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What technological "advances" do you expect to become commonplace in the next 50 years?

CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
THIS news on the Anandtech main news page reminded me of a few ideas I had over the weekend.

1: Animated Tatoos using embedded organic displays
-Hides offensive messages while in the workplace
-Provides helpful info, like a tatooed watch
-Awesome effects
2: 3D Plastic Printing through multi-layer passes and evaporating support substance
-Download files for a replacement Game Boy housing, or TV remote
-Design your own projects
-Print your own tools
-Download a toy from Toys R Us for your kids 🙂
3: Printable Electronics with "semiconductor cartridges"
-Download devices for small projects and print them onto flexible circuits
-Buy non-printable components, consumerized at Wal-Mart (Fits like Legos! 😀)

What do you guys think will become second-nature in the next 50 years?
I mean stuff for the VERY common people. Like toilets and telephones.
And not the common "Flying cars" or "Artificial Intelligence" stuff, let's get really creative 😉
What other uses could the already mentioned things have?
 


<< And not the common "Flying cars" or "Artificial Intelligence" stuff, let's get really creative 😉
What other uses could the already mentioned things have? >>


I've given up on flying cars 🙁
 


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First he thinks he's a mod, now he thinks he's God. The folks from the sanitarium are here. If someone will just sign these committment papers...
 


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<< Me==God >>



First he thinks he's a mod, now he thinks he's God. The folks from the sanitarium are here. If someone will just sign these committment papers... >>


Think? THINK?!?! Bah, I wouldn't even be here if the cleaning lady wasn't in the bathroom. I need to take a shower...
 
Clean Air and Drinking water? Peace on Earth? Better and more efficient ways to rub out your enemies? A Cure for the Common Cold?
 
50 years is a long time, I can think of a few things happening between now and then.

- Electric / hybrid cars. Possibly powered by fuel cells or hydrogen. Expect to see the straight gasoline vehicles dissappear.
- Broadband to every house, from the beginning, at cheap prices. Everything will be carried over 1 single line: (video)phone, cable, movies on demand (we've got that now in certain areas, should be widespread in the next 10 years), everything else.
- Medical science will make huge breakthroughs: 1st human cloned, all organs either clonable or have perfect mechanical replacements.

Too lazy to think of more

EDIT: Forgot to put another 2 in there:
- Cancer and AIDS will be cured.
- I see geneticly engineering children (as in Gattaca, choosing the best cells, not creating from nothing)
 
1. Cloneing- both great human beings and farm animals
2. hydrogen and/or lithium powered light cars
3. human genome will be complete and we will produce designer babies for those who can afford it.
 
I hope they develop more cures for diseases and sydromes and stuff. Would be great to have cures for cancer, cystic fibrosis, alcoholism, downs, etc. Personally, I'd like to see them come up with a cure for rheumatoid arthritis, that'd be nice.
<--- is enjoying the spring weather because her hands don't hurt so much.
 
Networking !! we'll be moving huge amounts of data around the globe sooo fast ! Virtual reality development will hopefuly progress
and make it so that it is indeed possible to "reach out and touch someone" via your computer 🙂
 
We've seen most of the big advances in electronics already, what's left is faster, smaller, cheaper in the near future. I look forward to a display that folds up into my pocket for my PDA & omnipresent wireless networks that'll stream @ high rates.

I think we'll see nanobots injected into humans that scour away cancer cells & supplement organ lifespans.

That brings up the next big thing: genetic engineering. By mapping the human genome we've got a start, but it's analagous to having a parts list to a 747 airplane & no assembly manual. We'll crunch numbers with our smaller cheaper, faster computers & having already built a better mousetrap, we'll have to build a better mouse.

& I want my *#%^!(%$# flying car too!
 
Hydrogen based fuel cell for auto's and household power generation. Should have happened 20 years ago. But the path of least resistance has been oil. But we need to move on to hydrogen because oil will be too valuable to use as fuel.
 


<< Hydrogen based fuel cell for auto's and household power generation. Should have happened 20 years ago. But the path of least resistance has been oil. But we need to move on to hydrogen because oil will be too valuable to use as fuel. >>



First generation fuel cells will still use hydrocarbon fuel to produce hydrogen. It is just a matter of where the fuel comes from.

Next 50 years: Definitely a cure for cancer and AIDS. Actually, I expect these within the next 20 years.

The really cool stuff is what will happen behind the scenes to improve your lives without you even knowing it.

Ryan
 
Accelerated thought, and by that, i mean the act of thinking. Just as the core circuitry of a processor can be reworked to shorten traces and other steps to "speed up" the computing process, i think we will have a mechanism in place to do a similar thing with our neural traces... reorganization of neural synapses to improve throughput. I also believe that more basic neural system responsibilities such as breathing control, etc. will be handled by an external unit, thus freeing up valuable neural connections to be used to concentrate on higher level thought.
 
I'm going to make my guesses to the good and the bad.
Bad:
World War 3, started by something in the middle east.
As one of our esteemed members quotes from Albert Einstein "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Good: Hydrogen powered cars, Working antigravity in the lab at the end of the 50 years, a working ai but something with the iq of a cat or dog, a space station, and a few years from or an already established lunar base, and of course The Orgasmitron. 🙂

Edit: I think antigravity (or something similar) is key to flying cars. Without it, it will take over a hundred years for them to become reality.
 
I'm guessing there will be wonderful advances in medical technology.

Crazy possibilities that may or may not appear:

The Video Game channel--no console, no system, just turn on your tv 😉
Quality programming on Fox(?)
 
who wants to bet that someday, we'll hear some candidate say "When i was in Congress, i took the initiative in creating Nanotechnology" ?
 
Fusion power plants
Hydrogen fuel cell cars

Maybe someone will actually win the X-Prize by then. We might even have a space elevator by then so there wouldn't be a need for X-Prize type vehicles.

Cybernetics will probably be a lot more commonplace by then too.
 
Wow, this thread really took off!

Elita1: That's coming this month! On the 24th I think... See The G4 Network
Heh, well it's just a TV network, but SEGA actually had a "SEGA Channel" once that downloaded games to the Genesis.
Nintendo had a Sharp brand TV in the 80's that integrated an NES.

Squisher: Sony also has a $150 learning remote. You can use a Palm too 🙂
 
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