Hacker News with Generative AI: Future

The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future (the-analog-thing.org)
THE ANALOG THING (THAT) is a high-quality, low-cost, open-source, and not-for-profit cutting-edge analog computer.

Analog Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Technology, Future

108 points by cgeier 2 days ago | 31 comments

Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) [video] (youtube.com)

Self-Driving Cars, Urban Planning, Technology, Transportation, Future

42 points by mbs159 11 days ago | 50 comments

How to Build the Future: Sam Altman [video] (youtube.com)

Future, Technology, Sam Altman, Video

8 points by tosh 11 days ago | 0 comments

Earth Could Be Alien to Humans by 2500 (2021) (scientificamerican.com)
Unless greenhouse gas emissions drop significantly, warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, Iowa tropical and India too hot to live in

Climate Change, Earth, Future, Environment, Human Impact

28 points by benchmarkist 11 days ago | 25 comments

After the Election, California Will Keep Moving the World Forward No Matter What (wired.com)
The state has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s talking about. Even if Trump wins, it will remain a golden, global example.

Politics, California, Technology, Innovation, Future

12 points by Buuntu 20 days ago | 1 comments

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) (mindstalk.net)
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Future, Singularity

82 points by RyanShook 24 days ago | 178 comments

Writes and Write-Nots (paulgraham.com)
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.

Writing, Technology, Predictions, Future

194 points by baxtr 25 days ago | 153 comments

Peak population may be coming sooner than we think (ft.com)
Peak population may be coming sooner than we think

Demographics, Population Growth, Predictions, Social Trends, Future

17 points by johntfella 27 days ago | 21 comments

Quit Social Media (2016) (calnewport.com)
I recently gave a deliberatively provocative TEDx talk titled “quit social media” (see the video above). The theme of the event was “visions of the future.” I said my vision of the future was one in which many fewer people use social media.

Social Media, Technology, Future, Productivity

218 points by skadamat 28 days ago | 260 comments

Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years (arstechnica.com)
Like nuclear fusion, the idea of space-based solar power has always seemed like a futuristic technology with an actual deployment into communities ever remaining a couple of decades away.

Space Exploration, Renewable Energy, Technology, Future

16 points by thunderbong 31 days ago | 58 comments

Google's AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction (independent.co.uk)
Renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted that artificial intelligence will herald a new era of hybrid humans capable of ageing in reverse within the next five years.

Artificial Intelligence, Singularity, Future, Technology, Ray Kurzweil

10 points by wslh 31 days ago | 16 comments

Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better (darioamodei.com)
I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI. The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic, does a lot of research on how to reduce these risks. Because of this, people sometimes draw the conclusion that I’m a pessimist or “doomer” who thinks AI will be mostly bad or dangerous. I don’t think that at all.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Ethics, Future, Society

157 points by jasondavies 41 days ago | 129 comments

10-Year Narratives (splits.org)
Jeff Bezos famously said it’s more important to know what will not change over the next ten years, versus what will.

Business, Technology, Future, Predictions, Forecasting

7 points by exolymph 44 days ago | 0 comments

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003) (marshallbrain.com)
Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17.

Robotics, Future, Technology, Society

33 points by thesuperbigfrog 48 days ago | 25 comments

Yoshua Bengio: Humanity faces a 'catastrophic' future if we don't regulate AI (livescience.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Regulation, Future, Society

20 points by hdvr 50 days ago | 18 comments

The Intelligence Age (samaltman.com)
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

Artificial Intelligence, Future, Technology, Progress

343 points by firloop 59 days ago | 425 comments

Is this the civilization we want? (2017) (dynamicland.org)
Is this the civilization we really want?

Society, Technology, Future, Civilization

64 points by mpweiher 60 days ago | 68 comments

Transcript for Yann LeCun: AGI and the Future of AI – Lex Fridman Podcast (lexfridman.com)
I see the danger of this concentration of power through proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else. What works against this is people who think that for reasons of security, we should keep AI systems under lock and key because it’s too dangerous to put it in the hands of everybody. That would lead to a very bad future in which all of our information diet is controlled by a small number of companies who proprietary systems.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Podcasts, Technology, Future

4 points by mdp2021 62 days ago | 1 comments

Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? (stephenfry.substack.com)
Thank you all so much.

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Future, Society

201 points by lordleft 66 days ago | 174 comments

Musk says humans can be on Mars in four years. Many laugh, but some see purpose (theguardian.com)
Almost buried beneath a recent avalanche of rightwing invective posted by Elon Musk on the platform he owns, X, was one eye-popping statement that made space watchers sit up and take notice: an assertion that humans could land on Mars within four years and be living there in a self-sustaining city in 20.

Space Exploration, Elon Musk, Mars, Technology, Future

7 points by rntn 67 days ago | 9 comments

Asking the wrong questions (2017) (ben-evans.com)
This isn't an uncommon observation - plenty of people have pointed out that vintage scifi is full of rocketships but all the pilots are men. 1950s scifi shows 1950s society, but with robots. Meanwhile, the interstellar liners have paper tickets, that you queue up to buy. With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things. (And, of course, we now have neither [trolleys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZJex2qjPU) nor personal gliders.)

Science Fiction, Technology, Predictions, Future, Society

203 points by adamc 77 days ago | 134 comments

Is AI Killing Itself–and the Internet? (forbes.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Technology, Future

5 points by ngetchell 78 days ago | 2 comments

Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future (blogspot.com)
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my _actual_ present.)

Programming, Future, Technology

4 points by zdw 78 days ago | 0 comments

Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future (blogspot.com)

Programming, Technology, Future, Spreadsheet Software

51 points by ingve 78 days ago | 13 comments

What Will We Do with Our Free Power? (nytimes.com)

Technology, Future, Energy

10 points by jalev 80 days ago | 1 comments

The EV evolution is going to take longer than we thought (theverge.com)

Electric Vehicles, Technology, Future, Predictions

44 points by rntn 81 days ago | 90 comments

Neo – Futuristic Matrix Messenger (mszpro.com)