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10 Profound Innovations Ahead

Posted by phunkychic666 on February 5, 2010

space planeBy Jeremy Hsu for Tech News Daily:

Today’s world looks increasingly like the future. Robots work factory assembly lines and fight alongside human warriors on the battlefield, while tiny computers assist in everything from driving cars to flying airplanes. Surgeons use the latest technological tools to accomplish incredible feats, and researchers push the frontiers of medicine with bioengineering. Science fiction stories about cloning and resurrecting extinct animals look increasingly like relevant cautionary tales.

But even the best of science and technology has yet to solve climate change and famine, or conquer disease. More and more people live on a planet with shrinking resources, which leads to political strife and conflict. Here, we examine some of the hottest areas where researchers hope to forge a better tomorrow.

No. 10. Read My Mind

True mind-reading devices remain in the realm of science fiction, and lie detectors rely on indirect cues to catch fibbers. Still, brain scans have allowed neuroscientists to predict what people will do during specific task experiments, and even to observe when a person will make a mistake up to half a minute beforehand. Another technique has used near-infrared light to figure out simple preferences based on brain activity. These feats rely on analyzing brain patterns that occur during specific actions, rather than truly cracking the brain’s neural code, but they still have scientists and legal experts debating mind-privacy issues. Perhaps in the near future, they’ll just use Twitter for a meeting of minds.

No. 9. Around the World in 90 Minutes

Phileas Fogg took 80 days to go around the world, but travelers may eventually hop halfway around the globe in less than an hour. The U.S. Air Force and Brazil are developing a Lightcraft concept that could someday ride laser-produced explosions into the sky, and deliver passengers or cargo around the world. Barring that wild ride, space planes that could take off and land like regular aircraft have begun undergoing serious development in the U.K. and United States, and some could fly within the next few years…

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  • Borgar

    Forget about this future-tech bullshit. The future is horse and cart, wood-burning kitchen stove, and kerosene lamps. We're heading for another Middle Ages (but without Christianity.)

  • Nic

    Climate Change AKA Global Warming is very close to be proven as a giant global population control and taxation fear scam, so please stop spreading its certitude in your articles. I would like to point out to your readers that the debate on Climate Change is so far from over. Otherwise, keep up the good work Disinfo.

  • Nic

    Climate Change AKA Global Warming is very close to be proven as a giant global population control and taxation fear scam, so please stop spreading its certitude in your articles. I would like to point out to your readers that the debate on Climate Change is so far from over. Otherwise, keep up the good work Disinfo.