Writing a sci fi manuscript, and continuing to fine tune it, made me do a ton of extra research on current trends in AI, biotech, material science, and VR. Like a big refresh.

Not because the text focuses in detail on this tech (it doesn’t), but rather so that I have a general idea of what technologies are likely to come before or after other ones, to create what seems (at least to me) a reasonably coherent future world (with one big unrealistic extra thing I threw in there for fun).

There are a lot of different path dependencies or “alternate timelines” for how the world could look in say 2030, 2040, 2050, and so on. So no sci fi vision can be said to fully predict things. And for example, we don’t fault the movie Blade Runner for not accurately predicting what 2019 would be like in 1982.

But my goal is to be “well-considered.” Plausible. Or at least, plausible in the places where I am intending to be the most plausible.

For example if I read a space opera set 500 years in the future and AI is nowhere to be found, or minimally so, I am distracted by this unless given a plausible explanation. The explanation of “the author didn’t think about it” isn’t good enough, at least for something that big.

What technologies do you expect to surprise to the upside or downside in the next few decades?

Writing a sci fi manuscript, and continuing to fine tune it, made me do a ton of extra research on current trends in AI, biotech, material science, and VR. Like a big refresh.

Not because the text focuses in detail on this tech (it doesn’t), but rather so that I have a general idea of what technologies are likely to come before or after other ones, to create what seems (at least to me) a reasonably coherent future world (with one big unrealistic extra thing I threw in there for fun).

There are a lot of different path dependencies or “alternate timelines” for how the world could look in say 2030, 2040, 2050, and so on. So no sci fi vision can be said to fully predict things. And for example, we don’t fault the movie Blade Runner for not accurately predicting what 2019 would be like in 1982.

But my goal is to be “well-considered.” Plausible. Or at least, plausible in the places where I am intending to be the most plausible.

For example if I read a space opera set 500 years in the future and AI is nowhere to be found, or minimally so, I am distracted by this unless given a plausible explanation. The explanation of “the author didn’t think about it” isn’t good enough, at least for something that big.

What technologies do you expect to surprise to the upside or downside in the next few decades?

Do you know what the highest vibrational frequency is?

Authenticity 💫✨

#nice

Respect the iphone holster.

Someone is projecting a giant #Bitcoin logo on the European Central Bank 🔥

Merry Christmas 😉

#NOSTR #BTC #Zap

Who are normies? What do they believe?

IMO the normie mind can be explained by the following 10 normie commandments.

1. Individual human action has low or no effect on the world.

2. Mainstream news is mostly honest and reflects reality.

3. Institutions are trustworthy

4. Thinking via convention is the only worthwhile thought pattern.

5. Comfort is the highest pursuit in life, both physical and psychological.

6. Consumption is desirable, creation is not.

7. Authority figures are legitimate and deserve respect.

8. Conventional career paths are the most valuable in our society.

9. You can’t predict what will happen next.

10. Risk is intolerable and should be treated as such.

I don’t talk about it much but I’m actually rekt on Bitcoin.

I can’t stop thinking about this chart.

Anyone using Jam wallet, Thoughts if so?

#asknostr

My wife's dad told her that he saw on the news that gold is a good investment right now. Wonder if he thought that in 2011 too.

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