New Technologies that May be in the Cards
New Technologies that May be in the Cards
Every day brings us new technological advances, today we’ll explore many of those of such as robotics, automation, rapid delivery, education, medical science, nanotechnology, and more.
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Episodes referenced in the Episode:
Power Satellites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBCbdThIJNE
Fusion Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChTJHEdf6yM
Quiet Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvH-7XX6pkk
The Santa Claus Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmgYoryG_Ss
Synthetic Meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NULFAItoBs
Cyborgs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYKCTFIZLI
Mind Augmentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQpYOVvU17Y
Mind-Machine Interfaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCLLzI4R3bc
Life Extension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKmdc2AuXec
The Science of Aging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDpjv2z3dyE
Happily Ever After: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ypfzvQ-Q2w
Attack of the Drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oZCUtgnQkE
Advanced Metamaterials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0UZ6-oeiIE
Portable Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffXqcf48D9Q
The Nuclear Option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aBOhC1c6m8
Moon: Industrial Complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47MMNqKGxE
Machine Rebellion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHd22kMa0_w
The Paperclip Maximizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mk7NVFz_88
Technological Stagnation: https://youtu.be/vlJIWlyLOmU
Non-Carbon Based Life: https://youtu.be/Y584AjZmqwY
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Credits:
New Technologies that May be in the cards
Episode 232; April 2, 2020
Writers:
Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Evan Schultheis
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Konstantin Sokerin
Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier
Graphics:
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
Kris Holland (Mafic Studios) www.maficstudios.com
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc
Udo Schroeter
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
The day Alexa decides to book me into weigh watchers will be her last.
Yup alot of that was absolutely orwellian
Thanks Isaac always dig the content
Is a clanking self-replicator that requires humans not something that already exists today?
Not being entirely rhetorical…
I for one am glad that we do not have flying cars. In a city with tall buildings you will get a lot if people flying into buildings.
not the cats in the fridge💀💀
Most of these quality of life features require a great deal of privacy destruction. With the kind of people usually at the helm of most countries. You really wouldn’t want to do that.
If you ask me, it all hinges on how soon we can eradicate greed and anti social behavior
No need for lawn care in desert southwest.
no one "enjoys" being given tasks to be performed. If they do, they should seek professional mental health counseling. Also, cops are probably on average faster than the perps they are chasing maybe a quarter of the time. Blame Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts for this phenomenon….Careful that you don’t climb into that ivory tower Isaac! 🙂
@Isaac Arthur i think your commentary on increased surveillance leading to reduced crime rates lacks some perspective. Most crimes are motivated by financial distress in some form or another. If crime is the only way someone can afford housing, they’re gonna do crime regardless of how likely they are to get caught, cuz even if they are caught, they go to prison, which is technically housing with free meals. If the root causes of many people’s struggle to maintain financial stability is not addressed, increased surveillance will more likely just end up with a spike in prison population, and prison usually comes with several disadvantages on the getting released side that make crime even more likely for ex-cons
Regardless of how one might approach addressing crime as a problem, be it financial aid or harsher punishments, I think we can agree that making not-crime an easier and more reliable way to support ones self than crime is important unless we just want a huge prison population for some reason. Honestly, ethics aside, more prisoners sounds like all downsides and no upsides, unless said prisoners are coerced into providing labor, in which case that’s just slavery with extra steps. or maybe "not technically slavery" which is… better but not by much.
Great video otherwise!
Who gets paid for a machines work? The owner of a machine. The products better be cheap because few people will have jobs. You can’t have an economy with 20% of your population earning no money. That’s a loss of potential.
Great. A future in which canned food drives are still necessary, people are still poor and desperate, police have even more power, and price-gouging private companies are still in charge of health insurance in America. But at least I get a self-driving lawnmower and an app that helps me organize my fridge. And maybe I’ll hit fewer red lights on my way to the lab. Fewer red lights but not fewer homeless people waiting at the intersections and sleeping in the doorways as I drive past.
Half the world still lives in straw and mudd huts, this is rich asshole shit. Im Canadian and ill still drive my old car, shoot my deer or go to the butcher and not have an app for everything. Im 32 btw. Cant slow progress but man…, seems so not human
Diamond age here we come
Small late reminder: The description was never updated with the Technological Stagnation and Non Carbon-Based Life videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlJIWlyLOmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y584AjZmqwY
Lets be honest as time goes on they will just keep increasing school age to the point people wont be leaving secondary school until they are 30
As much as I like the idea of self driving. I don’t think at any point would I get into one. Knowing that it could choose to end your life for you to save others. Essentially taking a bit of your free choice….
Can’t remember the specific scenario. But it was something like…your driving on a highway, traffic is very tight. Behind you is a car tailgating you, to your right is a bus full of kids and to your left is the median. Now out of nowhere a motorcycle cuts off the bus and into your lane. basically the computer decides that the best course of action is to drive you into the median to save the motorcycle, preventing you from going into the bus and to prevent a tailgater from hitting you. Really wish I could remember the specific example, I think the TV series was "Bull" now I know it was a TV show but it brings up the point that what an AI and a human consider "acceptable losses of life" can be two very different things.
The issue with the dating example is that people typically change the annoying habits once they are in a relationship and by nuking that before it begins you could end up being boxed up and alone
Lmao I would rather kill myself then have software follow my eye and figure out my psychology that I’m not aware of in school
18:40. The problem is you’re imagining an ambivalent/pure operation of that service… I don’t want it recorded if i go to talk to my gay/black/Muslim/communist/fear of the week friend’s house to ask him how to (whatever he’s good at) a bit better… that is a loss of freedom because my fear of being negatively impacted for doing it (because i went to see someone the President is currently targeting) while working at my Gov. Job 🧐 this is a creeping evil that we need to resist because once it’s in place those in control will never stop doing it (what new freedoms have the North Koreans recently gotten?).
