When growing up, I always dreamed of sci-fi level technology being invented when I reached my old age: being able to reverse aging, dive vr, robot servants etc.But now as I turned 28 years old and the average lifespan of male is 78 years, I realized, that in 3 years, the 1980s will have been 50 years ago. Technology was not really fundamentally different from we have now, back in the 1980s. What's the likelihood of technology radically shifting in another 50 years, that's not gonna happen.My dreams are crushed, it's over.
no one in the 80s thought we would ever be sharing chudjaks across the world. the internet and AI are a big revolution. sure people are not happier. but people have never been happier since the early days of mankind
>>108842518>When growing up, I always dreamed of sci-fi level technology being invented when I reached my old age.Me too to a degree, I was disappointed in the late 2010s, then the whole AI thing happened and finally new things are happening. It was almost like new technology stopped existing and the old ones were just being improved, I never liked the late 2010s in that aspect.It's not what I wanted but at least it's not stale however I think we are going back to it, because the late 2020s is starting and I haven't seen much new stuff form it.
>>108842518>What's the likelihood of technology radically shifting in another 50 yearsZero. Our technology was made possible by the insane energy supplied by oil, but oil reserves are finite. Oil production is already slowly falling, and will accelerate doing so. We will have to accept less comfort, less tech in our lives as a result.
what kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to actually reach that conclusion
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” -- Peter Thiel
>>108842931The rot runs deep.
>>108842883>Oil production is already slowly falling,Not because we're anywhere close to running out of it, but because of deliberate deindustrialization and managed decline. We actually have more reserves than ever before thanks to new extraction technologies. Our living standards could be so much better if we the suicide cult of the left didn't have such a grip on our institutions.
>>108842518Everyone else is stupid and refuses to do anything until others do it for them. (you) have to be the change you want to see. Pick a field you desire to be real more than anything and actively work on/towards it. Study, research, actually do the best you can to advance the field as much as you can. Find others who have that same desire and work together on it. We're ruled by, and surrounded by, luddites all over. Until You specifically get up and make that change then it'll never happen. I hate this tech hating society so much it's unreal and I hate even more that I have to be the one to get up and do something about it. I would love so much if I could just chill and do nothing and everything advances around me but no, I'm stuck with greedy retards who can't think 1 year ahead. You better do all you can, OP. That goes for anyone else with a brain who's reading this. I'll do what I can but the moment they allow people to be cryogenically frozen without them having to die first(I tried, too poor and don't wanna literally kill myself for it) then I'm hoping in and waiting. Don't care if there's no way for them to unfreeze me, I'll gladly take that gamble than live around morons.
God I hate zoomies so much
>>108842980Oil needs to yield more energy than it takes to extract it, otherwise it is useful as an energy source. In the beginning of the 20th century, the gain was about 100:1, it is now at what, 10:1, to sustain industrial civilization it requires at least 4:1, and we will get below that point. The decline you see is a consequence of the falling energy yield, look for Energy Returned on Invested Energy (EROEI) if you want to weep. Cancerous Wikipedia obfuscates the energy part by titling its article as Energy return on investment. To an extent this is "true", look at the Permian miracle, but the resources to keep it (useful work) were extracted from the rest of society. Never mind, shale is peaking and that's a large part of why Iran was attacked now.
>>108842980>climate change is anything but real>also something about the leftok boomer
>>108842518Current VR is the sci-fi level technology I dreamed of as a kid.Current AI is also that.Why did you expected full dive or whatever to be invented? Shit doesn't make any sense. But current VR and AI was perfectly reasonable and I was waiting for it to happen.I still remember when with my teen friends we have been building Markov chain text bots in 2010 and it was like the coolest thing ever, and we were theoretizing what would we need to make it reason more abstractly about the text than just sequence of words verbatim.I also remember watching videos like https://youtu.be/9jpWiTVR0GA and dreaming of time when VR and AR tech will be popular and refined so I could slap a headset on my head and interact with anime characters. Not in SAO "plug my brain to computer" feverdream but more like Lain's VR guy.I got what I dreamed of and much more. Sounds like your dreams were not grounded in reality but in scifi movies wishful thinking.
>>108842883Nuclear exists. Chinese are building more and more reactors each year.
>>108842518You think you got it bad? I'm 10 years older and we don't even have medicine that could at least stop aging I'm already past physical prime and even if they do invent such a medicine by the time I'm 70, what good would that be?We're fucked m8
>>108842518No escape from biological death bro, sorry.But our tech is getting SciFi levels.We can already 3d print simplified skin. Probably printing simpler internal organs in 15 years.Shit is crazy, yo.
>>108842980This. We are and have been for a long time now being managed into a sort of neo-feudalism where we are not allowed to have energy. We are also not allowed to progress past the need of fossil (nuclear, eventually fusion or something else).>>108843017This is massively exaggerated though. EROEI actually bottomed in the 80s and then went up. It has every time, and if we're going to have a oil crisis any time soon it's due to societal/geopolitical reasons.>>108843031Alarmistic climate change is as debunked as those jehovas witness that predict the rapture.>Mass starvation by 1990>Ice age by 2000>nuclear holocaust level warming by 2002>2008-forward: We are at a pivot-point, we have ~30days-5 years to make massive changes or the apocalypse will come in 20-40 years no matter what we do later
there's that guy who got a pig heart transplant. I assume as our cells die off we can just replace most of our bodies now days. pig, eyes, pig heart, pig brain. this is our final form. join me brothers.
