ktElwood

ktElwood t1_jeg43mm wrote

Sometimes I wonder how much of economy is just this.

Money is spent on gas and cars, moving workers to offices. To power the PCs, to light the room.

Money is spent on lunches at restaurants.

Money is spent of office supplies to be played with.

And to the outside world, your whole workday looks as productive as any other, because services could be provided to you.

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ktElwood t1_je49rcv wrote

Well, nuclear fusion is always 20 years in the future :D

Extraplanetary colonies are "cool" but...really useless.

Voyager probes are our deep space vessels - cosmic radiation will BBQ humans in space.

If you could regenerate organs, prolong human life substancially, society would collapse. Imagine billionaires being biologicly 25 for 250 years...

My personal tinfoil-hat-theory is that who ever defeats aging in humans, will be transported to a remote island and never be seen again.

We have desalination, we just use too much water.

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ktElwood t1_jcg1c4u wrote

Have you figured out harvesting energy from fusion?

No.

Have you figured out how to stop ageing?

No.

Have you figured out FTL travel?

No.

Have you figured out how to deliver toothpaste in a very complicated way?

Oh Yes!

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