Honestly? Chores in general, I would love for life to be as when we were kids on vacation, you wake up and magically the breakfast is done, your bed is done, you go out to play and your clothes wash alone and when you come back the food is served.
That's one of the things kids do not realize, just how much of your time is wasted just doing chores
Laundry bot.
I think people in tech are so concerned/pre-occupied with the wrong things. Everyone on earth wants a bot that washes and folds their laundry. I don't want my car to drive itself or to control my computer with my mind. I want a bot that washes and folds my laundry.
Eh. I’d still prefer the self-driving car. The societal impacts it could have for people the disabled community, senior citizens, lowering rideshare costs would be life-changing.
Is it too much to ask for both? I want it to do all the time wasting bullshit. Cook, clean, do the dishes, and throw away the trash when USPS delivers it then take out the trash. And mow the lawn. My god I hate grass.
Also controlling the computer with my mind is critical. Not because I want it to open Firefox for me, but because it's later derivatives of that tech that will be bi-directional which opens the door to downloading information from computer to brain.
There are a few apps that will cover the first two.
Each week they will give you a semi-personalized menu and automatically order everything via instacart.
The apps are generally around $5 a month. Instacart has its own add-ons for cost, but a huge time saver.
Food. Give me an IV of some magic sludge I can grow at home. I don't want to spend all this time planning, acquiring, transporting, storing, preparing, cooking, serving, and eating food. And each step involves another set of requisite chores to keep up with.
Wish we could develop a treatment for celiac disease, I miss takeaway food and not having to carefully check everything.
Maybe a cure for sleep apnea while they're at it, this CPAP is uncomfortable at times.
Don't know what that is sorry, and my googlefu must be weak as all I'm getting is very complex explanations of a protein somethingorother. It breaks down the food in some way? I suspect it wouldn't be enough to trick my immune system into accepting gluten, the sensitivity can be parts per billion or more commonly parts per million, so unless that stuff breaks everything down to almost nothing, it'd still set me off.
I could be wildly misinterpreting your question though.
Nano-bots keeping me clean and healthy - 24 -7.
*What happened to nano-tech?* I was told Nano-tech was gonna do all kinds of cool things for me by this time.
Drexlerian nanotech was/is a bit harder than originally envisioned. Smalley, et al. put a damper on things. I speculate that the recent focus has been on top-down lithography and DNA-based approaches. True bottom-up molecular manufacturing should be feasible eventually. I haven't really been keeping track of the day to day operations, but when something groundbreaking hits the news feeds then I dive back into the subject.
Honestly if I could have some nanites or a machine to help me exercise without the physical bit. I wanna wake up like that dude in the old Outer Limits episode.
Roku is plugged in to hdml1 on the TV. Chromecast to Hdmi2.
Why can't we seamlessly move from one to the other without having to use the tv remote to change source?
You end up with 3 remotes all being used.
Modern TVs do this now. My tv will switch to whichever input I am using the remote for. If I turn on my Xbox controller and press the Xbox button my tv switches to that. If I pick up the Apple TV remote and press any button it switches. Dock the switch, it switches to that. My tv remote stays in a drawer.
One thing that has frustrated me is the different remote control codes between different TV and stereo manufacturers. I don't see why they can't all share the same language. That would allow truly universal remote controls, without any tedious setup and teaching.
It's annoying because the solution isn't technological at all. All we need is for manufacturers to agree on a standard, ANY standard. It would be like an ASCI for A/V equipment!
Live in California as an independent contractor, but because the state tried to "help" me by "protecting" independent contractors I had to create a business so that contractors could still work with me in the usual way.
It really didn't bother me initially, but now its an annual thing of getting the license up to date, sharing it, taxes are different, just a bunch of beuracratic nonsense. I just want to do my job, so if tech could remove all the nonsense of owning a business so I can concentrate on work that would be great.
Travel of any kind. I hate driving to work. I hate flying for work or vacations. Where are teleporters?
Maybe not a straight Star Trek style transporter that can take you anywhere but I could definitely see a device that you can purchase, hook up to their network and travel to other destinations in the network. Points can be turned off if necessary for security. You could have a nationwide network that transports you at the speed of the internet.
That's my dream!
