My money says it’s not, the video didn’t look like anything other than a poor magnet.
Everyone wants to hope they’re living in the time of the next revolution, and I hope we are as much as anyone else, but it’s not going to be “toss these 4 elements into an oven and cook”. Super conductivity is going to be an extremely precisely engineered substance.
If cheaply manufactured low production cost room temperature super conductors are ever available our world will look like that within a decade. Unfortunately we are probably going to cook our planet before we get within 15 years of the above discovery
I mean, even if LK-99 turns out to be legit but insanely expensive to manufacture, that’s a starting point for research on how to make it easier to manufacture.
Data storage used to be incredibly bulky and expensive. Now you can buy a chip the size of your fingernail holding hundreds of gigabytes of data for a couple ten dollars.
If they’d said I’d was insanely expensive, or time consuming, out used really specific isotopes of the elements they’re using, I’d be much much more inclined to believe them.
The specificity that room temperature conductivity they’re claiming to have achieved (an entirely new variety of super conductivity) by having certain atoms in certain orientation to allow for quantum tunneling, doesn’t just come out of an oven after a few days of cook time, the atoms would need to be aligned, and all of the same isotope, at the masses they supposedly demonstrated the odds of it all occurring are beyond atomically small.
They wrote what was a guarantee to capture the attention of the media, cheap, extremely efficient, and very safe/easy to produce. When/if room temperature super conductivity comes it isn’t fitting into all 3 of those things.
Everyone wants to hope they’re living in the time of the next revolution,
Eh, we already live in the age of silicon chips, good enough for me.
Technology has advanced more in my lifetime than in the prior thousand years, we are very much in the middle of the greatest revolution in tech ever.
The fact people are often so jaded about it amazes me.
Yeaah and there are so many tech products that have only become a reality in the last 20 or so years. Robot vacuums, consumer 3D printers, LED lights, batteries that actually hold a useful enough amount of power for high power devices which actually even our phones are. Crazy that my phone is ridiculous amounts faster than the first computer I used, yet it lasts a full day on single charge. People take all of this and more for granted.
I dunno they made Graphene with Scotch tape
Remember the world isn’t a balanced computer game. There are OP tools sometimes.
My bet is 6 months.
Less than 6 months after confirmation, someone will announce a weapon based on the technology.
A superconducting railgun would be nasty
If it turns out to be real, we’ll learn they’d completed a weapon 6 months before the “discovery.”
Oh I’m sure corporations will find some way to make tons of money at everyone else’s expense. So far the future is a dystopian capitalist hell that nobody capable of affecting change is motivated to actually do so.
Think of how much longer we can make devices last!
Now think about how the manufacturers will also never let that happen.
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Too bad the overwhelming majority of people just can’t be bothered. If, for instance, everyone all at once decided to stop using or paying for Comcast and refused to do so, then Comcast would fold pretty quickly and there’d be literally nothing they could do about it. They might sell it all to a collections agency, but that would be the end of it all.
But since boycotts are nearly impossible to impose successfully unless you can convince a critical mass to give up whatever inconvenience the boycott is for. Not to mention contrarians and anyone who disagrees with the reason for said boycott, who may even double down out of spite or principle. But by and large, most people just don’t care.
That said, must of what’s left on Reddit are niche communities, bots, and the kind of people who also keep Facebook up and running. Lemmy, meanwhile, has a marginally higher bar for entry - the requirement of doing more than 5 minutes of research - it seems so far to weed out most of the idiots who ruined the Internet anyway.
Seriously, remember what it was like in the 90s and 00s? So much less stupid and corporate greed clogging up the place.
This is why I sign union-drive support sheets. You can also support unions by buying their merch to raise awareness and contribute to worker funds. I now have four styles of tshirts:
- Solid or blended plain tshirt
- Band or artist design
- Podcasts that I like
- Unions that I support
No corporate logos on my person other than my jeans, and you aren’t getting close enough to see or read that. And my socks, under my shoes, because they’re super cushiony.
What
I want a more efficient future, not a more bloated, subscription based future. the picture above is very unappealing.
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Yeah smart everything is a Trojan horse, amazes me to see dumb people who understand nothing about tech and the importance of privacy subscribe to smart gadgets, smart homes inside smart cities commuting using computers on wheels
Unappealing? For just $1 an hour you, too, can make it more appealing.
Well, at least the flying cars maybe check out this time.
Placing my bets on it being a mistake or flatout lies.
But hoping for real and reproducible
It’s crazy how in the past 5 years my faith in not only American government, but pretty much all of humanity has gone to nearly zero.
It’s like that “oh really” Willy Wonka meme.
Not all humans, but most of humanity yeah
I keep hoping we’ll get off this planet and seed others so people can stop bickering and shooting over land lines on the same rock, but it’s getting harder and harder to find people willing to work for the greater good (not that one) and move forward as a species.
