Future inventions.

[kyektulu]

I dont know if this topic has been done before (most probably) but here we go anyway:

What sci fi invention do you think will definetly be made in the future?

I am hoping that a time travel machine would be invented but I think that one isnt really possible...

[Princess Ivy]

ah, entirely different debate there, is time endlessly repeating circle, or more a langoliers interpretation of only the present existing?

[kyektulu]

Yes I suppose so....

I concur.

I hope they invent a holodeck that would be great fun!

[pyan]

Are you asking what will be invented, or what people would most like to be invented? I suspect they are two very different things.

[Leto]

Originally Posted by kyektulu

I dont know if this topic has been done before (most probably) but here we go anyway:

What sci fi invention do you think will definetly be made in the future?

I am hoping that a time travel machine would be invented but I think that one isnt really possible...

What I think will be made ?
Pervasive integration of computer world into real life since infancy, maybe through bioengeneering.

What I'd love to be invented ? Teleportation devices.

[dwndrgn]

What I think will be made? 'pick a baby' service - choose eye color, hair color, width of nose, skin color...

What I'd like? A manual override on mechanical car windows. They always break and you're stuck with either a permanently open window or a permanently down window. This way we get the luxury of being lazy in using the windows but also the back up plan in case they break down.

[Rosemary]

What I think will happen is that all the different types of computers will be voice operated only. So no typing - where's the fun in that!!

What I would like is someone to invent a lightglobe that I buy, which does not 'blow' the following week. (Yes, I have had an electrician to check the wiring)

PS I have the luxury of manual wind down windows in my car !

[Disnatured]

Rosemary do you put your hands all over the globe before or during the installation process? From memory the oil on your hands can make them blow really quick, though I'm no sparky.

I think it will be something like a combination of Letos idea and dwndrgn. Parents will choose their babies much like in Gattaca, and through this process some people will be given great aptitude at things like computers or what have you and these will be "run off" like a commodity whenever the government or a major corporation needs people. In essense they will make people specifically to do a job and these will be a lower class of people being bred and owned by a goverment or company and having no real parents. Of course they will also increase the ageing process in these individuals so the customer can have a healthy fully grown human within 12 months or so.

[Stalker]

Soon, very useful devices are to be invented: thoght remote control of TV, adult-in-the-armachair feeding device, back-scratching device, devices substituting humans in all their activities up to the brain substitutes and digestion system substitutes, otherwise, there is gonna be new MDWs after the WW III - such as a modified spiked club with manual targeting... ;-))

[kyektulu]

dwndrgn I know it is pretty inevitable that it is going to happen but I really dislike the idea of a 'designer' baby, it is sick and immoral, just imagine... there would be very little diversity left in the world.
Disnatured, lets just say I hope you are wrong!

I believe in the future there will be some kind of flying/hover car.
Not nessecarily like in The Jetsons.
Also some kind of alternative fuel source, one that dosnt comsume the earths natural reasources!

[asdar]

I think an energy source is coming. Hydrogen, solar, wind, Fusion or some such.

Watch for the space elevator, if you haven't read about it I think it'll start construction in about ten years, but won't be completed for 30-40 years. It'll be a line going to space with a transport that can take things up and down for very little cost per trip.

Here on earth I unfortunately see an increase in spy gear. I can see the development of a nervousness detector where a computer will sense someones biometrics as they approach a gate, such as in boarding a train or plane and single them out as a threat for investigation.

[AmonRa]

Originally Posted by dwndrgn

'pick a baby' service

unfortunatley people with morals wont like it... *think second airrian race*

what would be more acceptable tho would be to find which 'possible baby' might have a genetic disease, and kill it before it comes to existence...

[terryweide]

I think one invention that may come shortly will be a personal computer mounted in the dashboard of your car. Instead of having a car stereo, you'd have a car computer instead. Somewhat like a car stereo, the computer could play potentially thousands of MP3 songs, and if it were voice activated, it could search the Internet for the latest traffic news, general news, topics of interest, etc., all while you were driving down the road. The advantage to a car personal computer compared to a normal stereo/radio, would be that with the "carputer" you could pick your own programming.

Terry

[Leto]

Not future invention Terry, already installed in some cars in Japan. And soon to be in US and Europe (2006 -2007)

[kyektulu]

AmonRa I do hope that they can detect diesiese in an embyo and remove it.
No one deserves to suffer.