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What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The fiction part would kind of keep me from doing that. And I fully believe that everything that actually is possible is already being worked on as quickly as possible.

So, maybe just pay for a whole lot of renewable energy plants all around the globe. Buy up all fossil fuel plants, demolish them and put in renewables instead.

Or fund a fully open smartphone with modular components like a PC with good specs and an optional keyboard.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I fully believe that everything that actually is possible is already being worked on as quickly as possible.

That’s either very optimistic about our level of knowledge about the universe, or a purely semantic thing where you count the precursor technology of another technology that would eventually be the major breakthrough as “already being worked on”…

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I know. I'd start up a Dyson swarm to beam sunlight directly to my power plants. That should be possible.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Space based receivers right? Because otherwise that can go badly pretty quickly

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 8 months ago

Well, for space based receivers we'd have to figure out wireless power transfer.

Now I'm reminded of the microwave plants in Sim City 2000. And now I want to play Sim City 2000.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

For the phone, I'd like to point you to Fairphone. I'm not sure specs are the best, and I don't know about keyboard modules but other than that, it's pretty much there.