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I enjoyed some of the tech that another user posted of that will be available to us via 3d printing in days to come including 3d printed functional organs. I'd love it if others will share things that they've come across.

Complete mapping of connectivity within our brains in the works:
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/
http://www.humanconnectome.org/

More info on mapping as well as uploading the mind digitally:
http://www.pbs.org/the-brain-with-david-eagleman/episodes/who-will-we-be/
The full episode also gives information on the timelines for each of the mentioned projects, which I believe is an expected initial completion date of 2030 for being able to create the first fully functional cyberbrain simulation.

Tempt me with your wares, good people. I'd love to see more of the awesomeness that is coming our way. I haven't really been keeping up with functional prostheses other than what I've come across by chance, so any detailed info on that would be quite a good read/watch. There actually was a clip discussing that in The Brain series that I posted above.

Nanotech, quantum computing, fusion power.

Given that the lgbt community is the darling of the democrats and homelessness and debt doesn't matter to them..i'd say bionic anus' and sex change machines will be at the top of the list

Originally posted by Raisen
Given that the lgbt community is the darling of the democrats and homelessness and debt doesn't matter to them..i'd say bionic anus' and sex change machines will be at the top of the list #triggered

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Nanotech, quantum computing, fusion power.

Confirmation of the protophobic x boson and by extension the 5th fundamental force of nature.

Let's just hope we're still a long way off from a technological singularity.

Nanotech is a solid possibility. Cloning, or in general, vastly improved biotechnology is another imho.

the destruction of the white race

Originally posted by Tzeentch
the destruction of the white race

The topic says greatest..not most saddening. You silly goose.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
the destruction of the white race Blax, you libtarded HIPPY!! Stop promoting the retarded sheeple Obama America-hating BLM movement.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Blax, you libtarded HIPPY!! Stop promoting the retarded sheeple Obama America-hating BLM movement.

The White Guilt is indeed strong. It gives you focus, makes you stronger.

FEEL the guilt flow through you! FEEL the actions of people from centuries before you were born and BURN for them.

Feel the power of victimhood, it gives you access to many abilities that some consider to be..unnatural.

Originally posted by Ascendancy
I enjoyed some of the tech that another user posted of that will be available to us via 3d printing in days to come including 3d printed functional organs. I'd love it if others will share things that they've come across.

Complete mapping of connectivity within our brains in the works:
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/
http://www.humanconnectome.org/

More info on mapping as well as uploading the mind digitally:
http://www.pbs.org/the-brain-with-david-eagleman/episodes/who-will-we-be/
The full episode also gives information on the timelines for each of the mentioned projects, which I believe is an expected initial completion date of 2030 for being able to create the first fully functional cyberbrain simulation.

Tempt me with your wares, good people. I'd love to see more of the awesomeness that is coming our way. I haven't really been keeping up with functional prostheses other than what I've come across by chance, so any detailed info on that would be quite a good read/watch. There actually was a clip discussing that in The Brain series that I posted above.

I was reading an article about driverless autonomous cars. It stated that ford planes on having its whole fleet autonomous in a decade. Uber also said it was looking into autonomous driving. Same goes for a few trucking companies. I think its cool but im also worried about the impact it'll have on that industry. Truck driving is one of a few good paying jobs that dont require a degree

I just hope we don't become a country that hinders progress just due to a financial reason.


*Remembers how shit went down with Nikola Tesla* Well damn, seems I'm many many decades too late.

Originally posted by Surtur
I just hope we don't become a country that hinders progress just due to a financial reason.


*Remembers how shit went down with Nikola Tesla* Well damn, seems I'm many many decades too late.

Rabid anti-intellectualism is far more of a concern in western countries than funding. The fact that "scientist" and "expert" seems to be more and more a term of derision is becoming a problem.

It's the reason why half of all science graduates in the US are foreign born and return to their home countries after graduating.

For the first time ever the 25-34 year old bracket have a lower educational attainment that the 35-44 bracket.

I think quite a few industries are working very hard to make sure that doesn't come to pass. They are working with universities to make sure that students are where they need to be and the universities are constantly recruiting well and putting programs in place to get students all the way through to graduation. I definitely see more positive tech stories than negative ones.

I won't try and hit the dates for it as I'm slightly fuzzy on it since it's been two years or so since I saw him speak, but Michio Kaku's timeline for us implementing climate harnessing systems and eventually having what equates to planetary control at that level wasn't that far off, as in something that we'd likely live to see major steps toward. There are things like wave engines and all that, but beyond even that technology. It is interesting that he was also pointing out that unifying technology is often suppressed right alongside unifying music, which I won't go into except to say that in the end both win out.

I don't foresee the technophobes taking the day.

Originally posted by Ascendancy
I think quite a few industries are working very hard to make sure that doesn't come to pass. They are working with universities to make sure that students are where they need to be and the universities are constantly recruiting well and putting programs in place to get students all the way through to graduation. I definitely see more positive tech stories than negative ones.