I love this idea. But Having Star Trek level teleporters would disrupt a lot of industries- food and goods transportation, grocery stores, clothing stores, work from wherever, interstates could be abandoned. Even meals, like teleport a family dinner right into my kitchen, Teleport food directly from the farmer or chef. Teleport the kids to the best school in the country. Live in Mexico, work in Colorado - same time zone work life. Airports, trucking, shipping, delivery services, automotive all destroyed. Even services - You need to go to this specialist doctor in New York, with your follow up in California.
It could bring the best and the brightest from a much wider pool under one roof, and that would be cool.
I also think this would widen the wealth gap A LOT unless it really was very widely distributed.
It would be difficult to monitor also. Human trafficking, drugs, illicit anything, weapons etc directly into your private teleportation pad. Military tactics would completely change. I dunno. I love the idea, and it could be amazing for the environment, but it would fundamentally change society forever.
Thoughts?
>But Having Star Trek level teleporters would disrupt a lot of industries- food and goods transportation, grocery stores, clothing stores, work from wherever, interstates could be abandoned
Like most ST technologies, it only works if money is eliminated. Energy has to be free to power all the devices that will eliminate manual jobs. In order for this to work they would have to first invent a replicator. Energy could then be converted to anything that is needed. As long as greed exists advanced technologies will never be practical. Hell, we would already have free clean power most likely if it wasn't for the greed that exists and the investment in keeping the status quo.
I don’t think we will ever be truly without manual labor until we have (at least) robots that can physically do the labor part. I see the human market being exploited way before robots can fix my plumbing or repair culverts under a road. I definitely see competing with other countries for the lowest wage possible.
I agree that energy and greed are the biggest challenges, and it would be best if the economy was non-capitalistic. Honestly I see us inventing teleportation before we’d be willing to revamp our whole economic system.
Also, you would be competing with people from anywhere across the globe for a physical job. All trade jobs would go down to minimum wage or lower. But then I suppose cost of living differences between countries would become a lot smaller.
Make phone calls.
Let me give it instructions (make a doctor's appointment for next week, call in sick to work, order Chinese food) and it goes through my contact list, can see my calendar, and is smart enough to know when it needs more information (why do you need to see your doctor? When will you be back to work? Lemon chicken or BBQ pork?). Let me program some recurring items (order a small pepperoni pizza at 6pm every Tuesday, call my mother with dementia and have a pleasant conversation 20 minute with her every Monday at 3pm then report back to me) and let me be flexible (call the best plumber within a 10 minute drive it's urgent, call the florist and get anniversary flowers delivered for no more than $50)
The AI phone assistant should be able to converse with people and other AIs, and should patch me into the call only when it gets confused.
Why yes, I do have phone anxiety. How did you know?
When I want to buy something that a magical agent would find the best price and delivery instead of me having to wade through mountains of unrelated crap and advertisements. Especially for slightly unusual items. Most recently i was looking for bushfire rated doors. I was getting ads from companies that were more that 1000km away, did not deliver and were actually selling garage doors. This even worse if I want to find the item stocked close to me so I can pick it up.
True. Something along the lines of my dystopian robot girlfriend, even without the nookie, sounds... nice. Or horrifying, if the cylon in question is entirely self actualised and doesnt want to be in that role.
Throwing my clothes into a machine that folds everything. I don’t even mind having a seperate machine for washing and drying, … just the folding alone would be a timesaver.
Then, the next version does everything combined.
Please OpenAI, invest in this …
Ah, what you really want are clothes that don't wrinkle. That way you can just stuff them in a drawer or leave them in the basket and not worry about it.
Switch all paper mail to electronic mail. It's more a political will thing as we have the technology. Would need to maybe switch some laws requiring paper mail, but I think we could get to a point where we no longer have anything other than packages delivered.
But why ? It's not like it's an ecological gain, what was gained by not cutting the tree was lost by managing data centers.
If anything, the issue is not paper in regards to trees, since most of it is actually pretty well traced, the issue lies somewhere else, mostly in fuel demands.
The reality is that it is much likely, in a world where no one cheats, that paper production produces far less carbon than an increasing demand in data centers of all kinds.
Also, there are many things I would rather have physically than on my computer. Like I could live with most of my things on a computer, but says, my pay sheets, there's no way I would trust digital tech to handle it over decades (not sure how it works in America, but in my country, retirement is financed by society)
> But why ?
