Flying Cars

I know many, many people want flying cars to be a real thing. But, what is always going to prevent us from having true flying cars is, look at how people normally are with the cars on the ground. Drunk driving is tenfold going to be worse with flying cars, people are going to totally fly their vehicles into buildings, for sure. I think the closest we’re going to get to flying cars, is the hover cars we see in Back to the Future II that are more ground level, but hover. Even then, I don’t know if we’re ever going to be ready for them.

True AI

What I mean with True AI is an AI that can actually be a little more sentient and living than what we got now. When AI first rolled out, it really put a damper on everyone in so many ways that I don’t think we’re ever going to see it. There’s just too much at stake to trust an AI with the capability to think on its own and do things on its own. We’re just going to be stuck with Semi-AI that only talk back to you in text form and maybe help you code. And that alone already has ruffled the feathers of millions who are hating AI which is another thing to consider.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
    121·
    19 hours ago

    Widespread commercial nuclear fission power, for better or worse.

    Thanks to the gross mismanagement of Chernobyl and Fukushima and over-reaction to it (EDIT: and also Greenpeace, see reply), it has been largely defended and derived. And thanks to renewable energy being more affordable than ever, it might no longer make sense to build it.

    That said, flying cars and generative AI have one thing in common: they are more harmful than anticipated.

    If we had flying cars, even if the crash problem was solved by making them autonomous and fully protected from cyberattacks and unable to perform terrorist attacks (good luck lmao), we would still have noise everywhere. Think low-flying planes, but constantly. (And, of course, the proponents of the technology would call everyone complaining about it Amish Luddites who want to “stop progress”.)

    • Clbull@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I think thorium is the way to go when it comes to nuclear fission. It’s debatably a far safer and more abundant material to work with.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      20 hours ago

      Nuclear was killed by Greenpeace, not only did they take tons of money from shadowy donors to bad mouth nuclear (they turned out to be fossil industry related), they did it via spreading misinformation and plain lies. Everything incorrect the public thinks they know about nuclear power derives from a Greenpeace campaign. The worst part is that coal has killed more animals and people than all of nuclear incidents combined, including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.