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What new advancements, inventions, and technology might come from discoveries made in the past 50 years?

 

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Better ways to prevent diseases that are transmitted through DNA by isolating the diseased genes that carry that problem and either remove them or destroy them. This could only be done by mapping the genome which was done about 12 years ago. There will be other things that this technology will do like enhance peoples memories, extend life and enhance learning abilities.

 

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Time-travel

 

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All of them.

 

Its began been lost many times. Evolution has just as much ability reduce its factor to the nutrients within the soil just as much as our ability to produce better crops varies significantly with different crops grown. Yet it might actually be possible with different light sources, harsh cyclic ground conditions, and even acidic nutrients to produce a plant that rings vertically. Allowing all the growth above the ring represent a year of growth.

More recently we have stainless steal like surgical scissors, knifes, and even guns representing sturdy and precise machinery with a contrast of stoves, refrigerators, and even dish washers and washing machines made by precise machinery capable of forming thin sheets. Thick metals like copper aren't used in pipes as often simply because they are too thick to insulate yet too flexible to stretch into a thin tube able to resist various varying degrees of temperatures.

Inspiring the electric and cable companies slogan to be, "he who moveth shaketh" yet satellite systems aren't strong enough to move electrons over the air or through buildings. They use smaller particles which are only now coming to be know to exactness.

 

Lasers will be used more and more in surgery, dentistry and many other professions.

 

Solid state transmutation / energy release.

 

That one had me for a second. Nice.

 

Go here: http://www.sciforums.com/threads/bric-news-comments.84022/page-39#post-3265885
To see one introduced just last Thursday. I expect it will flush Apple's iPod6+ down the toilet, when it enters US & EU. It is better in all aspects* and cost less than half what the iPod6+ does! Made by world's third largest seller of cell phones, but now only sold in Asia.
* Four times the battery life, thinner, lighter, two cameras (one 8 the other 13 M pixels) with larger screen! Plus computer details I don't understand, but computerworld.com likes.

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$270 price one has less memory (16 GB, I think)

 

This is a pretty good and current roundup of emerging technologies overall:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies

 

Why thank you!

 

2nd column (AQUION) may make Musk's megabatter complex have less market than he is expecting. - Only electric cars.

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Text discussion here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-billion-race-build-better-040103658.html

Just like the "4-minute mile" The $100/ KwH battery for fixed sites is a difficult but reachable capital cost goal. When that is achieved, we live in a different solar (wind power is solar too) powered world, but it may be "too late" if the many positive feed backs have already carried man past the AGW "tipping point." - Why it is so critical we switch to sugar cane based alcohol car fuel NOW.

 

BillyT: Sugarcane grows great in Brazil, Hawaii, Louisiana and other places with appropriate climate. Can those places grow enough sugarcane to fuel the worlds' car/truck fleet? I doubt it. It's great for where you live - I believe solar panel will replace oil/coal/nuclear in the next 50 years for most electricity purposes, as it is presently more economical, just needs the infrastructure.

As to the current age - we're in the "computer age" of course.

 

it is very difficult to guess what the technology may appear in the near future .. every day is presented with something new ... Science is not static

 

Sugar cane, a grass, will grow any where that does not have hard grass killing freezes, but as it is storing solar energy, it does store more where there is more sunshine. I.e. best places to grow it are between the tropics (Cancer & Capricorn). None the less to be closer to the main cities with most of the flex fuel cars, about 1/3 of Brazil's sugar can is grown slightly south of the Tropic of Capricorn, where most of the cars and wealth is.

You did not mention Africa. I think ALL of the needed cane could best be grown there - Look at a map - a large part, (my quick guess is 80% %) of Africa lies inside the tropic zone. There is a huge supply of low skilled labor there, now living out side the "cash economy" which could plant and cut cane by hand, gaining salaries, a part of which would purchase products made in the first world.

Slash and burn agriculture has been practiced there for hundreds of years. Hard to get good data but I think just the abandoned pasture in Africa is more than enough. But there is an enormous amount of grass lands still just grazed by wild animals - much more of both than needed.

If Americans could turn the Ohio Forest, where Daniel Boon hunted bears, into cities and farms to build a better life for Americans, then Africans have a right to do the same, to small fraction of the African grass lands. With more capital available, adequately guarded game preservers could be establish and current poaching could be nearly ended. Some animals now approaching extinction, could be saved by funds sugar cane could generate if Africa were to become the world's main supplier of mobile use fuel.

For more details on how the African economy and social structure could be changed to greatly benefit Africans who now riot for lack of jobs / health care/ education/ etc. see: http://www.sciforums.com/threads/the-best-replacment-for-gasoline-is.145851/#post-3294687

 

I agree with cosmictraveler that the real game-changing technology arising from discoveries made in the last 50 years will be genetic engineering.

Not only will it revolutionize medicine, the day is coming when we will be able to design and clone custom biological organisms. Someday we might grow hollow tree-houses that are powered by chlorophyll and sunlight, use custom-grown brains and nervous systems as our computers, and ride around on self-reproducing and self-steering animals with soft furry heated seats, able to fuel themselves on grass. Horses weren't without their advantages, and engineers can doubtless improve on them.

Imagine the 'sustainability' when old-style energy-intensive metal-banging industries are replace by more subtle biological industries.

Human beings will be engineered too. Race will become an obsession of the past when parents can specify their child's skin color and hair texture before birth. Some will choose unusual designer-options like blue skin or metallic silver hair. Children will be given enhancements, ranging from disease resistance to the creation of 'mentats' with improved IQs. It's possible to imagine the reverse happening too, with people engineered to be submissive servants. Sports will be revolutionized with specially designed athletes (football players with physiques like tanks and runners like human greyhounds). People might be biologically adapted and optimized for exotic environments like life under the oceans or in low/zero gravity environments (like sci-fi's 'quaddies', with shoulders instead of hips, and additional arms where a normal person's legs would go.)

Obviously there are going to be huge ethical problems associated with all of this. What will happen to human choice and self-determination when people are biologically engineered for particular roles and functions? These might be the big divisive social raw-spots in 50 or 100 years, like race and class are today. Normal humans (of any race or class) might be slow to accept genomics-enhanced humans, who might end up like hollywood's 'X-men'. There will probably be all kinds of laws passed to try to keep a lid on this stuff, with biohackers making black-market alterations on the sly.

And imagine what will happen if biohackers make genetically-engineered viruses as ubiquitous as computer viruses are today. It could mean extinction.

 

yeah, it's just as bad as human spydominions: and their genital palpitation meaning from a distance[they actually seem to be capable of murdering people with such intent.,seemingly caring to sense a person whom they may have killed,the persons rebirth in the animal foodery kingdom or natural wildlife kingdom and or human kingdom with their networking, it's so disgusting.

all they do is degrade human representative value, especially writing.,and therefore materialism is a paperpushing exaggeration.
the spydominion addictions and their behaviorist ployances of people are a violence that doesn't and never did belong.

 

Wireless charging can be one of them?

 

Very inefficient in most applications, but with tiny loads not too important if 80% of the energy is lost; However in some applications, with tight coupling between the energy transmitter and receiver it can be attractive, especially if the receiver is moving.

For example an electric roadway with coils the are only energized as the vehicle is passing over it and the "pick-up" coil scale size much larger than the separation between the transmitting and receiving coils can avoid carrying the fuel (or batteries). I.e. only need the mass of the pick-up coil and electric motor. Not of interest except for transport that never leaves the powered roadway. Perhaps a modern version of the street car with no overhead wires.