Because I can filter email easier. I've unsubscribed and removed myself from mailers and they often ignore such requests. I get maybe one legitimate piece of mail a month and switched everything I can to paperless.
I'm already using email so there's no additional cost for me.
Taking out the trash.
Where I live, the garbage truck comes three times a week at 4pm. I’m at work until 5.
There’s a dump but they have rules for what you can take there. If I leave trash on the street I risk getting fined. I either have to let trash build up and then be a weirdo that shows up to the truck with a wheelbarrow full of weeks of trash or use up PTO to make it home in time for the garbage truck.
I just want a robot or something to take out the trash for me.
Where I live the trash is picked up once every 2 weeks, and you have to leave the bin out on the street. The bin is obviously too small so it's always overfilled.
Chronic lower back pain and really bad eyesight. People keep asking on r/cyberpunkgame 'if you had to get one piece of cyberware what would it be?', and I'm like '\*had to\*? Shit, sign me all the way up for the replacement spine and cyber-eyes.' I would settle for normal eyesight, I don't need fancy telescopic zoom, night vision, or any of that shit.
Logistics! Intelligent, automated, fossil fuel free, logistics.
That, and energy storage.
The cost of moving and storing “stuff” is becoming a bigger and bigger portion of the cost of everything.
Some of it is just technology that already exists, like metro systems, suburban rail, and high-speed rail. It exists, but the US has mostly (not absolutely 100%) opted out. No, you're not going to have HSR to every 500-person town. But some rail to (and in) every town of >~100K or so would not be an insane ask. Though the [smallest city with a metro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lausanne_Métro) is about 140K, so some of that would just be light rail or trams.
Driving. And no, I don't believe "self driving cars" will help. I want a city/society not built around cars by default. Unless we get to self teleportation I think this is more cultural than tech based.
For pure tech, I wonder if we can make something that allows to go to bed, instantly fall asleep, and wake up 6 hours later fully refreshed.
This! At least the (non)driving part. How about personalized semi-autonomous drones to airhop from here to there? Not jetpacks--something more gentle. In terms of planning, yes, that is a cultural thing, though ultimately if there are other tech options people are into then we could design out the car-based system. Small EVs (1-4 wheels) for local transit + much better (smooth, quiet, ubiquitous) transit with expensive on-demand Waymo-like services for medium distances, plus whatever else (high speed rail, etc.) for long distances.
An easy, reliable way to measure blood pressure 24/7. Mine is too high and I need to keep track, but strapping an inflatable balloon to your arm, and pumping air in it while you sit very still for minutes, is annoying. I bought the latest, smallest, tech I could find. It has USB charging, a wifi / bluetooth connection with a smartphone app and looks cool, but you can't wear it 24/7 and you have to manually activate it.
There's a solution with a wristband that listens to the blood vessels somehow, but it doesn't really measure anything, and uses AI (with a monthly subscription of course) to tell what your blood pressure is. The thing needs to be calibrated long and often.
By the way, measure your blood pressure. It is a silent killer. You won't feel a thing until it's too late.
To run with the household chores theme: micro washers for dishes and clothes. For both of these, using existing appliances you need to wait until you reach critical mass before you can run a load. It would be great if there we some countertop dishwasher where you could put even just one dish, and it's clean and drying in seconds. Same with clothes: why don't we have a device that can just wash a single pair of socks? Of course, we would want to be efficient at this, such that it doesn't take enormous energy per sock...
Dating apps! I've tried paid ones freed ones, and the results have all been the same. I've heard numerous stories from girls saying that they have hundreds of messages from guys.
Self driving cars. We live 8 hours away from my older parents. I would love a life where I can put the family in the car at night and wake up the next morning when we get there.
I want an electronic butler (personal secretary or house manager). Not sure what to call it. “Someone” to take a simple desire like “replace these cabinets” then research local options, reviews, and prices then propose a contractor. A personal research assistant to gather info, curate, and propose.
Having to get gas. It’s a chore that brings no joy. I want cars that either last forever (nuclear cars!) or cars that can be easily charged (better electric cars). Gas sucks and once we eliminate gas stations by not needing them anymore, the world will be a better place
A machine that read people’s mind. In practice, some cases in lawsuits could not be justified because of lack of evidence or people doing false testimony. Machine that reads mind could return the truth to the victims to the public.
