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>The failure is one of government. Trillions spent on the War on Poverty with little to show for it.

What we really need to do is bioengineer people to be about 10 inch tall while retaining the same or much better mental capacity (through neural lace/ brain running on super computer phones or whatever-preferrably self sovereign and free from nasty spyware or whatever ha). This would solve the housing crisis, make space travel much easier, and make feeding the population vastly easier. Right now it takes 1/5 acre of soybean for a person for a year. Imagine if it took only a couple of plants to do so.

Farm in your own tiny house via exoskeleton/ hydroponics and thats enough food, you basically dont have to work, and there would be enough extra land for people to techno—minecraft the countryside and get to other planets on cellphone rocket sized space ships.

Discuss.

[taneq]

Why bother with bioengineering once we have neural lace level tech? Just go pure virtual and you can have as big a castle as you want on a square inch of silicon.

[stupidcomments]

A good point - maybe if there were proper measures - once you are fully on the silicon, you've really given up a ton of freedom. How do you get out of the silicon unless you have someone outside to help you? There would have to be safeguards. Like, what if your 'friend' outside the silicon decides he's not going to let you out unless you be worship him for all eternity or, (insert other ethical or not, but definitely human rights-wise degrading act), whatever. It might be that to avoid turning everyone into robot zombies, everyone would need to keep at least a toe in the real, with a way to get out for good, even if, the real is dangerous at 10 inches tall, because a wandering squirrel might bowl you over or whatever.

[lend000]

Seems like it would be difficult to scale down our brain and retain intelligence.

[stupidcomments]

Surely a cell phone of 100 years from now (or maybe sooner, who knows) could be as smart as a human. Now add some arms and legs, and make the main energy source be bio-food (I guess a cell phone uses about 30k joules, whereas a full-size human uses about 2000kcals ~ 2,000*4184 j daily, so f'ing powerful, of course locomotion will use more, but hopefully even out). Make a decent character creation so people can look like whatever they want.

We need to teach our cell phones to eat food is the first step. That will make for exceptionally long lasting batteries, and save the trouble of having to find your charger, which can be annoying, as we all know.

[stupidcomments]

It amazes me that people arent excited to think up and implement crazy ideas and everyone is so war/money/competition focused, we need to get excited about making the world a better place again rather than going stagnant, which seems to be the theme whenever I read things here.