I just saw this on one of those “tech talk” type shows. Apparently Xerox is the company developing it.
Your boss said this?
I’m curious what company NOT to invest in.
It was said that some day “Every COUNTRY will have a computer”.
And Ranchoth said it best -
My Grandmother, born in 1898, never drove a car, but I’m sure she was pretty good with a horse and buggy. She lived to see man land on the moon.
I predict that in the next 100 years we will see more break-though inventions then we have seen in the last 1000 years.
Hamburger earmuffs.
If I can just work out the pickle matrix, of course.
Damn! And here I had my fingernail paint application device prototype nearly finished. (It started off as a model of a device for reaching other planets, then was briefly a coffee maker. Ah well, back to staring at birds.)
Transportation for the most part has been very disappointing, truckers notwithstanding.
I think what will happen soon is an alternative to Active X, as Microsoft don’t want to keep paying that guy who invented some of the technology underpinning the universal graphic driver/software/monitor interface.
Well, they have it working with monkeys.
a human version shouldn’t be that much harder to do.
I’d like to see a process for fixing objects–eventually buildings and whole cities–to permanent fixed locations in mid-air.
Also, a cure for sinusitis.
How about an impact Dot Matrix printer head modified to create mass market tattoos?
Invention isn’t always about new discoveries, it’s creative ways of applying existing knowledge to solve new problems.
Like tuna fish in a pouch, ultra pasturized milk that can be stored in a cabinet at room temperature.
Advances in my own field of nuclear medicine in the last ten years. Faster computers with large amounts of cheap RAM enable more effective automated diagnostics. This makes more accurate, detailed clinical information available to the treating physicians.
A lot of inventions are embedded. Do you give much thought as to what happens when you turn the key in a late model car? A computer runs through a diagnostic checklist as the engine is started. The same computer constantly monitors the engine performance varying the air/fuel ration as well as the ignition timing to maintain optimum (we hope) engine performance. Various sensors in the engine supply feedback to the computer. Sensor technology is another growth area. They’re smaller and more intelligent. Car engines can go over 100,000 miles without a major tune up. IMHO I’d consider that pretty significant!
I’ll volunteer for the nanotech experiment that would give me animatronic hair.
Speaking of hair, I can’t believe I’m the first one to chime in with a universal cure for baldness. Just like the weight loss one, this is an unlimited market that would make the inventor a trillionaire.
Also, I guess that there would be some kind of actual penis lengthener, which would also make the inventor a trillionaire.
Water.
I think the next big thing will involve water. Whether it’s cleaning it, creating it in desert environments, de-salinating it on a large scale…
OF course maybe it will be something to further polarize the haves and have nots.
I don’t want an artificial limb that moves because of a microchip in my brain. I want an artificial computer planted inside my skin that I can access with my brain.
I want it to be in a convenient body cavity where no one will notice it, but where I can get put under anesthesia to get it removed and a new one installed every few years (up the terabytes you know). I want it to draw power through some sort of distance receptor (we’ll figure one out), and access the Net the same way, like WiFi all the time. I want to be able to see the screen when I look high up to the left and sideways, and I want to be able to murmur to it when I would rather talk than type to it.
Just think. I will never again forget any datum I want to know. I will know every word in French that I can’t think of, every birthday, every date important in history, every spread of products available at every cost from every company. I won’t have to keep this stuff in my head; I’ll just call on it when I need it.
Oh, and I want the computer to have a decent real translation program in it, so I can talk to people in Chinese while my mind and mouth are moving in English, and hear them talking in English to me while their minds and mouths are moving in Chinese.
Robotic monkey butlers.
(Or so I hope.)
Genetic Engineering is the wave of the future. I say the craze will really hit when scientists develop the first glow-in-the-dark plants. These plants would be as bright as a night-light and be relatively inexpensive to grow and maintain. They also would come in different colors of light, probably green and red to begin with.
Something like that would be a tremendous fad. The dollars from this would only go to creating even more interesting GM applications.
Great, because us piddly humans don’t have enough troubles traveling in 2 dimensions.
I believe we’re in a plateau period, but a relatively brief one. We’ve crested the electronic age, we have years and years of refinements and improvements to make and it’s effects will continue to trickle down for the next few decades. The next truly revolutionary advances are in biotechnology and nanotechnology. We’ll see things in material’s science, robotics, medicine, agriculture, mega-scale engineering, computing, entertainment and work that we can only guess at now, much like somebody contemporary with Edison or Marconi could only guess at what life today would be like. I personally would like to see very efficient and dense power storage, a space elevator, cloned organ replacements and vat grown meat, implanted computer/user interfaces, AIs, robotic servants, cheap and widespread desalinization, cloned extinct animals, designer organisms and engineered immortality.
hey! a teleport elevator!!! save the Hassel of confusing airport. Get loaded in one and zip in the chosen country planning to visit. Hey bt one that would check all baggage’s nd scan you. hehe!!
Well, who would’ve predicted back in 2003 that zombies would be so popular today??
Zombie resurrection will be available on commercial scale.
Hey, this is one topic where a zombie thread is actually preferable! It gives us an opportunity to see how wrong we can be:
For example, look at post number 6:
It’s been a full 10 years since this somebody typed this…and the number of correct predictions contained in the post is: zero
(but,on the positive side, at least he didn’t make any claims about nuclear fusion, or jet-packs…) 