Submitted by nousomuchoesto t3_11cnho9 in Futurology
aminy23 t1_ja8xlyp wrote
At the end of the day, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Though politically incorrect - I'm optimistic about climate change and I feel we're going in the right direction.
We're having breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, and small nuclear reactors.
We're decarbonizing with cleaner sources of electricity and using electricity instead of fossil fuels.
The cost of carbon capture technology is decreasing with time.
AI is becoming more advanced to the point that it's not just able to design art - it's able to aid development. It's possible AI itself could soon accelerate engineering for all of the above.
I think we will have a future where we will have to at least briefly rely on genetic engineering to restore ecosystems. Plants naturally take carbon from the air, and use it to grow.
If a plant is engineered for example that could grow in a barren ecological wasteland - it could capture carbon and clean the air, while the roots could also help break down toxins in the earth.
We're discovering bacteria that can decompose some plastics. Maybe a genetic boost could let this bacteria destroy ocean plastic.
AI will eventually be strong enough to analyze genomes and figure out how to bow to patch up weaknesses.
Economies are a complex subject. In my opinion we're in a pre-recession period.
During the pandemic - companies jacked up the pricing of everything. For a while their profits grew.
Eventually things can become so expensive, people don't want to buy it anymore. Now all of a sudden these companies have extra product they can't sell it, and they have to drop the price to get rid of it.
This leads to lower profits and shrinkage/receding. This is starting to happen now with technology. AMD's Ryzen 7000 and Nvidia's RTX 40 were very expensive at launch.
As a result both products had very few sales and this was a punch in the gut to both companies and they had to slash their prices. Now AMD is cutting manufacturing as they know it won't be profitable.
Both companies will be forced to make cheaper products which people will actually buy.
Ultimately the recession is a good thing. The prices went crazy high for things from computer parts to cars to houses.
When the recession happens the prices will fall which means all of these will become more affordable.
This benefits people like you and me while it will hurt the people who tried to exploit by jacking up the prices.
Ultimately it's a big correction.
The way I see it - the rich and big corporations have a lot of power and influence. I grew up with gangster rap and independent West Coast rap. Today record labels are big corporations that dictate everything about music.
Technology dictated modern music. Albums could not be longer than a vinyl record, cassette tape, or CD. Ideally you'd have at least a few songs on one.
There's a reason why we have 3 hour concerts, but not 3 hour songs.
Find art is often something that serves the rich and wealthy.
It's also possible AI could make it easier for regular humans to express ourselves musically or artistically.
You might have a beautiful idea in your mind, but you don't know how to draw it. AI might help bring that vision into art you can share with the world.
Of course many people will disagree with my, but they have a right to. Everyone gets to form their own opinions, these are just mine.
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