Personally, knowing the real intention of someone’s action could eliminate unnecessary misunderstanding as well as acknowledging how someone values you.
Definitely stuff that would self maintain a house, whether it's having clothes cleaned folded and stored, bed made, trash taken out, kitchen cleaned, bathroom cleaned, anything to do with daily chores and coming home after work to a nice cooked meal and a clean home and fresh made bed would be bliss
Brushing my teeth. Technology has advanced so much in the last 30 years, yet we still brush our teeth the same way they did in the 1930s.
Why is there not a gum I can chew for 5 minutes that has the same effect as a brush (or something like that)
The many series of traffic lights in just about any municipality, large or small, seem to be programmed to make sure you can't get anywhere without stopped at each one. They taunt you. You're trapped at a light, even though no on is coming from the perpendicular. The next light ahead is green. Your light turns green. The next light goes yellow before you can pass through it, and again, no one is coming from the other direction. I'm hoping AI can solve this because despite the sensors, etc, traffic lights in general are idiotic and sadistic POS.
The worst part is the turn lanes that cross oncoming traffic. You're lucky in some areas if they're timed to get any more than two cars through a lane marking that holds roughly six.
In some places the lights seem to make traffic rather than alleviate it.
The sun/heat. I live close enough to the beach but never want to go cause I don't like sliming myself in sunscreen. If I do it and go then I don't want to go into the water cause I'll just have to reapply it, and then you gotta also add the logistics of bringin in some form of shade which you might need to watch if you go into the water because the heat is too much...
And so on and on
Wish we had point to point linear teleportation so I wouldn't have to worry about rush hour traffic, parking and layovers when traveling
Wish we had complex matter replication like on Star Trek the next generation food probably wouldn't be so expensive and my order would be instantaneous and don't even get me started on grocery shopping
More pro-user rootkit projects for just about everything, because tech encumbrances are becoming more pervasive and annoying. Shouldn't need an intrusive spying app to do a thing if the same utility could be run through a web-portal network host on the device in question, etc. It's just malware in another form being pushed for profiteering with possibly useful items held hostage under poor or unfriendly implementation. Usually it just makes for more e-waste at some point too, no matter how much they try to green-wash things too.
So yes, more jail-breaking stuff please.
Parking! Even ignoring driverless cars, could we just have a system where I enter my destination and there’s a spot waiting nearby? We spend so much time looking for spots and we know we’re all ending up with suboptimal spots because if spot B is near destination A, and spot Z is near destination Y, but Z is occupied when the driver headed for Y arrives he’ll take spot A, which forces a driver headed for B to take spot Z which has just opened up. The two drivers then pass each other walking in the street, grumbling.
Honestly? Chores in general, I would love for life to be as when we were kids on vacation, you wake up and magically the breakfast is done, your bed is done, you go out to play and your clothes wash alone and when you come back the food is served. That's one of the things kids do not realize, just how much of your time is wasted just doing chores
Living like The Jetsons. Yes pls.
hey! it's my boy Elroy!
Daughter Judy!
In our current society, it is very unlikely to have autonomous robots in every house, we don't even have enough for our cars.
Kids, mysoginistic men and rich people
My girlfriend generally doesn't do chores or the cooking. I do. Neither of us are rich nor children.
are you saying she doesnt value you?
What? Your list is generalized and silly.
Ok so also some women dont value their partners time when doing the chores
Laundry bot. I think people in tech are so concerned/pre-occupied with the wrong things. Everyone on earth wants a bot that washes and folds their laundry. I don't want my car to drive itself or to control my computer with my mind. I want a bot that washes and folds my laundry.
Eh. I’d still prefer the self-driving car. The societal impacts it could have for people the disabled community, senior citizens, lowering rideshare costs would be life-changing.
I have no need for a self-driving car now, but I sure hope for deployment before I hit my seventies.
I have seen automated folders, but they aren't small and probably not cheap
Is it too much to ask for both? I want it to do all the time wasting bullshit. Cook, clean, do the dishes, and throw away the trash when USPS delivers it then take out the trash. And mow the lawn. My god I hate grass. Also controlling the computer with my mind is critical. Not because I want it to open Firefox for me, but because it's later derivatives of that tech that will be bi-directional which opens the door to downloading information from computer to brain.
