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qgin ◴[] No.45080179[source]
New research reveals horse-drawn wagon engineering gains slowing, travel at speeds beyond 12mph unlikely.
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baq ◴[] No.45081049[source]
Right, we’ll just replace ourselves with humanoid robots. Only half joking
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1. Janicc ◴[] No.45081187[source]
Not even that. I guarantee you that once really good brain computer interfaces are a thing, investments into "brain in a vat" companies are going to start being a thing. Because keeping just the brain young and then alive is almost certainly very possible if that's the whole focus.