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Please let me know what you think the most needed or critical piece of technology would be to advance humanity on a positive path forward. It could be anything, bioscreening, mechanical hardware, a custom professional/free database, etc. Just interested in what you think would help people the most.
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Mar 27, 2020 20:56
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One of the various flavors of fusion power generation, perhaps?
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Mar 27, 2020 22:00
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The guillotine.
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Mar 27, 2020 23:19
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Love? Can machines do that now? If not then I guess some kind of perpetual masturbatory generator whereby the energy expended is replenished by the bio energy generation stage, powered by our very essence.
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Mar 28, 2020 10:43
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Mackieman posted:One of the various flavors of fusion power generation, perhaps? Iron Chef Ramen posted:The guillotine.
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Mar 29, 2020 02:04
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A time machine.
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Mar 29, 2020 09:53
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Replicator
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Apr 4, 2020 22:42
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Right now? Ventilator.
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Apr 5, 2020 15:25
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If only we had more machines! Just get some pallets, and put some machines on them! Then move the pallets to the right place! That will fix everything, somehow! This seems to be the closest to an actual handle on reality that a libertarian can get to nowadays. Must be a terribly loving confusing time for them. If you are a libertarian and tell me what football team your dad rooted for I can predict which machine you're obsessed with making more of. Pryor on Fire fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Apr 5, 2020 15:29
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Pryor on Fire posted:If only we had more machines! Just get some pallets, and put some machines on them! Then move the pallets to the right place! That will fix everything, somehow! jacksonville
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Apr 6, 2020 03:04
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Your dream machine is a Ford Tempo GT
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Apr 7, 2020 04:32
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Pryor on Fire posted:If only we had more machines! Just get some pallets, and put some machines on them! Then move the pallets to the right place! That will fix everything, somehow! I don't know my dad never really cared about sports. I suppose if there was some kind of machine that would balance the budget and create a more sound monetary policy? If not someone already suggested guillotine. Edit: I do like the idea of an milkshake machine that doesn't require servicing.
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Apr 7, 2020 05:33
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The most needed piece of technology is for people to pick up a paper and a pencil. To relearn the basics of organizing information and how to present your ideas and concepts clearly.
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Apr 10, 2020 02:11
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Plumbing. Water comes to my house and poop goes away from it. That's a miracle that I don't think a society on a positive path forward could exist without.
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Apr 10, 2020 10:40
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A self cleaning fleshlight
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Apr 10, 2020 12:24
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Pryor on Fire posted:more machines! There's a machine in Charlie's Colorform Cities (it's a kids show on Netflix) called the More Machine. It can apparently make copies of anything... living or otherwise. Presumably, it could even make copies of itself. I think being able to upload knowledge to a person Matrix-style would be pretty useful too.
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Apr 28, 2020 03:39
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The Dirtiest Harry posted:Plumbing.
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Apr 28, 2020 04:17
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Effective male birth control.
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May 1, 2020 23:22
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Artificial superintelligence.
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May 2, 2020 23:28
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sharks that shoot FRICKIN' laser beams out of their eyes
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May 4, 2020 17:48
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Senor P. posted:The most needed piece of technology is for people to pick up a paper and a pencil. To relearn the basics of organizing information and how to present your ideas and concepts clearly. This. We will also need decentralized encrypted communication technology that cannot be jammed, and protections against quantum listening. I'm on a list now.
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May 5, 2020 04:23
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Thanatosian posted:Effective male birth control. That exists, and it's everywhere, it's called Anime. The first try: Tabletop RPGs, and the second: Videogames were only partial successes, the first failed due to becoming most popular with men who had already bred, and the second when they started making video games about sports.
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May 14, 2020 02:18
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AlphariusOmegon posted:That exists, and it's everywhere, it's called Anime. A good half of the anime watchers I know are women.
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May 14, 2020 14:10
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Blue Footed Booby posted:A good half of the anime watchers I know are women.
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May 15, 2020 02:31
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Blue Footed Booby posted:A good half of the anime watchers I know are women. And Men can take birth control designed for women, it just doesn't have the desired effect.
