When the wildfire smoke turns the air orange.
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Ebikes have transformed where I live. It's mountainous so the only cyclists you'd see were skinny lycra-clad guys on 5 grand bikes.
Now virtually everyone has a bike, from kids to octogenarians, and the only difference between the lycra-clad cyclists and the shorts n t-shirt cyclists is the fact the ones on the ebikes are all smiling π
Lime bikes and scooters, too. Totally transformed our city after we finally started installing protected bike lanes (and light rail), and a ton of people use them instead of cars. I bought an ebike and use my car like, once a month to grab something like a heavy AC unit.
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When I was a kid, I had to reference several manuals and carefully assemble a double handful of parts in specific order to connect two computers to eachother. I'd have to fiddle with protocols and speeds and obscure features and traits to make the stars align. Transferring 200mb would be an overnight task. If I wanted to show pictures from my vacation on a big screen, I would have to have them printed on cellulose and insert them in tiny frames to project on a thick screen with a huge machine.
Yesterday, I went to a friend, pointed my phone at a ~~magic symbol~~qr code and sent a full movie to their PC in a few minutes. Then I pushed a button to make the photographs on my phone appear on their TV.
I have a magic little box sitting in my garage that allows me to dream up a weird little device, create it on a computer, convert it to a big pile of computer code automatically, hit "go" on the magic box, and come back in 4 hours to a hunk of plastic in the exact shape I dreamt up only a few hours before. A shape and functionality that had never before existed on the face of the earth.
Ya, 3d printing feels pretty futuristic.
my job is basically design and manufacture, the dependencies of 3d printers make my job wouldnt exist 10 years ago.
The dystopian novel vibes.
Technology that is so ubiquitous that younger genβs donβt know how to troubleshoot them at all.
I grew up with many examples from mag tape media to 802.11b that was basically only useful within a clear line of site to the router.
Electric cars will certainly be quieter at low speed but they will still be noisy at higher speed due to tire noise dominating. Lower speed limits in cities would help here significantly.
Also, even ICE car can be very quiet in low speed, the insulation and exhaust muffle help a lot. I work with car a lot and often time the noise came from the radiator fan, without it running it's quite hard to tell if the engine is running or not. The only thing electric car ever gonna solve is the tailpipe emission, which is good, but not quite enough.
Some of the job titles of people I know would sound insane to people in the 80s.
Yeah but one of my favourite things is when watching quiz shows, see who can come up with the most fucking pretentious phrase for "I'm a salesperson"
Hi my name's Lorna and I'm a client communications solutions engineer
Ya hi my name's Kyle and I'm like a future business outreach manager ya
As a very curious person with very wide interests, it is so easy to access really hard-to-find information. In the past five years I've satisfied my curiosity more than adequately on hundreds of topics I'd wondered about all my life ... from home. One plus side of Covid.
On the darker side, there were plenty of predictions (from science and fiction) in decades past that are becoming very real. Too many heads buried in sand.
smartphones are pretty damn impressive.
they downright make scifi gizmos like dataslates, or comunicators seem outdated.
gps navigation arround the world,
even without cellula reception if you have offline map data.
and automatic navigation / route planning
a vast array of communication services be it text sound, or video,
one on one, as a group, or in a public forum.
a vast sea of information on every topic immaginable.
ever improving camera & sensor tech.
and smartphones do it all in one device small enough to fit in your pocket.
and i didn't even mention the computing power & storage that oveshadows some room sized supercomputers of the past
Yep! That was my thought as well, especially that we can carry the internet around and talk to pretty much anyone anytime.
Plus if electric cars become the norm, the streets will be quiet for the first time since the industrial revolution
The sound of hooves on cobblestone is incredibly loud and annoying!
What really baffles me is modern computers. The whole assortment from mainframe batteries, desktop PCs, laptops to smartphones, watches, wireless earbuds, microcontrollers, miniaturised sensors, etc. Even the cheapest modern microcontrollers have insanely complex and tiny patterning that really speaks volumes for the amount of process control and precision in semiconductor fabs. Truly, I would call the modern IC a miracle if I wouldn't know better. It is physics, materials science and chemistry at their best.
Being addicted to the internet
Everyone walking around with digital cameras
- We have video and photo evidence of nearly every single event because there are multiple people with cameras nearly everywhere there are people.
Global interconnection
- I can instantly communicate with someone in Germany from the US. I can even share a picture or video with someone in a matter of seconds.
Medicine
- Whenever I do something risky or worry about becoming sick or ill, I recognize how lucky I am that I can just go to a doctor and it will likely be addressed without issue. This goes especially for bacterial infections.
The hopelessness.
honestly just modern medicine and indoor plumbing/water treatment
the amount of not dying from random infections we do these days, no wonder there are so many humans
If it weren't for modern medicine, I'd have been dead over a decade ago since I have an autoimmune disorder that is treated with a weekly injection. Whenever there are discussions about societal disorder, my first thoughts are wondering how long I would last without the medicine.
:(
no way for you to be prescribed an emergency supply and get self injection training?
Unfortunately, the medication lasts about a year before it expires. However, that's in the fridge. At room temperature, the medication only last 14 days before it goes bad.
