What spacefaring-related technologies will humans develop before the first human travels to a different star?
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89%
Fusion
87%
AGI
85%
Laser Propulsion
83%
Mind uploading
81%
Cryogenics
80%
Space guns
79%
ASI
74%
Antimatter propulsion
72%
Warp Drive
46%
Dyson Sphere
37%
Space Elevators (+ req material tech)
25%
Teleportation (Local)
21%
Ansible (faster than light communication)
19%
Jump Drive (distant teleportation/ displacement)
The technologies can be explicitly sci-fi-inspired, but obviously don't have to be. Add your own! Unrelated or trivial answers will be N/A'd.
All developed technologies resolve YES once they are in use (past the research phase) and technologies that don't exist resolve NO if/when we travel to the stars: aka when at least one person makes a transit attempt with a reasonable expectation of survival and success.
AI-developed tech counts, if the AI was originally made by humans. Presumptive alien-tech and alien-AI-tech don't count.
The close date is highly speculative and may be pushed back until interstellar travel happens or humans are gone.
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