Which future technological 'invention' or 'advancement' are you most excited about, or do you think will improve your life the most?


Mine will be the automation of the home...automated vacuum cleaner robots (that are actually affordable), self automated kitchens...I know, I know, there are many potential (and disastrious) things that could go wrong. I'm also really excited about new transport technologies. Like the Segway (a sort of two-wheeled pogo stick thing which is controlled by leaning backwards.etc) those personal transport units (small helicopters that can land anywhere) and personal hovercrafts. I personally think those mini-helicopters will become widespread enough by the 2040s or even late 2030s, so much so they will have to enact traffic laws to control the new skyways.

Which future technological 'invention' or 'advancement' are you most excited about, or do you think will improve your life the most?


Mine will be the automation of the home...automated vacuum cleaner robots (that are actually affordable), self automated kitchens...I know, I know, there are many potential (and disastrious) things that could go wrong.


The self cleaning home is a dream I hope to see.  ::)

Moller Skycar, no doubt.

I would like to be beamed places, but am afraid it would turn out like "The Fly"

I would like to be beamed places, but am afraid it would turn out like "The Fly"



Now THAT'S a scary thought :-\\

I don't think self-automated vacuum cleaners will become a reality until I'm too old to care...maybe remote control, but what if it slams into furniture and breaks a vase? I'm looking forward to ethanol. It'll revive the Midwestern economy, make cars cheaper and revive the U.S. auto industry, etc.

Today's vacuum robots are actually surprisingly advanced. Though I haven't been lucky enough to see them in action. Anyway, I for one can't wait to see how technology will 'enhance' (or even detract) from our world and our day to day lives.

Oh man, I've been wanting one of these for a long time:

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Which future technological 'invention' or 'advancement' are you most excited about


Sharks! With fricken lasers attached to their heads! :D

TELEPORTING 8)

Some form of magnetic gadget for cars that can prevent car accidents.

;) Someone should invent a bulls*it detector one can use during elections, inaugurals, press conferences, and state of the State/Union speeches....so people can tell exactly when their elected officials are lying their a$$es off.... The dam machine might explode if someone used it to detect all of Bushie's lies though.....

The one I was most looking forward to has already become a reality thanks to Airbus....http://www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfamilies/a380/..but Boeing has been talking about a possible 747 upgrade. Yes, Boeing now has to face the music...the 747 has been outdone.

When we were little, we thought the future was full of well, what we saw in the Jetsons.


I'd like some of that, please.

Any invention to help preserve the environment.

I really do not think robots will ever replace people in any way, shape, or form-tech nuts might love it, but people won't let it happen. I also don't think "total immersion technology" will ever become successful, or computers will be totally everywhere. I think there are periods of slow and rapid advancement, and we're currently going towards the culmination of a major one, and I probably won't live to see anything but the very beginnings of another. The 1900-1920 period was one, probably the 1990-2010 one will be seen as another.

;) Someone should invent a bulls*it detector one can use during elections, inaugurals, press conferences, and state of the State/Union speeches....so people can tell exactly when their elected officials are lying their a$$es off.... The dam machine might explode if someone used it to detect all of Bushie's lies though.....


They're called lie-detectors (though unfortunately they're not used on politicians). Problem is, they're not as reliable as their creators (and praisers) claim they are. I think people are still the best BS detectors.

MP3 players will continue to improve....

and in 2007, we will have a new television standard (officially)here in America, with HD(or is it ATSC?) replacing NTSC(the current broadcast standard...

Here's one for other NASCAR fans...a track is being built in Millville, NJ...they recently broke ground for the facility.

honestly i am waiting for dsl to become available everywhere, but a moving walkway, like on the jetsons, in the home would be nice too.

More wind farms like the one in Atlantic City, near the Borgata hotel-casino. The wind farm is actually pretty, and very calming to watch the propellers slowly turning...Other places in NJ should try to erect wind farms to reduce dependency on nuclear energy, coal, and oil....Bet Ol' George W. would love that...

More wind farms like the one in Atlantic City, near the Borgata hotel-casino. The wind farm is actually pretty, and very calming to watch the propellers slowly turning...Other places in NJ should try to erect wind farms to reduce dependency on nuclear energy, coal, and oil....Bet Ol' George W. would love that...


We should take more advantage of our natural resources: attitude, tomato sauce, and overly friendly, sarcastic diner waitresses.

We should take more advantage of our natural resources: attitude, tomato sauce, and overly friendly, sarcastic diner waitresses.


How would you propose to do that?  :)

What happened to the Segway personal transport, I have never seen one yet around...I wonder why?

A sensor in people's cars that can detect if one is under the influence of any drug that might cause them to get sleepy behind the wheel, and keep them from possibly killing themselves, their families, or other drivers and pedestrians...

that tv where is completely 3d  without wearing special glasses..

What happened to the Segway personal transport, I have never seen one yet around...I wonder why?


Perhaps its indicative of how people are still so reluctant to be seen as 'different.' Perhaps people think that riding a Segway is the first step to becoming a cyborg, or worse still, a fully-fledged android!