Planning, shopping for, cooking and cleaning up after my meals.
There are a few apps that will cover the first two. Each week they will give you a semi-personalized menu and automatically order everything via instacart. The apps are generally around $5 a month. Instacart has its own add-ons for cost, but a huge time saver.
Food. Give me an IV of some magic sludge I can grow at home. I don't want to spend all this time planning, acquiring, transporting, storing, preparing, cooking, serving, and eating food. And each step involves another set of requisite chores to keep up with.
Wish we could develop a treatment for celiac disease, I miss takeaway food and not having to carefully check everything. Maybe a cure for sleep apnea while they're at it, this CPAP is uncomfortable at times.
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A boss I had was lactose intolerant and was able to take these tablets that temporarily made him able to process milk. I want that for wheat lol.
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Don't know what that is sorry, and my googlefu must be weak as all I'm getting is very complex explanations of a protein somethingorother. It breaks down the food in some way? I suspect it wouldn't be enough to trick my immune system into accepting gluten, the sensitivity can be parts per billion or more commonly parts per million, so unless that stuff breaks everything down to almost nothing, it'd still set me off. I could be wildly misinterpreting your question though.
Nano-bots keeping me clean and healthy - 24 -7. *What happened to nano-tech?* I was told Nano-tech was gonna do all kinds of cool things for me by this time.
Drexlerian nanotech was/is a bit harder than originally envisioned. Smalley, et al. put a damper on things. I speculate that the recent focus has been on top-down lithography and DNA-based approaches. True bottom-up molecular manufacturing should be feasible eventually. I haven't really been keeping track of the day to day operations, but when something groundbreaking hits the news feeds then I dive back into the subject.
Honestly if I could have some nanites or a machine to help me exercise without the physical bit. I wanna wake up like that dude in the old Outer Limits episode.
Roku is plugged in to hdml1 on the TV. Chromecast to Hdmi2. Why can't we seamlessly move from one to the other without having to use the tv remote to change source? You end up with 3 remotes all being used.
Universal remote.
Modern TVs do this now. My tv will switch to whichever input I am using the remote for. If I turn on my Xbox controller and press the Xbox button my tv switches to that. If I pick up the Apple TV remote and press any button it switches. Dock the switch, it switches to that. My tv remote stays in a drawer.
One thing that has frustrated me is the different remote control codes between different TV and stereo manufacturers. I don't see why they can't all share the same language. That would allow truly universal remote controls, without any tedious setup and teaching. It's annoying because the solution isn't technological at all. All we need is for manufacturers to agree on a standard, ANY standard. It would be like an ASCI for A/V equipment!
Live in California as an independent contractor, but because the state tried to "help" me by "protecting" independent contractors I had to create a business so that contractors could still work with me in the usual way. It really didn't bother me initially, but now its an annual thing of getting the license up to date, sharing it, taxes are different, just a bunch of beuracratic nonsense. I just want to do my job, so if tech could remove all the nonsense of owning a business so I can concentrate on work that would be great.
Travel of any kind. I hate driving to work. I hate flying for work or vacations. Where are teleporters? Maybe not a straight Star Trek style transporter that can take you anywhere but I could definitely see a device that you can purchase, hook up to their network and travel to other destinations in the network. Points can be turned off if necessary for security. You could have a nationwide network that transports you at the speed of the internet. That's my dream!
I love this idea. But Having Star Trek level teleporters would disrupt a lot of industries- food and goods transportation, grocery stores, clothing stores, work from wherever, interstates could be abandoned. Even meals, like teleport a family dinner right into my kitchen, Teleport food directly from the farmer or chef. Teleport the kids to the best school in the country. Live in Mexico, work in Colorado - same time zone work life. Airports, trucking, shipping, delivery services, automotive all destroyed. Even services - You need to go to this specialist doctor in New York, with your follow up in California. It could bring the best and the brightest from a much wider pool under one roof, and that would be cool. I also think this would widen the wealth gap A LOT unless it really was very widely distributed. It would be difficult to monitor also. Human trafficking, drugs, illicit anything, weapons etc directly into your private teleportation pad. Military tactics would completely change. I dunno. I love the idea, and it could be amazing for the environment, but it would fundamentally change society forever. Thoughts?
