[samatman]

There are only three timeframes for tech forecasts:

- one year (someone is building this)

- five years (no one knows how to solve this problem but a lot of people are working on it and y'know, eventually you get lucky)

- ten years (this isn't forbidden by the laws of physics but it's bloody impossible as far as anyone knows)

[Animats]

It's more that robotics can now mooch off the AI boom. All that money going into adtech and surveillance produces technology that can be used to solve practical problems.

[hospadar]

> All that money going into adtech and surveillance produces technology that can be used to solve practical problems.

Problems like "how do we build better automated surveillance robots? it's so inconvenient to have to actually have a human remotely piloting the kill-bots"

[transitionnel]

Yes please. Just gotta make a convincing case, and ideally make sure all the folks "losing jobs" have a good pivot.

Which is the other, equally shiny part of the coin.

Elder care, anyone? They're as cool as you and me (+30yrs) :)

[buildsjets]

I'll still be waiting another 10 years for my flying car, but at least CostCo has robots that can automatically wash your hiney hole on sale for just $300 this week.

[bende511]

- twenty years (this is forbidden by the laws of physics)

[lukan]

https://xkcd.com/678/