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| Martian Levittown |
I have major doubts whether the following popular forecasts will come to pass ... at least in our lifetimes ...
- Go-everywhere self-driving vehicles
- Serious global warming caused by increases in carbon dioxide
- Electric vehicles/airplanes totally replacing internal-combustion ones
- Widespread G-5 communications
- Colonization of Mars
- Artificial intelligence/robots controlling humans
- Nuclear-powered missiles
- Vegetarian “meat” replacing real meat
- Total elimination of nuclear and hydrocarbon-based power plants
- Nuclear fusion power generation
- Quantum computers
- Plastic products disappearing altogether
What are "our lifetimes" at this point...
ReplyDelete- The adoption curves for new technologies has a ramping-up period to "everywhere" and "replacing" and "totally". So it might be better to watch how pervasive those techs become.
- 5G will be pervasive in homes and offices within a few years. If not here, then Asia.
- Vegetarian meat is already making inroads. Soylent green...
- There will always be nuke and hydrocarbon plants. They will just become useful for load balancing and as reserves.
- We had better figure out what to do with plastic now that China does not want our garbage. There's a topic for you: What do we do? Mix junk plastic into road surfaces, building materials, fabrics, or just make Trump straws for $1.50 each.