Replicator, for two reasons. One, post-scarcity overnight. Two, replicators are a combination of several technologies that would each be very beneficial to us. It’s like getting a dozen gifts in one. The only problem is that some jerk would use it to make a nuke and then use the teleporter part of the replicator to send it to a world capital. So… hoverboards.
@phendrick@rprebel Long ago in one of the Star Trek tech manuals (or equivalent background info, maybe from the Fasa Star Trek game) they covered a lot of speculative info. The computers that run replicators and designs they allow are tightly restricted and regulated.
Wouldn’t stop the crooks of course, and presumably would be used as justification for yet another massive bureaucracy tracking everyone’s machines and everything they made.
Creating a copyrighted object (or a specific pattern created by someone) isn’t free because a payment has to be made to the rights holder. That would include food; specific recipes and ‘presentations’ for food, though generic food and a ton of other ‘generic’ items wouldn’t have that component.
Still, would be cool, especially with an unregistered unit
@ruouttaurmind Yes, and the high quality inkjet and laser printers now include a pattern of dots that can be used to ID the specific printer that made the print…
@duodec My little Xerox WorkCentre printer doesn’t do it (probably because it’s B&W), but the big Phaser adds a microprint pattern which includes the specific serial number of the printer.
I started to pick robot butler… but real hover board was lookin’ pretty good. Then I remembered all the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes where the robot butler/maid started to take over and killed off the owners so… hover board.
@aetris Well crap… I’d have to hunt those down… haven’t seen them in yrs. See what I can do… may take a while. I didn’t watch the Simpsons so I’ll just take your word for that one.
@aetris Ok… found 2 of the OL ones… Mary 25 and Family Values. Mary 25 was the last one that I had seen most recently… that’s the one I had in my brain when I posted.
@ruouttaurmind Oh, time travel has been invented many times, but there’s always some gritty, altruistic refugee of the ensuing apocalypse who goes back and kills the inventor.
I’m perfectly happy living without UFOs. I’m far too much of a hedonist to want food pills. I would end up a statistic in a gritty alien bar. And I would break my fool neck just looking at a hoverboard.
And yeah, I’ve read With Folded Hands. But I figure I probably won’t live long enough for the technology to get that far.
There are already several options in the hoverboards that really hover category. What we want are hoverboards that really can hover, and that are easy to control.
There are a couple different designs that use magnetic levitation. One works exactly like a maglev train, which means the maglev boards follow a hugely expensive maglev track hidden under the pavement. If Lexus can make it work, it will be essentially an amusement park ride.
The other magnetic levitation technique works over a thick aluminum or copper floor. These can glide above the floor, but there is very little control over direction. Tony Hawk lost control when he tried it. These are possible today because we have some very high energy density batteries. It takes a lot of electricity to induce eddy currents in thick pieces of aluminum that create enough of a repulsive magnetic field to support a person. A few thousand dollars worth of batteries can keep a person hovering for minutes at a time.
If the food pills were as good or better than an ideal diet, then, food pills. That implies a mastery of nutritional science and related biology. Food is horrible. It’s no good, expensive, time-wasting and I’m probably deficient in something in spite of the plastic-wrapped plants that I force myself to eat. And any effort I make to eat better probably is causing something to be hunted/fished/starved to extinction.
Replicator, for two reasons. One, post-scarcity overnight. Two, replicators are a combination of several technologies that would each be very beneficial to us. It’s like getting a dozen gifts in one. The only problem is that some jerk would use it to make a nuke and then use the teleporter part of the replicator to send it to a world capital. So… hoverboards.
@rprebel If I had a replicator, I wouldn’t have to order crap from Meh.
I could make my own 6-pack, or whatever, of junk.
@phendrick OTOH, every day could be “Two fer Tuesday”.
@phendrick @rprebel Long ago in one of the Star Trek tech manuals (or equivalent background info, maybe from the Fasa Star Trek game) they covered a lot of speculative info. The computers that run replicators and designs they allow are tightly restricted and regulated.
Wouldn’t stop the crooks of course, and presumably would be used as justification for yet another massive bureaucracy tracking everyone’s machines and everything they made.
Creating a copyrighted object (or a specific pattern created by someone) isn’t free because a payment has to be made to the rights holder. That would include food; specific recipes and ‘presentations’ for food, though generic food and a ton of other ‘generic’ items wouldn’t have that component.
Still, would be cool, especially with an unregistered unit
@duodec Kinda like the way my Xerox has built-in copy protection which prevents me from copying or scanning US currencies?
@duodec @phendrick @rprebel
gold-pressed latinum
@ruouttaurmind Yes, and the high quality inkjet and laser printers now include a pattern of dots that can be used to ID the specific printer that made the print…
@duodec My little Xerox WorkCentre printer doesn’t do it (probably because it’s B&W), but the big Phaser adds a microprint pattern which includes the specific serial number of the printer.
