Sci-Fi Tech

[joshfrog]

Hi All 

 

Was watching Black Mirror (while it was still good) the other day and it just made me wonder what sci-fi tech from a movie or TV show would you love to have today and be able to use?

 

I always love watching an old movie that's set in the future and see what they think the future at the time of filming would be like.

Its even more crazy when a movie was made in the 80's set in our current times and see just how close or far they where.

 

I would love those microwaves or ovens that can cook a full meal from just 1 box i think the jetsons had that type of technology.

 

Let us know you'r thinking.

Thanks

[RONOTHAN##]

It's been nearly 9 years and I'm still waiting for the flying cars and hoverboards from Back to the Future Part 2. A Mr. Fusion would also be nice.

[joshfrog]

Yeah that would be fun, just imagine being in school and being able to use that sort of tech for mischief.

I would have gotten in so much more troubles LOL

 

I wouldn't mind the tablet displays from Westworld those are kool but i have less then 0 interest in foldable devices with the screen that bends.

Microsoft did kool foldables with the surface duo i liked the 2 different displays but wouldn't buy a foldable like the Samsung phones.

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[Eigenvektor]

A teleporter from Star Trek would be a nice thing to have. Just get to/from work in an instant (or anywhere else for that matter). Or a holodeck.

 

Slightly more realistic, a Level 5 self-driving car would already be a cool thing to have.

[Millios]

If anyone has seen upgrade (the 2018 horror  action movie)they will know the main gadget. An AI microchip inserted in the spine near the nape of the neck of a paraplegic patient which gives the ability to move as they wish and think like normal. Yes AI is a hot topic but for such uses to give ppl with extreme problems the ability to live normal or close to it i believe its a good use for it especially since it doesnt steal the work of others

[joshfrog]

5 minutes ago, Millios said:

If anyone has seen upgrade (the 2018 horror  action movie)they will know the main gadget. An AI microchip inserted in the spine near the nape of the neck of a paraplegic patient which gives the ability to move as they wish and think like normal. Yes AI is a hot topic but for such uses to give ppl with extreme problems the ability to live normal or close to it i believe its a good use for it especially since it doesnt steal the work of others

I watched that movie not too long ago, you are right would be an interesting device but if you replace the CEO in the movie with any current tech CEO i think you would end up in the same place as the movie. 

[Data_Mining]

54 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

It's been nearly 9 years and I'm still waiting for the flying cars and hoverboards from Back to the Future Part 2. A Mr. Fusion would also be nice.

There you are pulling a Seth Sentry: 

 

[Millios]

4 minutes ago, joshfrog said:

I watched that movie not too long ago, you are right would be an interesting device but if you replace the CEO in the movie with any current tech CEO i think you would end up in the same place as the movie. 

Absolutely but idealistically where we had an actual human who is in touch with the rest of the world do it then i believe it would be a HUMONGOUS step towards a better humanity. it would need some tuning in the biological side of things cause the hardest to understand system in the world is our body but im all for giving humans who lost their lives to smt like paraplegia their bodies back

[Thaldor]

Replicator from Star Trek. Even the original replicator that could just resequence proteins to change one food into another would be enough but I think the later Deep Space Nine "magic replicators" were a bit too much Star Wars-level lazy writing tools (not to bash Star Wars but that's just how I have always felt about it).

[venomtail]

2 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

A teleporter from Star Trek would be a nice thing to have. Just get to/from work in an instant (or anywhere else for that matter). Or a holodeck.

 

Slightly more realistic, a Level 5 self-driving car would already be a cool thing to have.

Teleporters kinda freak me out.

 

There's no way to transfer mass, however we can copy and recreate whatever we need, so in a world where everyone teleports around, in actuality the person wanting to teleport somewhere would be killed on the spot, their consciousness stop and on the other end a new person, exact same version would be remade with the thought just prior to killing the last person and they'd do about their day as if nothing happened.

[Millios]

13 minutes ago, venomtail said:

Teleporters kinda freak me out.

