What area do you think the next big breakthrough will be in?

checjb said:
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. :rolleyes:
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i thought stem cell research in the UK was the best in the world? i attended a lecture at the local uni a few years ago (dad has parkinsons so im interested in it). the USA has had issues with all the bible bashers
 
I hope the next breakthrough will be in economics, where this capitalist credit based system falls and a new one replaces it. And also, that it will bring with it the utilization of Tesla's free energy that we aren't using only because it cannot be controlled, hence can't be profited from.
 
Cartaker, evidently you know little about physics as "free energy" as you put it, is impossible to create as there will ALWAYS be energy losses. NOTHING can be 100% efficient, and matter cannot be created by means that would actually be useful to us.
 
Conscript said:
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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yep that's what I was trying to get at. You would see the marking "in the real world" as it would be projected onto the windscreen in such a way that it looked like it was actually on the road.
 
TommyV said:
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.
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Sadly this might never be cured. I've always seen it as a population control of whoever created us. We will never find a cure i don't think.

The planet is already over-populated as it is.
 
I would like to see a breakthrough in HDD technology, they've going on about it for years about "emerging" technologies that will enable Petabyte style storage, but nothing so far.

And also the next generation of supersonic aircraft, or perhaps even orbital ones enabling trips from London to Sydney in like a matter of hours.
 
Jimz said:
Sadly this might never be cured. I've always seen it as a population control of whoever created us. We will never find a cure i don't think.

The planet is already over-populated as it is.
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Well that's one way of looking at it, a pretty stupid way of looking at it, but a way of looking at it nonetheless. If it is population control it clearly doesn't work very well.
 
Joshct said:
Been done, some people managed to make wireless christmas tree lights.
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Nightglow said:
Already been done by Tesla around 1890's
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Zefan said:
This already exists, it's what all wireless electronic communications is based on.
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Until I am sitting here with my laptop on my lap charging with no wires attached to it, no wires plugging in to my lamps, no wires attached to my TV that makes my room messy and no wires for my toaster, then I am not happy!!!
 
TommyV said:
Please.

On a serious note, would having sex with a designated sec robot, be cheating?
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Lets just imagine guys have a certain viewpoint on if having sex with a robot is cheating.
Now lets imagine your girlfriend one day says "I'm off to have sex with the robot whom/which? is bigger than you and doesn't run out of stamina".

Now i ask you: Is it cheating?
 
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