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- scarabin0
in a few years self-driving vehicles will gain traction and the trucking/transport industry will be one of its biggest casualties.
hundreds of thousands of middle-aged, overweight men with no other skills will suddenly find themselves fucked
- I though of that but i think they will be operators to monitor the truck computers dont malfunction. prob they will be able to double loads, 10 yrs full auto?yurimon
- half the amount working? increase in tech maintenance, tech people?yurimon
- if you have a self-driving truck the ability to monitor it remotely isn't much of a stretchscarabin
- though i do think it will take some time for people to accept them as safe, perhaps even an entire generationscarabin
- yeah techs and mechanics will be finescarabin
- they are only dangerous if they go on the streets of today, isn't it more likely that they build separate transportways and operate the thing more like a trainArchitectofFate
- prob the the hov lanes will eventually be turned over?yurimon
- If 1000 of them went out and actively shot at (to disable) drive-less trucks, logistic companies would have to hire a load of cheap security officers. Which mPeter
- ,,,which means lots of more jobs for middle-aged, overweight men with no other skills.Peter
- _niko0
hate to say this but Obama will have an attempt on his life this term :(
- *knock knock ;)monospaced
- I bet it's pretzel related. Those bastards in the pretzel business are always gunning for presidents!spot13
- agree with this. a jfk moment. some right wing loony.ebertzjaw
- You have evil thoughts.bainbridge
- Nairn0
Some languages, over others, will be found to be able to speak more capably with early gAI if and when it starts to come about.
Which languages?
*rolls dice
- *some human languages, I mean.
not fucking Python.Nairn - I'm betting on Basque.
Those wily mountain/ocean bastards,
playing the long-game.Nairn - Ancient Etruscans be like all fuck y'all, when's my turn again?Nairn
- My thesis is - earlier human languages will be better inter-mediums for communication with gAI. There, I said it. Strike me down as a hippy.Nairn
- Whats gAIdrgs
- Gynecological.Nairn
- small g.
ever so small g.
tiny, but intense.Nairn - er.. g-spot.
fuck.
tiny intense g-spot.
not tiny gynecologicals.
Oh jesus, wtf have i said?Nairn - We, the basques, always play the looong game, you know;)
We are few, but we are rudeOBBTKN
- *some human languages, I mean.
- drgs2
Lustrations in Russia 1 month from now: removal of all civil servants who worked or publicly supported Putin
- autoflavour1
who needs predictions.. https://www.weforum.org/great-re…
its all in motion already.
Vacination passports will morph into Global ID.. cash will be replaced with digital currency, global police state..
this whole massive An0m raid will be the catalyst.. "look at what we can do if you let go of privacy" argument.
sleepwalking into corporate fascism .
its going to be super lame.. lots of people will die
like lots.- a version of this is inevitable. but I dont believe governments (and humans in general) are anywhere smart enough to orchestrate a world wide conspiracy.inteliboy
- plus you have tech, energy and transport companies that can sell privacy and anonymity for profit. money, oddly enough, may keep Govs in check.inteliboy
- don't need any of those industries.. IMF, WEF, WHO.. Federal reserve..
all in syncautoflavour
- Nairn0
The James Webb Telescope will come to a bad end, before it finds use.
- This, and successful Starship launches will encourage a new era of many more, simpler and cheaper satellites and space-based observatories.Nairn
- Is use a planet? How far is use? What galaxy in use in?GuyFawkes
- That'd be 'Use', and you know that we don't speak of Her, and Her subtle Influence over Earth and its inhabitants.Nairn
- why do you say that?utopian
- It's been a gut-feeling for a couple of years now. Seems a bit "all your eggs in one basket". Nothing more than that.Nairn
- CyBrainX3
Sly will live forever.
- utopian0
At least one of them, if not both will die this year.
- Queen Bitch will hold on until Charles dies first, just purely out of spite so he can't be regent.face_melter
- Huh, never seen Keith Richards in tie & blazer********
- Satan looks great!Bennn
- NBQ002
Trump will die of Covid in the coming months.
- utopian0
Face Mask Pop-up Fashion Shows
- not practicing social distancing. would not bangsarahfailin
- ...also I'm a little bit frightened.sarahfailin
- yeah, like what if they have really bad teeth under theregrafician
- no.sted
- i urge everybody to avoid making this a trend.sted
- utopian0
The US Government will sue China over the Wuhan Virus.
- https://www.qbn.com/…
They can try I suppose but they knew it was coming.PhanLo - Which court presides over this type of case again?********
- This is such bullshit. Should the rest of the world sue the USA for causing the last 2 recessions?zarkonite
- https://www.qbn.com/…
- kingsteven2
Some big ol' guesses to pass the time:
Testing will confirm that Covid-19 patients are no longer infectious in the decline phase... The virus is currently still detected for up to several weeks by tests but will be found to have been rendered inactive by antibodies. More accurate testing will be developed that will allow patients to be released from ICU/ isolation earlier.
Estimates on the timing and original location of the first transferal from animal to human are skewed because the virus had mutated back on itself in loops resembling earlier strains meaning it was spreading in Europe undetected in early December.
Viral testing will be required for all outbreaks of influenza-like illnesses in Schools, Hospitals, Care homes.
Serology testing will confirm antibody profiles which greatly increase the chance of serious illness/death (ie. if you've developed antibodies for certain viruses in the past you will be at far bigger risk of dying from lower respiratory issues/ cytokine storm when your immune system attempts to fight Covid-19)
This will develop in to serology tests being introduced for combinations of antibodies... combined with other tests for general immune maturity this will be the 3rd type of testing rolled out (after Covid-19 detection and Covid-19 antibody detection) to identify further at-risk patients who haven't yet had the disease. This will cause many people to isolate until a vaccine is available and we'll forget they exist except for occasional articles "How some are coping 1 year in to SARS-Cov2 isolation." ... They may be the only people to ever receive the vaccine.
Headlines like "a cold you had years ago may kill you yet" and further popularity of tests like the above will create a boom in 'immune fingerprinting' (i thought i just invented that term but its a thing) people will pay to send swabs to private testing companies to find out their infection risk and get an 'Ancestry DNA' style profile of diseases they have had (and may have not even realised) and sign up to alerts that notify them of their risk to new viruses. This may even end up as a credit-rating style service for immune defence.
Studies will show that mass chronic stress, lack of sleep and malnutrition caused by social distancing and isolation measures contributed to the ease of spread of the virus by lowering the immune response of the populous and in some individual cases made the difference between mild and severe symptoms.
