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Bluetooth that works. The ability to email large files. Low cost broadband. The right to repair. Not lose the ownership of digital media.
Digital media just kills me. Back in the CD and DVD days I sent back a bunch of discs that were too scrarched to use and i would get coupons to replace them. Often times the publishers included an extra one just because they didn't want you to pirate stuff. Buying physical media meant you licensed it even when you physically couldn't so they were compelled to solve the problem.
Also printers that work
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- open source software that pays for contributions
- privacy laws that protect people against corporations
- living wage
- end of sexism and mysoginy
- global democracy
This one hits different
High speed rail (USA)
#FUCKcars
Land of the free™.
You're free to choose anything you want as long as the shareholders benefit.
Not backsliding into feudalism?
You don't like the extra steps we added?
Not a particular technology, but I really had a little bit of hope that we’d be able to tackle climate change like we tackled ozone depletion due to CFCs/HCFCs/HFCs with the Montreal Protocol.
Yes what the fuck happened? As a planet, we came together to end CFCs but now everyone just shrugs and says, "nah"
One problem is a bit easier then the other. No one's economy is entirely based around CFCs and CFCs have excellent alternatives.
From the perspective of a kid in the 70s, I thought for sure some level of space colonization, whether it be a Moon colony or O'Neill type settlements. Along with that would be moving industry into space to tap unlimited resources and allow the Earth to heal.
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more international cooperation for global benefit. instead we have more profit taking from everyone
Something, anything in the freaking moon.
Why haven't we been back there in, like, 50 years? That mission was done with computers that were less powerful than my stupid phone.
Anything, a telescope, a transmitter of I-don't-know-what shit, a lunar farm, a Coca-Cola or Disney advertising, ANYTHING!
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Universal Healthcare.
I grew up in the '80s. I was expecting either nuclear annihilation or cities on the moon.
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Advanced cybernetics. From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
It's saddening to see the slow slow progress of cybernetics.
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First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.
After that: people.
And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.
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The one thing I feel deprived of, is the proper sci fi aesthetic in our devices.
The beeps, the switches, the UI. All forsaken for an asinine black mirror .
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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.
Honestly thought I'd see more phones, with desktop modes, replace laptops in day to day life.
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I thought surely by now autocorrect would not still be horribly wrong in its predictions
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I'm just mad as hell at how many things seem to have topped out in the 1940's. My car is basically the same. Five wheels and I chase an explosion around. Air travel is basically the same. Big aluminum tube that's expensive size as hell. TV is basically the same. Tune in, sit on ass, watch.
You look at how life changed between 1900-1945, and how life changed since then, and we've really stagnated.
That's not to say it's all the same, phones are amazing, but they don't change my life fundamentally, a day without my phone is very much the same as a day with my phone.
I think we've still made amazing progress, just in different areas. For example, communication. In the 40s, if you were in the US and needed to contact someone in, say, Australia, the options would either be to send a letter and wait maybe weeks or months for a response, or possibly a prohibitively expensive phone call.
Nowadays you could click two buttons and have a six-hour HD video conversation if you wanted to, essentially for free. And you could send them documents, videos, money, whatever you want basically instantly. Heck, if you really wanted to you could both create realistic 3D avatars and hang out in VR if that's your thing lol
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Still waiting for my personal jetpack and/or flying car
Most people can't be trusted operating a ground-dwelling vehicle, I'm fine with not having flying ones yet.
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Laptops with good build quality, I mean the type of build quality Thinkpads used to have
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A more civilized, earth friendly, peaceful world working for the common good.
The utilization of global powers to collaborate and defeat climate change before the doom clock hits zero.
Half-Life 3
I recently played HL2 again and it's still awesome.
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.
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Fiber to the Home Internet connectivity that was paid for 30 years ago.
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The Bell Riots.
High speed rail.
It's insane Amtrak is the best we got. You should be able to go from Orlando to New York in hours, cheaply.
Private jet packs, flying cars, robot butlers, implantable cybernetic upgrades, a cure for baldness, affordable and safe space flight, free healthcare, a future that doesn't look like the love child of Idiocracy and Demolition Man.
Universal Healthcare
Antigravity looked like the clear favourite for scientists, but then they all went into astronomy and the age of the universe.
Flying cars and hover boards
Providing for the needs of all.
Hoverboards, RePet and a hangover cure
I don't remember ever expecting much.
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