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May 18, 2020 07:36
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Dik Hz posted:Would you willingly and knowingly associate with male anime-watchers? You'll note I said half. I wouldn't gently caress them, though, so you still might have a point.
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May 18, 2020 21:50
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One that pithily validates my political and aesthetic desires, OP.
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May 18, 2020 23:19
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Blue Footed Booby posted:A good half of the anime watchers I know are women. The type of woman who watches anime is effectively Male birth control since no man would go near them with a 10 ft pole. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 9, 2020 12:32
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We desperately need advances in technology to remove carbon and other lovely things from our atmosphere. This technology is referred to as Direct Air Capture. We already have some, and here's an example. https://www.eenewspower.com/news/room-temperature-carbon-capture-tech-uses-liquid-gallium I believe that direct air capture is the only realistic way we will get our climate problem under control because the major sources of carbon emissions will not stop. We cannot rely on governments to enforce carbon emission reduction, and we cannot rely on the producers of carbon emissions to give a gently caress either. So basically this is something where we will not be able to rely on the planet to clean its atmosphere faster than we gently caress it up, so the only way forward is to clean the atmosphere actively. There is a good byproduct of direct air capture, which is the production of elemental carbon. Direct air capture can be a source of graphene, and having a cheap source of that would be great for other technological fields.
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Sep 17, 2020 14:32
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signalnoise posted:We desperately need advances in technology to remove carbon and other lovely things from our atmosphere. This technology is referred to as Direct Air Capture. We already have some, and here's an example. Or, how about we harness solar power to enzymatically fix carbon dioxide into a polymer form, that once processed, can be used as a building material?
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Sep 17, 2020 23:22
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A computer chip inserted into the brain that ensures people care about the wellbeing of other people. Like a pacemaker for empathy.
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Oct 16, 2020 16:28
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banned from Starbucks posted:The type of woman who watches anime is effectively Male birth control since no man would go near them with a 10 ft pole. They're all married to the other half of the anime watchers I know. It's how I know them in the first place.
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Oct 20, 2020 14:28
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signalnoise posted:We desperately need advances in technology to remove carbon and other lovely things from our atmosphere. This technology is referred to as Direct Air Capture. We already have some, and here's an example. This was going to be my answer. If we can't get climate change under control, nothing else is going to matter a century from now.
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Oct 29, 2020 03:11
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The current level of battery technology which hasn't substantially improved in awhile is currently a very severe limitation on a large number of potential tech developments. Lith-ion is from the early 70's.
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Oct 31, 2020 01:10
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A cost/energy efficient method for desalination to produce mass quantities of fresh water.
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Oct 31, 2020 19:16
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Dante posted:The current level of battery technology which hasn't substantially improved in awhile is currently a very severe limitation on a large number of potential tech developments. Lith-ion is from the early 70's. Li-ion might be from the 70s but it's only a general name and there are many chemistry variations which are significantly improving capacities, charge and discharge rates, and costs all the time.  That said, yeah we need more and cheaper still.
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Oct 31, 2020 21:02
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Like if we're just wishing for poo poo, we could use an efficient way to convert atmospheric CO2 into normal hydrocarbon fuel. Carbon neutral, we can already use it, and more efficient in a number of senses than batteries in a number of important applications, particularly aviation.
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Nov 2, 2020 00:52
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PT6A posted:Like if we're just wishing for poo poo, we could use an efficient way to convert atmospheric CO2 into normal hydrocarbon fuel. Carbon neutral, we can already use it, and more efficient in a number of senses than batteries in a number of important applications, particularly aviation.
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Nov 2, 2020 22:55
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Dik Hz posted:Are you talking about a tree? Ideally more efficient than a tree. But I believe there has been research to use algae to accomplish similar things.
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Nov 3, 2020 04:33
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PT6A posted:Ideally more efficient than a tree. But I believe there has been research to use algae to accomplish similar things. Algae Bio-reactors are a terrific concept that sadly works terribly in practice. Turns out algae likes to grow on all surfaces like for example on the surfaces of their transparent containers causing less and less light to actually penetrate into the algae mass. They get less efficient the longer they run.
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