
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/stable-quantum-resistant-tunnels-in-the-app
Good to know.
Fusion? That would be big. The continual role out of green energy which can push the price down. The McRib coming back. Normal things.
Unlocking any energy conversion techniques for gravitons (not virtual gravitons, but those associated with gravitational waves). If we could produce them artificially, it would be a whole new ball game.
whatever linux + rust + unified architecture chips is going to be in 10 years
COSMIC desktop environment.
Maybe not as spectacular as quantum computing or things like that, but personally I can’t wait for it.
Hey, Desktop environments can make or break. I remember when GNOME 4 first came out, before any improvements, and there was a lot of unhappiness.
Will be cool to see a Linux Desktop environment designed by a company like System76
Efficient apps, everywhere. For example the COSMIC desktop is modern AND fast.
Not going to happen I don’t think not while hardware is cheaper than development costs
I disagree. But these improvements are often low level, so that Meta can save costs doing the shit they do
All well and good but at the higher end they’re writing applications in JavaScript and electron and using many times more system resources than C or rust, and it will always be cheaper for them to develop in higher level languages (especially when the performance problem can be offloaded on the user’s machine instead of their own servers)
This. I think laziness is a huge problem.
It’s not laziness it’s economics.
It’s cheaper for companies to have their developers spend less time developing in higher level languages and just throw more hardware at the problem than spend more money developing in a more difficult language
They aren’t concerned with energy or material efficiency, only financial
Only their own specifically. Our economy wants people to only care about themselves. Even though this doesnt make sense as polluting the earth will directly impact you.
Quantum safe cryptography ciphers already exist
Longevity research, it has really taken off in the last ten years, hopefully we’re on some cusp for multiple breakthrough in the next ten years.
Atomically Precise Manufacturing but it’s hard to find information about it.
personally, I have no desire to live longer than I’m intended to. living to that age with more vitality, however, that sounds great!
Well that’s the idea, repair the damage and be youthful instead of aging and becoming an old crippled person.
I always find stories about carbon emissions exciting. The reason why a Malthusian view of things hasn’t panned out in recent centuries is because of technology. I am always interested in if humans can find a breakthrough technology that basically does something with carbon emissions that could eventually be done on a scale to reduce climate change. Unlikely, but fun to imagine.
Here’s an example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240111113214.htm.
I believe I have also seen efforts to convert carbon emissions to hydrogen.
Stuff around making clean water from bad water sources is also pretty cool.
The democratization of embedded programming and the capacities it offers. Coupled with 3D printing you can build your own robots or machines with minimal knowledge and money.
RISC-V and getting even more low power+max performance
Regrowing teeth
Growing extra teeth
Cause why not right haha
Good news, there’s a trial starting soon.
Although they can’t guarantee the number and location of teeth regrown.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVTOL
3D printed homes
I used to be pretty excited about 3d printed homes, but an argument I’ve seen, that’s made me a lot more skeptical of them, is that much of the work of building isn’t putting up the actual walls, it’s all the wiring, plumbing, installing windows and climate control and insulation and roofing and whatever else like that that turns a building from essentially an artificial cave into a more livable space. A 3d printer that prints you walls out of concrete or whatever is only doing the easy part for you in that case, and not necessarily even in the most efficient or desirable manner. Not to say that the idea of more efficient ways to build housing cheaply isn’t interesting to me, I just think that it’d be something more boring, like a a bunch of improvement to modular prefab construction. 3d printing is an awesome technology, but it’s not a good option for everything
Aren’t there lego-like blocks one can use that allow for simultaneous cavity space and holes for wiring/plumbing and other infrastructure?
In my naive mind, it’s just a matter of being able to make a reliable brick set that one can snap together and then fill.
I agree, I used to work for a company that made mobile homes in a an assembly line fashion. Two of us could cut and assemble all of the interior and exterior walls in under two days for an 80 foot home. It’s all the other stuff that took time and a lot more people to piece together.
Internal alpha-therapy. Imagine attaching a radioactive atom to an antibody that would fix to a cancer, then as alpha radiation do a lot of damage, at a very short range destroy the cancer without doing much damage to the rest of the body
See that documentary for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DkhSFS0FY4Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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