Eternal youth may be possible. Which age would you stay at forever?| Michio Kaku - General

From what I've seen, there comes an age where people don't mind the prospect of death anymore They've lived a life, experienced what there was to experience in their lives, and the world is now so different from what they knew they don't feel at home anymore and can't adapt to it anymore

I think that varies from person to person. I remember talking about something life and death related with my grandfather and my grandmother ended up hushing on us because it gave her anxiety. Both of my grandparents seem to be afraid of it because they bring up the topic of death almost every time I'm hanging out with them.

In other news, assassination attempts on your local neighborhood dictator increase 10 fold.

Uh, smartphones are actually a great example of my point. They're a fucking marvel of engineering and miniaturization and began life as extremely expensive. Now they're cheap enough that everybody can have one.

Meanwhile Android

Curing cancer would lead to so many political and cultural issues. Best to just leave it alone and let people die. People could die otherwise.

i feel like that's also a result of not having your youthfulness. do you think they would want to go if they were as sharp as they were at 25? it's a hard question.

The iPhone? Phones in general are cheap, plentiful and common. That isn’t a strong argument against economy of scale guy

That's actually incorrect, adjusting for inflation, the official iPhone is approx. 600 dollars. The price has only increased in subsquent versions with the same notorius build quality. In fact tech prices have been reversing in costs across the board to the same general trend of food since 2015.

-_- Think about digital computing on a timescale of more than just ten years. A few decades ago, computers were only for super-rich research institutions. Then they became mainframes, tools for businesses and the military. When the technology improved, it began to be sold to the public. Now we have high-performance computing in the hand of nearly everybody in the entire developed world, in a package so simple an idiot could use it. And they do. Technologies start out in the hands of the elite. They almost never remain there.

I don’t know what the answer is but historically being an actor willing to stick your hand into the market to control it leads to worse results all around in every aspect I’m not comfortable with many of the limited markets weve created but I almost guarantee that careless regulatory practices lead to where we are now. Our history is is littered with failed attempts to control the market that ended up hurting the people it was intended to help.

That's the exact opposite of it the direction personal computers went. And in fact computer prices for just individual parts has been rising. Its the ability to bulk order and mass manufacture that lead to the reise of them. A Commodore 64 would be worth 1,500 today. What apple and Android makers did was instead follow car manufacturers where the base models were simple, neat and cheap but once they penetrated the market and made then indispensible, they started raiding prices or using intentional scarcity to artificially inflate prices.

I'd pay any price to live long enough to see the proper exploration of the final frontier.

US wages are shit for a lot of people in a lot of regions, that's just an unfortunate reality. The phones are not that expensive. I use an older phone with a cracked screen because I'm cheap, it still works perfectly, and I don't want to get a new one until I really need to. That could very well be the reasoning of a lot of other people. There's no reason to toss something that works. PC parts as a "pick and pull" kind of deal are understandable for what they are. Office computers, workstations and the like are relatively cheap because of their mass manufactured nature. I just bought 85 computers to install across a number of locations, they were inexpensive and they'll run for a long time and replace old machines that also were inexpensive and ran for a long time. When you start looking at more and more "niche" markets which is exactly what all PC hardware a gamer or digital artist is looking at truly is, you're talking about a smaller market and higher prices. This isn't complicated dude, and being mad about it is fine but I ultimately don't see a way to make a more effective way to get the niche interested person what they want.