I won't try and hit the dates for it as I'm slightly fuzzy on it since it's been two years or so since I saw him speak, but Michio Kaku's timeline for us implementing climate harnessing systems and eventually having what equates to planetary control at that level wasn't that far off, as in something that we'd likely live to see major steps toward. There are things like wave engines and all that, but beyond even that technology. It is interesting that he was also pointing out that unifying technology is often suppressed right alongside unifying music, which I won't go into except to say that in the end both win out.

I don't foresee the technophobes taking the day.
TBH I find Kaku to be a tad too optimistic, but I agree that technophobia (for the lack of a better word) is not going to shape the future in a decisive way.

Just take a look at kids these days. For them technology is not even something "external" in a sense. They are digital natives and a laptop or an iPhone are basically an extension of their bodies.

As far as technological progresss goes, it would be great to live in an age with advanced bio-technology (though many dangers will surface, obviously).

Originally posted by Stigma
Just take a look at kids these days. I love this phrase. Nothing ages a person more when they say this so casually.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
I love this phrase. Nothing ages a person more when they say this so casually.
Well, I am way past my college years so ...

Peer reviewed paper on the EMDrive very soon and a space test within 6 months. A technology that, on paper, breaks newton's third law and no one can explain how it works. One theory suggests it makes plasma from unobservable virtual particles and vents that giving thrust in the process.

But we DO need to look at kids these days. They kind of will be running the country soon. People think Trump is bad? Imagine 3 decades from now..where our sitting president throws a hissy fit on tv over halloween costumes. Or when our sitting president retreats from some kind of political debate to run off to a safe space because their poor delicate wittle feelings heard something that makes them uncomfortable.

Or when play-doh and bubbles become staples of the oval office.

Originally posted by Surtur
But we DO need to look at kids these days. They kind of will be running the country soon. People think Trump is bad? Imagine 3 decades from now..where our sitting president throws a hissy fit on tv over halloween costumes. Or when our sitting president retreats from some kind of political debate to run off to a safe space because their poor delicate wittle feelings heard something that makes them uncomfortable.

Or when play-doh and bubbles become staples of the oval office. To be fair, I think those kind of people are still in the minority


...For now

Originally posted by jaden101
Peer reviewed paper on the EMDrive very soon and a space test within 6 months. A technology that, on paper, breaks newton's third law and no one can explain how it works. One theory suggests it makes plasma from unobservable virtual particles and vents that giving thrust in the process. Virtual particles are so cool. Empty space can suck it.


Originally posted by Surtur
But we DO need to look at kids these days. They kind of will be running the country soon. People think Trump is bad? Imagine 3 decades from now..where our sitting president throws a hissy fit on tv over halloween costumes. Or when our sitting president retreats from some kind of political debate to run off to a safe space because their poor delicate wittle feelings heard something that makes them uncomfortable.

Or when play-doh and bubbles become staples of the oval office. Do you read Cracked?

Lol I used to read Cracked, but not anymore. It got too click baitey and too much full of bullshit.

So I hope you legitimately don't feel you just proved anything because some dipshit at Cracked goes "no, they totally aren't too PC".

Now why do I get the feeling if I read that article it will be nothing but personal anecdotes and zero evidence?

EDIT: Ha yeah, that's exactly what it was. Move along here, nothing to see.

I mean I can sum up that article for anyone: dag nabbit every generation thinks the previous one is crazy.

Boom, you're welcome.

Originally posted by Scribble
To be fair, I think those kind of people are still in the minority


...For now

This is true and there are reports that these kids are slowly, but surely waking up from this nightmare. Slowly realizing stuff like this is BS.

It is a small minority of people who do this, but the problem is that this small minority essentially has the media on their side. They even got Obama to sort of make a fool himself by repeating some of their claims.

I read it, it had some fair points but a lot of it came across like a first-grade political studies student writing in their diary after having an "Ah-ha!" moment at 2am, half-drunk and smoking a Pall Mall in his or her bathroom. Usually you get more bitter as you get older, but as someone who supports pretty much all of the stuff this generations wants but disagrees with a lot of the knee-jerk reactionary ways they seem to be going about it, and the way that speech is being more and more limited, I found it to be a very smug and self-righteous piece and that it missed the mark by a pretty wide margin due to that. That's the thing: I understand and agree with most of what it's saying, but it seems to boil down to "Sorry everyone who isn't a liberal 16 - 21 yro American, but you're wrong and there's nothing you can do about it."
Originally posted by Surtur
This is true and there are reports that these kids are slowly, but surely waking up from this nightmare. Slowly realizing stuff like this is BS.

