A lot of black mirror stuff.
Apologies for the blanket pessimism but the last decades darkened my view.
Vaccines. Maybe in 100 years we’ll even be able to eliminate measles…again.
We currently carry tricorders in our pockets. I can see a medical tricorder being ubiquitous for field medics, ships, and the like within 100 years.
Tricorders, cellphones are already partway there they just need more durable, small sensors like a handheld light spectrometer to tell what things are made of and a handheld interferometer to detect gravity
Check out the app Phyphox, it uses all your existing sensors and probably surpasses tricorders in several ways while, of course, lacking in a few others.
I can detect gravity without a device:
Jump off a roof. If you hit the ground, you’ve detected gravity.
You could just raise your arm and let it loose…
Fast-refresh ePaper. I just want a laptop I can use outside, man!
I remember we could use the game boy advance SP outside. Is this screen technology used for PC?
Asteroid mining. We’ve had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.
Suicide Machines on Street Corners.
They already have them that you can carry in your pocket.
Yeah but they make such a mess.
Artificial stem cells seem like the next thing to really revolutionize medicine.
Quantum computers for brute force hacks seems doable in 100.
Eye tracking pointer devices will likely be more convenient than mice within a dozen or two years. This will probably be widely available for people who are paralyzed first.
Diamond processors are always 10 years away, but I think we can do it in 100. This would revolutionize the amount of power we can put through a chip without worrying about cooling.
Quick charge capacitor replacements for standard rechargble batteries
Low yield fusion plants. I’d like to think of them as capable of high yield, but it’s much harder than initially thought. Some ideas are quite promising for low yield.
The eye tracking stuff exists already. There are medical device companies that build and sell these things.
Ai and eeg can read brain waves generate images already kinda decent, maybe meet the robinsons memory viewer machine.
Can we get a dream recorder, please?!
I feel like wed learn everyone has cool dreams and pivot back to skill being a thing over just imaginstion and prompts lol
Computer circuits based on light instead of electricity.
Nuclear fusion seems increasingly achievable.
They are down to 2 main problems now. The main one is (the cost of) scaling up. Fusion reactors will be more effective then bigger they are. The tiny test ones are already past break even.
The other is wall material. Apparently the radiation has an annoying ability to transmute the elements making up the wall of the reactor. They are working out a material that can maintain its bulk mechanical properties, even with random elements appearing in its internal structure.
The only one I heard news about breaking even was that thing that shot a lot of lasers to a pellet. For a fraction of a second It broke even or produced slightly more than they poured in, but it was much less of what they spent.
There’s been something else new?
I saw a talk on the subject about a year back. It was discussing tokamak reactors, from an engineer working on them. The small ones can’t sustain a break even state, but they are affected by the inverse square law to a larger degree. I believe China is about to start/has started construction on a power station sized test reactor.
The pellet sort are a different type. They have different pros and cons.
Is it cheating to say AI and humanoid robots?
Anti-aging tech, if so.
Underwater cities
With climate change and coastal flooding, it’s coming, just not in the form you’re thinking of.
You’re implying venice ?
New Orleans circa Hurricane Katrina…?
Where I grew up, there was a town that had been intentionally flooded to make a reservoir, or so my parents told me; they claimed that when the reservoir was low, you could see the top of the church steeple. At the time, I drove past the area nearly daily and would often survey the waters, but never found anything that was likely to be more than shadows or a trick of the eye. At the time, I had barely learned of climate change and so wasn’t worried about it; I just liked the idea of a structurally intact, intentionally flooded city.
I just looked it up to make sure I was remembering the details correctly. It turns out that either I misremembered or my parents exaggerated. The town apparently existed and was flooded, but at the time of flooding consisted of foundations and one very tall flagpole. Apparently it’s a common pastime of kayakers and the like to look for the top of the flagpole. This is probably what my parents were referring to.
Still pretty cool, though.
https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/underwater-ghost-towns-of-tennessee
Apparently, back in the day the government decided that some places weren’t worth saving, and the benefits of building dams and flooding the towns outweighed other considerations.
The movie ‘Deliverance’ has a plot about something like this happening.
Cancer curing nanotechnology
borg nanoprobes, or replicator nanites of sg1 and sga.
Pre-progammed viruses to set in motion whatever changes you want in the body.
Portable communicators. It would be slick to have a USB c tricorder though.
Download the Phyphox app to access your phones raw sensor data. Very much like a tricorder.
You’ve just destroyed my afternoon, thanks and congratulations
Edit: installed it. very cool. It would be crazy on my watch though.
…you mean phones?
Hold up. I’m pretty sure things that already exist don’t count.
