mRNA vaccines. You can literally code a vaccine now. That's just mind blowing to me.
Every time I think about doing something illegal or hear about people from only a few generations ago doing something fun but slightly illegal.
Then I think. There is no way you could do that now the police would use all the surveillance that is everywhere and if I got caught their wouldn't be a slap on the wrist and grow up. But it would be a serious issue for my future jobs and going to other countries.
Makes me think I'm in a futuristic movie. Just not one of the happy ending ones.
I'm holding a small device in my hand that gives me access to all of humanity's knowledge.
Granted, I'm using it to dick around on Lemmy, but..
To be fair there's plenty of knowledge on Lemmy as of today... And porn, lots of porn.
The technology behind it isn't new, but The Thought Emporium is a Youtuber who:
1: DIY-d a genetically modified virus to cure his own lactose intolerance (successfully)
2: Is currently working on a biological computer that runs on animal neurons.
3: Has livestreams where the viewers submit ideas (like making tomatoes spicy) and he designs DNA to accomplish it.
Also he helped shut down a scam health product that contained radioactive material which isn't particularly futuristic (actually it reminds me of the "radiation is good for you" craze in the early 20th century) but I wanted to mention it anyways.
I listened to Mr. Krabs sing Billie Jean.
Meme technology is about to get SciFi.
Being trans always was such a cyberpunk concept to me. When I was a kid was like "people can change their gender? Cool"
We can say that... it was a sign lol.
Every time I hear about World Coin scanning people's retina's for $50, driver monitoring tech inside new cars, or Amazon asking people to pay for things with palm prints I feel a bit like I'm living in the Minority Report. Does that count?
What, you don't appreciate the beauty of an anti-homeless bench? /s
Funny story, I live in a place where people turn up their noses at the slightly smaller crossovers for identity reasons, and there's a noticeable trend towards driving scooters with an aftermarket envelope because "normal cars" are just too big.
Driverless cars, VR and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we're living in the movie Total Recall.
and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we’re living in the movie Total Recall.
Wow, I hadn't heard about that. I've wondered for a while if astronauts could use VR to "escape" a cramped spacecraft.
Turns out we can express most of proteins, some of the time, and then isolate them. This includes enzymes, when isolated these can do things like they naturally do but now in flask, but also they do things that aren't remotely natural but are useful for us. These things are pretty fragile usually so then some of these can be modified so that they are resistant to higher temperatures, detergents etc. This is not only the nerdy shit like advanced chemical synthesis - lots of dishwasher tablets and and washing powders contain enzymes that cut proteins into pieces (like subtilisin), so in some cosmic sense dishwasher digests your leftover food off plates
Enzymes are still proteins, and have all problems of proteins. Turns out, you can just take the most important part out of enzyme, make it, or something functionally similar out of completely synthetic parts, and it still works. Sure, it's not as active or selective, most of the time, but it's resistant to things that would absolutely shred proteins. This is called organocatalysis and it was subject of 2021 Nobel Prize
Sometimes you want to take an enzyme and make it not work. We also have a tool for that: first you have to get structure of that enzyme, or some receptor protein, and by looking how a small set of random molecules lodges in it you can make a very selective, very potent ligand, sculpting it atom by atom with no knowledge other than protein structure. If you have time and resources, this can be made to work for almost any protein (that can be crystallised)
Data compression. Something about "making less data out of ... The same data" is really mind blowing, & the math is sick
Everything going on in biology, but the existence of of Nana and Lulu especially. The first genetically altered humans are starting school pretty soon.
The DNS it's so mind blowing to think about how we are able to map so many domains to so many ip adresses so smart and stable
And that the service replies practically instantly every time no matter which domain you choose.
Edit: wtf is with these downvotes? DNS is without a doubt the fastest part of accessing the internet. In website load time, it's an almost unnoticable fraction of the total load time.
AI generated images/voices and deepfakes. I really am worried about it becoming difficult to figure out what is real on the internet in the next 10 years.
I walk into my house and start dictating to a speaker sphere what lights to turn on, what to set the thermostat to, and to turn on the tv. And she answers. Just like in sci fi movies.
Oh yeah, I forgot that that used to be a sci-fi thing, but it definitely was when I was a kid.
It's all fun and games until she creates herself a Life-Model Decoy and traps you inside the house in order to "protect" you.
