30% of tech workers admit to working fewer than 4 hours per day. I have friends and family in this industry, many working in Silicon Valley. Some of them are workaholics and some barely do anything. I have heard of project managers, who seem to exclusively be very attractive young women, who barely work 2-3 hours per day but make more than a doctor.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90597677/report-one-third-of-tech-workers-admit-to-working-only-3-4-hours-a-day

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These tech companies are so flush with cash and they don't want to pay dividends to investors so they were hiring huge amounts of people. I knew people who got caught up with this and they would claim that the job is not as difficult as Starbucks but paid 5 times as much.

The work horses in tech will mostly always be employed.

Without AI we’re left with the prospect of increasing lifespan and welfare, improving medicine, human genetic engineering, colonization of the solar system and galaxy, new knowledge, and a few trillion years of starlight left before the universe goes dark.

That sounds pretty damn good to me.

I think your gloomy attitude about climate change is also misplaced. In nearly all developed countries, carbon emissions per capita are flat or falling.

Some good points

Also for someone who travels a lot (and can afford it)... this service could come handy

Personally I think it's just as important for everyone to know sci-fi concepts as real world concepts, because it's all part of a unified conceptual language we use to discuss science.

All of the points you made are potentially plausible but also possibly impossible to put into practice, so therefore should not be bannable unless you are making claims that they are possible without providing evidence of such. Certainly one can provide research that seems to indicate such may be possible in the future, that is something this sub is used for quite frequently.

So all of those items may be found to be science fiction in the future but we don't know exactly what we are capable of and what nature allows, and so we can neither confirm nor deny whether these are possible.

I think Starlink will generally have problems competing with cellulars never ending growth and speed increases. There just aren't that many people in the world that need the service AND can afford it and the demographics of people who travel globally and need starlink also seem small.

When you look at their total subscribers, the business model does not look good at all. All that work and maintenance for like 400-500k users?

I think it's actually more useful as a military tool than a consumer product because that's where you can get people to afford expensive communications in remote area they mostly overwise would not need.

Plus cellular will just keep getting better and cable and fiber will keep expanding, so the most unique use is probably military, not global roaming.

It comes down what will be defined as the meta verse?
I’m sure some aspect of it will come to fruition. But it won’t be people wearing headsets all day. But I can see why companies are starting the iteration process now. I’m order to get to a place where it could be projectable. because even the smallest of wearables won’t stay on for very long. But that maybe it will be niche and not necessarily the next cell phone but the next huge market. It might be specific but that doesn’t mean it won’t be big. You can also the separation between enterprise and consumer. They’re is a huge market for this with business and schools.

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>SpaceX's Starlink division has invited some potential users to try a "Global Roaming" service for $200 a month, saying the new plan "allows your Starlink to connect from almost anywhere on land in the world."

This has been true at every point in modern history (since the invention of the gun and the European voyages into the world began)

And yet, there are more musicians and youtubers around the world making money than music staff ever employed at a given point in time. Bullshit jobs will be cleared out and skilled jobs will replace them. If the previous waves of automation are what you base your predictions on.

I have an entirely different take: the climate crisis will create hydrology, botany and genetic engineering jobs like never before. Labour will be needed to dig the trenches to trap rainwater, construct vertical or mixed farms. Precision fermentation / lab grown meat will employ a large number of people directly and indirectly. Solar panels, wind energy installations and related jobs will multiply. That's just 3 major industries I can immediately think of.

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We have phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, consoles, smart tvs. Market is really saturated, squeezing new device in will be tough task, specially when there is no well defined an easy to understand use case.

So fuck off, then, if you're just gonna claim that it's a shallow issue not worth your time or attention then why engage in the tangent from the main point in the first place?

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No, it’s not playing itself in the future. You described a hypothetical descendant. A completely fictional character.

It’s just a language model, it’s just using a probability function to pick the next word based on its training data. It’s literally just spouting opinions it read online.

Uh… i’m not looking into it that far.. Neither is anyone else.

It boils down to common sense, not some racial hierarchy or whatever you’re trying to describe (i’ma be honest i didn’t read it)

Edit; i mean this as respectfully as possible. I’m not on reddit to read race ramblings

It really is just a problem of democracy.

With democracy, communities control how to develop communities.

At present, the state and Fedgov are run by the servants of the ultra wealthy.

-Videogames 40 years ago: Pong, Centipede, Mario; a small, niche industry

-Videogames today: 86% of the global population has immediate access to portable gaming, gaming industry is $176 billion/ bigger than Hollywood entertainment industry

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Patience people. (although Facebook owning a/the de facto VR landscape is a bit laughable)

>virtually any speculation could be rejected or accepted.

Yes, because sci-fi concepts need to be grounded in reality, this subreddit specifically focuses on evidence-based speculation. Speculation is not bad so long as you can base it on observable reality. That means there needs to be a plausible reason that it could exist in the future.

But context and the nature of the discussion is super key. For example we probably shouldn't make posts about how warp drives work in Star Trek ships because they are purely fictional, but starting a discussion about how life would be in a future where warp drives exist seems relevant to Futurology, because the focus has shifted from a non-existent technology to a social structure which can be mapped and have nuances that can be teased out with our diverse understandings of societies. It would be wrong to ban all posts that mention fictional technologies for this reason, which is why it's important for mods to have discretion as it is difficult to create rules focusing on the content of discussion around a post as the context can be more important than the content.

We may not have warp drives ever as their existence has not been confirmed by science, but there is absolutely plausibility that they can exist in some form, thus a discussion about how they can affect society is relevant to the sub.

I have seen a lot of sci-fi discussion in this sub that is not banned or blocked.

NIMBYism is just nasty but it is indeed the defining feature of the so-called middle (suburban) class. It's really hard to be sympathetic to the majority of the middle class (ie suburbanites) when they get so many government handouts via zoning laws, infrastructure support via urban sales taxes, HOA that stop anything <but> single family detached housing, public transportation to their neighborhoods, and so on.

Side note:

A post would be easier to read if you break up the sentences into paragraphs separated by new lines- as apposed of a wall of text.

Cheers.

Eh, boring. All or nothing.

It's pretty tame, honestly. Frequency and spectrums, if you care to Google it, you could literally do the same thing to yourself. Don't like feeling sad? Change your frequency.

Have you ever meditated? Privacy doesn't exist. Do what you want, and feel good about. If someone didn't want to do something, it wouldn't happen. Period. Also, camera monitoring is a pale comparison to the real world.