Some things I would love to see and probably will become a reallity in my lifetime.
Emotion tube
- How many times you presented a song to a friend that means a lot to you, maybe carries childhood memories, is linked to a specific time in your life and he was indifferent to it? The catch is here that each brain has different synapses and maybe the emotion will be decoded slighlty different. However, fortunately the "bulk" of the emotion will be the same, i.e. an emotion of innocent happiness won't be in danger to be felt as anxiety or vice versa; maybe the nuances will not be the same, but the gist will be.
Intelligent voice reckognition
- Typing as fast as you can speak saves much time. Until now there have been good voice reckognition programs but none that can substitute a personal human typewriter. Being intelligent, the program should understand you with the funkiest of accents and propose words according to the rational of the previous sentence. Goodbye keyboard, you've served us well.
Silence cocoon
- Some device with several nodes attached that would send sound waves around a human cancelling each other and surrounding noise to create a cell wof serenity. Living in a main street, working in a tight space, eating in a crowded restaurant, drinking a beer in a loud bar. No need to be bombarded by noise all the time; with a silence cocoon there can be serenity any time healing stress and fostering connection with one's self. Conversely, the cocoon can also been used to keep sounds created from the outside, as in a case of a drummer studying in a flat. This could also charge the device.
3D printer
- Printing just paper and its equivalents is so 20th century! Welcome to the 21st. Instead of bying products we could be buying assembly information and throw the garbage, or old used products, to the 3D printer and voila! That new GAP shirt is ready to wear, the IKEA chair is welcoming for seating and the Ray Ban sunglasses ready to wear. Investment in such an system (given the technology is reached) will drive out of business logistics companies but will increase the wellfare of society, we will be spenting previous shopping time for more productive activities in our work and leisure.
Visual and audio search engines
- If Google won't pioneer this, someone else definately will. I've seen lengthy videos on YouTube that revisiting them after some time and forgetting its sequence of events, the only way to find the specific part is to strain your memory and play with the time cursor. Also in images you'll be able to describe the image and get the result by pattern reckognition software. Similarly, on songs, audiobooks and recorded radio shows it will be very time saving to be able to search for a sentence directly by asking the search engine. Combine this with the intelligent speech reckognition and you have a pretty powerful tool that will make Google seem like a library card system.
I could go on and on but the above are the ones that would be more useful for me at the moment. Some others are real (pass-turing test) A.I., wireless energy, teleportation (although with existential controversy) and anti-gravity.
Please add some thoughts for invetions you think will make for a better world, given that they don't disobey laws of physics like speed of light and creation of energy. Especially those that are more likely to be realised in the 21st century.
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible"
- Arhur C. Clarke
Dream on.
Emotion tube
- How many times you presented a song to a friend that means a lot to you, maybe carries childhood memories, is linked to a specific time in your life and he was indifferent to it? The catch is here that each brain has different synapses and maybe the emotion will be decoded slighlty different. However, fortunately the "bulk" of the emotion will be the same, i.e. an emotion of innocent happiness won't be in danger to be felt as anxiety or vice versa; maybe the nuances will not be the same, but the gist will be.
Intelligent voice reckognition
- Typing as fast as you can speak saves much time. Until now there have been good voice reckognition programs but none that can substitute a personal human typewriter. Being intelligent, the program should understand you with the funkiest of accents and propose words according to the rational of the previous sentence. Goodbye keyboard, you've served us well.
Silence cocoon
- Some device with several nodes attached that would send sound waves around a human cancelling each other and surrounding noise to create a cell wof serenity. Living in a main street, working in a tight space, eating in a crowded restaurant, drinking a beer in a loud bar. No need to be bombarded by noise all the time; with a silence cocoon there can be serenity any time healing stress and fostering connection with one's self. Conversely, the cocoon can also been used to keep sounds created from the outside, as in a case of a drummer studying in a flat. This could also charge the device.
3D printer
- Printing just paper and its equivalents is so 20th century! Welcome to the 21st. Instead of bying products we could be buying assembly information and throw the garbage, or old used products, to the 3D printer and voila! That new GAP shirt is ready to wear, the IKEA chair is welcoming for seating and the Ray Ban sunglasses ready to wear. Investment in such an system (given the technology is reached) will drive out of business logistics companies but will increase the wellfare of society, we will be spenting previous shopping time for more productive activities in our work and leisure.
Visual and audio search engines
- If Google won't pioneer this, someone else definately will. I've seen lengthy videos on YouTube that revisiting them after some time and forgetting its sequence of events, the only way to find the specific part is to strain your memory and play with the time cursor. Also in images you'll be able to describe the image and get the result by pattern reckognition software. Similarly, on songs, audiobooks and recorded radio shows it will be very time saving to be able to search for a sentence directly by asking the search engine. Combine this with the intelligent speech reckognition and you have a pretty powerful tool that will make Google seem like a library card system.
I could go on and on but the above are the ones that would be more useful for me at the moment. Some others are real (pass-turing test) A.I., wireless energy, teleportation (although with existential controversy) and anti-gravity.
Please add some thoughts for invetions you think will make for a better world, given that they don't disobey laws of physics like speed of light and creation of energy. Especially those that are more likely to be realised in the 21st century.
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible"
- Arhur C. Clarke
Dream on.
