Which nerdwank sci-fi bullshit do you want to come true?

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Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

I'd really like cybernetics. like robot arms and brain implants. poo poo would be pretty sweet and at the rate limb replacement tech is coming along I might actually get to have kicking rad robot legs (so long as we don't all die in the next 30 years lol).

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:32

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 03:48

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

Melchior posted:

Commonplace space travel. Even if it were just our solar system it would go a long way towards resolving resource scarcity issues we currently have.

this would be p cool, O'neill cylinders and stuff would be really neat

also sexrobots

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:36

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

Biggie Shorty posted:

Google Fiber

this one is ~rEaL~

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:42

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

its always really dumb when you have cyberpunk people being all broody about their sweet robot arms or their awesome robot legs or their washboard robot abs, same poo poo as when vampires get all :qq:

about being immortal in movies and stuff. being immortal would own. having robot arms would own. immortal robot arm+leg+abs having vampire would be the owningest but i don't wanna dream too big you know

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:44

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

dontcareaboutname posted:

what if you just did robot brain and cloning?

I dunno man cause like

is a clone of me really me? is a brain upload of me really me? Like probably not, I me Nemesis Of Mole Prime wants to live forever and have sweet robot arms. I don't want some scrub who just thinks hes me with all my memories hopes and dreams rocking around in a sweet robot brain with me discarded into a heap on the floor or something

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:47

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

runupon cracker posted:

None. A lot of today's tech is yesterday's science fiction, our productivity has skyrocketed as a result, and we're still killing ourselves working ridiculous hours in a capitalist society. Even if I could, say, teleport instantly from my house to work, that would mean everybody else could, too, and we'd be forced to work longer hours to compete. Honestly, I'd rather have the relative peace and quiet of the 20-minute commute from my house in a rural community.

Sci-fi and fantasy worlds may sound cool and exciting, until you realize that, regardless of what reality we live in, we'd still have the same drat problems, just in a slightly different configuration. "Hey, we're flying through space at 5 times the speed of light! Oh poo poo, I'm late for my meeting with upper management, hope I don't get fired and ejected into the nearest star while they replace me with a harder-working clone."

edit: yes, I am great fun at parties, why do you ask?

yeah but

dude

robot arms

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:54

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

Like yeah on some levels some of the wanky sci-fi tech wouldn't really change all that much because it'd still be in a society that doesn't use tech to ease burdens, just to increase productivity but also some of it would def. change the way the world worked as a whole. like capitalism would fall apart overnight if some dude invented a replicator (and then we'd all die in replicator wars i guess)

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 18:58

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

jarvis cocker posted:

general lee horn erection-activated sound chip implant

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 19:01

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

psyopmonkey posted:

Wow.

I want nanite tattoos. Just change my tats with magnetic pens.

this would also be pretty cool. did you see that one thing where they can implant a magnet in your hand that gives you crazy cool magnet sensing powers? p neat

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 19:03

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

any augs that let you see/feel waves and forms of energy and light that you can't normally would be the poo poo

like they can cut out some of your eye and you can see UV light but it'll blind you pretty quickly. it'd be cool if you could get that and also not go blind

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 19:06

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

real for real AI would be neat to interact with and see how it thought and acted and reasoned.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 19:16

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

Fetus Tree posted:

star citizen

E: the game itself i mean

please be realistic

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 19:35

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

Lowen SoDium posted:

I would want the singularity to come true.

What ever, Tracer Tong.

i was gonna say this but its kinda cheating cause the singularity is just 'All Sci-Fi Things Come True'

Real Talk though, solar arrays in space that beam power back to earth would be really good + actually possible

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 21:48

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

What would super Viagra do

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 22:20

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

would totally spend all day on replicatorbay.nk or whatever downloading replicate patterns for replicators and handing them out to buddies then replicating poo poo all day long

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 22:48

Nemesis Of Moles: Jul 25, 2007

Seriously though to try and argue that our current structures, political, social and economical would somehow survive the invention of a device that can make anything out of thin air is just dumb. I bet companies and people in power would fight pretty hard to limit its effects on their power and wealth but there would be some pretty intense changes in the way things worked. This is why most sci-fi kinda blows cause a lot of it doesn't really spend any time or energy on considering what the gently caress Wal-Mart would do if we suddenly were able to reproduce any item at will.

the porn industry would be massively changed by the invention of sexrobots and robotic fisting arms.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 22:51