World changing inventions

MrRockliffe said:
Nuclear fusion will be the next thing. Clean nuclear power.
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No current nuclear fusion research is clean.

There is no investment in straight hydrogen hydrogen fusion. Because it's soooo much harder.

All the nuclear fusion projects atm still make radiation and still make radioactive waste in the form of old reactor parts
 
Merlin5 said:
Can you imagine if hospitals can create those from advanced 3D printers while you wait. Not out of the question, though won't be for many years ahead of us. I would like to see eye replacement surgery for the blind and the going blind. Now that would be something if it gets to the point of perfect vision.
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How would you print cells?
 
Tefal said:
No current nuclear fusion research is clean.

There is no investment in straight hydrogen hydrogen fusion. Because it's soooo much harder.

All the nuclear fusion projects atm still make radiation and still make radioactive waste in the form of old reactor parts
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Hence the "future inventions" bit
 
Tefal said:
No current nuclear fusion research is clean.

There is no investment in straight hydrogen hydrogen fusion. Because it's soooo much harder.

All the nuclear fusion projects atm still make radiation and still make radioactive waste in the form of old reactor parts
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True, but not much. The radiation is easily blocked. The radioactive waste is only the interior shielding wall, which is of course designed to be removable and can be removed before it's very radioactive, so it's only low level waste. It might be possible to make a shield that doesn't become radioactive while containing the neutrons emitted by fusion of dueterium and tritium (which may well be easier than practical fusion that doesn't emit neutrons).

Even dueterium-tritium fusion is possibly the cleanest form of generating electricity that we have and it's definitely the cleanest form of reliable and controllable electricity generation that we have. It's also something that every country could do, so it would be world-changing in political terms too. No need for dependence on other countries for energy generation or storage. It's the best bet for the near future.
 
Merlin5 said:
I'm not sure for example if the mobile phone can be classified as important as when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Obviously it's world changing and we all use one, but without it we still had normal phones. Yet before Graham Bell, we had nothing like it.

What is GD's professional opinion?
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The history of the telephone: Six pioneers who transformed the world of communications

http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/pho...ucci-gray-reis-ericsson-cooper-11364256543584
 
Tefal said:
How would you print cells?
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I wonder if theoretically there could be some process where you printed a part in macro out of some kind of active material (i.e. a filament composed of some kind of nanite like component) that underwent some kind of low level transformation post printing to turn it into a working component at the microscopic level.
 
Rroff said:
I wonder if theoretically there could be some process where you printed a part in macro out of some kind of active material (i.e. a filament composed of some kind of nanite like component) that underwent some kind of low level transformation post printing to turn it into a working component at the microscopic level.
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So magic :p

I can kinda see us doing what we're doing with the pigs kidneys now print out a framework of collagen and then bathe it in human stem cells a which recognise it and become a kidney but its seems implausible and a lot of extra work jist to slap in "3d printing"

I mean if you've got your "nanties" that can build molecular components why bother with the printer? Just use a tank full of the stuff
 
Transferring consciousness to a machine(s) which will allow us to travel the cosmos, its the only practical solution.
 
Air travel.. because it was something the human race has always striven for and something we take so much for granted today. Global airline travel has made the world smaller place in the very short time since the Wright Brothers first took to the skies 115 years ago.
 
Few people have stated it already. Agriculture is easily the most significant milestone in human history. It changed literally everything about how we interact with the world and each other.


Arsonist said:
Transferring? Or replicating...scary difference.
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Indeed. Not sure if you're a gamer or not but if you are, play SOMA and thank me later :P
 
Remember the PDA back in the 2000s? Then we have the PDA phone e.g. Sony-Ericsson P910 back in 2005 then Apple improved on the design in 2007 with their iPhone. Nowadays they're called smartphones but they're essentially still PDA phones. Smartphones roll in a point-and-shoot camera, personal stereo, handheld games console, internet access, radio, contactless payment, sat-nav, torch, plus the PDA functionality (diary, reminders, shopping list, calculator etc) all rolled into one device.
 
AGI that then improves itself to become SGI that's 1000s of times more intelligent than the smartest human minds, building systems and solving issues we could only dream of.

Luckily AGI appears to be some way off still :)
 
New article I just read, some of which were touched upon in this thread.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/tec...gest-breakthroughs/ss-AAAFOWK?ocid=spartanntp

Self driving cars
Controlling the weather
Space tourism
Flying cars 2020

3D printed organs 2022
Prellis Biologics Inc has developed patent-pending technology to print the rapid creation of capillaries which form the inside of organs, bringing us a step closer to 3D-printed organs. The company suggests that they could bring the technology to market in the next five years. Melanie Matheu, who co-founded Prellis Biologics Inc in 2016, believes that it will take $15 million (£11.4m) and two-and-a-half years before they test the 3D-printed organs on animals.

Genetically-modified humans: 2038
In 2012 scientists learned how to use DNA sequences found in bacteria – called CRISPR and pronounced "crisper" – to cut DNA, testing its potential to edit human cells. While not in use as yet, a 2016 review in the Nature Biotechnology journal reported that CRISPR could correct genetic defects such as cystic fibrosis, cataracts and Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease that leads to bone marrow failure, cancer, and leukemia.Genetic modification is currently illegal in the UK, and while some experiments have been made, a designer baby has not yet been created. However, bioethics Professor Henry Greely from Stanford University has predicted that the practise will be the norm in 20-40 years, with parents choosing the embryos based on disease risk, sex and intelligence.

Eternal life 2045
Russian internet millionaire Dmitry Itskov hopes to make it possible by 2045. In 2011 he set up the 2045 Strategic Social Initiative. Its goal? To make it feasible to transfer the human consciousness to an artificial carrier, and guarantee immortality.
 
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