What are you hoping to see happen in the future?

To see my enemies crushed. To see them driven before me. And to see more hybrid and electric vehicles on the road.

I want to see less vehicles on roads.
- More walkability / bikability and public transit would be great!
- Well, you could always close your eyes
We also would have accepted the lamentations of their women.
Genghis, we've talked about this before: you can't snap arrows and push EV's at the same time -- there needs to be a transition period.

That we're able to dodge the incoming wave of fascism and peacefully skim board into progressive politics.

The US Government will remove their heads from their asses and work on fixing things before it's too late.

Ideally by regulating the shit out of corporations, and dismantling fraudulent 501(c)(3)s like the Heritage Foundation.
- Just having better options for the next presidential election would be a step in the right direction.
There are entrenched entities heavily invested, literally and figuratively, in aligning the government with their interests, and against the interests of the majority. Their primary methods are propagandizing the gullible to vote for the representatives they have invested in, and fomenting apathy in those they cannot propagandize.
The solution is two-fold: supporting candidates aligned with your interests throughout their career from local elections up to more powerful ones, and voting in every election for the front-runner who is less detrimental to those interests.
If you think the current government has their heads in their asses, it's a good bet that this two-fold solution takes the form of voting for progressives in local elections and greater primaries, and showing up to vote for whichever of the front-runner candidates is comparatively more progressive.
Voting for a candidate that is progressive but vastly unlikely to win is counterproductive. Not voting because none of the likely candidates is sufficiently progressive is counterproductive.
If everyone understood this, and showed up to vote, within a few election cycles we'd have a government composed of un-assed heads.

Everyone moving to open protocols and companies like Reddit, Twitter, Meta going bankrupt

This was literally in the post under this one: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lithium-metal-battery-with-over-500-Wh-kg-developed.862073.0.html
I just want reliable long-term storage. Even if it's a trickle of power coming out, I want it to be reliable and large, so that I can just throw energy at it when I don't need it and can rely on it when I do.

The people in power actually taking climate change seriously, and not just in a tragedy of the commons type of way. I mean actually working together to slow it down or reverse it.

Proof for extraterrestrial life. It doesn’t have to be aliens in spaceships or even a transmission. I would be fine with microscopic organisms on Ganymede or Europa.

As long as it's not on Phoebe...
- If this is a reference, I do not understand it. Sorry.
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Universal basic income. Everywhere.

I hope to see my own financial stability in the future. I hope things change for the better and there are lots and lots of job openings for people, no more recessions.

At this point, every day above ground is a good day.

Yeah but someone's gotta mine that coal

For my life to have worth.

I don’t know you or your situation, stranger, but it can happen as soon as you’re ready.
- I'm ready but I've also been waiting.
About three fiddy.
- At least I'm higher than the gas prices then.
Samesies

If we could harness fusion power in the near future that would be neat.

I'm here to make a flippant sarcastic comment about us already having fusion, and that all we need is enough solar panels to capture it. I thank you for your time, and yes I will go eff myself.
- Thank you for acknowledging that comment is inappropriate for a hope thread, regardless of how correct it may be.

The Star Trek timeline, I just want a holodeck, but they just keep hawking this VR/AR crap :(

If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it
One must walk before they can run. Probably. I dunno the future.
It's gonna be locked down. Everyone wants a holodeck, but imagine there are so many rules and regs on what you can and can't do in one that it's not even worth it?
Imagine playing GTA, but:
you can't hijack a train full of people
buildings don't take any damage when you fly helicopters into them
people's limbs don't detach when you sever them
you can't make idle small talk with random NPCs without it escalating into violence
Would that be a GTA you would actually play?

a easy and stress free retirement

Finally winning the lottery!!

Just remember: 99% of gamblers quit just before they win big!
Required reading: www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_won_a_656_million_dollar_lottery_what_do/chba4bf

Star Trek, minus the teleporters.

Maybe just teleporters that don't work with living tissue.
If anyone ever invents a synthesizer somehow capitalism will fina way to ruin it. It would be lovely to live in a post scarcity society though

Trump die

Edit: Oh shi-

A decline in my cynicism that is caused by factual occurrences in reality.

Industrial use of oil and coal goes poof

Not dying in a food riot.

Ending world hunger and finding a cure for cancer and other currently uncurable diseases.

Elon Musk has an interview and just...explodes.

Liberty and justice for all.

And soft lavatory paper.

Transition from toilet paper to the Three Seashells.

- Yeah, so when the world finally burn, the fire would spread faster 🤞😁

I hope I have a heart attack in my late 40s or early 50s so I don't have to experience much of the future.

Loud engines aren't a technological or engineering problem; they're a self-esteem problem. Universal healthcare that includes mental health support and a strong working class economy will go a long way towards addressing those with low self-esteem, but they'll never go away entirely.
That first wish is coming true with EV <3
I wish I could buy an electric motorcycle already, but they're soo overpriced. Anyway, I expect them to become available at affordable prices within 10 years.

Quantum computing becoming practical for ordinary people.

well IBM does have cloud accessible quantum computers that they don't charge to use
I used those to teach myself some stuff about quantum information science
- Link?

An asteroid

The American Government dying

Do you have a license for that edge?
Maybe start with the death of the two-party system?
in sha' allah

Competent, honest leadership everywhere.

Oblivion. The one prediction I'm confident will happen.

Dude that came out like 15 years ago
- You... I've seen you... you are the one from my dreams
- ES sucks.

Vert skating in the Olympics

AGI singularity would be cool

Less people.

It could become true soon (by the end of the century).
https://www.livescience.com/worlds-population-could-plummet-to-six-billion-by-the-end-of-the-century-new-study-suggests
- Looking forward to it

the ability to scan one's brain to unlock all the memories that i hope are still stored in there, uses would be things like knowing exactly how many times you've sneezed, how many sandwinches you've eaten, how many total minutes spent hiccuping, and you take the information and compare your stats with friends

That would be horrible. Law entforcement would have a field day (not with the fart statistics tho). Our brain is the last frontier of privacy.
Here's the thing. You are all trillion of your features, but you are mostly an informative subset of maybe a million. You drop a verse of shakespeare from your memory and you'd essentially be the same person.
Your memories don't encode every single thing that has happened to you, they encode blurry snapshots of fast-decaying events and flatten them over time depending on importance, filling in the blanks with other parts of your mind (made with other blurry decaying events).
If you thought AI was bad at hallucinating events, be glad you cannot ask your brain direct questions

Human extinction. Thankfully, climate change exists, and will very likely be the end of us if we don't blow ourselves up sooner.

Human's have done some impressive things. We're unravelling the mysteries of the universe and building some amazing tech. Yes, a powerful few of us have done some horrific things, to ourselves and to the creatures we share our home with, but I don't think it was all for nothing if that's what you're getting at.
Okay, you first /s

The deaths of certain people.

Bitcoin reach 200k