>>108844228Bloke live 2 months witht he pig heart.You live 5 years with ahuman one. Unless you are crazy lucky.Still, pretty damn crazy.
>>108844228Fuck the pig future, I was promised the cyborg future
>>108842518have you ever discussed that with your gf?
>>108842518>What's the likelihood of technology radically shifting in another 50 years, that's not gonna happen.It's happened three times in the last 10 years by my count. Crypto, Metaverse, and now AI. AI is literally sci-fi tech that we only spoke of in books and movies. Now it's not as GOOD as the AI in those books and movies, but what technology ever is? You're living during a technological boom. Did you notice all of those sci-fi level stories also involved the mass suffering of mankind at the hands of that tech? That's simply what is happening now.
>>108842518>Technology was not really fundamentally different from we have now, back in the 1980s.Are you stupid or something?
>>108842518This is the future they want
>>108842518A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is literally 4x 1000 times more powerful than what I had in the 80s, and it's for $15. Not to mention my always-on mobile telephone in my pocket.
>>108842518>dive vrMeta Quest>robot servants You live in a world where you can ask your phone literally anything in natural language and it answers, in spoken word, text or by action.>I mean two legged thingsYou need 60k for that, but it's available.>being able to reverse agingNot going to happen. But we slowed it down significantly.
>>108842606>sure people are not happierThe Stone Age and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>108842518>Reverse agingIf you properly use the Internet to read, watch and listen to all the methods and learn about technologies to slow aging, you'd be surprised at how far we've come. >Dive vrOk sure, however if you purchase some shitty 400$ monitor and go back in time and show it to anyone, they'd likely start to masturbate furiously>Robot servants Currently our robot servants are actually just assistants. But its a step in the right direction. Traveling back in time and showing any of our current technology to anyone would rekt their mind.Even if you were to go back 20 years and show yourself the hardware we have access to now, you'd likely begin to masterbate furiously too
I still have to Mow my own grassyeah they have "robots" that do this, but they can only do one thing, and you have to set up guard rails to keep them from doing retarded shitDo my own grocery shoppingYeah there are smart fridges and shit like Shipt, but they always try to steer you towards bad deals or promoted items and don't automatically shop for best value without you doing the work to figure it out yourself. And you end up paying a service fee or subscription for the privilege Do my own taxesHaven't seen anyone vibe code a solution for thisScrub my own tub and toiletCook my own dinnersMend my own clothesI haven't come across any robot or AI tool that saves me more time than my dishwasher does
>>108844399>You live 5 years with ahuman one. Unless you are crazy lucky.
>>108844477The Epstein files showed that it's been this way for decades now already.
>>108842518>being able to reverse agingNot only is AI not going to do this, it's going to destroy the copes you use to make the most of what little time you have.Internet? Sea of slop and bots.Programming? Gone. AI ruined it.Art? Ruined.>sure people are not happier. but people have never been happier since the early days of mankindPeople *were* happier 20, 30 years ago, and they remember it, and that's the problem.People remember what the internet was like back then (genuinely fun and exciting).Programming was fun and exciting.New hardware was exciting.
>>108845243Oops. Sorry.I was thinking about a different transplant.
Given the physical limitations of the planet (resource scarcity) and limitations on our collective IQ and ability to cooperate at scale, humans have basically achieved all that they're capable of. Any new inventions will have marginal effects on our lives; the age of transformative innovation is over.
>>108842518>reverse aging, ive been doing anti aging stuff my whole life and barely aged at all lol>dive vr, not "full dive" but it currently "exists". hardware got about barely good and compact enough at around 2010>robot servantsactuators just about got cheap and good enough to allow robutts to be built. some people are already doing it DIYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5bIgLKbuCIive been designing one too
>>108842518At this stage there are only four paths:1. A real pandemic killing half the population.2. A never ending war with Russia and China.3. A bloody revolution, current elites get exterminated like the Romanov.4. Civilization collapse. Cannibalism, rape and plunder become normalized.
>>108842518But we have India coded technology shitting over the whole Internet, wdym no progress?
>>108848830These are not mutually exclusive. I think 5. is more likely: A massive economic collapse signaling the end of the Unipolar American world and the beginning of the Multipolar Asian world. America turns into its South American counterparts, slowly trying to stave off inflation as it becomes little more than a jewish money trick machine while everyone who lives there suffers. Meanwhile China dominates for the next 100 years because they took initiative when they had the upper hand.
>>108848830>>108848921The real one is 6: Nothing ever happens
>>108846565It's not just nostalgiafagging; go look at YouTube: even just searching with before:2023 makes a world of difference.You can't afford new hardware anymore, and to some extent, even old hardware.You can't host your own website without it being immediately, aggressively DDOSed.You can't find anything with Google anymore.
>>108848682>ive been designing one tooBased Robowaifu Technician. Keep up the good work!