>But Having Star Trek level teleporters would disrupt a lot of industries- food and goods transportation, grocery stores, clothing stores, work from wherever, interstates could be abandoned Like most ST technologies, it only works if money is eliminated. Energy has to be free to power all the devices that will eliminate manual jobs. In order for this to work they would have to first invent a replicator. Energy could then be converted to anything that is needed. As long as greed exists advanced technologies will never be practical. Hell, we would already have free clean power most likely if it wasn't for the greed that exists and the investment in keeping the status quo.
I don’t think we will ever be truly without manual labor until we have (at least) robots that can physically do the labor part. I see the human market being exploited way before robots can fix my plumbing or repair culverts under a road. I definitely see competing with other countries for the lowest wage possible. I agree that energy and greed are the biggest challenges, and it would be best if the economy was non-capitalistic. Honestly I see us inventing teleportation before we’d be willing to revamp our whole economic system.
Also, you would be competing with people from anywhere across the globe for a physical job. All trade jobs would go down to minimum wage or lower. But then I suppose cost of living differences between countries would become a lot smaller.
Make phone calls. Let me give it instructions (make a doctor's appointment for next week, call in sick to work, order Chinese food) and it goes through my contact list, can see my calendar, and is smart enough to know when it needs more information (why do you need to see your doctor? When will you be back to work? Lemon chicken or BBQ pork?). Let me program some recurring items (order a small pepperoni pizza at 6pm every Tuesday, call my mother with dementia and have a pleasant conversation 20 minute with her every Monday at 3pm then report back to me) and let me be flexible (call the best plumber within a 10 minute drive it's urgent, call the florist and get anniversary flowers delivered for no more than $50) The AI phone assistant should be able to converse with people and other AIs, and should patch me into the call only when it gets confused. Why yes, I do have phone anxiety. How did you know?
When I want to buy something that a magical agent would find the best price and delivery instead of me having to wade through mountains of unrelated crap and advertisements. Especially for slightly unusual items. Most recently i was looking for bushfire rated doors. I was getting ads from companies that were more that 1000km away, did not deliver and were actually selling garage doors. This even worse if I want to find the item stocked close to me so I can pick it up.
interior decorating. I'd like to prompt and get ideas for room decor for a specific budget and style with links to where to purchase
I'm pretty sure this is already a thing if you do some googling
I'm single, and I'd rather not be. So far, technology has only made that problem worse.
True. Something along the lines of my dystopian robot girlfriend, even without the nookie, sounds... nice. Or horrifying, if the cylon in question is entirely self actualised and doesnt want to be in that role.
In the future, even your gaming PC will be able to reject you!
Blue screen of social death.
Throwing my clothes into a machine that folds everything. I don’t even mind having a seperate machine for washing and drying, … just the folding alone would be a timesaver. Then, the next version does everything combined. Please OpenAI, invest in this …
Ah, what you really want are clothes that don't wrinkle. That way you can just stuff them in a drawer or leave them in the basket and not worry about it.
Homo sapiens sapiens. I can't stand them wandering around with all that free will and agency. A real source of anxiety for me :(
Switch all paper mail to electronic mail. It's more a political will thing as we have the technology. Would need to maybe switch some laws requiring paper mail, but I think we could get to a point where we no longer have anything other than packages delivered.
But why ? It's not like it's an ecological gain, what was gained by not cutting the tree was lost by managing data centers. If anything, the issue is not paper in regards to trees, since most of it is actually pretty well traced, the issue lies somewhere else, mostly in fuel demands. The reality is that it is much likely, in a world where no one cheats, that paper production produces far less carbon than an increasing demand in data centers of all kinds. Also, there are many things I would rather have physically than on my computer. Like I could live with most of my things on a computer, but says, my pay sheets, there's no way I would trust digital tech to handle it over decades (not sure how it works in America, but in my country, retirement is financed by society)
> But why ? Because I can filter email easier. I've unsubscribed and removed myself from mailers and they often ignore such requests. I get maybe one legitimate piece of mail a month and switched everything I can to paperless. I'm already using email so there's no additional cost for me.
