What 25 inventions does humanity NEED to create?

[Maximum7]

In order for humans to "live long and prosper", what 25 things do we have to invent?

 

[Zkribbler]

Fusion power is the most likely to become practical soon.

Faster-than-light space travel will allow us to colonize other planets and thus avoid extinction in case of a global catastrophe.

 

[Arent11]

(1) Longevity/Regenerative medicine
(2) Colonization of other planets
(3) An actually long-term stable society/government.

 

[Lexicus]

This is an oddly specific open-ended question.
I think most of the answers are going to be institutions and cultural structures rather than what we commonly think of as "inventions."

 

[Perfection]

The technology to unify two separate clumps of dirt into one clump of dirt.

 

[Zkribbler]

I think most of the answers are going to be institutions and cultural structures rather than what we commonly think of as "inventions."

A most peculiar prediction in light of most of the answers so far have been inventions.

 

[Lexicus]

A most peculiar prediction in light of most of the answers so far have been inventions.

Oh sorry, I meant most of the real answers as opposed to the answers people are giving in thread.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Some weapon that can wipe out vast swathes of the population, but without creating all the fallout and devastation you'd get with nukes.

 

[inthesomeday]

Some weapon that can wipe out vast swathes of the population, but without creating all the fallout and devastation you'd get with nukes.

The opposite of this

 

[Ajidica]

Some weapon that can wipe out vast swathes of the population, but without creating all the fallout and devastation you'd get with nukes.

We already have that, its called the neutron bomb.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The opposite of this

So a weapon that turns devastated irradiated land into swathes of people? Would the detonation be called a "Population Explosion"?

 

[inthesomeday]

Actually wouldn't the exact opposite be a weapon that creates lots of destruction but kills nobody?

 

[Zkribbler]

Oh sorry, I meant most of the real answers as opposed to the answers people are giving in thread.

Ah, I see. Such as humanity continuing on the path away from primitive tribalism evermore towards civilization where, if someone like me meets someone from say Nairobi, or Ulan Bator, or Gaza, or La Paz, I see just another human and not an "other."

Actually wouldn't the exact opposite be a weapon that creates lots of destruction but kills nobody?

A rerun of the A-Team?

 

[Birdjaguar]

The technology to unify two separate clumps of dirt into one clump of dirt.

I have that in the palm of my hands. Patent Office here I come.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't know which have to be created. I am sort of surprised no one has developed a super-virus to kill everything.

 

[inthesomeday]

Lots of folks think the CIA has

 

[Perfection]

I have that in the palm of my hands. Patent Office here I come.

I highly doubt you've cracked the secret of clod fusion.

 

[warpus]

1. Unified Grand Theory of Physics and Everything
2. Flying cars
3. Flying boats

 

[Birdjaguar]

I highly doubt you've cracked the secret of clod fusion.

Mud pies are an ancient art. Replicated over generations. There is no doubt that it works 80% of the time.

 

[Perfection]

1. Unified Grand Theory of Physics and Everything
2. Flying cars
3. Flying boats

What about amphibious flying cars?