Current Events > So do you think humans have nearly peaked in terms of technology?

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Like we've already invented 99 percent of things that really improved human life?
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Yup were done here. Get on the bus, it's time to go.
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Not at all. There's all sorts of things engineers and scientists say that if they could master, would jump human advancement by decades.
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no way
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Not even close.

uh what you are seeing now is crap

we are atleast 25 years ahead in tech
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Keyword here is human

Once we invent AI, humans will be exterminated in the robot apocalypse and they will carry on our work to unprecedented heights

Heat conduction is a big one. Our current means of storing heat in electronics is good but could be so much better. There are all kinds of untapped applications that are only held back by the fact that we can't deal with heat in an effective way with present-day technology, either forcing components to be larger than they could be or by making certain configurations impossible when taking into regard how to exhaust excess heat.
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We're just getting started.
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Being as teleportation has recently become something legitimately within our grasps, I'd say no
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not even close
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Not even close.
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I heard in the near future they are going to invent a way to record your favorite TV shows and be able to watch them later on a cassette, it suppose to be called the VCR. I can't wait
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Samurontai posted...

Being as teleportation has recently become something legitimately within our grasps, I'd say no

That sounds like fun.

Also we need to be able to travel through space faster. Traveling between worlds will be useless if it takes years at a time to make a one-way trip. No human will be willing to sacrifice whole chunks of their life just to fly between planets. We have to be able to do it in a matter of months at most.
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Yeah but it seemed as though we were inventing shit left and right in the cold war days, but the only thing we've got recently is social media shit and smartphones...not really comparable.
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Samurontai posted...

Being as teleportation has recently become something legitimately within our grasps, I'd say no

Source?

I thought teleportation would be sweet but then the Trek Effect comes to mind where it essentially kills you.
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Cemith posted...

Samurontai posted...

Being as teleportation has recently become something legitimately within our grasps, I'd say no

Source?

I thought teleportation would be sweet but then the Trek Effect comes to mind where it essentially kills you.

It's not super advanced or anything (in comparison to what you'd see in something like Star Trek), but it's still pretty neat

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2017/07/13/beam-me-up-scientists-teleport-1st-object-ever-earth-into-space/475713001/
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Is that actually teleportation because science and tech journalism is really bad.
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Cemith posted...

Samurontai posted...

Being as teleportation has recently become something legitimately within our grasps, I'd say no

Source?

I thought teleportation would be sweet but then the Trek Effect comes to mind where it essentially kills you.

If it's teleportation by quantum entanglement, it's not exactly the same as killing you (but also it is in a weird way). Instead of just scrambling your molecules and scattering them into the air like sound into radio broadcast waves, quantum entanglement makes one particle essentially exist as two, until the state of that particle is observed and its existence must collapse into one of the two locations. So while one of the two particles is destroyed, it's still the same particle.

https://www.inverse.com/article/34094-quantum-entanglement-china-satellite-teleportation-micius

I always felt that teleportation kills the person but creates a clone with it's memories

quantum entanglement cannot be used to send information faster than light

Tezlok posted...

I always felt that teleportation kills the person but creates a clone with it's memories

That...that's interesting.

If humanity could figure out how to duplicate brain waves and then store all the info on a server that would be amazing but we'd need like...9TB per person or something ludicrous.
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thronedfire2 posted...

no way

Annihilated posted...

Not even close.

BiweeklyAaron posted...

We're just getting started.

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Tezlok posted...

I always felt that teleportation kills the person but creates a clone with it's memories

That's..... kinda sorta what happened here
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Where are the sex robots?
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Tezlok posted...

I always felt that teleportation kills the person but creates a clone with it's memories

Ship of Theseus philosophy. Except for certain cells in the brain, iirc, all other cells in your body die and are replaced anew several times over your life.
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Tezlok posted...

I always felt that teleportation kills the person but creates a clone with it's memories

That all depends on what you consider a person's existence to be. If it's just a culmination of sextillions of atoms and particles, I think I've read somewhere that by the time 10 years have passed, all of the atoms in our bodies have been replaced, so we're literally not the same people as we were 10 years ago. A person's personhood is likely something greater than that person's phsyical composite.

What I am saying is that in Star trek when Kirk is beamed down to a planet he suffers a loss of continuity. From his perspective his life ends. A new clone with his memories that thinks it's him is created. But the original Kirk stopped his conciousness and is truly dead. If people knew it worked like that nobodycwoule ever step into a teleporter

Technology is improving constantly, to say we've peaked is stupid.
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joe_stalin518 posted...

I heard in the near future they are going to invent a way to record your favorite TV shows and be able to watch them later on a cassette, it suppose to be called the VCR. I can't wait

Some people can't handle dvds.
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We have the potential for more, but need to seriously change before we are allowed to progress further, technology wise.

You want the DVR? You can't handle the DVR!
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No way. We haven't successfully bridged the gap between organic and mechanical/digital yet. Medical technology could advance a whole fuck load. Not to mention Sci-Fi tech like cloaks or transporters or fully self-sustaining biodomes.

Tell me once organ/implant rejection isn't a thing and we go full Deus Ex.
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We've hit the apex if we can implement this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
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We're just getting started with quantum computing. Shit is gonna get crazy soon.
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What can quantum computers do
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I've heard that quantum computing will render even the most sophisticated encryption obsolete.
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Gorbachev posted...

What can quantum computers do

Nothing a regular computer can't do. But it can do certain problems way way faster. It would usher in a new era of encryption and and make simulating chemical materials way easier, for example.

Annihilated posted...

Not even close.

Tezlok posted...

What I am saying is that in Star trek when Kirk is beamed down to a planet he suffers a loss of continuity. From his perspective his life ends. A new clone with his memories that thinks it's him is created. But the original Kirk stopped his conciousness and is truly dead. If people knew it worked like that nobodycwoule ever step into a teleporter

Every time you go to sleep your memories are scrambled and neurons rewritten, and various cells are deleted and replaces
You're still yourself

It's like someone above talking about the ship of Theseus. Or more simply, say i have a broom. The handle breaks one day so I replace it. Eventually the brush breaks, I replace it. Sometime later, the handle breaks again and I replace it. Now I have a broom that has no original parts or parts that interacted with the original, is it the same broom?
Whether you think it is or isn't is besides the point though, in reality it's irrelevant. Same as the fantheory over Kirk's teleport killing him.

Yes. We haven't improved battery tech in like 50 years and without more efficient batteries we can't do anything else.
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What happens if the teleporter Kirk takes is linked to two outport teleporters, making two Kirks? Which Kirk is the continued one and which is new?

I remember an episode where that DID happen except it split his consciousness and there was an Evil Kirk running around and breaking shit but at the end the good Kirk convinced him to reform with him into the original. The Evil Kirk explained that he was just afraid of reforming because that piece of Kirk as a complete person would cease to exist
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