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Advances
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:47 am
by Snake_byte
Just curious as to what kind of technological advances people would like to see or know are coming out and are looking forward too.
Feel free to be as creative as you want when coming up with something you's like to see, even if it's not completely possible.
What about a sort a body or limb tubing that creates a vacuum inside surrounding the body/limb and is then filled with an oxygen-nutrient solution instead of casts and IV's?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:50 am
by Peanut
A drug or something (Nanorobots?) That restore Telomeres in your Dna.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:26 am
by Piscator
Helicopters.
No, wait...
Fusion reactors.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:06 am
by Snake_byte
Peanut wrote:A drug or something (Nanorobots?) That restore Telomeres in your Dna.
Qin Shi Huang - Quest of immortality. He died of mercury poisoning given to him in pill-form by his alchemists while seeking eternal life.
He looked for the elixer of life and a 1000 yr old sorcerer (who he had apperantly met). That too must've been *twitch* the mercury...
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:00 pm
by Gran
Yeah, but the chinese (as most people at that time) were dumb. They used to look at mercury and say:
OMG ITS LIQUID SILVER! IMMA DRINKIN IT! Then die of poisoning. And it would take a lot of time until people figured drinking unknown substances might have unknown effects which usually involve death.
Anyway, I choose quantum computation. It isn't much what I'd really like to see, but seems to be the most clean, reasonable and non-violent suggestion that I have. Also,
singularitarians would become a bit more important.
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:35 pm
by joo
Truly intelligent AI.
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:04 am
by Snake_byte
A deployable Plasma-like jelly which evaporates in a couple minutes designed to cushion a fall.
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:21 am
by Idriveayugo
A cheaper way of getting into space.
More advanced space telescopes.
Terminators.
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:36 am
by chase02
A cure for cancer.
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:15 am
by Snake_byte
Dream Recorders
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:37 am
by Peanut
chase02 wrote:A cure for cancer.
It's too late for that
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:21 am
by Snake_byte
Peanut wrote:chase02 wrote:A cure for cancer.
It's too late for that
Never too late. Actually, I believe that scientists have made notable advances having to do with something like a sea sponge on certain kinds of cancers in the last 10 years.
Topic - Limb reproduction like starfish. Genetic engineering?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:41 am
by Gran
Making geoengineering possible.
Snake_byte wrote:Genetic engineering?
Don't we already do that? Or you mean stop making rabbits that glow in the dark and move to more profound aspects of genetic engineering?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:01 pm
by Snake_byte
GranAttacker wrote:Making geoengineering possible.
Snake_byte wrote:Genetic engineering?
I meant natural limb reproduction through genetic engineering, maybe by taking a look at the starfish and other budding lifeforms a little more closely.
What is Geoengineering?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:17 pm
by Gran
Oh, I understand now.
Geoengineering is controlling and designing weather patterns, elevation, climate - usually tied to planetary engineering and terraforming. But it current requires too much resources and insanity to be possible.