r/whatif • u/AndamanEyes • 3d ago
Technology What if all nukes vanished?
What if suddenly all nuclear weapons, power plants, related technology and uranium/plutonium vanished?
r/whatif • u/AndamanEyes • 3d ago
What if suddenly all nuclear weapons, power plants, related technology and uranium/plutonium vanished?
r/whatif • u/Accomplished_Fruit17 • Jan 05 '25
UBI seems like a trap. You have a few rich people own everything and they give a little welfare to everyone else. Welfare the rich have complete control over and can cut off. If people got ownership of the markets, they could get an income from it and ownership would be a lot harder to take away.
In the US 90 percent of the market is owned by 10% of people. Private equity is even more condensed. We need to set up a system where ownership and the rewards of ownership are more evenly distributed. Instead we are talking about a massive welfare system. I saw how easily welfare was taken away during Clinton's presidency, we should not be tricked into thinking it is the solution.
r/whatif • u/ottoIovechild • Sep 24 '24
r/whatif • u/Megaflynn6464 • Feb 11 '25
Like instead of HRT they can completely change their bodies including their chromosomes so that they can biologically be the gender that they want to be
r/whatif • u/kmho1990 • Nov 28 '24
In essence you can transfer something like cancer from one person to another. You do not need to touch either person. The only caveat is that you cannot randomly choose. You need exact people.
r/whatif • u/ConcernFuture7166 • Feb 18 '25
Many have taken issue with Elon Musk’s sudden shift to align with Trump, dubbing him the new right-hand man.
The criticism spans a range of voices, including those once close to Trump. But what other option was there?
Faced with the risk of undermining his previous accomplishments by staying passive amid Trump’s influential allies, he made a decisive move to take the reins.
The tactic caught everyone by surprise, and his current path—thriving in the public sector as he always has in the private world—shouldn’t be unexpected.
Ultimately, Elon is just being himself in a different environment.
r/whatif • u/overzealousx • Mar 06 '25
Bombs etc etc can't really eliminate tech, bc we can just rebuild/remake.
So what would really need to happen to actually make or lead to tech "extinction/apocalypse"
r/whatif • u/AirpipelineCellPhone • Dec 23 '24
For instance, perhaps potential parents no longer feel the need to have children to support them if they should grow old.
What might be the best course of action?
r/whatif • u/Pale_Salamander9076 • 11d ago
r/whatif • u/wicked_lil_prov • Dec 19 '24
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r/whatif • u/dirtmother • Dec 07 '24
What if there is a limited nuclear strike in Asia or Europe, and the Western and Eastern hemisphere prepare to face off in Mutually Assured Destruction...
And all the nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles just fizzle out somewhere over the Pacific ocean, because they haven't been maintained, tested, or updated in the lifetimes of 90% of the people controlling them?
r/whatif • u/Responsible-Fish9725 • 12d ago
The computer would be able to remotely give thoughts and feelings for us to make decisions, not necessarily controlling our every move but putting order in the human race based on our decisions. It would know every thought and action of every human. Know why you made a certain decision/mistake.
Injuries amd accidents would still happen but with a purpose of justice rather than random.
Same with weather/storms.
Would that be dystopia or a more orderly world?
Is it possible we already live this way?
r/whatif • u/samof1994 • Feb 16 '25
What would happen if Canada passed a law banning the ownership of CyberTrucks but made an exception for people who already had them??
r/whatif • u/Prestigious_Line6725 • Feb 14 '25
If one person can manage 1000x the amount of work by just monitoring the performance metrics of smart self-operating bots and dispatching people for repairs as needed, could we see a need for almost no rural/laborer population, outside of "wants" (tourism/recreation)?
https://www.agweb.com/news/business/technology/tesla-robots-farm-labor-force-future
Imagine all the oil rig jobs, resource mining, farming, ranching, welding, fencing, landscaping, construction, and even jobs like truck driving, becoming nothing more than a resource management "game" on a screen for an intern at a desk to manage. Maybe in 50 years, maybe in 500, but does anyone really think this isn't coming?
r/whatif • u/Final_Smile_5126 • Mar 02 '25
If all electrocity in ever form was to stop working how far back would society regress
r/whatif • u/kkkan2020 • 8d ago
Like apparently cheap energy makes our lives better but what if we have near limitless cheap eenrgy? How would that improve our lives?
r/whatif • u/AndamanEyes • 2d ago
r/whatif • u/Mondai_May • Feb 24 '25
What would you do? How would your life be impacted? And on a larger scale, what do you think would be the impact on society? The world?
r/whatif • u/Repulsive-Finger-954 • Dec 13 '24
r/whatif • u/Assault_Trifle • Mar 04 '25
Imagine geographical and linguistic barriers were removed overnight; war is eradicated, military budgets no longer necessary. Humanity unites as one, pooling our greatest minds and resources.
What huge developments would we see? What massive stepping stones for our species - renewable energy, Dyson spheres, terraforming other planets - would we realistically see within a few decades?
r/whatif • u/-heartsnatcher • Dec 22 '24
How would a global internet blackout and data wipe challenge the structures of power and control in society, reshaping how knowledge, authority, and relationships are constructed and maintained?
r/whatif • u/ShrimpCrabLobster • Mar 02 '25
No more orange and blue arrows
r/whatif • u/Catpack6 • Jan 29 '25
If we could have an internet 2, we could make domains serve on different IPs with a whole new and 7,000,000x times friendlier. useless ai crap is gone, everything is social and community based.
It's not an easy thing to do, but we can make really friendly websites and social media like BlueSky, (obviously would contain disturbing things of course) but we make everything not monetizable, or at least make the ads genuinely entertaining..
I don't know, what do you think?
r/whatif • u/harrystarship • 20d ago
What if your phones has installed a spy camera that watches you 24/7, Will you changed your daily behaviors every time your using your phones.