AGI, nanobots, fully autonomous self driving cars, cancer cures and aging cures, significant life extension, etc are all a long way off. Decades.
I’m not saying they’ll never happen, of course, just that we’re a long time away from them. I see way too many people thinking that these things are around the corner, and it makes me sad.
With regards to life extension especially (since i see a looooot of people think they personally will get to live forever), the odds of biotech and medicine advancing in our lifetimes to the extent that it facilitates biological immortality and indefinitely extended lifespans is slim to none at best. Go ask the actual experts if you don’t believe me.
The most we will see in our lifetimes is increased HEALTHspan, and tbh even that is iffy since we don’t even know if we will get even that.
In my opinion the first generations to experience significantly extended lifespans and age reversal probably haven’t been born yet. That’s how long i think it’s going to take.
I kind of wish there was more emphasis on making the best out of what is currently possible instead of waiting around for scientific and technological breakthroughs that will take an indeterminably long period to come to fruition, if they do at all.
I guess I'm so used to hearing about distant solutions to present-day problems and I never hear much about how these problems could be addressed today (although in some cases, like with climate change, this inevitably involves things like lifestyle changes and societal restructuring, which themselves can seem equally like hopium).