Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “UNLIMITED POWER”.
Cleo Abrams predicts Tech advancements. If sustainable high-scale energy production like nuclear power is widespread, what do you think will be the biggest change to our lives with unlimited power? I won’t feel bad for leaving my computer on all the time. I don’t know I mean I got to say: I’m sorry, people who live in places where power is very expensive or environmentally impactful here in BC. Wait you don’t even sleep bit! No, why well? How will I remote into it? You can wake it yeah, but it’s not reliable.
That’S probably true. Like I don’t know man, it’s yeah, sleep isn’t reliable in general, my computer just doesn’t sleep now I might as well call it restart weal. We talked about this in the recent thing, so you you’ll you’ll, hear us talk about that soon, but yeah, my my computer, just it’s! It’S like a delayed, restart yeah.
If I set it to sleep, it’ll, restart in 2 or 3 hours. I don’t know what to tell you like, I um, so we live in British Columbia, Canada, where all of our power comes from falling water and you can you can you can talk about the environmental impact of hydroelectric power? All you want, but the reality of it is those dams are already there. Um the power that they generate is just there and you can either use it or you can lose it and so um, it’s cheap. It’S cheap! It’S plentiful! Uh! We don’t, I think, for the most part, really think about power consumption, that much honestly, not a ton a little bit now.
There are energy costs here that are higher than other parts of the world like whenever I hear Americans complaining about their gas prices. I kind of go hey by the way. Yeah ours only look low, cuz they’re in leaders yeah, which is one one4 of a gallon. Okay, we pay a lot for fuel, which is one of the reasons I I learned this recently. Actually, apparently, Vancouver is the Tesla ownership capital of, if not the world North America and I would have thought well, you know California right treny, blah blah blah. You know conscious or whatever yeah, but electricity is really expensive in California. Electricity costs freaking nothing here. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that for me personally, it wouldn’t change anything because um power literally runs out of the Taps like water, but um in terms of like like globally.
You know I would I would expect to see. I would expect to see more widespread use, for example, of things like climate control. Like I, I would expect that to become more affordable for people um, I would expect I would expect even more of a push towards the data center. Like one of the biggest costs of running a data center is power, so I would expect to see even more investments in data centers. I would expect to see more experiences that are dat data center focused. I mean I’ve been talking about how I think the data center could change gaming for a long time like like just massively much more massively.
Multiplayer worlds could be achieved by having everything clustered in one place and everybody else remoting into it and just getting their video feeds. Here’S a here’s, a weird negative, take yeah sure uh. I think light pollution would get really bad.
Oh people, just what just like, don’t bother turning off even LEDs last for freaking forever, so sort of so there’s a whole thing. I think I man, okay, I’m going to get a lot wrong because this is a rabbit hole. I went down a while ago, but what I, what I my understanding is that that was a big part of the sales pitch for LEDs, and I don’t mean LEDs in general.
What you said is not false but LED light bulbs like like that screw into a socket um. What I’ve heard is that much like traditional light bulbs, while the technology is inherently more reliable, it’s kind of been engineered to not be that reliable yeah cuz like super super OG light bulbs like filament light bulbs, would also just last for incredible amounts of time, and They were engineered to wor, yeah um, so yeah, my understanding is LEDs are, are are not designed properly to uh to to last, but in theory yeah. What you’re saying is is correct. You could have bulbs that are just I don’t know just like on all the time who cares, but then, like people want to sleep right like M, then again you see you want to be able to see the stars and like go and not be like wow. The it’s glowing like well, no, I just meant people are going to want to sleep, so they might turn off the lights in their house.
But then it occurred to me that a lot of modern architecture has a lot of lighting on the outside of buildings, like every every new house listing you look at. This is supposed to be a farm, but they found some loophole to make it so they can just build their giant mansion on it and not farm at all. All those that have like 10 million lights, all along the the roofing or in the entire perimeter of the house – it’s like! Oh, my God. Okay, it’s not like a spaceship taking off it’s a house, you can relax. I don’t know.
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