It is a small minority of people who do this, but the problem is that this small minority essentially has the media on their side. They even got Obama to sort of make a fool himself by repeating some of their claims. I generally consider myself to be a pretty open-minded, forward-thinking person, as much as I can be (and at least I try, you know?), but I'm getting more and more bored with the way the more vocal people in my generation are dealing with things.

To bring it back to the "as you get older you get more confused at da younguns", I'm twenty ****ing four and I'm already going that way. Surely that's a sign that maybe, perhaps, kinda, maybe almost nearly, this generation actually is a tinsy-winsy-itty-bitty too strictly 'politically correct'?

Who knows. I don't, tbh.

It's certainly true that the previous generation is also going to question the up and coming one. However, some people take that fact and use it to assume that literally any complaint hurled at the current generation is just not valid if it comes from someone from the prior generation.

Then you suddenly become the proverbial old man standing on his porch shaking his fist at those gosh darn kids with their rap music and violent video games.

We actually see this more and more where people attempt to frame an argument in such a way that anyone who disagree's is automatically just apparently confirming what you say. It's a clever way to avoid any real discourse because you can just go "see? see what I said?!".

We essentially need to stand up to these people and start doing what the University of Chicago is doing and saying "no, we aren't going to give you trigger warnings or any of that shit".

I mean come on now, one college banned Harambe jokes lol.

Originally posted by Surtur
It's certainly true that the previous generation is also going to question the up and coming one. However, some people take that fact and use it to assume that literally any complaint hurled at the current generation is just not valid if it comes from someone from the prior generation.

Then you suddenly become the proverbial old man standing on his porch shaking his fist at those gosh darn kids with their rap music and violent video games.

We actually see this more and more where people attempt to frame an argument in such a way that anyone who disagree's is automatically just apparently confirming what you say. It's a clever way to avoid any real discourse because you can just go "see? see what I said?!". One of the things that seems to be taken for granted is that evolution or progress is always a good thing, which obviously in biological terms it is, but in terms of opinions and the way that the world works, I don't think it always is. Just because things are changing, does not mean things will work any better. To use an example, look at rebel groups in northern Africa or the Middle East. Yay! They overthrew the evil dictator. Oh, now they're executing all of the black people for not being True North Africans. Oh, now they're publicly hanging all of the people who oppose them. Change is not inherently good, even when it's dolled up as "progress".

My main issue, and this is more of a reiteration than anything, is that I agree with a lot of what the modern liberals want, and I think it comes from a good place, but if you question them, even just to get a bit more information on the subject? You'll be labelled a racist/homophobe/transphobe/sexist etc., etc., but worst of all, they'll dismiss you as stupid and refuse to talk to you any further. I've had this happen in real life. Apparently, if you're a white straight male who doesn't fully understand the intricacies of people outside of your demographic and want to find out more in an inquisitive way, there is no difference between curiosity and outright hate speech.

Oh well.

On-topic: Further harnessing of nanotechnology and increased AI capabilities.

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-bred-live-mice-with-no-need-for-fertili-1786543071

A seeming means of alternative reproduction. I'd say with the way research dollars are handed down this will mostly be focused on use for infertility, still allowing both parents to donate genes, but the long-term outcomes could vary pretty widely.

A.I., genetics and biotech.

Before I die, I want to see:

AI
Telomerase reactivation in somatic cells (so we can achieve immortality)


Those are the two things I'm pledging myself to, but as bonus items:

Eugenics in humans (responsibly of course)
Biotechnologies
Improvements in anti-virus treatments

Human nature does not allow for 'responsible' eugenics. The rich/powerful will always want the best for themselves to separate themselves from the plebs in any given element. So I'd scratch that one off your wish list.

Which is a shame, as we could all be supermen.

@Robtard I mean, there are some traits that we can universally say are good. More intelligence is a good thing, less serious genetic diseases is a good thing, etc. We don't have to go all Hitler and start selecting for skin or eye color to recognize that we can improve some traits (I'd want gene editing or embryo selection rather than eugenics though).

Isn't Digging up Old Threads against the rules? I seem to recall the Mod-taterships here saying that.

Originally posted by Robtard
Human nature does not allow for 'responsible' eugenics. Not until we re-engineer humans to do responsible eugenics. Chicken and egg scenario this one.

Originally posted by Robtard
Human nature does not allow for 'responsible' eugenics. The rich/powerful will always want the best for themselves to separate themselves from the plebs in any given element. So I'd scratch that one off your wish list.

Which is a shame, as we could all be supermen.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
@Robtard I mean, there are some traits that we can universally say are good. More intelligence is a good thing, less serious genetic diseases is a good thing, etc. We don't have to go all Hitler and start selecting for skin or eye color to recognize that we can improve some traits (I'd want gene editing or embryo selection rather than eugenics though).

Exactly. I couldn't give a rat's ass about physical appearance. I care about progressively strengthening our intelligence, eliminating genetic disorders, etc.


