What area do you think the next big breakthrough will be in?
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That's because it's an inherently inefficient way to transfer power.
Yeah because fighter pilots have as many immediate physical hazards in their proximity as a car
Silly me, flying a modern jet in a combat zone must be stress free then.
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In my pants.
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Breakthroughs are pretty rare. More likely is the continual improvement cycle that we see in most areas. Fusion would be nice though!
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This. I think you might have missed what Hades was getting at, InKurision. The way I took it, the HUD would be able to overly graphics as if they were actually on the road - like road markings - not just displaying direction arrows in front of your face. Of course, it would also need some way to know your eye position to account for parallax.
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cure for cancer I hope.
Just as an aside, if Big Pharma (and I work there) had developed a cure for cancer (of which they are huge numbers, not just one) then do you really think we could keep it quiet? No-one develops a new drug on their own and if one showed promise and then mysteriously vanished then someone would think "that would help my mum - I'll leak the info and let someone else make it".
My team works incredibly hard to try and find new drugs and this sort of Conspiracy Theory clap-trap really gets my goat. Rant over.
Regarding the OP: Superconducting cables in the National Grid (we lose ~10% of power between the generating plants and our homes!) and cloned/printed organs. If only certain groups wouldn't object to everything with the words "stem cells" in it we might get somewhere with it. Unfortunately, "stem cells = baby murder" is a prevalent attitude.
Wouldn't say my thoughts are 'breakthrough' but I predict a big change for the mobile phone involving wireless internet (hear me out).
Wireless internet will broadcast throughout the UK eliminating the need for Routers and to have homes wired individually to the internet. Your mobile phones will no long require contracts for minutes as you will just use internet services like BBM, iPhone Message and Skype.
Of course computers and such can still utilise it. What you reckon??? onto a winner?
Wireless internet will broadcast throughout the UK eliminating the need for Routers and to have homes wired individually to the internet. Your mobile phones will no long require contracts for minutes as you will just use internet services like BBM, iPhone Message and Skype.
Of course computers and such can still utilise it. What you reckon??? onto a winner?
Please.
On a serious note, would having sex with a designated sec robot, be cheating?
This.
But on a similar note, from a populace standpoint, is it viable? Would the world within 20 years become unhabitable/sustainable with no-one passing away from such a disease?
I'm not being heartless, trying to think about it from a practical point of view.
Only with small mah batteries, should never charge any more than 1c really.
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We've barely scratched the surface of the potential of stem cells.
Which cancer? There are hundreds and they're different. Different causes, different treatments required.
Although I suppose it's theoretically possible to have a generic whole-body treatment that somehow detects and kills all imperfect cells. That would cover all cancers, although it wouldn't be specifically targetting cancer. Maybe nanobots in blood could do it, theoretically. There have been recent breakthroughs in nanobots in vivo - scientists recently succeeded in making a way to power them.
I think that the next big breakthrough will be in batteries. That would be more important than it sounds, especially if it's very large scale batteries. There is some research going on that might lead to huge batteries with enough storage capacity to be of use on a national grid. That would be a game changer, making alternative means of electricity generation much more viable. Another direction with batteries that might happen in the fairly near future is a huge increase in charge to weight and charge to volume ratios, which would make electric cars much more viable.
Although the next really big breakthrough might be economic nuclear fusion. A superabundance of very cheap, very clean electricity would have a lot of effects.
Going way out on a limb - a cure for aging. It's theoretically possible and it's hard to imagine something that would have more profound effects than everyone always being at the peak of adulthood and an average lifespan of centuries, maybe even millenia (people would eventually die from disease or injury).
Which leads me to think that my initial comments about cancer might be wrong. There might be a blanket cure for all cancers. Naked mole rats appear to be utterly immune to all forms of cancer and it appears to be related to their remarkable resistance to aging (they live about 6 times as long as would be expected and they spend almost all of it in the peak of adulthood).
Exactly what I was gonna say. The more medicinal break-throughs we have, the larger the world population will get, which brings many more issues to the table. Energy, food, disease. I'd say Energy is my hope. Certainly the thing I'd want most money to be being spent on.
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