At what orbital distance? 1mm assuming it's all solar panels, and each panel flies free, a Dyson swarms not a sphere (you transmit energy around via microwaves or lasers) would work although it would take a long time to transmute the elements of Jupiter to the right mix.

You should have gotten rental car coverage. This means that the insurance is paying for a rental the entire time they are dragging their feet. So either they total it or order it repaired, either way, either you get a new car much sooner than 1 year or for a year you put zero miles on a car.

They shouldn't have samples of diseases that aren't in Sudan locally. Any more than they should have weapons grade fissionables.

This. Especially the sex/race/age/looks bias. There absolutely is one. Hell just how your voice sounds. On top of that people "blank" during stressful events like this and fail to emit information they do know, others are good at bullshitting and can manipulate their grade higher.

This. Pay em cash or stock or don't be surprised if they walk.

Arguably we should, other people on the roads have the right to live also.

But we constructed everything where not having a car is close to being subject to house arrest. Public transit wastes your time, taxis and rideshare is expensive.

I have to say I wouldn't have expected this. This is heist movie level tech. Almost as bad as vulnerable cameras that let the bad guys "loop the video".

Why doesn't Wyze doing their updates in a way that won't cause an outtage (google seems to be able to do this), or at least randomize when a given camera is offline.

Apparently in some European countries the government pays for homeless to have somewhere to live rather than abandoning them to die in the streets.

Probably raises taxes slightly, and probably some of those homeless people 'deserve' their death sentence, but the government cares for them anyway.

Eventually could be so long it doesn't matter.

Yeah I have seen bathrooms like this in Europe and at nice places. Individual small rooms for everyone.

So that's not true either. If people become productive enough with the new tools that 80% of the workers can do 100% of the workload, it doesn't actually mean a 20% job loss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... applies.
For some historical evidence : consider how python or javascript based HMI frameworks make older website designs very easy to build and maintain. Easily 5* productivity. Are there 5 times fewer front end or full stack devs? No, there seem to be more than ever.
It's because the increase in productivity per labor hour makes more complex sites and applications possible, which is what will happen here.

1. You can add neural stem cells and use various genetic hacks to make the brain age slower or not at all. Finding which genes you need to hack, you have 120 years to do it. You might have seen the articles - 20 years after sequencing the human genome, we now basically know how to fold most proteins, and AI knows enough to design custom proteins.

2. Suit yourself. There doesn't need to be any pain. If you want to be a corpse rather than get regular surgery every 20 years or whatever, I'm sure you'll have plenty of company in the cemetery.

You are ignoring several things

1. Nobody in 1900 had an inkling that chain reaction fission was possible. They didn't know about the nucleus

2. Cellular reprogramming is at the point of people trying to deage rats with some positive results

3. Lab grown organs would fix aging for sure, by growing a new body (from deaged cells) part by part.

All this exists now. I will leave out the possibilities of superintelligent AI because if it works as expected it either trivializes the problem or kills everyone.

Just keep in mind the gulf of time in this question. A few 1 year olds Alice right now will live to around 120 with no advances. So this is like asking the people of 1900 about highways, computers, jet planes, spacecraft, or nuclear energy.

They won't know shit and might say each of these things sounds like fantasy.

I don't know future technology but can imagine that preventing death from aging will be a high priority effort.

So theoretically you can accept payments in crypto where when you accept it you immediately cash out.

What I don't know how you handle is the fluctuations in value during a transaction.

Say you want to pay a 10k tax bill. During the minutes the transaction takes, by the time the state can cash it it might be 9950 or 10050.