Question by ©2009: What is going to be the subsequent critical invention that wiil change existence as we now know it?
Electrical power, anesthesia, inner combustion engines, flight, and computers, to name just a couple of, are inventions which have altered the course of mankind. What is the following “large factor” that is going to profoundly impact our every day lives? and how so?
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Answer by adarsh_kr
Alternate FUEL source… That will be the next large inention, thats going to adjust our existence.
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free energy generating devices.
hydrogen powered vehicles
with our need to switch to alternative energy sources, perfecting this technology would solve our dependency on fossil fuels.
Manufactured products are made from atoms. The properties of those products depend on how those atoms are arranged. If we rearrange the atoms in coal we can make diamond. If we rearrange the atoms in sand (and add a few other trace elements) we can make computer chips. If we rearrange the atoms in dirt, water and air we can make potatoes.
Todays manufacturing methods are very crude at the molecular level. Casting, grinding, milling and even lithography move atoms in great thundering statistical herds. It’s like trying to make things out of LEGO blocks with boxing gloves on your hands. Yes, you can push the LEGO blocks into great heaps and pile them up, but you can’t really snap them together the way you’d like.
In the future, nanotechnology will let us take off the boxing gloves. We’ll be able to snap together the fundamental building blocks of nature easily, inexpensively and in most of the ways permitted by the laws of physics. This will be essential if we are to continue the revolution in computer hardware beyond about the next decade, and will also let us fabricate an entire new generation of products that are cleaner, stronger, lighter, and more precise.
It’s worth pointing out that the word “nanotechnology” has become very popular and is used to describe many types of research where the characteristic dimensions are less than about 1,000 nanometers. For example, continued improvements in lithography have resulted in line widths that are less than one micron: this work is often called “nanotechnology.” Sub-micron lithography is clearly very valuable (ask anyone who uses a computer!) but it is equally clear that conventional lithography will not let us build semiconductor devices in which individual dopant atoms are located at specific lattice sites. Many of the exponentially improving trends in computer hardware capability have remained steady for the last 50 years. There is fairly widespread belief that these trends are likely to continue for at least another several years, but then conventional lithography starts to reach its limits.
There is also Cold Fusion which holds the promise of easily available low cost energy. For example buying a car or house which comes with its forever energy. More can be found at the Cold Fusion Journal http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/
I think time travel is sonething that will change our lives as we know it.
time travel,human cloning and robots will change everyone’s lives
I’d like to see anti-gravitational cars.