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What do you think will be the next big invention?

60 years ago no one believed we would have computers like we do today+internet.

So what do you think will be the next thing that will change everybody's lives forever??

[center]Probably some new thing that will make our lives easier at first, then totally complicate it a few years later. (Much like the computer did)
I'd love to see some sort of flying car, or 'Cloaking device', but I have my own reasons for that...[/center]

The next big thing will supposedly be flying cars aka personal helicopters.

lets get hydrogen powered cars going before we try to do hover.

Yes, hydrogen energy will be the next big thing. Or stem cell medical therapy.

Meh being the person I am(nice, kind, generous, thoughtful....I'm a good kid wow.....oh shoot back to topic) I HOPE the next big thing is a cure for cancer. now I know we are far from it but I think it would help out many families. Maybe even a cure for AIDS would be good enough. I hope that's what you meant by "next big thing". I personally think it is WAY bigger than a stupid flying car.

Hydrogen cars have a few inherent problems associated with them. It's the problem of generating sufficient amounts of hydrogen, without producing MORE greehouse gasses in the process by using more electricity. Calculations show that emissions are about the same for a regular car and a hydrogen powered hybrid, because to produce the hydrogen requires fossil fuels to be burn to produce the energy needed to make hydrogen. The May 2004 issue of Scientific American has an article dealing with this issue.

Now, there ARE other options than burning fossil fuels to create electricity, but most of them has it problem. Hydro-electric looks clean, but new research shows that in order to build a dam, it would produce a massive amount of greenhouse gasses due to the flooding involved, which would then cause things like plants to rot. Wind power is costly to deploy, and they need a very large area of land to generate sufficient amounts of power. Nuclear is quite good in terms of producing power, but there is a small problem of nuclear waste which needs to be stored.

But I'm just ranting off track now.



Next big thing? Neutrino detectors/generators, leading to a new revolution in communication technology. People can now communicate all over the world for dirt cheap rates.

Hydrogen fuel is far away from today.Reasons why.

Exterior intake rockets and stem cells will be the two next big things.
Around 70% of a space rockets mass today is liquified oxygen, nasa is trying to design rockets that would take oxygen from the atmosphere, compress it, and use that for combustion. This is huge because it would make space flight go from say $100,000 to only around $500 per trip.

Stem cells would also be huge, simply because they could let us have the ability to regenerate lost appendages or damaged organs. I could see stem cells end up causing cancer, so I'm not sure what will happen. Then again, I can't predict the future.

Nuclear hand grenades!

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Wow Im stupid cause you would die if you threw one ahahaha it would be tight though

I think they would be able to find some way of anti-gravity propulsion. They already have tests going to find the source of gravity and fish can sense gravity too with 1 of their organs. Supposedly once they find a way of locating gravity waves or particles or whatever, they're going to try to reverse it for propulsion.

That would cut down greenhouse gas emissions by shitloads!

and modest too...

i bet that the next big thing will be somehting that none of us can even begin to guese at. it will probably involve some thing we didnt think possible and will be absolutely crazy. also like indecisive said, a cure to AIDs would rock.

Antigravity has not been found. What you are probably talking about is anti-matter. It basically causes explosions if it touches anything.

There are people today that are genetically evolved (for lack of a better word) that do not have the reception site on their cells for the virus to enter. In other words they can't get AIDS.

The next big thing is Starcraft 2!!! It will change the world forever!!! LOLOLOL....
Um ya... Back to the topic...

Truely, I think the next big thing will be hydrogen cars. It is not what you would like to be the next big thing, it is what do you THINK will be the next big thing. One problem with them is that they are not unlimited. They will be very hard to make and hard to get enough fuel to meet the demand of America, much less the world .

How about I post those pms you sent me and prove how nice, kind, and thoughtful you really are?

but hydrogen-powered cars, are powered by hydrogen.

How about Carbon Dioxide powered cars? That would help reverse the green house effect on the earth. Some get the energy when you split carbon or something like that to power the cars. Im no scientist Im just saying it would sort of help earth wouldn't it?

That is probably the best way we could go, and it's not that hard to turn CO2 into energy. But someone would have to build a car that runs off sugar.

Ok, I did hear about some car that these college students made that runs on grease and another car that runs on trash. That would be good too.

No I mean anti-gravity. Anti is the negative of something so negative gravity would cause you to push AWAY from an object. Antimatter would just cause more problems than we have today, especially if we started manufacturing charges the size of bowling balls (there goes the ing planet).

We managed to teleport electrons. It would be cool if we could teleport. But also dangerous because you will be able to go into anything you like. Unless we make some sort of barrier like thing that only allows you to teleport to certain places.

My guess at the liekly next big life affecting discovery will be a medicine of some kind.

The Internet II is coming out.

Anyone here read Maximum PC magazine?

The Internet II?
I'd be interested in hearing details about this,

I'd be more interested in something that nullifies gravity.
Gravity + -Gravity = No gravity
In my opinion, that would be better, because then if you tried to move something, you would only have to worry about air resistance.



Wasn't the electron teleportation just copying an electron and 'making' it somewhere else?
If so, just don't make an end-side for the teleporter where you don't want people to go.

A propelling force of gravity doesn't exist.
In the words of a famous scientist to a reporter. (forget who)
"Do you see that chair under you? That holding you up is the closest thing to anti-gravity that we have found"
Essentially yes, Here is what they have done.

I don't have the March 2005 issue handy, but here's the basic idea:

A new type of networking will replace the existing internet.

New hardware, new software, beyond-uber speed.

It will be so fast that you can have someone else pool in their idle processing power over this cross-globe network to spare to you.

Think communism with computer processing power.

And remember that communism didn't exactly work out... to put it subtly.