Sex starved women from outer space… or even New Jersey.
@dhelmick56 like in Life force? Or Species?
@dhelmick56 I work in NJ. It IS outer space.
Beam me up Scotty! My vote is for teleportation!
Robot bodies. Or at least easy, casual bionic limb replacement
@spitfire6006006
@aetris Who else heard the “boopboopboopboop” sound effect in their head when they saw that gif?
@aetris @DennisG2014 We have the technology.
Holodeck
I started to pick robot butler… but real hover board was lookin’ pretty good. Then I remembered all the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes where the robot butler/maid started to take over and killed off the owners so… hover board.
What episodes were those? I only remember The Simpsons episode where the smart house tried to knock off Homer after romancing Marge.
@lseeber Or Westworld. I love that movie.
@aetris Well crap… I’d have to hunt those down… haven’t seen them in yrs. See what I can do… may take a while. I didn’t watch the Simpsons so I’ll just take your word for that one.
@sammydog01 lol… or a dozen others. Even in one episode of the Jetsons they lose control of Rosie!!
@aetris Ok… found 2 of the OL ones… Mary 25 and Family Values. Mary 25 was the last one that I had seen most recently… that’s the one I had in my brain when I posted.
Legacy of the Aldenata ‘slab’, or Stargate sarcophagus. autodoc, body restoration, healing, improvements, etc. Even ‘fountain of youth’ for the slab.
But the societal effects would be staggering.
/image faster than light travel
@2many2no OMG THEY’VE GONE TO PLAID!
Dystopian Governments
Oh wait… nevermind, we’ve already achieved this one.
Time travel
@ruouttaurmind Oh, time travel has been invented many times, but there’s always some gritty, altruistic refugee of the ensuing apocalypse who goes back and kills the inventor.
@macromeh Which is precisely why I’ve discontinued development of my time phase shift oscillator!
Are you saying UFOs aren’t real?
@awk
Robot butlers. No contest. I’m a slob.
I’m perfectly happy living without UFOs. I’m far too much of a hedonist to want food pills. I would end up a statistic in a gritty alien bar. And I would break my fool neck just looking at a hoverboard.
And yeah, I’ve read With Folded Hands. But I figure I probably won’t live long enough for the technology to get that far.
@dannybeans At least we would die in clean houses, right?
It’d be great to not have to worry about retirement, so, I want the one where the government kills you when you turn, oh, let’s say 40.
@nogoodwithnames That’s Logan’s Run
@nogoodwithnames I am pretty sure that’s up to you. If you want. No need to involve the government murdering everyone with you.
Only about 10 dozen sci-fi stories with this plot
@nogoodwithnames wtf. Nnnoooo
robots that you can have sex with! … wait… really ? … they exist now ???
I am so tired of unhygienic aliens. ET can clean his damn space bar.
There are already several options in the hoverboards that really hover category. What we want are hoverboards that really can hover, and that are easy to control.
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/03/hoverboards-why-they-havent-got-off-to-a-mcflying-start The Guardian listed the pathetic state of the art.
There are a couple different designs that use magnetic levitation. One works exactly like a maglev train, which means the maglev boards follow a hugely expensive maglev track hidden under the pavement. If Lexus can make it work, it will be essentially an amusement park ride.
The other magnetic levitation technique works over a thick aluminum or copper floor. These can glide above the floor, but there is very little control over direction. Tony Hawk lost control when he tried it. These are possible today because we have some very high energy density batteries. It takes a lot of electricity to induce eddy currents in thick pieces of aluminum that create enough of a repulsive magnetic field to support a person. A few thousand dollars worth of batteries can keep a person hovering for minutes at a time.
Does food come in pill form? Do pills come in food form?
teleportation, duh!
@jerk_nugget Any form of FTL travel really. Stepping disks, portals, spice fueled space folding, wormholes, et al. Hoverboards are just too slow.
@Wormwood agreed!
A Type 40 capsule with a working chameleon circuit.
@Eskieguy Her navigation system’s a bit knackered, but you’ll have more fun that way.
If the food pills were as good or better than an ideal diet, then, food pills. That implies a mastery of nutritional science and related biology. Food is horrible. It’s no good, expensive, time-wasting and I’m probably deficient in something in spite of the plastic-wrapped plants that I force myself to eat. And any effort I make to eat better probably is causing something to be hunted/fished/starved to extinction.
Post-scarcity economies
Gritty space alien bar…
How about gritty space alien diner?
replicator / matter materializer!
A tardis.
time travel! Or did jerk nugget cover that with teleporting?
Spandex goes mainstream
@OnionSoup That’s more of a horror flick!
I would love a TARDIS