Fusion! Just 40 years away!
I grow more and more concerned about the typical American’s health in the future. For many of us, household chores make up a good chunk of our activity and exercise. Unless home gyms (see the latest Peleton advertisement) become much cheaper, they will remain in the minority.
Just fyi, diamond batteries will almost certainly never be viable for things like smartphones, to say nothing of electric vehicles. More active isotopes like tritium or strontium 90 perhaps, but carbon 14 is just too low energy for anything significantly more powerful than a calculator, and those already have those little amorphous PV cells. They’ll likely only ever be useful for cases where more conventional solar or RF energy harvesting isn’t applicable, like for undersea and/or space probes.
I haven’t owned a car in decades.
thank – you .
Every bit of this connected to the grid sounds terrifying and very " Big Brothery."
Dating in the future will not be dating. It already isn’t dating.
Interesting thing to note, in the video you said that computers can near-instantly plot the optimum way to pick up many people, which technically isn’t true. Well, it’s not so much "not true" as it is an open problem – the infamous P vs NP problem. If we solve P vs NP with the solution that P = NP, then this statement is most likely true, but on the flipside, encryption will be basically impossible as we will be able to use the same sort of solution to break encryption. If we solve P vs NP with the solution that P is not equal to NP, or never solve it, then likely we won’t be able to solve this sort of resource-optimization problem unless we can formulate it in a way that doesn’t require P to equal NP in order to solve it efficiently.
Instead of drones helping cops with chasing runners, we could spike the doughnuts with "Blitzed". It’ll energize them and dull the pain if they are still overweight after consuming stims.
Jokes aside, a tranq drone or just a lassow/net shooter drone would be cool.
cats don’t belong in the fridge?
The Auto-E-Bay bin was predicted by [Checks Notes] Stardew Valley?
for a guy with a speech impediment you still manage to be among THE most clear-spoken, literate, and descriptively thorough youtubers across the board ever.
I’m rewatching this and thinking about how someone recently created a room temperature super conductor and most every student is taking classes online…I love these videos.
Tbh having an A.I control who i find on dating sites seems really fked up
me, at 4 am on Isaac’s channel
ahhh shit – here we go again.
Colledges are closing shop. Most degrees don’t equate to more money in life and fewer people are interested in a life of debt to pay for a useless degree. Trade schools provide better earning potential for most of us.
College largely does not develop skills necessary for on the job. Unless you are going to school to be an engineer most of education especially the higher you go is less based in human capital and more based in signaling.
8:07 NO, FALSE: all lawn grass is ecologically degrading. Of every USA crop grown its 1st lawn grass then almonds which "use" (in reality, grossly waste) water.
Our economy is unsustainable. You can’t make predictions about technology without making predictions about political change.
Superconductors would be dank af for computing. Totally worth its own episode.
As far as I know there really aren’t any laws of physics dictating the minimum energy it takes to compute a certain problem, so if you have a whole computer with no electrical resistance that solves problems by cycling electricity through it, you can just jump start it and run it forever with only power used for outputting the data like through internet signals and light emitting monitors.
Also most computing chips are purposely limited in their computing power so they won’t generate too much heat, designing chips that are worse at computing but better for generating less heat for small portable devices or just designing chips optimized for performance and setting a cap on their processing speed depending on the cooling you use.
However if that’s not an issue anymore, smartphones can suddenly over night become twice as powerful as desktop computers with less electricity usage than they use now because the chips that used to be used in desktops only due to their need for huge heatsinks and fans now can just be used in anything as they no longer generate heat, and their clockspeed is only limited by transistors and architecture rather than how much heat your computer can dissipate so they can crunch numbers better than if they were submerged in liquid nitrogen before.
This is not only incredibly useful for all electronic devices, making things we do today much more efficient if not nearly free, but other technologies like cryptocurrency that are currently heavy in power consumption would be basically be free to mine, thus have its practicality as a currency shoot through the roof.
It is constantly amazing to me that this channel looks into the future with thoughtful speculation about so many things…but assumes capitalism will survive. XD
14:25 PLEASE NOTE that most theories of Americans hitting "peak college" DOES NOT include trade schools.
Im sorry but this video creeps me out
You make the future sound so good
Sounding a lot like Andrew Yang in this one.
Not going to lie, as good as the episode is, it’s scope is rather narrow. Most of the mentioned advances will not be available to the VAST majority of humanity. There are untold millions for whom a bicycle is a major help and their productivity is also key to our whole world.
And then there are the concerns that most of the data gathering will benefit the few at the cost of the many. We are seeing this trajectory right now, no need for futurism. And I’m also concerned with how you, Isaac, reduce so much of the human experience down to ‘more productivity, more stuff, more everything’.
Given how potentially dangerous a snowblower is, which in contrast to an automated lawnmower has a high powered auger that is open at the front of the snow blower, I don’t see it being fully automated anytime soon. Snowblowers also need to be maneuvered in unique ways that requires use and shifting of the operator’s body weight. In high snow fall areas, the snow can cover obstacles (especially over time from multiple snow falls as the snow still has to be blown somewhere) which the operator needs to know about and avoid accordingly even if they can no longer see the obstacles. Examples of such obstacles may include edges of stairs, power cords, etc.
Lol so i wonder if you get into an accident while drunk in a car that was driving itself would you still get a dui?
I must have taken a bathroom break before the automated lawnmowers. The only way I see those becoming common place is if there’s a disease that kills all the dads in the world.
Buckminster fuller also said we need to revolutionize education and learning from the earliest age.
How can someone be optimistic about the future, while knowing what it has prepared for us.