The issue is presented as being a lack of any (dirty or clean) water being available. A solar still just purifies/desalinates existing liquid water. What they want is something that condenses water out of the air.

Does he still have any teeth? If he does, they should have the same carbon that they did when he was a child and his adult teeth grew in, shouldn't they?

Never been to the one in North Branch. I typically (when I actually do go to a movie) go to a theater in White Bear Lake, MN (about 30 minutes south of North Branch / 30 minutes north of Minneapolis/St Paul). It's a bit dated, but service is typically pretty fast and the theaters themselves are generally fairly clean before the movie. Concessions prices are about what you'd expect. But people talking/messing around with their phones/etc isn't any better than anywhere else. Also, why in the world do so many people just leave their trash in the theater when they leave?? It seems like a good 50% of theater-goers do this. Maybe it's a protest on the cost of concessions? But really, how hard is it to pick up your popcorn bag and drop it in the trash on the way out?

Facebook has been suggesting my neighbors as friends for a few years now, I assume it's suggesting based on gps proximity, and has been for quite a while.

They can hold .9 Gs on the skid pad, which is the same as a BMW 3-series. How are the corners miserable again?

I'm willing to bet that a healthy portion of those "off-shore" workers are actually H1Bs working on site as off-shore liaisons. It's a loophole companies can use to hire an H1B when they otherwise would have to look for a local applicant.

Well, the quickest model s is quicker from 0-60 than some much higher priced exotics, and it handles really well due to it's low center of gravity, so one could be forgiven for calling it a sports car.

Using a smartphone screen is clever, but I wonder how much resolution you would really get since the pixels on a phone are purposely non-directional. Also, Wouldn't the resin harden on it's own inside the bottle under ambient light?

People that spend most of the day worrying about how to pay for food, transportation and rent have little mental energy left over to make other decisions. Multiple studies have shown that people subjected to mentally stressful situations tend to make decisions that satisfy their current desires rather than their long term goals. Buying a $shiny you can't really afford, or not worrying about using protection falls right into that current desire scenario.

Good thing that *most* humans don't go around biting the faces of any other random humans they run into.

The impression in the putty is a hidden variable.

Automation tech is close to eliminating the last few manual labor jobs in manufacturing. Not long after that it will be able to handle most unskilled labor generally. There are farm tractors and mine vehicles that are already capable of driving themselves, with a driver only present to monitor the machine. It's not hard to envision a time in the not too distant future when resource gathering, manufacturing and logistics are all largely automated. At that point, the only reasons for scarcity of goods is resource availability and desire for profit.

Sure it has. Maybe it hasn't been as explicitly defined, but doesn't mean it didn't/doesn't exist. Heck, we even use the word "class" to describe income brackets.

While there are certainly biological limits, I highly doubt what we have now is anywhere near the maximum of what is possible if we were designed intelligently rather than by random mutations. It might require wholesale rewrite of our DNA and associated cellular mechanics, but I'm sure that there is plenty of room for improvement. A more likely response would be the AI asking questions about trade-offs that you are willing to accept in order to achieve your goals. For example: Increasing your intelligence beyond X% will require expanding your cranial cavity by Y%, and increasing your daily caloric consumption by Z%. Is this acceptable?

You're missing the point. A lot of people are looking at "brain uploading" as a means to achieve immortality, or freedom from the limitations of a biological organism. But the problem is that you wouldn't be achieving that for yourself, but for the new copy of you. The original is still going to die (or already died, if the process is destructive). You're just spawning a clone with the same memories and way of thinking.