# What future innovation are you sad you'll never live to see?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-innovation-are-you-sad-youll-never-live-to-see/692716>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 9, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-innovation-are-you-sad-youll-never-live-to-see/692716 "2014-07-09T16:03:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-innovation-are-you-sad-youll-never-live-to-see/692716/41 "2014-07-11T13:10:49Z")

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> [@Barking\_Dog](#):
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> Star Trek style replicators.

[3D printing](http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home/feature_3d_food_prt.htm) is getting us there.

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> NASA has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Systems and Materials Research Consultancy of Austin, Texas to study the feasibility of using additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, for making food in space.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-innovation-are-you-sad-youll-never-live-to-see/692716/42 "2014-07-11T13:39:19Z")

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> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> > [@grude](#):
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> > I’m sad I probably won’t live to see chemical encoding of memories in the human brain, and by extension the ability to upload and download memories to other people.
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> > Can you imagine being able to share a memory? Or download someone elses memory?
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> > I think it would be a game changer!
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> > (Yes I realize this is pie in the sky scifi nonsense no where near reality, sue me!)
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> Think of how this would revolutionize the judicial system.
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> “Did you kill that man”
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> “No”
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> “Let’s go to the tape!”

What _might_ be possible sooner is an accurate lie detector. I think there has been some research done using functional MRI in this regard.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-innovation-are-you-sad-youll-never-live-to-see/692716/43 "2014-07-11T17:58:20Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Spellcheck fails again.

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**Author:** ![Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-innovation-are-you-sad-youll-never-live-to-see/692716/44 "2014-07-11T18:03:12Z")

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> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> Think of how this would revolutionize the judicial system.
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> “Did you kill that man”
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> “No”
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> “Let’s go to the tape!”

Think of the big Supreme Court fight over it.

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