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2012/11/25 13:47:20
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
Well, this thread is pretty simple: just give a few bits and pieces (ok, perhaps a little more than that) of new technology you wish to see in the future.
For me, well, here you go:
1) Advanced but affordable cybernetics - such that practically anyone from lower middle-class and up can afford them, and not just for medical purposes, but if people want to replace their organs/limbs/senses with mechanical/bio-mechanical substitutes, so be it.
2) Fusion/solar energy - a complete shift from a fossil fuel-based energy infrastructure to either nuclear fusion or solar energy-based energy infrastructure.
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2012/11/25 13:52:03
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
Fusion energy would definitely be a priority. Hopefully that'll be completed within the next few years.
Secondly, the one handed touchscreen re-configurable keyboard. Saves a whole lot of space, opens up a lot of interesting design avenues, and gives you a free hand to work that other main touchscreen with.
Thirdly, Terra-forming, The space elevator, Moon bases, etc. If we can't have FTL anytime soon, I'll settle for colonization of the solar system thanks.
Admiral Valerian wrote:1) Advanced but affordable cybernetics - such that practically anyone from lower middle-class and up can afford them, and not just for medical purposes, but if people want to replace their organs/limbs/senses with mechanical/bio-mechanical substitutes, so be it.
It's a nice idea, but what happens when an employer starts hiring people based on the fact they have a hand which can fill in two forms at once (As an example). Doesn't that rather give the guy with prosthetics a huge advantage in the labour market, simply down to the fact he had enough money to get a new arm? And what about the people who wouldn't get bionics for personal reasons?
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Nanotech for medical purposes would do wonders for cancer treatment.
Oh, I like this. By replacing most if not majority of your body except for certain, irreplaceable organs (the brain, the gonads, etc.) with cybernetics and using drugs nano-machines to maintain the rest, you might just live a LONG time. Not immortal certainly, as that would be impossible, but it'd be close enough for me.
Admiral Valerian wrote:1) Advanced but affordable cybernetics - such that practically anyone from lower middle-class and up can afford them, and not just for medical purposes, but if people want to replace their organs/limbs/senses with mechanical/bio-mechanical substitutes, so be it.
It's a nice idea, but what happens when an employer starts hiring people based on the fact they have a hand which can fill in two forms at once (As an example). Doesn't that rather give the guy with prosthetics a huge advantage in the labour market, simply down to the fact he had enough money to get a new arm? And what about the people who wouldn't get bionics for personal reasons?
Hmmm...then perhaps keep advancing cyborg technology until its as common as pens and pencils? As for those who refuse out of personal reasons, well, I have to admit I can't answer that. But then again, by that point, it'll be the same as today regarding people with no computer skills: adapt to the changing world or become a social legislation dependent. Cruel I know, but the world moves on.
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2012/11/25 14:15:15
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
Nanotech for medical purposes would do wonders for cancer treatment.
Oh, I like this. By replacing most if not majority of your body except for certain, irreplaceable organs (the brain, the gonads, etc.) with cybernetics and using drugs nano-machines to maintain the rest, you might just live a LONG time. Not immortal certainly, as that would be impossible, but it'd be close enough for me.
Nanotech in medicine is making strides. Here's an article from 7 years ago.
Functional immortality may well appear in our lifetimes, but would probably come from the mapping of the genome and the advent of anti-geriatrics.
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2012/11/25 14:17:49
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
Nanotech for medical purposes would do wonders for cancer treatment.
Oh, I like this. By replacing most if not majority of your body except for certain, irreplaceable organs (the brain, the gonads, etc.) with cybernetics and using drugs nano-machines to maintain the rest, you might just live a LONG time. Not immortal certainly, as that would be impossible, but it'd be close enough for me.
Nanotech in medicine is making strides. Here's an article from 7 years ago.
Just a little more fellow scientists, cybernetics and nano-machines are just around the corner. Now if only the same could be said for fusion/solar energy-based energy infrastructure and cheap, commonplace, but safe space travel/settlement.
Functional immortality may well appear in our lifetimes, but would probably come from the mapping of the genome and the advent of anti-geriatrics.
Not a big fan of genetic experimentation - that'd be messing with over 4 million years (AFAIK) of evolution we barely understand, and that's only for us Humans.
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2012/11/25 14:24:06
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
Nanotech for medical purposes would do wonders for cancer treatment.
Oh, I like this. By replacing most if not majority of your body except for certain, irreplaceable organs (the brain, the gonads, etc.) with cybernetics and using drugs nano-machines to maintain the rest, you might just live a LONG time. Not immortal certainly, as that would be impossible, but it'd be close enough for me.
Nanotech in medicine is making strides. Here's an article from 7 years ago.
Just a little more fellow scientists, cybernetics and nano-machines are just around the corner. Now if only the same could be said for fusion/solar energy-based energy infrastructure and cheap, commonplace, but safe space travel/settlement.
Fusion is some way away but Thorium would serve us well in he meantime, all the benefits of nuclear power with none of the downsides.
2012/11/25 14:27:30
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
I've never heard of Thorium reactors before (not a big fan of fission, considering Three Mile, Chernobyl, and Fukushima) but I'll look it up. You have sparked my curiosity.
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2012/11/25 15:12:54
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
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2012/11/25 16:59:00
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
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2012/11/25 18:02:48
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
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2012/11/25 19:14:00
Subject: Technological Achievements You Wish to See in the Near Future
Cybernetics Genetic engineering Conscience transference What is the tech of using organic parts to supplement a mechanical device called? Like, a brain as the CPU, blood as fuel, a heart as a rudimentary pump, etc?
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