yes, even in a world where every possible need is met by technology, you still need people to direct that power. You still need city planning, fashion design, product development, landscape design, etc. not to mention long term goals like expansion into space. This requires people to make educated decisions, and directing that labor toward desirable outcomes.

why not? they have cured other illnesses by editing DNA. Immortality just seems like the beginning to me.

These things really make me consider that it could be us from the future or some other trans-dementional beings.

I think they said it detects the waste from certain cells to identify the cancer.

Agree %100. We don't need AI with original thoughts and (gasp) feelings. That's a recipe for disaster. AI should serve people not replace them .

Hmm, I pictured 4 robots holding lazer guns. Pew Pew! Got it!

We'll all sit around quoting Shakespeare and Dostoevsky like in Ghost in the Shell 2.

So can this thing shoot down rockets and missiles? or does it just interfere with them?

So we just need to cut emissions by 38 billion tons annually. You’re welcome.

Well, when you consider how much it costs to put a single live human into space to do work, and keep him alive, etc. it is much much cheaper to send an army of these things.

I'm not a scientist but isn't this how Flynn got sucked into the grid?

I live for this shit. Can't wait for the revolution. These things are going to build entire cities in space.

Love that attitude. Here we go!

Bring on the machine apocalypse! Anything is better than listening to shit about Donald Trump and MAGA dumb asses day after day.

Best way to solve that, have students supplement their papers with a verbal presentation complete with visual aids.

Very promising stuff going on with geothermal! Just hoping those fancy new drills pan out.

2035 has been my guess for a while now, based on all we’ve seen with regard to the pace renewables are being deployed as well as the falling prices. Battery tech is well on its way as well.

I remember 10 years ago when Meta bought up a dozen of the biggest robotics companies. We all thought the robot revolution was about to happen. They ended up just selling them all or folding them because nobody had a marketable product.

I don't know if you've looked out the window, but the communists aren't doing so well at the moment.

Cool vid. Thanks!

I'll just point out that none of these projections factor in any type of carbon removal. When we are fully converted to renewable energy, there will be vast amounts of excess unused power to go to things like carbon removal and desalination. These projections also don't account for the exponential (or at least non-linear) advancement of renewable energy tech such as batteries, etc.

Aw, a bit of sad news for robot enthusiasts. Hopefully work on Digit continues. (The bipedal delivery robot.)

ok, I feel like this is a big deal. Is this a big deal? How is this not a magic bullet?

Hmm, does making plastic and other things out of petroleum put C02 into the air or is it just when it is burned?

These European countries knew it was a terrible idea to be reliant on Russian gas and oil they just chose to shrug their shoulders and move on.