I’ve ranted before about this, but we are nowhere near the point where neural implants can be what Elong claims. He’ll be long dead by the time we get colonies on Mars or chips in the brains of people without debilitating conditions. He’d be lucky to see reliable self driving become the norm.
Reliable self driving is quite close I suppose, just gotta use more than just visual cameras for sensors and “ai”. Why did he get rid of lidar anyway?
Because he’s a fucking moron masquerading as an intellectual.
Not for mass adoption by the markets. These companies walled gardening the tech so that all have such variable quality means it won’t be a major thing anytime soon. They’re only really a dangerous autopilot only a handful of companies offer, or a taxi service so bad it has a human remotely take over half the time. The future where it becomes a normal and accepted thing is still a ways off.
Considering the impending global economic instability caused by a slow climate apocalypse, I think our general rate of major technological advancement will be hindered in the long run. Humanity will adjust, but the debts of the industrial revolution will slow things for a time. We cannot forget that our current state is very different from that of a hundred years ago, so things will probably change drastically in our lifetimes. I just don’t think it’ll be a change towards a truly advanced future.
We are already quite advanced, now it’s just about utilizing our technology better and more equally.
I would hope, but there might not even be enough resources to go around. We could live in a post scarcity society now, but the only reason we don’t is that capitalists and imperialists abhor the notion. They’re obsessed with having power over others, not security and comfort. They want life to be a treadmill for everyone, so they make sure starvation is a perpetual problem. When there actually isn’t enough for everyone, we will already be deep into mass famine.