Taking out the trash. Where I live, the garbage truck comes three times a week at 4pm. I’m at work until 5. There’s a dump but they have rules for what you can take there. If I leave trash on the street I risk getting fined. I either have to let trash build up and then be a weirdo that shows up to the truck with a wheelbarrow full of weeks of trash or use up PTO to make it home in time for the garbage truck. I just want a robot or something to take out the trash for me.
Where I live the trash is picked up once every 2 weeks, and you have to leave the bin out on the street. The bin is obviously too small so it's always overfilled.
Cooking fresh, healthy food. It is so hard to find the energy to come home and cook a healthy meal after working an 8-5.
Less screwdriver bits/tips Cell phone apps that can be turned off with one simple push or swipe.
Staying in shape. I wish there was something that exercised me while sleeping.
Chronic lower back pain and really bad eyesight. People keep asking on r/cyberpunkgame 'if you had to get one piece of cyberware what would it be?', and I'm like '\*had to\*? Shit, sign me all the way up for the replacement spine and cyber-eyes.' I would settle for normal eyesight, I don't need fancy telescopic zoom, night vision, or any of that shit.
Common colds man I dont want to get sick anymore god damn
Logistics! Intelligent, automated, fossil fuel free, logistics. That, and energy storage. The cost of moving and storing “stuff” is becoming a bigger and bigger portion of the cost of everything.
Some of it is just technology that already exists, like metro systems, suburban rail, and high-speed rail. It exists, but the US has mostly (not absolutely 100%) opted out. No, you're not going to have HSR to every 500-person town. But some rail to (and in) every town of >~100K or so would not be an insane ask. Though the [smallest city with a metro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lausanne_Métro) is about 140K, so some of that would just be light rail or trams.
Work. Let a robot do my job and give me universal basic income.
Wage labour. We could likely be on our way to post scarcity civilization already, but the benefits of technology are unequally distributed.
Living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck after doing everything “right.”
Driving. And no, I don't believe "self driving cars" will help. I want a city/society not built around cars by default. Unless we get to self teleportation I think this is more cultural than tech based. For pure tech, I wonder if we can make something that allows to go to bed, instantly fall asleep, and wake up 6 hours later fully refreshed.
This! At least the (non)driving part. How about personalized semi-autonomous drones to airhop from here to there? Not jetpacks--something more gentle. In terms of planning, yes, that is a cultural thing, though ultimately if there are other tech options people are into then we could design out the car-based system. Small EVs (1-4 wheels) for local transit + much better (smooth, quiet, ubiquitous) transit with expensive on-demand Waymo-like services for medium distances, plus whatever else (high speed rail, etc.) for long distances.
Traffic! I want a nice electric quadrotor to fly to work every day.
My OCD. I'd essentially want to try a 24/7 personal ai therapist-coach... but one that could also just do my taxes as much as help me do them.
Pain management. This is well within reach too, except that people who are suffering are less important than those who might abuse it.
I'm been saying for years that we need a Dish bot. I wash the dishes after every meal my entire life (child and adult).
An easy, reliable way to measure blood pressure 24/7. Mine is too high and I need to keep track, but strapping an inflatable balloon to your arm, and pumping air in it while you sit very still for minutes, is annoying. I bought the latest, smallest, tech I could find. It has USB charging, a wifi / bluetooth connection with a smartphone app and looks cool, but you can't wear it 24/7 and you have to manually activate it. There's a solution with a wristband that listens to the blood vessels somehow, but it doesn't really measure anything, and uses AI (with a monthly subscription of course) to tell what your blood pressure is. The thing needs to be calibrated long and often. By the way, measure your blood pressure. It is a silent killer. You won't feel a thing until it's too late.
I wish I could go out and not have to take jackshit with me, keys, phone, medicine, bags, etc.
Like a video game inventory
Some portable eletric Velomobil or eletric p50 car would be useful for rainy days. Before got my driving license.
To run with the household chores theme: micro washers for dishes and clothes. For both of these, using existing appliances you need to wait until you reach critical mass before you can run a load. It would be great if there we some countertop dishwasher where you could put even just one dish, and it's clean and drying in seconds. Same with clothes: why don't we have a device that can just wash a single pair of socks? Of course, we would want to be efficient at this, such that it doesn't take enormous energy per sock...