I appreciate your concern so much tho! I'm having a terrible day, so your care made it a bit nicer. Thank you very much π₯Ή
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Playing with my own AI models is interesting.
Nothing made me feel like the future was now as Orbitz and freeze dried pizza from the Challenger Space Museum.
They don't make Orbitz anymore tho :(
My Steam Deck!
Jesus Christ, it is SO GOOD!
Bad news, tires are the biggest source of noise from cars in movement unless you change the exhaust to something barely legal on a gas car.
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My cellphone. Every day. Every time I'm at my computer and transfer a file to my phone over KDE Connect I kinda just sit there for a second marveling at the fact that the transfer happened and it just feels like magic.
I understand the underlying processes that make it happen, just sometimes I find myself ignoring the details and just appreciating it for a moment.
Aeropex - bone-conducting earphones
Coolify2 - Personal neck AC/heating with peltier technology
GrapheneOS - Able to use a smartphone to its full potential, without the tracking/bloat/handholding of other default OS choices.
I really like how those first two are basic science, but somebody was actually able to innovate them into doing something useful.
I wish more technology was like this, and not whatever the crypto/metaverse/NFT/AI people are doing (mostly mistaking fluff for innovation)
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The speed of light means that light that left our sun arrives on my roof's solar panels 8 minutes later. I unplugged my EV from my home charger, and drove to get a burrito. I drove on energy that left the sun 10 minutes before I used it to go get lunch.
Also, my electric bill arrived yesterday and it was the same amount due for the past 3 months: Total bill $0 "No payment due at this time".
There's an app for everything.
And everything requires an app.
It's not a good future.
Watching the movie Idiocracy.
Given the heat lately, air conditioning. Sure, AC has been around for a long time but itβs becoming ubiquitous (at least in the us). Mine is controllable over Alexa, outputs data graphs, makes intelligent decisions to save money, etc.
Now that we daily experience the results of global warming, we all hide our heads in the ~~sand~~ AC
The building across from me has a second story rollup door. I like to pretend its for flying cars. Edit:
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Arc Search. Iβve learned more this past year.
Relating to electric cars, Aptera β when they hit the streets everything changes.
I second aptera
It looks so cool, I hope it actually launches. They've already gone bankrupt once before. I was holding off on a new car for a while to hope to get one, but it doesn't look like they're coming out soon, so I got a bolt, which has been great.
Oh, nice, I hear good things about the bolt.
I think that last aptera bankruptcy happened about a decade ago under different leadership, before they had all the manufacturing partners, business plan of today and definitely before this round of pre-orders/investment.
As far as I understand, that was basically a couple guys building an awesome car that they didn't have the business infrastructure for. It seemed easier to source parts until they had to do it.
Ramping production is still slated for ~'24, which has been delayed before I believe from last year, which isn't great.
They've had mostly finished prototypes driving around for a while now and direct investment/partnerships, so I don't see them going bust too soon.
They have a lot of pretty regular updates with production status and media updates on their website and YouTube channel to check out.
I'm hopeful. I want the thousand miler.
Solar powered, self-reparable cars are where the future is.
when they hit the streets
I doubt that will be any time soon unless thereβs multiple massive breakthroughs. Unless you drive 5 miles a day and park in pure sun thereβs just not enough power to keep the batteries charged.
Honestly though Iβd really like to see electric golf carts take over as city vehicles. Theyβre small, fairly light weight, go fast enough for a city, and if you really want you can fit some solar cells on the roof.
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The fact that I can go on eBay and get an actually usable laptop for $40
Like, I was playing around with freecad on it a couple days ago. It just works. The fact that I can get a fully functional personal computer for cheaper than 8 hamburgers is crazy.
The crazier part is that I have no problem spending $40 on those 8 hamburgers over the course of a month, but god forbid I spend $20 on something that should last years.
Plus if electric cars become the norm, the streets will be quiet for the first time since the industrial revolution
Probably not due to concern of both animals and those with impaired vision, but things seem to go back and forth on that front from time to time.
One of my answers was that most fuel is no longer leaded (apparently some prop plane fuel is?)
Computers are also so fast and we can access just about anything at any time. This compared to my childhood in the '80s where my dad was online (BBS and later CompuServe) and I would sometimes play around a bit when things were much slower and more sparse (and generally far more local). Obviously, this didn't work out 100% in humanity's favor, in hindsight.
I have a GoPro sitting next to me and a 4k camera in the form of my handheld computer (smartphone) all of which still kinda feels like the future a bit.
Translation services are also super cool and open up so much more for idea and cultural exchange as well as opening up travel so much more. Likewise with language study online and the preservation of endangered languages.
Everyone spying on me, listening to everything I say and tracking everywhere I go.
That and instant pots. You just put in ingredients and out comes food. It also makes rice way better than you ever could on a stove.
This comment. The internet is wild.
We pay for things with plastic.
The sheer amount of time spent on my phone and how I can't go anywhere without it.
Wait people like automatic bathroom fixtures?? Every time I go into a bathroom with them they make my life so much harder than it needs to be. Especially automatic toilets, those things are genuinely one of the most horrible things to ever be invented
Modern ice trays.
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