What is the Next New Technology

[Synth3t1c]

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: AcidBath
wireless or "beamable" energy. No batteries or anything. All items needing electricity in your house would recieve it from a centralized transmitter in the basement.

Tesla supposedly had something like this in his lab

he did. problem was that static built up like a mofo, and all the horses thought it was lightning and stayed the ****** away from it. it wouldnt be sufficient enough to power most of our major appliances though...

im pretty sure that was the deal with that

 

[flyfish]

Bass fishing.

 

[Triumph]

Dell will develop a universal translator that allows all of its customers to understand Indian.

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: destrekor
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1881775
that's it right there. allowing blind people to see. what more could possibly be more ground-breaking?

That doesn't allow people to see, all it does is annoy them with flickering flashes of light. We still have at least a decade to go for that.

Now spintronics and superconductive transistors or negative refraction lenses, thats far more .'ground breaking'.

 

[everman]

Nanotechnology is an enabler of just about everything mentioned here.

Allow the blind to see? check
Superconductors? check
Quantum computing...yes

The list goes on. Just as the internet introduced a huge paradigm shift, so too will nanotech, it already has begun.