What 25 inventions does humanity NEED to create?

[caketastydelish]

We need a retrovirus that makes women infertile after they have their first child.
Best way to fix the environment and fight poverty is to reduce the human population to under a billion.

You're just like my dad, except even more authoritarian and utopian, trying to force the entire world to your strict rules. Giving more education about birth control and contraceptives and making them more readily available... these are good things. Making it illegal for anyone to have more than 1 child is unfair.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

You're just like my dad, except even more authoritarian and utopian, trying to force the entire world to your strict rules.

Strict rules ? I'm not proposing rules, I'm proposing depopulation bombs that won't kill anybody already alive. Humanity is already a huge drain on the ecosystem, and the current Western standard of living isn't sustainable. Not even for the current number of Westerners.

Giving more education about birth control and contraceptives and making them more readily available... these are good things. Making it illegal for anyone to have more than 1 child is unfair.

Birth control might not be enough, and limiting birth rates across the board is more fair than some utopian population control scheme based on pseudoscientific eugenics.

 

[inthesomeday]

Fellas overpopulation is a myth, there are plenty of ways to reduce human emissions without massacring or forcefully sterilizing billions of people (most of whom I assume would probably be poor and thereby less responsible for emissions at all, once the chips were down)

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Yeah, there are ways, but it would be much easier with fewer people around. Emissions also aren't the only issue. It's all the garbage we produce and the fancy toys we all want that require resources and turn to garbage.
But I suppose cheap and easy FTL travel and quick terrarofming would also solve the problem.

 

[rah]

The extras we'd get from teleportation technologies.
Since it's not really teleportation but making a copy, that would mean that a copy could be made and stored. A young copy. If you could separate the mind from the rest, you could keep copying yourself to a younger version of yourself. Or tweak the copy to cure diseases.
Personally the thought of being disintegrated and then a copy being make somewhere might be a bit much from me. Would that copy truly be me.

 

[Lexicus]

Fellas overpopulation is a myth,

It's not a myth, but it is certainly true that a lot of treatments of the issue frame it in more-or-less explicitly eugenicist terms.

 

[REDY]

I would vote for alzheimer cure.

 

[bernie14]

see.....that's why I went with matter reorganizer, rather than teleporter....why would I just want to make a copy of something out of something else when I would be able to take anything and make it into anything else....nearly perfect recycling.....the perfect toilet!!

 

[inthesomeday]

The extras we'd get from teleportation technologies.
Since it's not really teleportation but making a copy, that would mean that a copy could be made and stored. A young copy. If you could separate the mind from the rest, you could keep copying yourself to a younger version of yourself. Or tweak the copy to cure diseases.
Personally the thought of being disintegrated and then a copy being make somewhere might be a bit much from me. Would that copy truly be me.

What about teleportation that is truly opening a door to a distant place, as the root words say? Some form of technology to fold two points in space together?

 

[Broken_Erika]

What about teleportation that is truly opening a door to a distant place, as the root words say? Some form of technology to fold two points in space together?

You're gonna need need a lot of spice for that.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Bigger rockets. Faster satellites. All the cool stuff.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I would like to see a cure for mental illness. It would put me out of a job, but the results would be well worth it. I can always do something else.

 

[Samez]

just some technological stuff - new social concepts will be at least as important
- cheap and healthy synthetic meat => would make industrial livestock farming obsolete which would be good from an ethical and environmental point of view
- artificial organs
- advanced human immune system => will help to overcome current and future diseases
- high efficiency energy storage => will remove the need for a lot of (useless) power generation and renewables even more feasible - also helpful to replace oil as energy carrier
- efficient radiation cleaning => will make the world a better place after ww3
- efficient radiation shielding will make a mars/space colony more likely
- plastic eating bacteria => will help recycling the waste of the last two hundred years of human society
- a way to stop the climate change and reverse and stabilize it to the point before industrial era
- a way to copy the human mind (e.g into a digital storage or a new body)
- a way to control the AIs
- a way to minimize plate tectonics/earthquakes and to prevent volcano eruptions (Yellowstone I am looking at you)
- interstellar travel for the time the sun dies down
- a lossless two way matter/energy converter
- artificial gravity => useful for space travel and fancy stuff like artificial gravity lenses

 

[Lemon Merchant]

- efficient radiation cleaning => will make the world a better place after ww3

There won't be anything left to clean after WW3...

... or next weekend if these effing idiots keep going at "diplomacy" the way they are.

 

[Kyriakos]

You're gonna need need a lot of spice for that.

The spice must flow.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The spice must flow.

Finally! Someone caught on..
I wonder what a Surgeon Generals warning for spice would look like..

 

[tjs282]

I wonder what a Surgeon Generals warning for spice would look like..

WARNING: spice may be addictive. Side effects may include (but are not limited to) eye discoloration, alterations to body odor, prescient visions, messiah complexes, and apocalyptic galactic crusades. For further information and advice, please contact your local Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother.

[Edited to be funnier, I hope...]

 

[Zkribbler]

- a way to stop the climate change and reverse and stabilize it to the point before industrial era

Once upon a time, I came up with the idea of a machine that would combine excess carbon oxide with water to create sugar and oxygen, thereby solving both climate change and world hunger. It would be solar powered, of course.

After about two hours of working on the particulars, I realized I had just invented vegetation.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I had a brilliant idea: the banana holder. Sadly it was already invented too.

 

[Kyriakos]

I had a brilliant idea: the banana holder. Sadly it was already invented too.

About as brilliant as the "bread gloves":