 

There's no way to transfer mass, however we can copy and recreate whatever we need, so in a world where everyone teleports around, in actuality the person wanting to teleport somewhere would be killed on the spot, their consciousness stop and on the other end a new person, exact same version would be remade with the thought just prior to killing the last person and they'd do about their day as if nothing happened.

depends on the type. A quantum teleport would deconstruct you and reconstruct you which is what you refer to and the general "zapped and transported" cartoony tp way. There is also the wormhole concept which in theory is much safer cause it basically shortens distance by bending space. To make it more clear cause its a bit obscure think of it like this. Take a piece of paper and draw to spots or any type of marks, bend said paper till the spots overlap and drive a needle or pencil through them to make a hole aka a path from one of then to the other. TL DR yes some concepts are scary while others are to say the least extremely weird but safe

[venomtail]

9 minutes ago, Millios said:

depends on the type. A quantum teleport would deconstruct you and reconstruct you which is what you refer to and the general "zapped and transported" cartoony tp way. There is also the wormhole concept which in theory is much safer cause it basically shortens distance by bending space. To make it more clear cause its a bit obscure think of it like this. Take a piece of paper and draw to spots or any type of marks, bend said paper till the spots overlap and drive a needle or pencil through them to make a hole aka a path from one of then to the other. TL DR yes some concepts are scary while others are to say the least extremely weird but safe

Wormhole teleportation is the only one that would preserve your consciousness in my mind, "deconstruction and reconstruction" is just a polite way of saying something is killed/destroyed in a systematic process, still the subject is being killed.

 

10 minutes ago, Millios said:

A quantum teleport would deconstruct you and reconstruct you

And that's what I'm saying. If you were to be the first trial for teleportation, the people watching you test a teleporter would see you go in on one end and come out the other, everything's fine and well, omg it worked, whilst for you as the person, in that "deconstruction" phase your personal existence would just cease to exist, just nothingness and a clone of you would get made on the other end, whilst you don't get to continue that live of the clone that comes out alive on the other end.

[Sauron]

3 hours ago, 8tg said:

Like the most advanced they could imagine society would be the same as it is now but with self driving cars?

it's almost like you weren't supposed to think it was a good society... also it was supposed to closely resemble ours, something from the future but not that far from today.

[ChrisLoudon]

For me, it would have to be Star Trek's replicators. As a Physics graduate, I do tend to stick with stuff that doesn't break any fundamental laws and I think the replicator is doable.

 

Obviously warp drive and transporters would be the top picks but you'd need to wrestle with relativity and maybe even some moral issues for them to work. 

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

I want Halo's forerunner second skin:

• runs a personal ancilla, a super advanced AGI. Serves as secretary, counselor, coach, aid and more
• medical interface makes lifespan unlimited, monitors health and eliminate diseases and illnesses, removes need for sleep
• augment physical capabilities like a power armor
• suited for underwater, atmospheric and space flight

Think of it as the iron man suit, but super advanced

[Erioch]

7 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

It's been nearly 9 years and I'm still waiting for the flying cars and hoverboards from Back to the Future Part 2. A Mr. Fusion would also be nice.

Most people can't handle driving (or self driving) in two dimensions.  We're nowhere near ready for a 3rd.

[Millios]

5 hours ago, venomtail said:

Wormhole teleportation is the only one that would preserve your consciousness in my mind, "deconstruction and reconstruction" is just a polite way of saying something is killed/destroyed in a systematic process, still the subject is being killed.

 

And that's what I'm saying. If you were to be the first trial for teleportation, the people watching you test a teleporter would see you go in on one end and come out the other, everything's fine and well, omg it worked, whilst for you as the person, in that "deconstruction" phase your personal existence would just cease to exist, just nothingness and a clone of you would get made on the other end, whilst you don't get to continue that live of the clone that comes out alive on the other end.

That is a bit deeper of a debate but for the sake of it lets say when you get reconstructed you are alive. Then the debate is "Are you yourself or are you the sum of your part?" If you believe its teh individual that makes a person then you didnt die if you believe physical existence is what makes you alive then you are dead and reborn in a sense so it falls to what you believe in that regard. Imma throw in however that ppl have been declared "dead" or have been wiht 0 vital signs and came back, not quite the same but you get the main gist of it

[Millios]

2 minutes ago, Erioch said:

Most people can't handle driving (or self driving) in two dimensions.  We're nowhere near ready for a 3rd.

As someone who has been been hit by a car, almost hit many times, almost got kidnapped by motorcyclists and has been in a car crash you are right. Unless we put it location and it flies itself i think we will see a lot of debri from broken flying cars

[Thaldor]

On 6/5/2024 at 10:39 AM, venomtail said:

Teleporters kinda freak me out.

 

There's no way to transfer mass, however we can copy and recreate whatever we need, so in a world where everyone teleports around, in actuality the person wanting to teleport somewhere would be killed on the spot, their consciousness stop and on the other end a new person, exact same version would be remade with the thought just prior to killing the last person and they'd do about their day as if nothing happened.

