Future inventions.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by kyektulu

What can I say to that??????????

Actually, what you can say to that is "no, I don't agree with that at all" give reasons for your opinion. at which point we either get a discussion, which is what a forum is all about, an argument (which isn't just saying"no it isn't" to everything I say) or an all out slanging match, which is fun in its own right but excedingly improbable with me. Alternatively, you can agree with my sentiment and continue adding potential inventions to the list- no-one else has to deliver them with the construction details and the technical manual.
It's a pity- I seem to have murdered this thread in its infancy- no one dares to invent anything else in case I come along and tell them how to build it

[Rosemary]

Alternatively, you can agree with my sentiment and continue adding potential inventions to the list- no-one else has to deliver them with the construction details and the technical manual.
It's a pity- I seem to have murdered this thread in its infancy- no one dares to invent anything else in case I come along and tell them how to build it [/quote]

Well, I am sorry but I really don't think your idea of the space elevator is at all feasible. The inclometer and the armillary spheres preclude all known continium. Also the magnetic declination would require an athodyd and a radio interferometer to maintain phase velocity to overide the four dimensional continium alone.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by Rosemary

Well, I am sorry but I really don't think your idea of the space elevator is at all feasible. The inclometer and the armillary spheres preclude all known continium. Also the magnetic declination would require an athodyd and a radio interferometer to maintain phase velocity to overide the four dimensional continium alone.

Yes, I know I do (or should that be "I have observed that tendency in myself"? How do you pronounce "inclometer"? Accent on the second sylable sounds good to me- it means a pice of string with a weight on the end to tell you when it's straight- but sounds so much nicer than the plebean "plumb bob" don't you think? Oh, and continuum has two "u"s.
I liked this thread but seem to have cuddled it to death, as the kids did to the rabbits at a playground I once supervised (a word suggesting seriousness and authority. Actually I was worse than most of the kids)

Perhaps if I hid in the pure science threads for a while the rabbits would come out to nibble?

[Rosemary]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

Yes, I know I do (or should that be "I have observed that tendency in myself"? How do you pronounce "inclometer"? Accent on the second sylable sounds good to me- it means a pice of string with a weight on the end to tell you when it's straight- but sounds so much nicer than the plebean "plumb bob" don't you think? Oh, and continuum has two "u"s.
I liked this thread but seem to have cuddled it to death, as the kids did to the rabbits at a playground I once supervised (a word suggesting seriousness and authority. Actually I was worse than most of the kids)

Perhaps if I hid in the pure science threads for a while the rabbits would come out to nibble?

I do apologise I was trying to keep your thread going for you but as I know absolutely nothing about scientific inventions it turned out to be a tongue in cheek answer I do hope you enjoy your stay in the pure science threads - I won't be there (well not very often) which will be nice for you.

[dreamwalker]

Shouldn't we be asking what we would like to have invented? instead of knocking down peoples ideas of what could be...
Although i totally agree with chris there on the space elevator, not in 10 years, nor 10 thousand years... All the matter and energy we'd use building the thing would have happly gone into colonising (note, I did not say the "T" word) Mars and establishing ways of moving civilisation up the Kardashev Scale...

We should be more realistically looking to develop socially, the way the earth is run and managed, how wealth and information is distributed and the the time being, that can only be done with improving trade (no im not one of those fair trade or make poverty history people) but improving trade and commercialisation will lead to a mo unifed word.

Look at singapore and dubai, 2 very wealthy cities in 2 nations with very little in terms of natural resources. but they florish because they harbour and promote trade and development between different other nations. These cities are in there own right inventions that the entire world should look at and build on.

[kyektulu]

I know that as a writer I would love to have a small machine that can understand the sound of my voice and save what I say to it to its memory. This will enable me to 'write' my story without actually writing it down.
I want this to be invented not only for the idle aspect of it but for 2 reasons 1. I would be able to get my story done much faster (as when I am writing an exciting bit of my book It takes tooo much time to write everything down and I end up loosing my thread.)
2 It would help disabled people a hell of a lot.
I once saw some tv sci fi program that had this little floating egg shaped machine that did this, it was great. If this machine could fly and stay near me without me having to move it that would be fantastic.

[edott]

I think we will see much more effecient alternative energy vehicles. what i want to see is a space elevator.

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by kyektulu

I know that as a writer I would love to have a small machine that can understand the sound of my voice and save what I say to it to its memory. This will enable me to 'write' my story without actually writing it down.
I want this to be invented not only for the idle aspect of it but for 2 reasons 1. I would be able to get my story done much faster (as when I am writing an exciting bit of my book It takes tooo much time to write everything down and I end up loosing my thread.)
2 It would help disabled people a hell of a lot.
I once saw some tv sci fi program that had this little floating egg shaped machine that did this, it was great. If this machine could fly and stay near me without me having to move it that would be fantastic.

That sounds like something that could be built now -not a floating ball, of course, but a brooch or something, a cue word for "start recording", another for "stop" and another for "download" remember, you can never write these words. Standard voice recognition software, only work in a quietish place (or noise cancellation circuitry so you can work in the car or train?) any one of the wireless data communication systems- you could probably put it in a moble phone.

[Neal Asher]

'it would help disabled people a hell of a lot'

I'm sure that if you did a bit of searching you would find it has already been invented and is being improved upon. I do know of a blind guy in Australia who uses the Internet - his computer reading stuff out to him - but that's a substantially easier technology.

[hermi-nomi]

HAs anyone already mentioned that an 'Invisiblity Cloak' (Harry Potter) has been developed? I'm afraid I can't yet give you the link, but the news can be found at future brief dot com (all one word.) As written by Jeffrey R. Harrow
Principal Technologist, The Harrow Group.

[cornelius]

we used to have a company , "lernout and Hauspie", whow orked on voice recognition, voice transmit and everything that could link voice to computer... there had been fraude, the company declared bankrupcy...

( sorry for errors,I don't have such voice thingies yet)

[SukiTrek]

I would expect to see practical fusion reactors plants someday.

[kyektulu]

A cure for all the terrible illness' in the world would be the best thing ever.

[cornelius]

I agree

later on maybe things to turn seawater into sweet water
and commercialised alternetive energy sources.
And something for people to stop scr*wing up the planet.

[kyektulu]

Originally Posted by cornelius

I agree

later on maybe things to turn seawater into sweet water
and commercialised alternetive energy sources.
And something for people to stop scr*wing up the planet.

That would be ideal.
Alternative energy sources.
Also ways to dispose of the waste that we as a race produce without dumping it or burning it.