What is your opinion? Coldfusion? Nanotechnology that could program down to the biological level and even rid cancer? Or the discovering of the Grand Unified Theory?
My personal opinion, would be the invention of a Truth/Lie detector that is 100% accurate. That can do it's reading from a distance (see observable distance), either from reading brainwave activities (if what they're saying is accessing the reasoning area of the brain, memory area of the brain, or imagination area of the brain... or could read eye movements, lip twitches, change in heat flush around the face... something, anything, but it can detect what you say if it's the truth of a lie with 100% certainty.
I say this is so important, because i think this would eliminate 95% of all the crimes we have... and we would never ever have another person convicted on a false conviction, and we would never have a criminal loose because they had good lawyers or because there was a flaw in how they were arrested. And it would cut court costs down dramatically. Even such moral issues as cheating on your spouses would almost be eliminated.
But what i think would be the biggest effect would be WORLD PEACE. Leaders could never lie to other leaders again, because the lie would be detected automatically. There would never be another invasion of a country, at least one that the world wouldn't know about it ahead of time, because they would never be able to hide it. Politicians would entirely have to be honest, because all fibs would be detected. And dictators like those in Iran would be discovered for who they really are by the people, because the people would know when they were lying or not.
I think such a device is bound to be invented sooner or later. I think that if somebody as wealthy as Bill Gates were to commit 10 billion dollars to the research, i think it could be created within a generation.
My personal opinion, would be the invention of a Truth/Lie detector that is 100% accurate. That can do it's reading from a distance (see observable distance), either from reading brainwave activities (if what they're saying is accessing the reasoning area of the brain, memory area of the brain, or imagination area of the brain... or could read eye movements, lip twitches, change in heat flush around the face... something, anything, but it can detect what you say if it's the truth of a lie with 100% certainty.
I say this is so important, because i think this would eliminate 95% of all the crimes we have... and we would never ever have another person convicted on a false conviction, and we would never have a criminal loose because they had good lawyers or because there was a flaw in how they were arrested. And it would cut court costs down dramatically. Even such moral issues as cheating on your spouses would almost be eliminated.
But what i think would be the biggest effect would be WORLD PEACE. Leaders could never lie to other leaders again, because the lie would be detected automatically. There would never be another invasion of a country, at least one that the world wouldn't know about it ahead of time, because they would never be able to hide it. Politicians would entirely have to be honest, because all fibs would be detected. And dictators like those in Iran would be discovered for who they really are by the people, because the people would know when they were lying or not.
I think such a device is bound to be invented sooner or later. I think that if somebody as wealthy as Bill Gates were to commit 10 billion dollars to the research, i think it could be created within a generation.
