Fiber < Laser. No more buffering blues, folks! The big brains at NASA and MIT have blown previous records out of the water, achieving warp-speed internet, thanks to their TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) system! Imagine downloading 1,000 high-def movies in less time than it takes to brew a pot of coffee. At over 200 Gbps, the laser link sets a new record and helps us imagine a future with lasers we can trust. Eventually, YouTube videos may load as fast as YouTube ads.
On the one hand, "Space Laser Internet" is the sort of thing that a James Bond villain dreams about, but on the other, this internet may be fast enough to let finally let us send holograms to the office in our place.
Disco is dead. A plastic-eating enzyme could be the answer to tons and tons of landfill and ocean-dwelling waste. The first item on the menu is polyester clothing! Scientists say even heavily dyed fabrics could be digested without the energy-wasting methods of some current recycling efforts. Just don't get any on your morning jog.
On the one hand, we need to do something about all this plastic. Still, on the other, so many things are made from plastic an untamed enzyme may undo our society.
Generation VS Creation? A sci-fi author is living up to his genre with a wild 97 published mini-novels in 9 months. He says the "AI Lore Books" series is a testament to the potential of AI for augmenting human creativity. He mostly combined chatbots like ChatGPT with the image generator Midjourney to create his illustrated 5000-ish-word novels. So far, he has made $2,000 and sold over 500 copies of the interconnected stories.
On the one hand, art is discretion: releasing only what appeals to the artist in a way they believe will translate. On the other hand, if 20 people do this, nobody will be able to find E-books worth reading on Amazon.