The thing with fossil fuels is - they are pretty great. Easy to handle, not very dangerous - extremely energy dense. 1 liter of Diesel contains 50x the energy of LiPo batteries.

Even though electric motors are over 90% efficent (and combustion engines only 30% or so) - this massive advantage of energy density will prohibit larger electric planes or ships for many years.

I think that social media as we understand it today is going to disappear. Curating on a personal or system wide level is going to be made impossible by the massive amount of new material that will generated daily.

There will be social media like sites that give the appearance of what we are comfortable with right now, but those sites will be closed systems meant to provide a place with a suitable and predictable set of protections (or lack of).

Kinda wish there was a What's App, Signal or other service based on phone number registration.

I'd consider being more social if your phone number must be in my actual contacts list with the ability to join groups of interest to broaden your network.

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have far too much noise to make them useful as an actual social media platform for me.

I think people have collectively given up on data security. Like, we joke about it, especially with the "My FBI agent" memes. We have all these terms and conditions that we don't read, and they may have a line or two that says "we can do whatever we want with your data if you agree."

There's this book I read about a future where private corporations ruled over governments. The divide was more on what employees of said corporations can have and do vs the perks of the other corporations. It was a big loyalty game.

We might have that soon, what with how we worship brands and the way they validate us socially.

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I'd add to this list Space Elevators. We have the geostationary orbit satellites, just increase their mass somewhat, and we can hook up a cable to visit the stars

Fertilizer, yes ('though limited, as the natural river delta and drained peat bogs that make up the bulk of our nation tend to be fertile ground). Pesticides not so much.

Fertilizer production (from livestock industries), use and the nitrate emissions it causes are a major source of controversy in our nation at the moment.

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When it comes to the future of anything about people, we can always look to China.

In China, we have the social credit points system. We meme it, but it may coming to us all in the next decade, but it would be more on "since you use [app], you can avail of [benefits]."

The metric of how good the perks are will rely on how valuable your account is + how much money you generate the app.

Those likes, shares, reacts, follows will be part of how they compute your social media value. The clout chasing will now be even greater than ever, because it's literally affecting your quality of life.

We'll have stores where "only those with 1 million+ followers are allowed" or VIP access that restrict entrance to those with a certain "social media level."

We might even push it further and have "Team [app1]" vs "Team [app2]" kinds of social discrimination.

That's catastrophic thinking though. You are predicting something that you will make come true and the key word is you. I can't make promises for everyone but you already set your fate by your thinking. You need to be responsible for your future wherever possible. Your belief is what will ultimately hold you back or set you free.

However it appears that the electrification of cars was always going to be the start of the electrification of everything else so this will drive the electrification infrastructure forward and battery technology forward that will allow the kinds of innovations that will lead to being able to offset a lot of that carbon would be released by heavy shipping and airliners.

I didn't know things were much better on the infrastructure front in Europe. I was always appreciative to Ellen musk for giving away the supercharger adapter patent because it did go on way to standardizing a type of socket or at least allowing for the compatibility of several different types so that there's not this walled garden so to speak and that's what we need because right now you could fuel up your car and any gas station well that should be essentially the same situation when it comes to the electrification of cars and it could have very well went the other way where you got Apple with the lightning cable and there was the juggling of USB standards for a while with the other phones.

Not gonna happen any time soon. Commercially viable supersonic, let alone hypersonic flight is a huge endeavor in itself, that probably won't be solved any time soon and plenty of companies have failed. If anything planes have been getting slower for better fuel efficiency.

And hydrogen airplanes is another massive topic in itself that even industry giants as Airbus are having trouble tackling.

Now, combining both problems into one is just insane.

Cars are very small percentage of the carbon released into the atmosphere One round trip of a container ship releases as much carbon in the atmosphere as all the cars in the United States for an entire year

> It doesn’t ‘need’ to be stored at high pressure at all.

Just to circle back to the original topic, in airplanes it does. Otherwise you won't have very much of it.

Plus there's a lot of inefficiency in generating, transporting and storing hydrogen.

Have you tried being a writer? You really like to make shit up out of nothing.

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It is my understanding that Bing Chat uses a customized version of gpt 4. It has obvious limitations but even it is scarily useful. I have it give me examples of how to use different APIs frequently and more often than not it is correct and more concise than anything I find with traditional searching.

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Not the same as full GPT 4 and doesn't mitigate the concern of gating access to such a revolutionary technology but at least it is something for anyone out there who may be feeling left behind.

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Hydrogen is a rocket propellant...

Perhaps rich top 1% humans, somehow doubt we'll ever reach the utopian Star Trek level of unity given we can't even share food and medicine with all the people on the planet today.

Let's not even mention the "you must respect the rules we impose, but we don't have to cause we have money" approach the wef has on basically anything

You believed the “news” aka corporate PR?

I'm the embodiment of what will happen.

Some will have access to it and will be able to adapt somehow. Others won't and, basically, will die. Like me.

Finally, there will be those, who control the access. Guess what they will have.