What 25 inventions does humanity NEED to create?

[Gori the Grey]

scleerum nodles
fanheist inverters
temporal intrusion dampeners
the panconscious equilibriator
lightspeed lubricant
autosensor inhibition fluxes
preawareness amplifiers
spiralling demorphs
mobitants
equinotical baffles
mordancy recalibrators
flexsteel
the quantum phase codex
mapping of the enhistial soodancies
torsion pretensioners
caloric amplification granules
veedham splicers
the metacelestial grid
spilp
forrent decoupling capacity
hedandic tape
hedandic tarps
pebelbian overclocking
toravean balancers
antaskan

anyway, those would be my 25.

 

[Tahuti]

1. Spacecraft
2. Spacecraft
3. Spacecraft
4. Spacecraft
5. Spacecraft
6. Spacecraft
7. Spacecraft
8. Spacecraft
9. Spacecraft
10. Spacecraft
11. Spacecraft
12. Spacecraft
13. Spacecraft
14. Spacecraft
15. Spacecraft
16. Spacecraft
17. Spacecraft
18. Spacecraft
19. Spacecraft
20. Spacecraft
21. Spacecraft
22. Spacecraft
23. Spacecraft
24. Spacecraft
25. Spacecraft

 

[civvver]

Obviously the two things humans need most of all are instantaneous travel and unlimited clean energy. Those two things would bring every person out of poverty and make us all equal. Why? Well all of mankind's issues would be solved by those two things. Like people without food and water. It's not that we don't have enough food and water, it's that we don't have a distribution scheme to get food and water from places with it to places without like parts of africa. It's too expensive or just impossible. Teleporters would fix that.

Then if we had unlimited clean energy now we don't need to add any more carbon from fossil fuels, as well as we can run tech like water purifiers all day in places that need it. Stuff becomes insanely cheap to produce if energy is unlimited.

Real estate doesn't matter cus everyone can just teleport wherever. You can get a job anywhere. You can have a home anywhere else there's space.

Ok but more close to home:
I'd say non permanent male birth control, like a pill for men. I believe they are working on this. If it could cut down on births out of wedlock it would be great.

Full automated smart transportation grid. We can make it all electric and eliminate the need for cars. Whether this is like google smart cars or pods like minority report, don't care. But the american ideal of having a car per person is dying. I just need to get from point a to point b as fast and cheap as possible.

Cure for degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimers and dementia. End of life care is the most expensive part of health care and these are two of the most expensive diseases to care for. I don't necessarily want to increase human lifespan, but if we could remain functional into our 80s and 90s and avoid needing full time care cus of memory issues that would dramatically decrease health care spending.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Flux Capacitors?

 

[Truthy]

Post-humans and something to replace humanism

 

[Zkribbler]

... instantaneous travel and unlimited clean energy.

Good answer
Thoughtful analysis

So far, civver is winning

 

[Broken_Erika]

A Neural-Destupifier that makes stupid people....not stupid.

 

[bernie14]

scleerum nodles
fanheist inverters
temporal intrusion dampeners
the panconscious equilibriator
lightspeed lubricant
autosensor inhibition fluxes
preawareness amplifiers
spiralling demorphs
mobitants
equinotical baffles
mordancy recalibrators
flexsteel
the quantum phase codex
mapping of the enhistial soodancies
torsion pretensioners
caloric amplification granules
veedham splicers
the metacelestial grid
spilp
forrent decoupling capacity
hedandic tape
hedandic tarps
pebelbian overclocking
toravean balancers
antaskan

anyway, those would be my 25.

what is....List of The Big Bang Theory episodes?

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

sexy AI that also murders you

 

[inthesomeday]

Obviously the two things humans need most of all are instantaneous travel and unlimited clean energy. Those two things would bring every person out of poverty and make us all equal. Why? Well all of mankind's issues would be solved by those two things. Like people without food and water. It's not that we don't have enough food and water, it's that we don't have a distribution scheme to get food and water from places with it to places without like parts of africa. It's too expensive or just impossible. Teleporters would fix that.

Then if we had unlimited clean energy now we don't need to add any more carbon from fossil fuels, as well as we can run tech like water purifiers all day in places that need it. Stuff becomes insanely cheap to produce if energy is unlimited.

Yes, but the obstacle to equality is not technological. It is social.

 

[Zkribbler]

Yes, but the obstacle to equality is not technological. It is social.

Erm, IMHO we'd need both the will [socia] and the way [technology].

 

[inthesomeday]

I agree, but I'd say that fixing the technological obstacle would not go very far in fixing the social obstacle, while fixing the social obstacle would expedite the process of fixing the technological obstacle a lot.

 

[Lexicus]

Erm, IMHO we'd need both the will [socia] and the way [technology].

Dude, we have the technology

 

[inthesomeday]

We can rebuild him

 

[tjs282]

1. Spacecraft
...
25. Spacecraft

Spacecraft are great once you're in space, but relying on rockets to climb in and out of gravity wells safely uses ridiculous amounts of energy for not much payload per trip. So what we need are superstrong materials that we could use to build a practical space elevator(s). And then we can build those spacecraft in orbit.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Dude, we have the technology

We can rebuild him

We can make him better than he was

what is....List of The Big Bang Theory episodes?

I guess my point (insofar as I had one) was that the names of the inventions we will need in the future wouldn't make any sense to us now. If 50 years ago, someone had posted this thread* and one of the responses was "the internet," that would have been gibberish to people of that day. (A description, of course, would not: "a mechanism for the instantaneous transmission of information, textual and graphic, across the entire globe")

Spoiler :

 

[sophie]

Good answer
Thoughtful analysis

So far, civver is winning

I listed, literally, the exact same items like 7 posts prior. With the caveat of a technology or algorithm that distributes goods with perfect efficiency. You have have all the energy and instantaneous transportation in the world, but a system dictated by capital and the free market is still going to create haves and have-nots. California is a place where you can buy strawberries that were picked an hour prior and delivered directly a block down the road to the grocery store. A place with, at least in the case of the Santa Clara Valley, plenty of land for development and plenty of jobs, and yet the housing market is still a crap shoot. There aren't enough houses for people. Food is still expensive and people still struggle to feed their families, ironically usually those who are picking the strawberries in the first place.

As I said in my post, it's not just literal scarcity, but artificial scarcity (people LIVING in regions swimming with food, and yet unable to buy any of it), and perceived scarcity that contribute heavily to the world's problems, and no utopia can be achieved without addressing those as well.

 

[Zkribbler]

I listed, literally, the exact same items like 7 posts prior.

I must admit that you did. However, civver's answer is clearer and more concise, so I will leave him with and award you . Moreover, it's a rare time when he & I agree on anything, so he gets bonus points for the novelty of the situation.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

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.

 

[caketastydelish]

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