Our President resigns, and then is arrested.

A reversal of the status of all endangered species.

Birth control in the water.

All religious BS removed from anywhere that isn't church related.

People mostly liking one another again.

The world taking Global warming seriously.

In no particular order: Driverless cars being widely used, Woman President of the USA, Cure for Diabetes, Universal Health Care in the USA.

I'm hoping to see a reversal of the trend of income inequality and inequality in general rising, for an end of imperialistic wars, for more democracy in our "democracies", for an end to slavery and starvation and for a plan to realistically reduce climate change. Those all require no new technology just political action and that might be the problem. So I'm hoping for a technology that makes us smarter one day, maybe some Aliens will save us from ourselves. Have we looked closely on Mars?

The postponement of the inevitable third world war until after I am dead

or have moved to Mars

The cure for death that Kurzweil keeps saying is going to happen in 15 years.

More on Longevity Escape Velocity here:
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A space elevator, and for humans to finally realise we need to clean up our act on climate change (which will need to happen very, very soon).

I am hoping to see humans walk the red planet also, but it's one of those things, like general purpose, self-aware artificial intelligence, that's always 20 years away, no matter what year it is. We lack the will and focus to make big things happen anymore. The Chinese will likely get there before we do.

A corollary to that is that we should have returned to the moon and have a permanent base if not a colony there by now, as well as a fuel-making operation and a lunar-orbiting station and all that sort of thing. All of that would support the feasibility of a Mars program.

Even the purely mercenary commercial aspects of space, like asteroid mining, don't seem to be going anywhere.

So ... I'm glad I have childhood memories of watching the various Gemini and Apollo missions, because I suspect that's all I'm taking to the grave with me in terms of memories of space exploration.

It's laughable when you think about Sci Fi of the 1960s. There's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ) that had a permanent commercial space station and regular PanAm flights to and from it; routine travel to the moon and a permanent base there; all of this by the late 1990s and then we were able to hurl a giant spacecraft run by a sentient computer, with most of the crew in cryo-sleep, within 3 years. Boy did they overestimate that. At the other extreme in terms of production values was Lost in Space that imagined we'd be sending a starship to Alpha Centauri by 1999. Or the original Star Trek that imagined a darker immediate future but still one from which people were capable of escaping via a sleeper ship -- again, in 1999.

I mean, the turn of the 21st century seemed like it was safely in the future back then, and that would give humanity a lot of opportunity for technological progress.

But here we are, struggling to put electric cars on the road and outsourcing travel to our aging space station to Russia. And that station! It's about a tenth the size of the one in Space Odyssey and no artificial gravity.

Oh well. At least computer technology has largely exceeded expectations, and I've made a good and enjoyable living from it -- so there's that.

Getting laid!

Oooh oooh this is easy!! For all of the dumbfucks in this country to quit obsessing over trump!

And I’m not talking about his supporters either because honestly they truly think about him half of the time the other twits do. ?

Elon Musk is saying you'll be able to in a few years for about what you'd get by selling your house. I just don't know if you'd still need money on Mars once you got there. It sounds tempting to me.

I would like to see a low weight, high power battery developed that will propel an automobile 1000 miles on a charge.