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>>5337992
Thank you.

>How much longer do you think will personal transport and individual housing be feasible, especially in highly congested regions and metropolitan areas?

Personal transport will always be around, but as autonomous vehicles become widespread over the next 20-30 years I imagine you'll see a lot of people choosing to transit on AVs. Taxi and public transit services will phase out in favor of AV hubs, operating hundreds, potentially thousands of vehicles over a wide area. People who need to get somewhere hail an AV, swipe a card (assuming we still have cards), travel to their destination and the amount owed would be deducted from their account on arrival. Vehicle design will split into designs for manual control vehicles (which will continue to follow modern conventions) and designs for AVs, with the latter becoming more spacious and designed more like small work spaces or living areas as opposed to normal transports.

As far as individual housing I think modern conventions of homes and apartments are here to stay. You'll see a greater emphasis on apartment-style housing in cities but as transportation becomes faster and more convenient and our ability to work and communicate over distances becomes more effective I think you'll start to see growth rates in major cities be exceeded by growth rates in smaller cities and towns. Most first-world metropolises will probably see a peak in congestion.

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- Haven't decided yet, though I've recently discovered passions for planetary science and instrumentation
- I've got a fairly useless BA which I completed before crawling back to science, now halfway through a BS tripling in Phys, Astro, and Math
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- Would rather not say... somewhere in the midwest
- Undergrad, just finished presenting a poster at the AAS conference on building cheap, mid-resolution spectrometers for small telescopes. I'm currently looking at getting work with a different professor, which is proving to be tricky... apart from a handful of profs, pretty much everyone here is either plasma physics or high-energy astronomy... neither of which really interest me

Hey /sci/, hope you're all enjoying the holidays.

So, I'm traveling with an undergraduate research group to my first scientific conference in a few weeks and I was wondering if you guys could give me some idea of what to expect - what kind of events are there, things to do, etc... and if anyone who's been to a conference would like to share some of their experiences that'd be great too.

Thanks.

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>>1548810
here, it's better to try and fail than not try at all. Who knows, you might be surprised.

Have a free bear for trying.

>>1517348
The gentlemen from Iowa gets a bear as well.