What is the Next New Technology

[archiloco]

if that meteor does not hit us in 2012 then whatever else comes is good.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I think it has to be a new energy source...we need one or we are totally scrwed

 

[WildHorse]

getting away from power by combustion.

can't see what it'll be...antigravity? solar wind? something out of Nikola Tesla's mind?

anything to get us off energy from combustion (oil, natural gas,coal, burning things)

 

[Strk]

Three seashells.

 

[BatmanNate]

Instantly fermenting yeast. You heard it here first.

 

[totalcommand]

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: DaShen

Originally posted by: gigapet
they are already here.....nanotech, biotech, robotics

jsut give them some time to mature......20 years.

QFT... plus I think there will be a drastic push by some countries for energy conservation. In which case technology and more efficient ways of generating energy will be created.

nano enabled solar panels capable of caputring .001% of 1% of the sunlight that reaches the earth would produce seemingly unlimitted power.

and also might suck needed energy from the surrounding environment.

 

[BriGy86]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan

Originally posted by: BriGy86


my guess, is far improved batteries, since the ones we have aren't all they great

THAT will be one of the next best inventions... I was reading somewhere about battery capacity, and apparently while everything else in technology has improved, batteries have hit a plateau...

I heard somewhere that the next big breakthrough with batteries will be ones that recharge fully in seconds! I mean think about it, if your battery only lasted 3 hours, but you could recharge it in 10 seconds...

That's probably the most likely thing to happen I think.

battery technology is one of the main things holding us back for now, as far as i know

i heard some where while everything is advancing we are still using battery technology from about 20 years ago, some one made a thread on small batteries that are 3X as efficiant made from some sort of virus

im willing to bet that the biggest break through will have something to do with making energy or storing it

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

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

I do believe you are correct; power can be broadcast.

of course power can be broadcast, what do you think electromagnetic waves are? there is an electric field component and a magnetic field component that travel perpendicular to the direction of the wave, and the power travels in the direction of propagation(ie P=ExH)

OK, I am NOT an electrical engineer, but AFAIK electromagnetic energy != electricity

Obviously magnetic fields are not electricity, but magnetic fields can be used to produce current and vice versa. This is how transformers, generators, and motors work.

Oh and I AM an electrical engineer.

 

[drinkmorejava]

CueCat FTW

 

[venk]

Holodeck

 

[venk]

Originally posted by: BigToque
Hamburger Earmuffs!

We will never figure out the pickle matrix.

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Cattlegod

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

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

I do believe you are correct; power can be broadcast.

of course power can be broadcast, what do you think electromagnetic waves are? there is an electric field component and a magnetic field component that travel perpendicular to the direction of the wave, and the power travels in the direction of propagation(ie P=ExH)

OK, I am NOT an electrical engineer, but AFAIK electromagnetic energy != electricity

you are correct on that one.

electricity = electrons
emag waves are not electrons.

the problem with tesla's experiements is that they cooked everything that got in the path of transmission IIRC.

this is true, but an electromagnetic wave possesses energy. stand infront of a radar and see if you don't warm up.

You all need to look up tesla generators

Far from perfect in any sense of the word, but they do transmit power wirelessly.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: Tobolo
Naqueda Generators

i would say ZPM's but oh well

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: lozina
jessica alba clones engineered to love you

if only we could be so lucky

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: swtethan
mr fusion

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: daveymark
I'm not at liberty to say, but let's just say within the next 2 to 3 years, a huge, drastic improvement will be implemented which will literally change the way we live.

nuclear winter?

 

[Legend]

Optical computing (with the registers to support it). We're talking about processors in childrens calculators that would be faster than the most powerful computer today.
Life extension.
Prenatal selection for all. The human race will advance exponentially.
Genetics in general.
World Government.
Fast space travel.
Sleep enhancement. Like speeding it up. Assisting people to naturally wake up at good points between sleep cycles.

 

[sunase]

1. space elevator
2. easier antimatter production
3. unmanned vehicles advanced enough to replace all front line humans (might make war popular again, unfortunately)

 

[Staples]

The internet was the last one that changed the world.

I have often wondered what the next one will be.

Maybe stem cell regeneration or clones of the super solder.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

high density batteries based on nanotechnology (carbon nano-tubes). Electric cars might be closer than most think.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: OS

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

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

I do believe you are correct; power can be broadcast.

of course power can be broadcast, what do you think electromagnetic waves are? there is an electric field component and a magnetic field component that travel perpendicular to the direction of the wave, and the power travels in the direction of propagation(ie P=ExH)

OK, I am NOT an electrical engineer, but AFAIK electromagnetic energy != electricity

Obviously magnetic fields are not electricity, but magnetic fields can be used to produce current and vice versa. This is how transformers, generators, and motors work.

Oh and I AM an electrical engineer.

Teslas dream was the Tesla sphear. It isn't ever going to do wireless power transmission in the manner people are thinking here. it's one of his failures. If anyone figures out how to control where lighting strieks though ... amybe Tesla was correct.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
high density batteries based on nanotechnology (carbon nano-tubes). Electric cars might be closer than most think.

Oh ... I thoguht I'd follow up.

This is the same tech that is going in laptops that will allow them to run for 3 weeks on a single charge. The battery is the same size as any laptop battery by the way.

 

[bluewall21]

Nearly instantaneous global data transfers of any size.

 

[GenDJ]

A tool that will replace the Ozone.

Space technology.

Being able to shoot a missle from the sky, using satelites..

This thing i heard of, called a microwave. Im thinking that will be the greatest invention ever... well, that and birth control ;D

 

[Mucker]

Stainless poo......my tighty whitey's will always look new :thumbsup: