i feel like it depends: is this a party you want to be at or not?

if it’s a party you don’t want to be at you’ll probably be pretending

also: if you feel like this on basically a daily basis… yeah you probably have autism, welcome to the club.

i love the assumption that everyone in the entire world eats the exact same brand of dinosaur nuggets, made in the same factory

frankly i feel that most social species should be able to create a pidgin even if they have basically nothing else in common.

like… if we can communicate basic things with bears and deer, i think the idea that we somehow wouldn’t be able to communicate at all with aliens is a bit wack

trek has had at least one place where people actively reject modernity because they simply don’t like it, so there’s that.

i think the expanse is the best portrayal of the future i’ve seen in terms of this, things generally look like they do now except everything’s walkable and public transport is utterly bog standard, and they casually use holograms for shop signs.

just like how we’re basically the same as in the past, except walking around with technology in our pockets that was idle speculation 100 years ago and would be considered magic 1000 years ago

missed opportunity for the cast to get to have fun, too

hallowed are the ori

computer TURN OFF THAT NOISE

for all their post-scarcity they ran out of entropy bits in the 2200’s and now they have strict rationing

“COMPUTER, TURN OFF THAT NOISE” is obligatory, i feel

been eating meat my whole life and vegan nuggets are impossible to tell apart, and vegan ground meat is sufficiently close that you wouldn’t notice being served it in a sauce instead of real meat.

except we have vegan meats made from various vegetable proteins that are basically equivalent at this point, and they most certainly don’t have the same proteins as meat.

well presumably if there’s some specific compound in meat that makes us smell, that could simply not be replicated

oh that’s just the daily sour milk skincare routine

shittiest inertial dampeners in the galaxy

oh i assumed you’d transport it right out of the bowels, harry potter style.

new headcanon: klingons actually have extremely prim and proper toilet habits, to pee standing or leave without washing your hands is immediately punishable by dishonorable death. They WILL NOT do number 2 without confirmed access to a bidet.

pretty sure you can, would be strange if transporters can’t handle gases…

provided we had replicators, yeah

they absolutely have movie nights on the bridge

I don’t think most people would consider it web3 but there’s stuff based on IPFS and related/similar projects that for example let you chat with people without need for any sort of server (technically, you need some “server” to bootstrap yourself into the network but it’s very much a small detail and you can just store a list of peers you’ve seen and hope that they’ll be enough to bootstrap you.)

The whole “web3.0” and blockchain thing is such a damned shame because it has tainted projects like IPFS by association, and IPFS (really mostly libp2p which ipfs is built on) mostly actually lives up to the hype around decentralization, at least for networking nerds.

I think my favourite example of how libp2p/ipfs can revolutionize things so far is https://hyprspace.io, one guy was able to put together a VPN that is so much nicer to use than stuff like wireguard, you just run it on every device, configure the IP you want the devices to have, and so long as they can discover each other over some connection (switching between connections is still janky sadly) It Just Works. Yeah the average person is probably bored to tears but to me that’s… magic, that’s how networking should have been for the last 20 years!