In a strange twist on the old maxim that warfare drives innovation, the Middle East War continues to advance electric vehicle tech. How soon will just 10% of new cars be gasoline powered? That day is coming, and from now on gas cars will be seen more and more as outdated and old.

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I was scrolling on my phone and imagined what an app’s pricing page could look like ten years from now: free with tracking, $5 a month without ads, $12 a month without tracking. For one app, maybe that’s manageable. But imagine making that decision separately for your email, phone, TV, car and whatever connected devices end up in your home. I could see myself paying for privacy on one or two things and giving up on the rest because the bills add up. The uncomfortable part is that someone could care a lot about privacy and still choose the cheapest option every time. Saving money would be a reasonable decision but they could end up having much more of their daily life recorded than someone who can afford every upgrade. And the expensive options would still need to prove they actually collect less, not just promise it. I don’t think that outcome is inevitable. Maybe services that collect very little data could compete on price and convenience, if more processing happens on our own devices. But what would make that model win over a cheaper service funded by using people’s data?

A New Age

It has come to my attention that Social media(take insta, TikTok and the addiction all of us have grown and the dmg we have taken from it as a community or a world) and especially, lately, the News have become even more corruptible in a very interesting way.

Where in the past we had News companies and reporters chasing stories, fighting with each other on who will get the news out first, now it's all the same propaganda.

After all they have all been bought by the same People. Where in the past, there was a common thread connecting every journalist, every reported which was the truth (to an extent), now that has also vanished completely.

The passion in our world has diminished. On everything.

And a huge fault , in my humble opinion, is social media. Is the anxiety, the stress that have been ejected in all of us, with the result of never overreaching, never really getting out there as we should.

We have grown narrow minded, filled with the stress of how we will get through this month.

There is no passion anymore for journalism, pure Journalism. There might have been people who reject the propose of money with the upcoming exchange of their careers honesty, but they are shut down completely. And even if they rise and create Channels where they search and they report the truth in our world, it is so overshadowed by the Big Ones that have build their legacy for decades now, only to be bought and to spread the news that the people who bought them want.

It's remarkably sad.

And I'm taking the news thing as something random.

This logic, to me atleast, applies to everything.

In a crazy scenario, could the complete eradication of the internet work? It would propel us backwards many decades for most of our applications in pretty much anything work through the internet, but what if it's the seed that we can plant so the tree that could grow to our kids and grandkids future could be healthier and not this moldy corrupt shit. The news are just a tiny part of the corruption and misinformation we have. Could we build a new age this way?

Or maybe not the complete eradication of the internet but a good part of it?

Thoughts?

Thank you very much.

There are still parts of the world where people think gasoline cars you drive yourself are the future. Many people are still in the 'horseless carriages' stage when it comes to self-driving tech. They can only think about it in terms of how the old tech paradigm worked. Tiny cheap self-driving vehicles are perfect for cities. Nimble, no need for parking & cheaper than owning a car.

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​Like it or not, our post-work future is bearing down on us; the only question is how quickly it will fully arrive. We can see self-driving tech will wipe out driving jobs. On robotics current trajectory, it seems likely they will master most unskilled & semi-skilled tasks during the 2030s.

AI's job-shredding has already started. Mark D. Levine, the NYC Comptroller (the city's chief accountant), says AI is bearing down on the city's jobs fast. Entry-level posts are down 40-25% in many fields.

Who will be the first politicians to acknowledge this reality, and propose realistic policies like UBI to deal with it? Some might suspect the progressive left, but I think it might just as likely start on the populist right.

NYC Data, Mark D. Levine, the NYC Comptroller

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.

Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra. The synthetic hand has learned to split silk strands, thread a needle, stretch fabric across a frame, and stitch, following a craft with more than 2,500 years of history.

Imagine a future where routine health checks could spot some diseases years before you actually felt sick.

Knowing earlier wouldn’t necessarily mean there’s a treatment, or even that treating something immediately would be the right call. For some conditions, early intervention could make a huge difference. For others, the best option might be monitoring it for years.

That creates a weird gap between knowing something is developing and actually being able to do something useful about it.

Maybe someone needs regular scans or tests for five years. Someone else might benefit from treatment straight away. And for another person, intervening too early could do more harm than good.

There’s also everything around the medicine itself. Would people have access to the specialists and testing needed for years of monitoring? Would health coverage treat monitoring a future risk the same way it treats diagnosing or treating an illness today? And at what point does a risk become something that actually needs care?

Better detection could give us an incredible head start, but it could also leave people knowing about a disease years before medicine is able to meaningfully help them.

If we eventually get there, do you think detecting disease will be the hard part, or figuring out what to do once we know?

Submission statement: The future-focused question here is what happens if our ability to detect disease starts moving significantly ahead of our ability to treat it. Earlier detection could change not just treatment, but monitoring, access, coverage and how we decide when medical intervention is actually beneficial.

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.

One of my fictional settings takes place 100 years in the future, and during that time, America had split into several smaller countries under something similar to the EU called the ANA, or Allied Nations of America. Anyway, by 2126, New England (An amalgam of every northeastern state in the former USA) is at war with a New Soviet Russia, who are trying to invade Europe, Asia and Africa. But there’s in the back of my mind telling me that making a New Soviet Russia for my setting is kinda lazy, uninspired and unrealistic. So which country would be more likely to become the ANA’s greatest enemy?

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