In-flight internet on the way back to Anchorage from Barrow is about five times faster than internet at the Tuzzy Library—the main library serving the entire North Slope of Alaska (and a wonderful place). Clearly we have the technology to do better for people, but don't.
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My answer: a world where nothing beeps, ever.
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Universal health care
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Teaching could be as desirable a profession as medicine, law, etc: https://newrepublic.com/article/82329/education-reform-finland-us …pic.twitter.com/wntOjOiPof
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Discovering from Piketty that teachers used to be in the upper 10% of income was a major
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DIY medicine, synthesized at home. Definitely the Wild West right now and can be very dangerous but it will eventually improve with better tech and personal genomic data. We’ll have a “Nespresso” for custom drugs tuned to each individual person. https://anarchistnews.org/content/meet-anarchists-making-their-own-medicine …
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streets where pedestrians and cyclists are not in mortal danger of being hit by a vehicle at all times or assaulted by car exhaust, engine noise and horns
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As I'm currently in Japan, heated toilets with bidets.
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Matriarchal society
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What if we got serious about putting small herds of spider silk goats on large warehouse & factory rooftops and covered those rooftops in deep bed, many species greenroof? With the building braced for it and penthouses on 20% of the footprint?
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...and ten meter wide elegant, decorated staircases connecting those rooftops to the surrounding streets?
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What if you BUILT most of your kitchen, the cabinets, stove, fridge, etc., in place mostly out of aerated, autoclaved concrete? With the chiller elsewhere as an integrated HVAC system and ~300 kilos of mass inside the fridge and stove?
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I've been studying aspects of this question for about 30 yrs. And I'm utterly certain that right now, today, we have the means to be living in, basically, an elvish fantasyland. But with cities w/ 50 story towers. For less than ppl are now paid at McDonald's.
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Consider, starting all the way back at the physics, how a refrigerator works. Then modern thermal materials. That many homes are frequently colder outdoors than they keep the fridge. And that the fridge is the 3rd largest energy consumer in many homes.
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Look at the price of a well-made, all aluminum, 12' x 14' gazebo @, say, Home Depot. And the price of 20' tall, 12' span, 4' deep pallet racks. Consider strawbale. Look at what *legally allowed* residential construction costs. Afaict, literally ~90% of that cost is corruption.
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technology as envisioned in G Roddenberry's Star Trek wich makes all of us more free and responsible - ends poverty brings us closer together
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All electric automated vehicles and an all renewable energy grid and production
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