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  • I'm more concerned with the things we had a few years ago that are now gone, and the new fascist hand me downs that are popping up everywhere.

  • The virtual reality you used to see in movies or on TV where you would put on a helmet and actually enter it and have full movement capabilities. Something like that one episode of Batman The Animated Series where Commissioner Gordon goes into the Riddler's computer and gets trapped or just about any other cliche, dumb way they portrayed VR back then.

    • We have some cool VR treadmills, one of them thats releasing soon will even only cost $1k (cheap in comparison to every other VR treadmil released previously). Combine that with full body tracking and a good high end headset like the Bigscreen Beyond or Immersed Visor.

  • Antigravity looked like the clear favourite for scientists, but then they all went into astronomy and the age of the universe.

  • Reasonable justice reforms for social media used as public alert and communication systems, AI, crypto, gaming, etc to regulate new markets emerging from new tech to prevent predatory monetization policy and monopolies causing increased wealth centralization and patent trolling slowing down technical innovation in general.

  • something like tricorders, they'd be kinda usefull for medical personel or engineers, of course they wouldn't be as advanced as in tng, but still

    also I'll get one as soon as they're invented

  • I was born in the 1980s. I remember growing up, I always had the impression that by this time in the 21st century, we'd have figured out some way to break the established laws of physics. Maybe it was because of watching so much sci-fi, but I feel like I'm not alone in this. The media seemed to reflect the same line of thinking. "Back to the Future 2" with its hoverboards and flying cars is now set several years in the past.

    Be it anti-gravity, interstellar travel, teleportation, whatever, I always kind of assumed that by now, we'd at least have a working theory of how we might implement it in the next few decades. I think a lot of that has to do with the start of the "information age." Computers and the way they could connect us were so revolutionary, it seemed like "magic" to the layperson. More "magic" would only be a few years away, right? If we could fit all this power into a box that sits on your desk, then it wasn't beyond the scope of reason to think that anything was possible; it'd just take a few more years for us to figure it out, then we'd be planning the first NASA mission to another solar system.

    What I never would have predicted is just how rapidly computer technology would advance. We now have supercomputers in our pockets, powered by CPUs that are well into the realm of nanotechnology and are now starting to run into limitations imposed by quantum physics. As a technological society, we've probably progressed farther than I would have ever imagined, just not in the way I expected.

  • More improvement in the area of vaccine technology, acceptance, and adoption of these techniques: alternative forms of administration, less reliance on boosters, improved thermal stability. A better understanding of the immune system, neuroscience, and human biology in general. I expected more infectious diseases to be eradicated such as HIV, TB, and malaria.

    These things are progressing and I see hope in how technologies are progressing, but I believe vaccine and infectious disease research and development have been severely limited by the industry's obsession with intellectual property and pursuit of profit. Our understanding of human biology has improved, but thinking back to my teenage years, I was naive as to how complicated biology is and how little we actually understand.

    I'm still a bit salty no one ever brought dinosaurs back from the grave. Our progression in flight technology has been disappointing without flying saucers too.

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