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Null hypothesis on human futures is pretty grim: Brain uploads seem metaphysically ill-posed/not-even-wrong FTL travel, force fields, antigravity, time travel are all most likely impossible. Cryofreezing, extreme longevity (>200y), artificial wombs seem extremely unlikely
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Lots of problem-solving tech just over the horizon but very little horizon-expanding tech. Closest is robots.
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If you limited yourself to extreme realism, hard-scifi would only paint extremely limited futures. Full of problems and gritty solutions but few soaring adventures. Maybe Mars. Deep BCI symbiosis with computers at a stretch. Sublight starships at a real stretch.
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I think that sunlight starships are probably quite likely, but they’re not going to look like people think. Zero-G humans living in comet forests lit by miniature suns. You bring home with you.
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Incidentally, this is why I keep saying that all the interesting problems of the current age are long problems. Fixing the mess we’ve made here on Earth, colonizing the solar system, interstellar travel… These are all multi-generational problems
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