Real holograms are going to be awesome. I can imagine chilling with my friends from America while I am actually sitting in my home in Germany... Would lead to even more basement dwellers and empty cafes, though ^^
Real holograms are going to be awesome. I can imagine chilling with my friends from America while I am actually sitting in my home in Germany... Would lead to even more basement dwellers and empty cafes, though ^^
The thing here is that idea was a mere improvement on what we already had. Basically having many small power plants instead of having to distribute the energy from a big one, it would of been the same for the end consumer. Yeah, way cheaper, but the same never the less. And even if you had one yourself, what use it would be?
Dragging a superinsulated high voltage cable through your living room is not really an option.
And I can't see future of energetics being in nuclear energy, it's just a way too unstable and just a brute design. Just the problems of transporting the generated heat are huge, not to mention low conversion efficiency in the end. And even if we were to produce that energy and convert it to something we can actually use, the use part is still unreachable. We can't safely and practically transport this voltages, and the act of producing such energy is way to dangerous. And here's the question: how do you produce so much energy without it going catastrophically bad if something fucks up.
My speculation would be that we have 2 options that will allow future development of household electronics: either a solution to exclude energy storage from the equation, i.e. transporting energy without wiring everything up. Or a compact way to produce it. And I don't meant a reactor in a back yard, rather something that will fit in a pocket gadget. But then, what will fuel it?
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As I've said, too unstable and low efficiency. It's like using a explosives to fish: bad for the environment, dangerous, detrimental to the product and nets are still more efficient.
Microchips wired directly into our brains that let us use the internet with thought. When will this happen? Probably in our lifetimes.
Neuroscience is getting close to a breakthrough in mind reading technology, that's pretty cool. They can use their machines and the brain lights up when it sees something familiar, so something like a murder weapon or scene would light up differently for someone who commit the murder vs someone who was innocent. We watched a video about it in a psych class I took, but I can't remember the link.
and of course, after mind reading comes mind control...
the fact the scientists have in the last 2 years made reality out of science fiction, predicting anything at this point is shaky.
but my best guess would be gene-therapy splicing coupled with synthetic augmentation.
aka "we can make him stronger, we have the technology".
case in point, we have:
made wholly synthetic organic life.
made a tractor beam.
found the higgs boson.
found out there is negative kelvin, and its hotter then anything else.
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The space industry seems like a good bet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=pIY_fmvFDhM
Probably the next one is going to be further innovations in robotics and artificial limbs extending into other areas. Neuropsychology in general is progressing rapidly
I have a device, in my pocket, that can access nearly the entirety of collected knowledge of mankind. I use it to look at cats. Do you really think that isn't innovation?
I'm hoping it's fast food that tastes good and is actually good for you.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.
Because you don't understand what went into those other innovations. How they were built upon other knowledge, other innovations, other inventions. I mean, it's cool that you think some random guy just pulled the internet, along with computers, fiber optics, and everything that goes along with them out of his ass, but that isn't what happened.
I think it's very telling that people here are thinking that we've reached our limits because nothing Earth Shattering has changed our way of life in the last decade or so (though an argument could be made for app-phones). The development of the Internet is a HUGE thing that has happened more or less in our lifetimes. Just how many earth-shattering discoveries do you expect to have in a 30 year period? How about the ability to transplant arms from a dead guy to a double amputee? How about the sequencing of the Human Genome, or the ability to clone, or fecal transplants, or Viagra, or Drone aircraft? New tech is coming at us so fast these days that people don't even notice when the big things hit anymore.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Who even cares? What matters is the end result and how it benefits society as a whole. Smartphones are nothing that revolutionized society. I know many many people who do not even own one. I actually have no idea why I even have one...
Also, I am not your random bloke whom you can put words into his mouth... I never said that I think the internet came out of nothing, along with everything else. But whatever was used to create the "internet" doesn't even matter that much. It's the internet that made all those things actually useful.
I want that weaponized so badly.... Giant floating aircraft carriers (yeah, I’ve watched The Avengers way too much in the past month) that travel along a series of magnetic rails places throughout the world would perhaps be the greatest earthly sight I can think to behold.
And here I was hoping I would never see that video again lol.
I would have to imagine that the next super advance forward is some sort of method of direct neural interface. Not the things we have now that respond to muscles or are very limited in responding to nerves firing just by detecting that they fired without interfacing with them, I mean a full on neural interface that could be used to operate complex machinery (think a prosthetic arm capable of all the ranges of motion of a normal arm able to be controlled entirely by neural impale and no muscle reading garbage) or fully operate computers by thought alone. An advance like this would be like the microchip, it would alter absolutely every aspect of life. Work, recreation, and everything else would be changed.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
well scientists are working on a material that could turn people invisibile.
r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.