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What will be the next big technology that changes our world

Posted on 06/23/2018 11:02:03 AM PDT by MNDude

It seems that we have a few new technologies that becomes commonplace everywhere, and completely changes the world.

Here is roughly what I understand they have been call:

Late 50s to late 60s: television, rocketry

Late 60s to late 70s: (not sure, handheld calculators and digital watches? Cassette players?)

80s: the use of electronics everywhere, home PCS

90s: internet, pagers, cell phones appear

2000s fast internet, flip phones, digital photography, digital music

2010's: smartphones, social media, digital movies

I know those dates are not exact, but pretty close.

So what do you think the big technology trends that will change the world we live in the 2020s will be?


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To: MNDude

1. Cheap access to space. (SpaceX, Blue Origin).
2. Vertical Farming. (Malthusian’s lose forever)
3. Cheap, Clean Energy.
4. DNA Hacking. We can’t even begin to understand the implications.


41 posted on 06/23/2018 12:31:16 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: MNDude

ROPE!


42 posted on 06/23/2018 12:37:35 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Hot Tabasco

Man can’t “create” anything. Man can only use what God has created and put something together.


43 posted on 06/23/2018 12:48:48 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: MNDude

Musk has Starlink internet with first launches next year.

It’s low altitude satellites so the lousy ping from other satellite providers is gone.

You’ll have fast internet anywhere in the world so you’re not stuck living/working in an urban area.

And fembots so you don’t have to worry about the real thing hauling you to family court and decimating your savings and income.


44 posted on 06/23/2018 12:50:10 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: MNDude

Basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and critical thinking. That’s like magic to the illiterate masses.


45 posted on 06/23/2018 12:54:56 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: MNDude

Directly linking neurons with digital electronics.


46 posted on 06/23/2018 1:12:30 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Bulwyf
Man can’t “create” anything. Man can only use what God has created and put something together.

A God created the universe and earth, that's all. The rest was up to humanity.

But since you wish to become a semantic monkey, let me rephrase my original post:

I’d love to be around in 100 years to see what man has been able to create MAKE......

There, does that make you feel better??? ..... Sheesh!

47 posted on 06/23/2018 1:23:38 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Hah. I don’t feel any better. Trudeau is still in, and we still don’t have pipelines going.

On a positive note, I do know God is in control.


48 posted on 06/23/2018 1:32:15 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: MNDude

Robot-produced and drone-delivered pizza.


49 posted on 06/23/2018 1:33:19 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: MNDude

We’ll need an electronic turbo guillotine when CW2 ends.


50 posted on 06/23/2018 1:36:48 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

That is why every device is integrating a microphone.


51 posted on 06/23/2018 1:40:16 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: MNDude

3D Printing will be the third industrial revolution.
Our cars, airplanes, and houses will all be “printed”.
Human labor will be largely replaced by robots and 3D printers.
Medically, joints, limbs and organs will also be printed.


52 posted on 06/23/2018 1:40:29 PM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: MNDude

Being able to go to the lab and giving a tissue sample and having a new heart or whatever grown and installed a month or two later. No rejection or immunosupression drugs.


53 posted on 06/23/2018 1:43:49 PM PDT by Clay Moore (MAGA)
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To: ichabod1
flying cars and jetpacks?

Agreed. Those anti-grav black triangles that the military has that people think are UFOs would make for great civilian transportation.

54 posted on 06/23/2018 1:47:20 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Bulwyf

See that is where you are wrong. Mans free will is in control, that is why God create it if you believe in that sort of thing. And, according to the bible, that is why he destroyed most of it by flood, He couldn’t control mankinds free will.


55 posted on 06/23/2018 1:55:50 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: MNDude

The transistor,late 40s,really was the jumping off spot for much of it.

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56 posted on 06/23/2018 2:00:01 PM PDT by Mears
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To: eastforker

He has a plan. Whether or not we are part of it is up to our free will.


57 posted on 06/23/2018 2:06:41 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: MNDude

AI: and not this crap they have now.
Cancer mostly cured with genetic manipulation.
Energy from Thorium.
Warfare


58 posted on 06/23/2018 2:08:18 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: MNDude

Warp Drive.


59 posted on 06/23/2018 2:10:47 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Artificial, gluten-free veggie bacon

That's beyond disgusting!

60 posted on 06/23/2018 2:11:26 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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