Decade in Review: privacy, computing everything, and torture toilets
No spoilers this week! Just looking at all the scientific discoveries of the past decade and how that has or hasn\u2019t played into the scifi we\u2019ve covered.
\n\n 1. Privacy & Cyberpunk \n\n\u2026 and the illusion thereof. Snowden and the shattering of the illusion of privacy in the digital age. The world becoming the less awesome-looking irl version of cyberpunk. Workers as a resources. Torture toilets.
\n\n 2. Machine learning \n\nThe biggest huge development in the pats decade which underlies every other things. Wowzers. Realizing the importance of the data going in, so you don\u2019t get racist policing or image recognition. The availability of open tools, compute time, and learning resources.
\n\n 3. Genetic editing \n\nCRISPR! What will eventually result from this one?
\n\n 4. Space \n\nWater on Mars! So much more water than we thought. Greater accuracy in portrayals of space settlement. Increasing private industry in space.
\n\n 5. Physics \n\nHey, an update on Einstein: still correct! Also\u2026 Gravity waves! Higgs-Boson! Imaging a black hole. The contributions of computing and storage technologies.
\n\n 39. Human history \n\nConfirmation of Sapiens and Neanderthal interbreeding in remaining modern humans. Discovering more extinct human varieties.
\n\n 53. Technology \n\nWhat happened to AR glasses!? The state of wearables. Recognizing that there are senses to augment other than our visual system.
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