Riting 2 - randomish ideas
SF
Genetic engineering. Mice, cows, sheep, rats. Human DNA. smart rats have been done before. maybe some other trait.
cows as surrogate wombs. genengineer a cow with a human womb, implant embryo, wait 9 months. popular with the too posh to push crowd.
Cheap power invented. fusion or something similar, generators the size of lawnmower engines can supply more than enough power for an average house. In mass v. cheap to build, run on water, or something almost as cheap, no moving parts. For less than the price of a cheap second hand car a household can be self-sufficient for all their energy needs. Cars run on ultra quiet, ultra powerful electric motors, never need filling up, bugger all maintenance. Greenhouse emissions drop to pre-industrial levels within a decade. Fossil fuels only needed for plastics, etc, supplies will now last much longer. Huge upsets in world order - oil-rich countries now in turmoil.
Cheap, easy food. With cheap power, some kind of vat grown food, not necessary haute-cuisine, but nutricious and available anywhere.
No need to work, with food & power being practically free, only need to work for luxuries. definitions of work will change.
Kids
If you could be any animal for one day, what would it be?
Genetic engineering. Mice, cows, sheep, rats. Human DNA. smart rats have been done before. maybe some other trait.
cows as surrogate wombs. genengineer a cow with a human womb, implant embryo, wait 9 months. popular with the too posh to push crowd.
Cheap power invented. fusion or something similar, generators the size of lawnmower engines can supply more than enough power for an average house. In mass v. cheap to build, run on water, or something almost as cheap, no moving parts. For less than the price of a cheap second hand car a household can be self-sufficient for all their energy needs. Cars run on ultra quiet, ultra powerful electric motors, never need filling up, bugger all maintenance. Greenhouse emissions drop to pre-industrial levels within a decade. Fossil fuels only needed for plastics, etc, supplies will now last much longer. Huge upsets in world order - oil-rich countries now in turmoil.
Cheap, easy food. With cheap power, some kind of vat grown food, not necessary haute-cuisine, but nutricious and available anywhere.
No need to work, with food & power being practically free, only need to work for luxuries. definitions of work will change.
Kids
If you could be any animal for one day, what would it be?
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