# Future technological innovations **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742 "2002-09-03T02:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742/41 "2014-10-05T23:16:25Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > hmm. thought the principle of this was that the effect is real but you can’t use it to transfer information. > > We’ll have artificial wombs, DIY cloning and programmable sex-bots. In other words: women will become obsolete. You can’t transfer information, but you can be guaranteed that the distant photons are complementary to each other. The point being that you can transmit uncollapsed qbits, not just classical data. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742/42 "2014-10-05T23:53:02Z")
The idea of lighter-than-air craft used as heavy lifters – cranes, etc. – was nicely explored in Dean Ing’s science fiction novel “The Big Lifters.” Pretty good book, and very sensible ideas. It’s rather frustrating that this book was published in 1988 – and big lifters of this sort aren’t in use today. I guess helicopters are good enough. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742/43 "2014-10-06T00:09:12Z")
This is not really a debate. Off to the forum for specualtion: IMHO. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742/44 "2014-10-06T00:34:35Z")
> [@filmstar-en](#): > > There are some things that don’t seem to change. > > One is the pattern recognition problem. Computers are very fast, but making sense out of audio and video mages seems extraordinarily difficult. People imagine computers it can recognise words and pick out faces and it can be done, but only in very controlled conditions. > > This lack of ability to interpret information from sensors we will be tapping away at keyboards for some time to come. See, what I think will happen first, is people will have to learn to adapt to the computer rather than the other way around. So in other words, we’ll have to become fluent in “computer speak” if we want to use the hands free tech. So instead of saying “Google, take me to the nearest grocery.” You’ll have to know to say “Ok Google, {beep} navigate to the closest grocery.” ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742/45 "2014-10-06T16:16:23Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > See, what I think will happen first, is people will have to learn to adapt to the computer rather than the other way around. So in other words, we’ll have to become fluent in “computer speak” if we want to use the hands free tech. > > So instead of saying “Google, take me to the nearest grocery.” > > You’ll have to know to say “Ok Google, {beep} navigate to the closest grocery.” The latest smartphones are getting pretty good at it; my Samsung S5 with the Google search app correctly parsed “Take me to the nearest grocery” and popped up google maps with the closest grocery store highlighted, and the next 2 closest ones also shown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-technological-innovations/126742.md?page=2)