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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah me neither. I've heard claims that automation will take away jobs from drivers in the future, but not anyone actually saying "it's undeniable that by 2025 most cars will be driving entirely by themselves". And I remember when GPS was a spy-gadget daydream you imagined having when using maps. (Actual, physical maps. Not Google/Apple Maps.)

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I heard it in the same vane that I heard that we would have a moon base by 2020 a mars base by 2025 and nuclear fusion in just 10 more years

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, the progression estimate loading bar for fusion was stuck at "estimate... 30 years" for fucking ages.

And now there are actual reactors. Experimental, but still.

"With the completion of the conceptual design phase, the project will now shift to engineering design, accelerated engineering R&D, and will proceed with site selection, site preparation, regulatory approvals, and the procurement of long-lead items, with the aim of construction after 2028," it said.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/conceptual-design-completed-for-japans-fast-fusion-demo-project

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I wrote a school report about iter back in middle school or high school when it was still in the design process and still occasionally check their job listings because I would love to work there and on fusion but we still don’t know if it will ever work like we hit the scientific breakeven with inertial confinement but the scaling on that is terrible and I don’t believe we hit even the scientific breakeven with magnetic confinement

Then we still need to harness the energy from that turn it into work, turn that into electricity and distribute it with enough excess to pay for the whole system which is still a lot of hurdles we need to climb

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