Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 98: Today we look into the future to see what 2050 will be like!

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone We did 91 Challenge Petrol, pumping through our veins. I notice now a lot of the petrol stations have speedy EV charging facilities now. Ah, okay. Installs, many of them across the country, which is probably the future of the petrol game, isn't it? In, out, charge, pump, boom, you're on your way. So they charge as quickly as it would take to fuel, I guess. I think that's what they're aiming for. Well, that would probably make sense, right?

Yeah. Are you going to make the leap to EV at any stage? I would. I did a little bit of driving with my brother-in-law's EV car in the States over Christmas time

and it's cool. It's, yeah. It makes me unsettled how quiet they are, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sometimes you don't know that you're actually,

it's on or not. But yeah, it seems like the way of future. It feels like, as with anything, America, particularly in California where they live, I felt like a lot of people had made that jump, which we're probably a little bit behind. Probably the cost of it is a bit high for New Zealanders. My son Oscar, he played me something from Neil deGrasse Tyson,

a very intelligent man. And his predictions for the future, My son Oscar, he played me something from Neil deGrasse Tyson, you know. Oh, yeah. Very intelligent man. And his predictions for the future, he was being interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast. Neil deGrasse Tyson. DeGrasse Tyson or deGrasse Tyson? He's like an astrophysicist. Very smart man.

Yeah. Science communicator. He goes around. He gets interviewed by people. Have a listen to his predictions for 2050. So not far away. Oh yeah. Just over sort of 25 years away. I have a bunch of predictions here. Okay. Neuroscience and our understanding of the human mind will become so advanced that mental illness will be cured, leaving psychologists and psychiatrists without jobs. How's that? That'll be freaky. Yeah. In a shift that echoes the rapid conversion from horses to automobiles, self-driving electric vehicles will fully replace all cars and trucks on the road. There you go.

That's another one. Well, that was, yeah, my brother-in-law's car had that self-parking mode, you know, as well. So if you wanted to go into a park. Dude, I bet you didn't trust self-parking. Not at all he would he would like sometimes he'd sit there and go you drive and i'm like why am i driving your car but there you go just leave it leave it i'm like i can't i can't you know he was like it'll do it it will know what to do but i just so could you take it down the motorway with hands free well i don't know i don't know i just know that it could park if you

were trying to parallel park in somewhere and you just put park, it would reverse back up itself and park in between, and I didn't trust it. So self-driving cars, probably closer than 2050, I'd say. The human space program will fully transition to a space industry, supported not by tax dollars, but by tourism. So you'll go to space on a holiday? Yeah, I can see that happening. Yeah, you just be there.

How long it takes to get there will be the thing right uh so what are we we're 40 oh you know like how long like is it going to take you you know a year to get up there so in our 60s we could be going to space we can still enjoy space we're still here for that because you're not gonna you know annual leave is going to be you know need to go to space for a holiday i'm not going to spend three days up there but it's going to take me a year to get up and back. To be honest, I reckon I'd get to space and I'd be like, eh.

Don't get me wrong. There would be that hour or two where you're like, whoa, space. And you're like, what do we do here? Is there a pool? At the moment, there's probably nothing to do there, really. Is there a beach? You've got a mall?

Yeah, nothing to do there. Eventually, I imagine they'll have all that stuff. I think William Shatner, famously, we sent him up to space at age 98 or whatever he is. He was like, it was okay. It was okay. But he'd been in Star Trek for many years, and they're probably on that show, even though it's not real. They've done some great things in space. Yeah.

We develop a perfect antiviral serum and cure cancer. That's a good one. That is a good one. Yeah. I'm surprised that's not already a thing, and I'm sure it is. I'm sure it's floating around there somewhere, the cure for cancer. That's a good one. That is a good one. Yeah, I'm surprised that's not already a thing, and I'm sure it is. I'm sure it's floating around there somewhere, the cure for cancer.

Medicines will tailor to your own DNA, leaving no adverse side effects. We will resist the urge to merge the circuitry of computers with the circuitry of our brains. Because that's always a worry. So what's that mean? So he's sort of saying that there has been conversation that you would connect a computer

to your brain and would become sort of, I guess, half robotic. Yeah, right. He's saying we're not going to do that. Okay. We will learn how to regrow lost limbs and failing organs, bringing us up to the level of other regenerating animals on Earth, like salamanders, starfish, and lobsters. That one freaked me out. So you lose an arm.

You'll be able to regrow it. Regrow the arm. Here? Ben? Oh, yeah, true. You're right. It's probably all those things that you would, yeah, that's really interesting. He's an intelligent.

You can just tell he's intelligent. You can tell all this stuff coming off the top of his head, how quickly he's coming, you know. I know he's thought about this, but you just tell he's intelligent. You can tell all this stuff coming off the top of his head, how quickly he's coming you know. I know he's thought about this but you just tell he's smart. I couldn't be in a room with him having a conversation. No, because you get inside your own head because you're like, well I've got to appear a lot more

intelligent than I actually am. And he would see through it, right? Yeah, you're right. He's probably used to talking to people a lot dumber than he is. So those are some good predictions. We'll be able to regrow our limbs. There'll be self-driving cars.

There'll be no cancer. There'll be no depression, no mental illness, because our brains will be so advanced and we'll understand them so well. It's a good future, really, to look forward to. It's not all doom and gloom and AI and robots controlling us. The planet's going to be still screwed. Oh, you know. Don't worry about it.

We're going to be living in a desolate wasteland. Sort of like in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. But, jeez, we're going to be driving around in self-driving cars and bloody regrowing our limbs. It'll be a good radio thing, eh? If radio's still a thing, it'll be like, cut off my leg, mate. Be like, you sure? Yeah. It grows back by lunchtime.

Yeah. Oh, that quick. Maybe it's 2080. Yeah, yeah. So that's. It grows back by lunchtime. Yeah. Oh, that quick. It's quite a bit. Maybe it's 2080. Yeah, yeah. So that's the burner phone for today. Really interesting. Bit of futuristic chat there.

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