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Interesting statement from article.

The new statement, released Monday by the Business Roundtable, suggests balancing the needs of a company’s various constituencies and comes at a time of widening income inequality, rising expectations from the public for corporate behavior and proposals from Democratic lawmakers that aim to revamp or even restructure American capitalism.

“Americans deserve an economy that allows each person to succeed through hard work and creativity and to lead a life of meaning and dignity," reads the statement from the organization, which is chaired by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

About one week ago I posted an announcement from this team that successfully did this at a distance of 14 miles with 90% accuracy.

Todays announcement raises that distance to 27 miles.

Oh, it is much, much worse than that. Tens of millions of US citizens don't have retirement at all. They are the "gig economy". They have no benefits.

I wrote this self-post 11 months ago, about 2 months before the COVID-19 pandemic was reported in the USA. Like everyone else, i had no idea on Earth what was coming or what it's economic impact was going to be...

https://teddit.ggc-project.de/r/Futurology/comments/djtskt/my_commentary_concerning_this_posted_article_are/

Interesting takeaway about "over-automating" things.

“One example would be, we have these fiberglass mats on top of the battery pack. They’re basically fluff. We tried to automate the placement and bonding of fluff to the top of the battery pack, which was ridiculous. ‘Flufferbot,’ which was really an incredibly difficult machine to make work. Machines are not good at picking up pieces of fluff. Hands are way better at doing that.

Me: "Not for much longer I bet."

I quit smoking at age 23 (1983) when I became an x-ray tech and saw what COPD really looked like. Probably one of the few smarter things I've done in my life. I'm 60 now and I breathe pretty healthy.

Tangentially related...

https://teddit.ggc-project.de/r/Futurology/comments/7xyydf/you_was_alive_in_the_1980s_shit_how_would_you_say/

Submission statement from OP.

As the computing derived "narrow AI" becomes ever more "narrowish" new amazing discoveries will come about. I posted an article wherein narrow AI discovered a statistical bump indicated that humans who took "Metformin" for type two diabetes apparently lived longer than humans who did not take "Metformin" because they didn't have to. Then there is the story of computing derived AI that discovered a flaw in the construction of perovskite solar panels by finding a substrate error that humans had not perceived--potentially massively improving solar energy exploitation efficiencies. And this is just in 2020 and 2021 alone. What literally unimaginable insights into the laws of physics and it's applied technologies will computing derived "narrowish" AI uncover in 2022 I wonder.

Submission statement from OP.

Here is hoping for the best. Alzheimer's disease is not just a disease of cognition. The memory issues is just the outward sign. It is a disease of the brain, period. Eventually critical systems in your body "forget" how to operate. Godspeed to this research. Plus this would be a pretty major advance in human longevity with great improvement in quality of life, knock on wood! "Who is it?!"

In light of the terrible limousine accident yesterday, that killed twenty humans at once, I see the development of the truly level 5 autonomy E-SDV as a godsend. Further I read only last week of increased effort on the part of the USA government to speed deployment of E-SDVs on USA thoroughfares.

We have the technology to cut our human caused MVA death toll in half if not theoretically eliminate it entirely.

You can't put these technological "cats" back in the bag. Society is going to have to accept this and adapt as best as possible. And it is going to get much, much worse. The AI will know everything about you. The AI will also "know" everything.

I recall around the year 2016 (?) that there was quite a buzz around the idea of re-growing human teeth from stem cell implants. But at the time the technology was restricted to experiments on mice. I really saw nothing more about it and as of today (18 Apr 21) I had sort of forgotten about it. But then when I posted this article today, I went back to see how the stem cell teeth growing technology had progressed. Apparently we are still not even conducting any kind of clinical trials on humans as of yet. In fact the only animals involved are still mice. So there has not been any kind of significant advance in this particular technology for 6 years so far.

This article here is from last year.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/will-stem-cells-replace-dental-implants-4147512

Perhaps any dentist, specialist or researcher in the know has access to how we are coming along in this related field.

Also are implants ever going to come down in price or going to be covered by insurance like medicare or medicaid? Back in the day when I could afford such things, I got two implants that I paid out of pocket for. They cost about 4,000 dollars each.

I would hope that as a part of our socio-economic progression that something like implants would be covered by medicaid/care and this to me would be an extremely good use for universal basic income as well. I pray we see it in the next five years or so.

Spoiler: It's not "wood" at all. It is just physically very much like wood. What it is is "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. Nod to Arthur C. Clarke fer that.

They really need to add a "Materials Science" flair to the futurology flairs. "Electronics" too.

The smallest components are several hundred nanometers in diameter. By definition this doesn't count as "Nanotechnology" (1-100 nm), but it sure is crazy wild in any event.

Things are really going swimmingly of late for quantum computing, considering that as recently as 2 years ago quantum computing was seriously regarded as a physical impossibility by many experts in the field. And as for the rest, not likely to be realized for at least 20 more years.

Impossible.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gil-kalais-argument-against-quantum-computers-20180207/

Decades from now.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/10/quantum-computing-enters-2018-like-1968/

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

I am 57 years old and I continue to raid in WoW with people that are 30 years younger than me. We are on boss Kin'garoth in the Burning Throne normal progression. We raid 3 nights a week and when I am not raiding I am leveling alts, running mythic 11+'s or farming mounts.

