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?

Late night question, which app/interface are you all using for Nostr? I’m on Primal and Damus.

Absolutely agree. Nowadays, there are too many who are unable to separate an individual's character from their ideas.

Is Mahomes black?

What is that guy? Also, his helmet looks like Gazoo from The Flintstones.

#Bitcoin is playing in big leagues now and the game is at a new level.

How I suspect it plays out: An attempt to capture as much as #Bitcoin as possible including regulation to “try” to slow self custody of #Bitcoin (Warren et all) and leverage games on paper #Bitcoin to reduce price. (ETF’s)

Which “causes” more Bitcoiners aware of the manipulation and how the game is being played to use lower prices to buy and self custody more #Bitcoin (reducing supply)

Which at some point creates a short squeeze of MEGA proportions (maybe along with halving - maybe later ) that liquidates a major financial player. (Similar to FTX)

Money has become a monopoly because of the games that have been able to be played with others assets due to the centralization and control of those assets.

But Wall Street has never seen an asset like this. It is not gold and too many #Bitcoiners know how the game is played, meaning if you don’t play by the rules, eventually you will be caught short. (And no one is coming to save you)

Or as nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx says:

Stay humble and stack sats.

Anyone here travel down the road of deeply looking into the 1800’s?

Marble, granite, limestone, brick masterpieces built in 1 or 2 years that would take us 15 years today (if we could even build them honestly). Without power tools. Without cranes. Built by “slave or prison labor with no real skills”. People shitting in streets but carving masterpieces that last forever.

Just take a quick glance at the mansions in Newport RI.

Insane asylums were a dime a dozen and orphanages were huge & in every major city.

So much to explore. So much doesn’t even come close to passing the sniff test.

Possibly. Multiple creative “solutions” coming soon, I’m guessing.

No seriously… Be your own bank.

#Bitcoin (in cold storage)

Should be B-

SVB had a Moody’s credit rating of A just 3 days ago.

Awesome!!

First post

Just use ZBD Easier

Pls ALL WOS users I can’t zap you mofos. Use a wallet that works with nostr idk idk idk ???? ⁉️❓⁉️❓