Think about the Kaminoans from Star Wars.

Originally posted by The Ellimist
@Robtard I mean, there are some traits that we can universally say are good. More intelligence is a good thing, less serious genetic diseases is a good thing, etc. We don't have to go all Hitler and start selecting for skin or eye color to recognize that we can improve some traits (I'd want gene editing or embryo selection rather than eugenics though).

For sure and I agree overall, but my concern isn't so much in parents' selecting blonde hair and blue eyes for their unborn children to alter ourselves(who cares bout that?), my concern would be where there's say a breakthrough that gives the human eye a +30% efficiency in the visual spectrum while reducing the chance of eye-related diseases to almost zero, but it's limited to certain people via cost segregation. ie priced to where only the wealthy can afford this and the plebs have to do without.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Not until we re-engineer humans to do responsible eugenics. Chicken and egg scenario this one.

I laughed

Originally posted by Robtard
For sure and I agree overall, but my concern isn't so much in parents' selecting blonde hair and blue eyes for their unborn children to alter ourselves(who cares bout that?), my concern would be where there's say a breakthrough that gives the human eye a +30% efficiency in the visual spectrum while reducing the chance of eye-related diseases to almost zero, but it's limited to certain people via cost segregation. ie priced to where only the wealthy can afford this and the plebs have to do without. Would it be better if the state took complete control of procreation like in The Giver?

Affordable sex robots.

I think a simple solution to the inequality problem re: gene editing is to subsidize or otherwise package it into health insurance policies.

In either case, frankly the inequality that might appear during the initial stages of the technology when it would be more expensive is trivial compared to the potential benefits, which could outstrip that of anything we've ever invented (think about being able to produce an entire generation, or even merely a top-1%'ers generation, of people each of whom would be one of the greatest ever at whatever they want to do).

Originally posted by The Ellimist
I think a simple solution to the inequality problem re: gene editing is to subsidize or otherwise package it into health insurance policies.

In either case, frankly the inequality that might appear during the initial stages of the technology when it would be more expensive is trivial compared to the potential benefits, which could outstrip that of anything we've ever invented (think about being able to produce an entire generation, or even merely a top-1%'ers generation, of people each of whom would be one of the greatest ever at whatever they want to do).

Good idea, but I can't see that happening. A certain portion of the US cries "Socialism" or "Communism!" when poor people get life-saving medications for free or at a reduced rate now. Genetic editing for all is going to be a hard-sell to those same people.

For sure, don't get me wrong as I'm not against it, editing our genetics for improvement is the next step to human evolution. I'm just saying it's not going to be an ideal situation for the masses.

I think there are two other key forcing functions for gene editing:

1. There are lots of rich people who, if having the option to safely and effectively gene edit their children, would stop at nothing to have it happen. I doubt any legislation in the United States or wherever would prevent a futurist tech billionaire from getting their children's genes enhanced.

2. China doesn't give a f*ck about the West's social taboos against genetic engineering.

I'm defecting to China.

Originally posted by The Ellimist
I think there are two other key forcing functions for gene editing:

1. There are lots of rich people who, if having the option to safely and effectively gene edit their children, would stop at nothing to have it happen. I doubt any legislation in the United States or wherever would prevent a futurist tech billionaire from getting their children's genes enhanced.

2. China doesn't give a f*ck about the West's social taboos against genetic engineering.

1. Of course not, they'd just buy lobbyist like they do now

Originally posted by BackFire
Affordable sex robots.

I had a thought about that. If sex robots became affordable, wouldn't it be a good idea to provide them as a free "companion" in prisons to cut down on rapes? I would imagine that these things could also make prisoners less violent/more compliant.

Clean energy and probably a replacement/substitute for oil.

Significantly regenerate human tissue, eg, heart muscle.

Discover compactified dimensions via the LHC.

The newest technology will take place in Music of all industries.
Scientists have discovered gravity waves to be identified by their chime sound.
I guess AOL was really onto something with their singular chime.

Since we have that whole Incel Rebellion beginning, sexbots may be the greatest scientific feat to prevent such a bloody rebellion from happening

Spacial science will likey take big advances.
Sight in meds will probably too.

Organic toothpaste

Originally posted by Robtard
Good idea, but I can't see that happening. A certain portion of the US cries "Socialism" or "Communism!" when poor people get life-saving medications for free or at a reduced rate now. Genetic editing for all is going to be a hard-sell to those same people.

For sure, don't get me wrong as I'm not against it, editing our genetics for improvement is the next step to human evolution. I'm just saying it's not going to be an ideal situation for the masses.

Not to mention, this is the path that leads us down to making Khhhhaaaaaaaan!

"The first functional immortal has already been born", is always an interesting discussion starter.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Not to mention, this is the path that leads us down to making Khhhhaaaaaaaan!

LET.IT.BEGIN!

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