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What technology do we lack?
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what technology do you think would most benefit humanity? i think it would be space travel. if we have a huge fleet of galaxy cruisers, we would fight less wars because we'd be having so much fun in outerspace. seriously though, what parts of life on earth really need technological improvement the most/at all? is technological advancement slowing down, or is technology basically infinite and we will continue to make parabolic discoveries like we have for the past 100 years?

i think we should concentrate on making cars that last 100 years without breaking so we can use cars all we want without ruining the planet by making so many new ones all the time.

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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Fusion.

When/if it's perfected and made commercially viable, a big chunk of the world's problems will vanish. I think the hope of the human race hinges on developing this technology before we kill ourselves off.


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2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Diploid]
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We need more Heath, Eco, Space,AG/HORT and Food safety technology.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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technology caused those problems. i don't think there is any way technology can help solve them except by becoming simpler

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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There is a solution to a HUGE part of the problem.  It is called EM, or Effective Microorganisms.  It has already reformed a large part of Japan's Agricultural, waste/sewage management as well as cleaned up massive amounts of pollution in water and the soil.  I just finished the book "An Earth Saving Revolution" by Teruo Higa.  It is the single most amazing piece of literature I've read.  If you guys want to honestly read a book with a real solution to many environmental problems we are facing, read this book.  Please read it for the sake of mama Gaia!

Peace.

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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From a consumer standpoint, better, higher density batteries! That's what is holding back the continued miniaturization and advancement of portable electronics. Look for that market to stagnate if we can't find a better alternative to lithium ion within the next decade or two. And I hope it's something rechargeable, not fuel cells! But I'll take what I can get.

From humanity's standpoint, I dunno... technology has already given us stuff like malaria vaccines and desalinization plants, I'd say what we need most is an empathy serum so the people who need these resources actually get them.

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Ythan]
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> From a consumer standpoint, better, higher density batteries!

Fuel cells are just around the corner.

> And I hope it's something rechargeable, not fuel cells!

What is wrong with fuel cells? Immediately recharged by injecting more fuel. I would love to be able to recharge my cell phone in a few seconds by adding more butane.

> When/if it's perfected and made commercially viable, a big chunk of the world's problems will vanish.

A whole lot of very wealthy people will have their security blanket snapped out from under them overnight.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Ythan]
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Ythan said:
From a consumer standpoint, better, higher density batteries! That's what is holding back the continued miniaturization and advancement of portable electronics. Look for that market to stagnate if we can't find a better alternative to lithium ion within the next decade or two. And I hope it's something rechargeable, not fuel cells! But I'll take what I can get.



Nanotech! Ultra capacitor batteries.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5192/

Nanotech could to great things for us.
But most pressing is a good clean energy source like fusion as Diploid said. Too bad fusion is always 50 years away. I think there should be an Apollo or Manhattan style project for fusion. Just loads of money and brilliant scientists could bring fusion a lot closer.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Seuss]
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What is wrong with fuel cells? Immediately recharged by injecting more fuel. I would love to be able to recharge my cell phone in a few seconds by adding more butane.


Yeah, if it works out that way then I agree with you. But I fear a market like inkjet cartridges only worse - hundreds of proprietary models, ridiculous markup, and encryption thrown in on the firmware to make refill kits violate the DMCA. I hope your vision of the future is more accurate!

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Nanotech! Ultra capacitor batteries.


Yep I actually saw that article too. Exciting stuff! Although it sounds like practical applications may be a ways off. But I wish them the best of luck.

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Diploid]
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Fusion.

When/if it's perfected and made commercially viable, a big chunk of the world's problems will vanish. I think the hope of the human race hinges on developing this technology before we kill ourselves off.



Definitely!

A large part of the workforce that serves man comes from oil, gas and coal which greatly pollute the enviroment.

Fusion promises virtually clean energy which can be considered to be inexhaustible; it's primary fuel, Deuterium, is a component of terrestrial water, and part of the atmosphere of the Gas Giant planets.

When we go to the moon we get rewarded by the most energetic fusion fuel component of them all, Helium-3, and further away the gas giants store energy reserves beyond our wildest dreams.

God clearly laid out a trail of breadcrumbs to lure us into space.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Asante]
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We can come up with more ways to kill each other. But, we don't have as many ways to heal each other.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Brainiac]
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Doesn't the moon contain Hydrogen-3, as opposed to Helium-3? H3 is supposed to be a wonderful fuel for nuclear reactors, we just need to figure out a way to sift it out of the moon's dust.

Back to the question, I think we need a better way to produce nutritious food and lots of it. For God's sake millions of people are still starving to death on this planet, and probably all of us are lacking a nutritious diet that would help with some of our health problems. I like the idea of developing EM's for human consumption personally, or something else that can fit that bill. It drives me crazy to see us spending billions of dollars on space exploration and such while people are starving. How can anyone justify that??


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: phalcon005]
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Doesn't the moon contain Hydrogen-3, as opposed to Helium-3?



Nope, Helium-3 :smile:

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I think we need a better way to produce nutritious food and lots of it.


I disagree. We already produce far more foodstuffs than the world population can eat (something like 5.000 kcal/person/day, over twice our needs) but we in the first wold waste it on such a horrible scale that shortages exist in the third world.

There's enough for everyone - we're just not sharing and worse still take far more from the third world than we give in aid.

If clean energy is abundant, you could put an entire nation under HPS lamps to grow supercrops, so that's another possibility if we solve the primary energy problem.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Asante]
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> Nope, Helium-3

Helium-3 it is... and lots of it... around one million tons (valued around $4 billion per ton in terms of energy cost from oil).


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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I think we need more doomsday technology.

You can never go wrong with a doomsday device.

Well, I suppose you can... in fact, horribly so... but I stand by my claim that I have the right to own a device which can cleave the globe in half.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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You know in movies, where they hook a bunch of electrodes to a dude's head and can then watch his thoughts and dreams on a TV.

When are we gonna get that?


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: sleepy]
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Free energy.


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: ProoN]
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Free energy ~= Fusion


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2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.

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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Konnrade]
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I think we need more doomsday technology.
You can never go wrong with a doomsday device.



Build a 10 gigaton hydrogen bomb (this is a building structure, it doesn't have to go anywhere) and cover it from all sides with bags of Cobalt(II)iodide.

The explosion will create a huge neutron flux, this will turn the CoI2 into highly radioactive Cobalt and Iodine which in a column of hot fallout will be taken tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, and will rain down across the earth. The Cobalt and Iodine will be readily assimilated by organisms, accumulating in and specifically destroying thyroids and neurons. Radioactivity will be intense for several hundred years.

Basically, the original Doomsday Device of the Dr Strangelove movie. It can be real, and like the movie alleges: "is in the realm of capabilities of even the smallest nuclear power".


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Re: What technology do we lack? [Re: Asante]
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i think free energy is pretty limited. i mean, what do we need it for? even if we stopped using electricity totally, we would still have alcohol, weed, houses...etc i mean it has totally affected us greatly... we use it alot... but what has it really done to benefit us?

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