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Weekly Ramblecast 186: Twenty-Twenty-Thrive
🕑 Added 2024-12-31 11:01:01 +0000 UTCWe promise we were stone cold sober when we recorded this freewheeling ramble about 2025, the future, and plenty of things beyond. Happy new year!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:40) Let's Twenty-Twenty-Thrive
(00:01:27) Future things we do/don't have
(00:01:55) Advances in medicine
(00:03:57) The Internet maybe isn't forever
(00:07:18) Uh, holograms?
(00:08:06) No Robocops just yet
(00:09:39) AI video is coming for all of us
(00:13:01) Teleportation anyone?
(00:13:38) Read Stephen King's The Jaunt!
(00:14:52) 3D printing and rapid prototyping
(00:16:54) Solar energy finally got there
(00:19:18) Video games (graphics/ray tracing)
(00:25:57) Celebrities in games
(00:29:27) Don't remake Star Wars please
(00:33:01) PMCs are definitely going to happen
(00:34:48) Drones!
(00:36:35) Would people even care about first contact?
(00:39:14) Is fire really only an earthly phenomenon?
(00:40:19) Please don't drink the glaciers
(00:43:55) Life elsewhere mighyt be super different!
(00:46:59) OK, time for the poorly understood theoretical physics segment
(00:49:41) Hold on to your relationships
(00:51:11) A lot of old internet companies are gone (or might as well be)
(00:55:26) Nvidia might be too big
(01:01:44) Interesting times alright
Comments
Samael
Agreed on The Jaunt. Terrifying. King is so good in short form. Also weirdly makes me think of "The Witch" by Shirley Jackson. Similar absolutely creeping dread and the ending left me kinda shook. All in about 20 pages (maybe less?).
Jay Keller
The plants being not green thing is real. There is a compound similar to chlorophyll that is actually purple, and biologists have postulated it would be more efficient simply due to its purple color.
Brian Murphy
There is a lot room for game tech to grow when it comes to physics. Cars may look photorealistic but we are far below the destruction physics of the old Burnout games.