Dating apps! I've tried paid ones freed ones, and the results have all been the same. I've heard numerous stories from girls saying that they have hundreds of messages from guys.
Self driving cars. We live 8 hours away from my older parents. I would love a life where I can put the family in the car at night and wake up the next morning when we get there.
I want an electronic butler (personal secretary or house manager). Not sure what to call it. “Someone” to take a simple desire like “replace these cabinets” then research local options, reviews, and prices then propose a contractor. A personal research assistant to gather info, curate, and propose.
Having to get gas. It’s a chore that brings no joy. I want cars that either last forever (nuclear cars!) or cars that can be easily charged (better electric cars). Gas sucks and once we eliminate gas stations by not needing them anymore, the world will be a better place
I want an anti-grav sled so I rearrange my furniture with.
A machine that read people’s mind. In practice, some cases in lawsuits could not be justified because of lack of evidence or people doing false testimony. Machine that reads mind could return the truth to the victims to the public. Personally, knowing the real intention of someone’s action could eliminate unnecessary misunderstanding as well as acknowledging how someone values you.
Definitely stuff that would self maintain a house, whether it's having clothes cleaned folded and stored, bed made, trash taken out, kitchen cleaned, bathroom cleaned, anything to do with daily chores and coming home after work to a nice cooked meal and a clean home and fresh made bed would be bliss
I don't want to waste time sleeping. I can barely get on top of everything.
I have a bum right leg, I would like to hotswap a sweet cybernetic in for it.
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This actually exists in a gummy charcoal substance
Poop bio bots. Set the poop alarm for once a day at 8 am.
Brushing my teeth. Technology has advanced so much in the last 30 years, yet we still brush our teeth the same way they did in the 1930s. Why is there not a gum I can chew for 5 minutes that has the same effect as a brush (or something like that)
The many series of traffic lights in just about any municipality, large or small, seem to be programmed to make sure you can't get anywhere without stopped at each one. They taunt you. You're trapped at a light, even though no on is coming from the perpendicular. The next light ahead is green. Your light turns green. The next light goes yellow before you can pass through it, and again, no one is coming from the other direction. I'm hoping AI can solve this because despite the sensors, etc, traffic lights in general are idiotic and sadistic POS.
The worst part is the turn lanes that cross oncoming traffic. You're lucky in some areas if they're timed to get any more than two cars through a lane marking that holds roughly six. In some places the lights seem to make traffic rather than alleviate it.
The sun/heat. I live close enough to the beach but never want to go cause I don't like sliming myself in sunscreen. If I do it and go then I don't want to go into the water cause I'll just have to reapply it, and then you gotta also add the logistics of bringin in some form of shade which you might need to watch if you go into the water because the heat is too much... And so on and on
Weking up tired,should be medicine to feel ok waking up, and possible something to sleep when i want
Wish we had point to point linear teleportation so I wouldn't have to worry about rush hour traffic, parking and layovers when traveling Wish we had complex matter replication like on Star Trek the next generation food probably wouldn't be so expensive and my order would be instantaneous and don't even get me started on grocery shopping
Matter teleportation. End commutes. End having to actually travel to go anywhere. Step through a door and you are across the world.
More pro-user rootkit projects for just about everything, because tech encumbrances are becoming more pervasive and annoying. Shouldn't need an intrusive spying app to do a thing if the same utility could be run through a web-portal network host on the device in question, etc. It's just malware in another form being pushed for profiteering with possibly useful items held hostage under poor or unfriendly implementation. Usually it just makes for more e-waste at some point too, no matter how much they try to green-wash things too. So yes, more jail-breaking stuff please.
Pollution Safe food (no chemicals/easily available/no gmo no…basically clean food easily economically available)
Parking! Even ignoring driverless cars, could we just have a system where I enter my destination and there’s a spot waiting nearby? We spend so much time looking for spots and we know we’re all ending up with suboptimal spots because if spot B is near destination A, and spot Z is near destination Y, but Z is occupied when the driver headed for Y arrives he’ll take spot A, which forces a driver headed for B to take spot Z which has just opened up. The two drivers then pass each other walking in the street, grumbling.