You want to freak out about teleporters?

 

Consider this little thing called momentum. Like yes, the actual moving of the consciousness is scary, but that's kind of in the world of "if it comes to that, we can compromise". Momentum on the other hand, it's not that big thing on the Earth, like you would teleport from US to Japan, no big deal, all matter has pretty much the same universal momentum and what is still kind of stays still. Want to teleport into ISS? Now that's when momentum becomes really scary. ISS travels about 8 km/s, you don't move at all compared to ISS, without your material being accelerated in some part of the transfer, you won't make it unless you wanted to become jelly because your material will smash into something at the 8km/s (or more like the something will impact you because you aren't moving at the 8km/s as everything else is). Well, that's a bit short math because you are moving compared to the ISS with speed around 460 m/s, the same speed as Earth rotates, next step will be teleporting to Mars (or other planet in the solar system) for that math I can give you that Earth orbits Sun around 25 km/s and Mars around 30 km/s and Mars has maximum rotation speed of 241 m/s. Different solar system within Milkyway will be our Sun's orbital speed (230 km/s) compared to that star systems stars orbital speed. It gets into a very large numbers very quickly, especially when you need to take into account the directions which is just nightmare, like we have spotted galaxies/stars that move faster than light compared to Earth (not that they break the speed of light, it's just that we (spectators) move very fast to the opposite direction as that thing and so the velocity at which we move away from each other is faster than the speed of light, like you know, two cars collide head on and both move at 40 km/h so the collision velocity is 80 km/h).

 

Time travel falls to same pit but it gets really complicated really fast because position. Everything moves, even if you don't move the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun, which orbits the center of the Milkyway, which orbits center of local cluster... Like good luck starting to calculate your beds exact location in the Universe 1 hour ago and you probably still want to calculate that velocity also so there isn't some small 1-2 km/s (speed of sound is just 0.34 km/s, so you know 1 km/s wrong and you won't get to enjoy the whatever time you travelled) difference somewhere in the realms of galactic clusters and all that.

 

And yes, you could always go to the center of the Universe which basicly is motionless because everything else orbits it. The problem still is that you orbit it on a watery rock and it has taken some serious steroids.

 

In sci-fi all of this is meaningless, it's a press of a button and you go beam. In reality, I would say it takes enough calculations that you should probably schedule that teleportation week-month before hand so some supercomputer can calculate the needed changes in your materias momentum and the exact coordinates.

[DeerDK]

On 6/5/2024 at 6:46 AM, joshfrog said:

Hi All 

 

Was watching Black Mirror (while it was still good) the other day and it just made me wonder what sci-fi tech from a movie or TV show would you love to have today and be able to use?

 

I always love watching an old movie that's set in the future and see what they think the future at the time of filming would be like.

Its even more crazy when a movie was made in the 80's set in our current times and see just how close or far they where.

 

I would love those microwaves or ovens that can cook a full meal from just 1 box i think the jetsons had that type of technology.

 

Let us know you'r thinking.

Thanks

Do you remember those little mapping drones they use to map out the cave system in Prometheus? We are pretty close to have something like that, although the ones ive seen so far have pretty shitty geolocation which means that the mapping stretches and warps in unpredictable patterns. Its not far away though.

 

 

 

On 6/5/2024 at 9:39 AM, venomtail said:

Teleporters kinda freak me out.

 

There's no way to transfer mass, however we can copy and recreate whatever we need, so in a world where everyone teleports around, in actuality the person wanting to teleport somewhere would be killed on the spot, their consciousness stop and on the other end a new person, exact same version would be remade with the thought just prior to killing the last person and they'd do about their day as if nothing happened.

Yeah, thats the same thought i have. Really scary part is also that absolutly noone will ever be able to determine whether its the case. The person who arrives in the other end will be the same person for all intents and purposes, and to the outside nothing is different.

 

Cyberpunk 2077 did give an answer to the transfer vs copy of concienceness question in their setting, as the game continues from the players perspective and doesn't end in a black screen. Still scary stuff though

[Hyroshi]

On 6/4/2024 at 11:15 PM, Eigenvektor said:

A teleporter from Star Trek would be a nice thing to have. Just get to/from work in an instant (or anywhere else for that matter). Or a holodeck.

 

Slightly more realistic, a Level 5 self-driving car would already be a cool thing to have.

Ooooh yeah, the transporters are so cool! Also from Star Trek, I would love to see Tricorders for data collection and medical use, and with that, Hyposprays. I get so many shots so that would be nice haha.  The universal translator would also be so cool!