The next 10 or 20 years

The future is weird and exciting

Yesterday was an exciting news day, to say the least.

First, we had David Grusch, a highly credentialed former intelligence official and UAP whistleblower, testifying under oath at a House subcommittee meeting. Grusch and two other former military pilots, Commander David Fravor and Ryan Graves, dropped bombshell after bombshell. For 2.5 and hours, they covered everything from secret government reverse engineering UAP programs, UAP sightings, and the claim that 'nonhuman biologics' have been recovered from UFO crash sites.

As if that wasn't enough, a lab in Korea announced the first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. A breakthrough that, if true and able to be reproduced, would change the world completely.

Though far from confirmed, all of this should remind us how amazing reality is/can be and how much we've yet to figure out. I'm feeling hopeful for the future. It's starting to feel like we're not that far off from the sci-fi technologies we've seen in our favorite movies (hoverboards!), but even more importantly, hopefully, an accessible world with an abundance of resources and a lot less suffering.

Here's what else I'm pretty excited about right now that's likely coming in the next 10-20 years:

1. Fusion energy. Helion is one company working on this, and it seems like we might see some of their work in the wild before the end of the decade if all goes well.
2. Breakthroughs in life longevity. The work David Sinclair is doing seems promising and likely to have human trials starting soon.
3. Artificial General Intelligence.
4. AR/VR. Looking forward to playing with Apple's headset.
5. Quantum computing.

Of course, the future is unpredictable, so who knows what will happen. But for now, I'm feeling optimistic about the future of humanity, and that's enough for me after the weird couple of years we've had.