mRNA vaccines. You can literally code a vaccine now. That’s just mind blowing to me.
I listened to Mr. Krabs sing Billie Jean.
Meme technology is about to get SciFi.
I had to listen myself, for those curious.
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Everything going on in biology, but the existence of of Nana and Lulu especially. The first genetically altered humans are starting school pretty soon.
Say what now?
Google says the twins plus one other 1 yr younger child child were edited embryos using crispr to prevent them from getting HIV from their father(s). Which was and is unethical. They are supposedly doing fine.
Damn that’s crazy. On the one hand, that’s really awesome that we can make it so that the kids don’t have HIV. On the other hand, I worry about people using it for really bad things… Thanks for telling me about it.
Yeah, the dude just kind of went rogue. One of them was fully edited, while the other has a blend of original and altered cells, because surprise surprise China’s maddest scientist did a bad job. If they’re still doing well that’s good, because it wasn’t certain there would be no side effects.
I’m glad they and any kids they have will be around whenever we start discussing doing it properly. And yes, Dr. He Jiankhui went to jail.
Driverless cars, VR and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we’re living in the movie Total Recall.
Get your ass to Mars!
and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we’re living in the movie Total Recall.
Wow, I hadn’t heard about that. I’ve wondered for a while if astronauts could use VR to “escape” a cramped spacecraft.
Usually total recall reminds people of something else
I’m holding a small device in my hand that gives me access to all of humanity’s knowledge.
Granted, I’m using it to dick around on Lemmy, but…
To be fair there’s plenty of knowledge on Lemmy as of today… And porn, lots of porn.
I have yet to encounter any porn on lemmy.
Do you have the NSFW filter off within your Lemmy or app’s settings?
On behalf of Gnorv, yes. I have made sure multiple times that my NSFW filter is off. I have only seen an occasional NSFW - like One per month, and it’s never porn - even when I browse by New.
Please Help.
Every time I hear about World Coin scanning people’s retina’s for $50, driver monitoring tech inside new cars, or Amazon asking people to pay for things with palm prints I feel a bit like I’m living in the Minority Report. Does that count?
cyberpunk without any cool aesthetics.
What, you don’t appreciate the beauty of an anti-homeless bench? /s
The future isn’t necessarily positive I guess
The idea of me typing a prompt and AI generating a piece of art is incredible.
JWST
Being trans always was such a cyberpunk concept to me. When I was a kid was like “people can change their gender? Cool”
We can say that… it was a sign lol.
When I was a kid there was only one openly trans person I would ever see. A man at the library who wore women’s clothes (to put it in the terms we would have used then). They didn’t try to be feminine beyond the clothing. Very occasionally some makeup. Legs were not shaved etc.
I was at the library on a weekly basis and saw this person all the time but it was just this one person. My mother told me not to stare or make fun of them and that they weren’t hurting anyone and could dress how the pleased.
Now, some forty or more years later I frequently encounter non-binary people, trans people, etc. I follow the same method my mother taught me. They are just people living how they want.
It is interesting to be that William Gibson had trans characters in Johnny Mnemonic, for example, written in 1981. That’s around when I would see that person at the library.
Modern cell phones. It’s crazy that I basically never need a computer now. My phone is so diversely useful. I spend more money on phones than computers now. It’s also the best camera I’ve ever had! Phones are just so cool lol.
I walk into my house and start dictating to a speaker sphere what lights to turn on, what to set the thermostat to, and to turn on the tv. And she answers. Just like in sci fi movies.
Oh yeah, I forgot that that used to be a sci-fi thing, but it definitely was when I was a kid.
We have Mustard flavored Skittles now.
Truly we’re on the last frontier.
The Steam Deck , being able to play RD2 and GTA V with a handheld console in my opinion is great!
Every time I think about doing something illegal or hear about people from only a few generations ago doing something fun but slightly illegal.
Then I think. There is no way you could do that now the police would use all the surveillance that is everywhere and if I got caught their wouldn’t be a slap on the wrist and grow up. But it would be a serious issue for my future jobs and going to other countries.
Makes me think I’m in a futuristic movie. Just not one of the happy ending ones.
You are not wrong.
When I was in junior high a bunch of us bussed to school and had to stay for lunch. All the rooms were locked so if you forgot a book in your classroom or wanted to get something from the band room you had to ask the lunch lady for the keys. They would always tell their eyes and sigh and make you wait forever then give you the keys like fifteen minutes before lunch was over.
I day a bunch of us from grade 7-9 worked a plan. A kid asked for the keys to get their forgotten lunch from a classroom at the very start of lunch after complaining their stomach was upset.
They got the keys and said they were going to use the washroom first then get their lunch. The master classroom key was removed from the ring.
Another student was in the next stall in the bathroom closet to the entrance by the office left unlocked. We were allowed to come and go. They took the key under the stall and ran outside, jumped on a bike another kid had unlocked and biked to a convenience store that cut keys.
Key cutting was done and paid for. The key was returned to the ring and the ring was given back to the lunch lady. The kid got a hard time for being gone so long but insisted it was from an upset stomach and they had been in the bathroom all along.
Now, we had a key and could come and go as well pleased within the school. The grade 9s held the key, very few people knew about it, and it was passed down each year.
If you tried to pull that crap now you’d probably get caught on video or something.
AI generated images/voices and deepfakes. I really am worried about it becoming difficult to figure out what is real on the internet in the next 10 years.