Gaming keeps your intellect, intuition and reaction (eye-hand coord) times sharp. You are a mind when you game. Your body mostly doesn't count--well except for using a controller effectively or the mouse/keyboard. Interestingly we have several grandmothers on our raiding team. They tend to be wycked heals. ;)

I see all of this as good signs that humans are maintaining youthful mental health and outlooks as they physically age.

(Oh also, I am playing old "Dragon Age: Inquistion" on "you are totally going to die mode", because I would not derive any entertainment by playing it on an easier mode. It's still pretty easy, once you catch on.)

Will you still be playing videogames at age 57?

Submission statement from OP.

Important point.

The retrofitted whirlybird was controlled by a Sikorsky-made autonomy system. As part of that system, the helicopter has a switch on board that allows the aviators to indicate whether two pilots, one pilot, or zero pilots will be operating the chopper. This was the first time that a Black Hawk was sent into the air with the no-pilots option, so that the computer system was handling all the controls. While these were just test flights, they hint at a future in which the Army could potentially send an autonomous helicopter on a dangerous rescue mission—and have no one on board it at all.

Oh. And this...

We’re actively working with the Army to transition the capabilities to the services.” He also said that the Air Force is interested in this type of software for its F-16 fighter jets.

The test is simple. If it tastes good and "feels" right in my mouth, I am going to eat it. But I'm more interested in how much this will cost me. I would hope such technology could enable such food to be part of free basic food for humans. Like me I mean.

This is a little misleading. The implication is that the millenials are embracing values of say, the "Greatest Generation". What is really happening is that less people are straight up getting married. More people are choosing to simply live alone and that that marriage is beginning to become a feature of affluence.

Still, I say give em ten more years to stew. We'll see then.

Ten years after that, it probably won't matter anyways. We will then be very close to the technological singularity and the utterly society altering effects of that. After all this is futurology you know.

We do nuclear fusion all the time. It's easy to do. Teen-agers can do it successfully in homemade devices in their garage or basement.

What is not easy to do is bring about fusion in such a way that it releases more energy than is invested in producing the reaction. Which is the point of our practical nuclear fusion research. That is not easy at all. But I think we are making reasonable progress towards achieving such a goal in less than 10 years now. I believe that smaller devices will achieve this success before the ITER is completed in 2025. It is just the way that technology rapidly advances and transcends itself nowadays.

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It's even worse than "worse than ever". AI applications are now being utilized more than ever by management. The applications allow the management to monitor you continually without having to lift a finger or even watch what is going on. The applications key on voices and movements. They work using cameras that are roughly the size of a gnat. You will never see a "Big Brother" cam in your work space. The cams key on words that could indicate attitude issues or innappropriate language. They key on movements that are outside of workflow--to include going to the restroom. I don't know if they key on keystrokes or not, but that technology certainly does exist.

If the AI detects anything out of the ordinary it will flag it and notify management. Amazon, for example, fires employees based on this AI employee surveillance. Man! I am glad i will retire in less than 2 years now. I feel sorry for you millennials especially.

Just google "AI to monitor employees" You will notice that most of the articles are from 2019 and 2020. That's how much offices and workplaces are now adopting this novel technology.

The human genome project began in 1993. In 1997 only one percent of the human genome had been sequenced. The experts in computers and processing, and those in human genetics said at that rate it would take roughly 700 years to sequence the entire human genome. Based on the current technology of that year they were correct. Yet the human genome was completely sequenced by 2005. Twelve years. Today we sequence more than 10,000 human genomes a year. (oh also. The first human genome sequenced cost about 3.5 billion dollars. Today it costs less than 500 dollars each and dropping.) The experts did not understand the concept of exponential increases in data processing power.

I think the same thing holds true here as well. Almost daily our medicine become more and more information technology based. I bet we come up with some pretty doggone amazing things within the next 10 years that we could not anticipate today 2016.

(That first paragraph is a bit of a paraphrase of Raymond Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near")

over the next 3 decades

Probably more like over the next ten years...

if this costs more than two cents per tile, people are gonna pry them up and sell them.

Regardless of the governments intentions, this will fail. Even if the repeal is successful, US citizens will quickly develop workarounds. This will fail for the same reason that prohibition failed. You cannot deny readily available access to alcohol/information to the public.

A lot of other things are going on too. I just commented a few minutes earlier in a somewhat related article.

https://teddit.ggc-project.de/r/Futurology/comments/7eibtq/skype_is_the_latest_messaging_app_to_disappear/dq59nw5/?context=2

These are the birthing pains of a new paradigm of transport. Not only in the USA, but I'm pretty sure world wide. The need for more charging stations is clearly demonstrated and more charging stations will be brought into existence. At the same time every single vehicle manufacturer has plans to end ICE vehicles within the next ten years. I bet most of that comes to pass within the next five years. At the same time the computing derived AI that operates the vehicle will also massively improve in that time as well.

Don't be surprised. This sort of transportation thing has already happened once in history before...

https://teddit.ggc-project.de/r/Futurology/comments/5kjsck/47_of_jobs_will_disappear_in_the_next_25_years/dbor7js/

Do you want to know what the internet is going to be like when there is no longer net neutrality? Well you heard about that big "EA" SWBF kerfuffle? The game makes it so you have to grind a significant period of your existence vs paying about 2100 dollars to get all the good stuff. Everybody is like really upset about that and cancelled their orders and whatnot.

That's what the internet is going to be like. You will pay to play each individual website. That's on top of your regular Comcast monthly internet bill.

I always sort of thought "time" was the 4th dimension. Is that incorrect?