One day, some time around a 100 years from now, we won’t be mining for metals, or fighting over rare resources anymore, We’ll just print them….From the hydrogen in the air. How? With particle accelerators and fusion reactors, that’s how. The only problem is we haven’t mastered the technology behind it yet. We have however created artifical metals (elements) from it but at a tiny scale. It’s going to take somewhere around a 100 years when we finally master the tech, amd once we do, we’ll be able to create ANY element artificially from the hydrogen in the air, and once that happens, a new industrial revolution will take place in which we’ll be able to build 3D printer that doesn’t just use plastic or metal, it creates the metal, from thin air, feom scratch. It builds the materials, atom by atom, then turns them into phones, cars, homes, tools, and even food! anything, from thin air. No mining. No shipping. Just download the blueprint and hit “print.”
That’s the next revolution. Once we crack large scale fusion and element creation, everything changes. No more resource wars. No more scarcity. Innovation will take off like never before. Tech will evolve insanely fast, because we won’t be held back by material limits
We’ll be living in a world where creation isn’t tied to what we can dig up, it’s tied to what we can imagine. We will become a Type 1 civilization, fully powered by clean energy, capable of creating anything, Tech will evolve like crazy. Innovation will be nonstop.
So I say this with pure honesty, fuck being a Doctor or Lawyer, be a nuclear physicist. You’ll really change the world.
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This isn’t an opinion, this is just an admission the OP has taken some manner of drugs this evening
This is actually a widely held and increasingly popular view among futurists, technologists annd probably most physicists.
I do not know what you smoking.
P.S. my limited knowledge of fusion tells me most fusion reactions, aka stars, stop around Iron in most cases.
To get to heavy elements after iron is like from supernovas or colliding stars.