u/LeopardComfortable99

All of us remember our school days in science class where we had the lesson about fossil fuels and renewable energy sources. I went to school in the 90s and even then we were told that oil probably wouldn't last another 50 years at the then consumption rate. Now consumption has increased, but so has the oil supply.

As a world, we are moving more and more toward chaos with the Iran war, which has shown us just how vulnerable we are in terms of oil dependency. do you think this exposure of that vulnerability will lead us to a greater push toward renewable sources of energy to make us more energy independent?

I know you're wondering why I've posted it in here, but bare with me. I read an article a few days ago about how AI is being used to figure out how to "decode" or "translate" the meaning behind some of the noises made by our household pets.

Naturally, if such translation is miraculously successful over the next few years, the next step would be to move onto other animals.

Now obviously, most animals naturally communicate by instinct, body language, and other sensorial methods we've probably not considered, but let's say in the near future, the next decade or two, we start to really commit breakthrough after breakthrough in understanding animal communication, could it also reveal that - like humans - animals (even our household pets), also have their own regional "languages" and "dialects"?

The technology seems to be in the very near future where humans will be able to fully understand a large part, or all, of what their pets are trying to "say" and have a means of communicating back to them, but what could the real-world implications be of such breakthroughs? Would we be able to reasonably develop devices that allows us to talk to our pets similar with an ease the way we do humans?