You know, speaking of technology, there's always been a preconceived idea of "the future" especially in TV/movies. Flying cars, space suits, robotic machines, etc. Hell, someone in 1980 probably would've envisioned 2006 to be like that in some degree! ;D

I've often said that I don't think we'll ever (at least, not within 40 or 50 years) have anything like that.

However, I wondered just out of curiousity -- would you guys LIKE to have that or not? And why?

I'm looking forward to the next revolutionary idea.. I mean, take television, the telephone, the internet... they're such crazy ideas that no one could have foreseen them coming.... and yet, they're so useful... I wanna see the next one of those.

I'm looking forward to the next revolutionary idea.. I mean, take television, the telephone, the internet... they're such crazy ideas that no one could have foreseen them coming.... and yet, they're so useful... I wanna see the next one of those.



I don't know where you've been, but things like that are popping up everyday...the ipod, to name but one.

I am looking forward to cars that run on auto-drive. So then my car can drive automatically when I'm too tired or too drunk to drive (lol).

I am looking forward to cars that run on auto-drive. So then my car can drive automatically when I'm too tired or too drunk to drive (lol).


That won't happen as long as we're alive. Has anyone noticed that the whole robotics, VR image of the future that we still stick to essentially has been around since the '50s?

With all the recent advances in genetic modification, and the availability of such powerful computers at an affordable price, I've often thought that there's never been a better time than right now to be a mad scientist. Who knows what some twisted genius is conjuring up in his basement at this very moment? I wouldn't be at all surprised if tomorrow I woke up and the whole world was being terrorized by an army of flying land sharks or something that came out of some nut's laboratory in Albania or some damn place.

Many entrepenuers of concepts such as Windows, Yahoo, Amazon, Google.etc have been mad scientists in a way. I think you need that mad scientist gene in you to really EXCELL (as distinct from merely becoming 'successful).

the cordless extension cord.

The ability to teleport oneself to anywhere one wants to....I'd have some real fun with that...and I'm not telling where I'd try to show up at....

the cordless extension cord.


;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D!

Oh I fuuckin bet!

the MEG, although the oil companies, power companies, etc. will probably block it.

I think VR is probably the most exciting thing...though even now it sounds a bit gimmicky, but trust me, in about 10-15 years it'll just come out of the blue in a pretty big way. It'll raise some philosophical issues...who would rather spend their 'real' life in a virtual world, where you control EVERYTHING? You can have almost any sensation you've dreamnt possible, but none of it will be real. What is reality anyway? I'd much rather make my own, if you ask me...

I think VR is probably the most exciting thing...though even now it sounds a bit gimmicky, but trust me, in about 10-15 years it'll just come out of the blue in a pretty big way. It'll raise some philosophical issues...who would rather spend their 'real' life in a virtual world, where you control EVERYTHING? You can have almost any sensation you've dreamnt possible, but none of it will be real. What is reality anyway? I'd much rather make my own, if you ask me...


I doubt VR will happen.

With all the recent advances in genetic modification, and the availability of such powerful computers at an affordable price, I've often thought that there's never been a better time than right now to be a mad scientist. Who knows what some twisted genius is conjuring up in his basement at this very moment? I wouldn't be at all surprised if tomorrow I woke up and the whole world was being terrorized by an army of flying land sharks or something that came out of some nut's laboratory in Albania or some damn place.


I'd get half a monster..

'Monster Maker 3.0 has suffered a critical error, please restart your computer'

Or, in the middle of a 'Terror from the Deep' Nightmare VR Simulator...

'Critical error...exit.exe file unable to be located. I'm sorry, but you've got no escape. MWA HA HAHAHA!'

  ;)  If I could have a virtual boyfriend...I could make him look like Carl Edwards, or Dale Jr, or Tony Stewart.....

Better living through technology, indeed!    ;)

I don't know where you've been, but things like that are popping up everyday...the ipod, to name but one.


Honestly, that's not too surprising.. Music in Data form is no big surprise, you can do almost anything with a computer these days.

I'm talking the next big thing, like, television, the telephone.. something that completley revolutionizes everyday life.

  ;)  If I could have a virtual boyfriend...I could make him look like Carl Edwards, or Dale Jr, or Tony Stewart.....

Better living through technology, indeed!    ;)


Oh yeah, that's an idea I also had. Clone the perfect partner, use growth-inducement hormones (custom-made and tailor-made), and then you have your own, fully-fledged dream man/woman whom could act as a sort of slave. Of course, the ethical implications of such a venture would make it sort of impausible.

Teleporters and Holodecks for me! :)

That conveyor belt that takes you through the shower, then dresses you, feeds you breakfast...

That conveyor belt that takes you through the shower, then dresses you, feeds you breakfast...
Like the one in Wallace and Gromit?

That conveyor belt that takes you through the shower, then dresses you, feeds you breakfast...


Like the one in Wallace and Gromit?
or the jetsons..