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Eight Technologies That Will Change the World

Posted by michael on from the better-stronger-faster dept.

lostincyberspace writes "This story looks at existing advanced technologies, and contemplates how they may combine in the future to create the technology of 70's TV shows. Sensors + Mobile Power + Biomanufacturing = ... Bionics. ("We have the technology") The most fascinating part is that all of these new technologies seem like they'll be available in the not too distant future."

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  1. Technology previews by NETHED · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it was in the early 30s or 40s that they demonstrated a video phone. Its twenty-o-two, I see no video phones.

    How about that molecular manufactering. Sounds like the replicator they had on the Enterprise. Truthfully, I don't see this even being in the lab for decades. Sure, we can theorize about these things that it is possible, but I can also theoretically date Britney Spears, and we ALL know that ANIT gonna happen.

    I take these tech preview thingies with many grains of salt.

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  2. Right! by mjh · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The most fascinating part is that all of these new technologies seem like they'll be available in the not too distant future.

    Right. Which is exactly what they thought in the 70's, too, hence the TV shows.

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  3. cognitronics - dangerous? by Sarin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You could turn lights on and off, mute the TV, or drive a car simply by thinking about doing so.

    Sounds dangerous to me, you have to be carefull what you think instead of being carefull what you do, escpecially when these devices have lethal uses, like a car.
    What if you bionic arm would act on your impulsive first toughts after being annoyed or arroused by someone.Instead of pulling your middle finger to another roaduser, the car might try to hit this person.

    Thinking is not a crime might not be true in such a future.

  4. No they won't by r_j_prahad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They won't change a damn thing, they'll never even get a chance to, because they'll all violate either the DMCA, the CBDTPA, a EULA, somebody's Terms of Service Agreement, UCITA, a patent, the Bern Convention, the Patriot Act, or some as yet unknown restrictive legislation yet to be enacted.

    The technology future for the U.S. was yesterday. It's all over, man. We're rushing headlong into third-world status at breakneck speed and there's nobody out there to stop us.