>>11262583>science fiction yearsI know you’re being ironic, but I still want to warn all others reading this who believe that we unironically are entering sci-fi years, and thus will see amazing things, to reel in your hype.
Unless a LOT of smaller and quite difficult research challenges are solved, this next decade will be mostly mundane. Unfortunately, industry has little reason to fund research to solve these challenges to get to the cool sci-fi shit. They are quite content to squeeze every last penny out of existing tech. They will only move to facilitate the discovery and proliferation of new stuff after they can no longer make money from what they have.
Case in point, I once worked for a mid sized pharmaceutical company that had a hell of a planned product portfolio. Leadership only produced like 10% of this portfolio, despite the unproduced stuff being guaranteed gold mines, because they wanted to get everything out of a few existing products and trickle advanced stuff out over many many years.
So yeah the next decade is unlikely to be very different from this decade.
