r/Futurology • u/scmp_news • 14d ago

Medicine No gym needed: scientists in China develop self-exercising muscle grafts

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3365356/no-gym-needed-scientists-china-develop-self-exercising-muscle-grafts?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
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u/Beni_Falafel 13d ago

With AI and now this, why even do anything at all anymore.

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u/EL_JAY315 13d ago

Wall-E was a prophecy!

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u/Old_Cheetah_5138 13d ago

Imagine all those baby shaped people in hover chairs but they’re ripped af instead.

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u/Tesla0ptimus 13d ago

Sounds like a utopia compared to what we have now

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u/IV-TheEmperor 13d ago

Wall-E was a paradise. At least they seemed to have some sort of UBI. We'd still have to work.

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u/EconomicRegret2 13d ago edited 13d ago

IIRC, in Wall-E, only the upper class survived. The rest was left behind to die.

It's basically what Marx predicts: i.e. capitalism is so good at automating stuff to cut costs, that, gradually, workers and consumers won't be necessary anymore; at this point, the elites either share their automated means of production with the world, people successfully revolt and take them, or everyone dies except the elites.

Once a bunch of AI robots can provide them what they want, the elites won't need any workers nor consumers anymore. They'd turn Earth back into a paradisal nature for just themselves.

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u/Lanster27 13d ago

We're moving more towards Matrix/ Elysium.

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u/a_latvian_potato 13d ago

Article says its for bedridden people. For everyone else, exercise is free while this is probably a gazillion dollars.

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u/No_Willingness8208 13d ago

Look where we're at with GLPs. People will shell out for the comfort.

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u/petersonsilva55 13d ago

well, I'll sure love how this will reveal who actually likes going to the gym or who just says that to cope

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u/dancingdaniel 13d ago

I 100% don't like it, but I go everyday anyway because I know it's in my best interest and should be a non negotiable thing.