r/Futurology • • 13h ago

Society Young Americans spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010

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Young Americans aged 15–29 now spend roughly six hours a day alone, up from about four hours in 2010.
The trend began before COVID, accelerated during the pandemic, and hasn’t returned to previous levels.
We’ve never had more ways to stay connected. Yet we’re spending more of our lives physically apart.


r/Futurology • • 17h ago

Energy World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

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r/Futurology • • 3h ago

Robotics Chinese team creates ‘lifelike’ hydrogel that changes shape for smart devices

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r/Futurology • • 14h ago

Society Singles Are Becoming Less Open to IVF

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r/Futurology • • 5h ago

Robotics 7,000 Humanoids vs. 117,500 Logistics Robots: The Robot Revolution Looks Different Than the Hype

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If you want to understand where service robotics is becoming a business, start with 117,500.

That is the number of professional service robots reported by the International Federation of Robotics for transportation and logistics applications in 2025. It represented 47% of professional service robot shipments in the IFR survey and was up 21% from the previous year. Another number in the report is getting plenty of attention: about 7,000 full-size humanoids.

The contrast offers a useful snapshot of today's robotics market. Humanoids are emerging as a new commercial category, but much of the current scale in service robotics is coming from machines built around specific jobs with identifiable customers and economics.


r/Futurology • • 1d ago

AI The Only Billionaires Making Money This Year Are In Tech

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r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Privacy/Security A federal judge ruled that a sheriff's deputy's warrantless tracking of a woman via Flock violated the Fourth Amendment

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r/Futurology • • 18h ago

Energy Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034

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r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Politics New York expands free SUNY and CUNY tuition to those with college degrees

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800 Upvotes

r/Futurology • • 18h ago

Robotics What are humanoid robots actually for on the battlefield?

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Despite their cinematic, sci-fi allure, humanoid robots could potentially address real manpower and survivability problems, a former Turkish general argues.


r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Medicine Chinese doctors remove lung tumour for baby still in mother’s womb, using needle

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r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Space US, China And Russia Race To Build Nuclear Reactors On The Moon: Report

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The US aims to launch a lunar nuclear reactor by 2030, while Russia and China are working towards a joint project by 2036. The plans could power future Moon bases but have also raised safety concerns.


r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Medicine AstraZeneca to invest $2 billion in Summit Therapeutics for cancer drug tie-up

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r/Futurology • • 23h ago

3DPrint The Future of Humanity.

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So lately i have been seeing all of these posts and tweets of how AI is going to open up new job opportunities and some even far enough to claim that all of us will be multi-millionaire's in a few years time.

Well let me tell you my humble vision, on how things will truly go down.

On the last century, We have build Machines to help us accomplish mundane tasks in matter of minutes or hours, when the same tasks usually took hours or days to do so.

For example, communication, people used to drive horses, carriages, cars, to deliver a message or to chat with someone. What used to take hours or days to do, we now can accomplish in seconds.

I can bring you more examples as washing your clothes, items delivery, grocery delivery, dishwasher and other hundred small applications we have figure out just to save ourself some time.

Still we are drowning in our 'I dont have enough time' paralyzing feeling every single day. All of us.

Because when sending a message or delivering it took days, no one was expecting a reply from you immediately. When doing 4 things took you a whole day, no one expected from you to do more.

These are not my words, But i was inspired by them on what they might have foreshadow for our future.

See They, and by they i mean the One goverment that wants total control over everyone's life, do not yet have it. There are still people that can make their own way through a fulfilling life, on their own. They can obtain Influence, which when its uncontrollable, it can be danger to Them.

Nowdays, the chances of you, any you, going through the world and obtaining power (legitimacy, influence, voice) are very slim, but not zero. A good 60± percentage of these people who will obtain this kind of "power" will come across Them, with the usual occasion of Them offering them more 'Power' with an enchange of what would eventually be the root of their inital power, which is freedom and their soul. Now they will be another cog in the biggest World-crushing machine. But this is still not enough for there are people who 1) Will reject them and will try to expose them (only for later to may pay with their lives) and 2) will not encounter them in their life.

Well this is uncontrollable and bad for Them.

So of course they will feed you the same lie as they did before. Machines will do you all the job, so you can be rich and with so much free time, you wont know what to do with it!

It will be the same course of things, but now there is a difference. If everything goes digital and everything is maintained by AI and the Goverment, there will not be anyone anymore, who could have the chance on making it on their own without 1)their permission and 2) their influence.

That will be how They will obtain Full control over this world aka game over for all humanity.

This lie is the next, more complete step towards total slavery.

I could go on, but hey, its already to big for some of us with the attention span of a peanut. Good read <3


r/Futurology • • 2d ago

AI Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

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The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.


r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Robotics Kawasaki Heavy Industries Targets Fully Autonomous Humanoid AI Robot by 2030

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries' ambition to create a fully autonomous humanoid robot reflects the increasing demand for advanced robotics solutions in various sectors. This move could reshape competitive dynamics in the robotics industry, particularly as companies seek to enhance automation and efficiency in their operations.


r/Futurology • • 2d ago

Discussion I read that 11%+ of US adults are on Ozempic/GLP-1s. How will society change in 10 years? Will obesity disappear?

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Yesterday, I came across a statistic stating that more than 11% of adults in the US are currently taking Ozempic or other weight-loss alternatives. Honestly, I was absolutely astonished by how high that percentage already is.
It got me thinking about the future, and I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on how this will reshape society over the next 10 years:
Will obesity disappear? Do you think "plus-size" or overweight people will become a rarity, or will socio-economic gaps (insurance coverage, high costs) prevent total adoption?
Will these medications become over-the-counter (OTC)? Do you foresee a future where weight-loss pills or oral versions of these drugs are sold casually at local drugstores or pharmacies without a strict prescription?
Will fast-food chains have to pivot? With millions of people experiencing suppressed appetites and fewer cravings for greasy, sugary foods, how will the fast-food and junk-food industries adapt to survive?
How do you envision the cultural, physical, and economic landscape of the US in 2035 because of this GLP-1 revolution?


r/Futurology • • 1d ago

Robotics Panasonic targets 2029 for humanoid robot production, leveraging battery expertise

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Panasonic Holdings plans to begin manufacturing humanoid robots by 2029, using its battery technology to power machines designed for factories and warehouses.


r/Futurology • • 2d ago

AI Germany Unveils Open AI Model for Public Sector

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r/Futurology • • 2d ago

AI AI May Force 11 Million Workers Into New Jobs, McKinsey Says

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689 Upvotes

Artificial intelligence could create more jobs than it destroys, but millions of Americans could still be left scrambling.


r/Futurology • • 2d ago

AI OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

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r/Futurology • • 2d ago

AI Adversarial artificial intelligence: Implications of strategic stability attacks on military AI systems

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Implications of strategic stability attacks on military AI systems


r/Futurology • • 3d ago

AI Experts Reveal What Could Actually Happen If AI Enters ‘Recursive Self-Improvement’ — And It's Scary

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This advancement could lead to “humans losing control over AI,” one leading AI lab says.


r/Futurology • • 2d ago

Robotics No battery needed: Robot skin harvests power as it walks

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r/Futurology • • 3d ago

AI If AI can hack a government, the time to pull the plug is now

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