“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

@diffrentcolours @PixelRobot 100% agree. I’ve been ranting about this for years.

@thomasfuchs bikes

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- Flywheel ️
- Risc V
- Heat pump 🥵
- Bioplastics
- Water harvesting

@thomasfuchs Honestly I'm also really excited about infrastructure. Like, we have the tech we need, IMO, we just need to use it at scale

@thomasfuchs all of these!

@thomasfuchs I personally am much more excited about tech coming from China these days. US tech is dead, poisoned by business grifters wanting to make a quick buck, consequences be damned.

@thomasfuchs I'd also add micromobility to that list

@kentenmakto @thomasfuchs

If they hire me I'll do it in ten

@vsharma2430 @thomasfuchs Eh. It is long overdue actually.

@valsombra @thomasfuchs
Decentralized kissing?

@thomasfuchs Someone in the replies must surely have mentioned ActivityPub yet, but I didn't find it.

@diffrentcolours @thomasfuchs @PixelRobot Not sure if this is a “geeks don’t shower” kinda joke or some legitimate medical issue but I think both are valid

@janneke @thomasfuchs honestly, brilliant.

@thomasfuchs guillotines of course

@thomasfuchs I'm excited to see how the decentralized internet develops. It seems like there has been a lot of resentment towards the large companies lately and I want to see what the community does to push back against the larger companies.

Also looking forward to any advancements in cleaner energy and agriculture. AI has it's uses and I think these are two good applications.

@thomasfuchs Mars rockets, provided the right person is on it. We'll only need one.

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Watermills
Sailing ships
Trees (e.g., growing in rainforests, or encroaching on deserts)
Hydrogen-based steel production
Geothermal house heating
Non-fossil sources of organic chemicals for synthetic industries
Material-efficient wooden construction
Fountain pens
Open-hardware laptops
Repairable smartphones
Recycling

@thomasfuchs I agree with this list (pic from the #nokings protest here in Paris)

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Bodymods and other kinds of transhumanist research... by anybody other than the crypto man, of course...

Videogame console modding...

... hey, I'm saying "mods" a lot, am I not?

@maikel @thomasfuchs the main problem with guillotines is that after lefties behead royalists, they start to behead each other. The French Revolution was full of examples. So you never know, from which side you will approach a guillotine tomorrow...