The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
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All cars are now have a perfect implementation of self driving.
All traffic is now gone. Road rage, gone. People everywhere are happier. Commutes suck less. People take more road trips to see more outside their comfort zone. Lyft and Uber really explode, no more driver needed, just summon a car and go.
Utopia would be achieved shortly after.
Enormous unemployment from the transit sector spikes immediately and causes a depression.
30% of the work force is in transportation related jobs.
The Great Depression saw only 22% of unemployment at its peak.
Your well meaning wish would destroy millions of lives while tanking the developed world economies.
Yeah, maybe add a phase-in period.
I'd wish for everybody to be able to teleport. Such chaos.
I would not teleport even if I could. I don't want to die only to be replaced by a clone that thinks its the original me. Give me a portal I can step though, and I'll step through it, but outright teleportation is a no from me :)
This depends on the mechanism of teleportation. The Star Trek matter-energy conversion with quantum state duplication is absolutely what you described. The ability to make personal wormholes, folding space, passing through a hyperdimensional space, or macro-scale quantum tunneling are all methods of teleportation that don't involve any overt destruction of your corporeal entity and are all technically feasible under the laws of physics or mathematics. The real issue is the potential for exotic forms of radiation that cook you and anyone around you instantly on arrival. The real wish is "I wish everyone could teleport without risk of death, damage, or adverse environmental repercussions."
Personally, I would have absolutely no problem with that.
your cartopia sounds like hell. last time I checked Humans were the dominant species, not fucking cars.
Wish 2: all cars have perfectly efficient solar generation and power train.
No more car based pollution. Climate crisis fixed (not really but a good step forward). Save people everywhere money.