Scientific discoveries to look at?

[punisa]

What would be some of the near future discoveries we can expect in our lifetime?
Things like landing on Mars or creating a human clone.
What do you think we can expect to see in the near future?

What are some of the unsolved problems for which we might see the answer rather soon? In fields such as astronomy, physics .. well, all fields really :)

[¿Que?]

I think there's going to be a second breakthrough in computing technology, as for example, with nano technology. I don't know how near in the future this will be though, probably within the lifetime of some of the younger revleft users, though.

[pranabjyoti]

I opt for a green energy technology that can produce electricity by using atmospheric heat.

[EvilRedGuy]

Will anyone here live till the Digital Age? How far is it? More digitalizing. Don't know if those are scientific discoveries more than just building up on the technology that we have now. :confused:

[Black Sheep]

Carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors?

[Political_Chucky]

the invention of the flux capacitor?

[Pretty Flaco]

We'll invent the hyperdrive and make the jump to lightspeed and finally land on alderaan.

[Bardo]

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[Ocean Seal]

What would be some of the near future discoveries we can expect in our lifetime?
Things like landing on Mars or creating a human clone.
What do you think we can expect to see in the near future?

What are some of the unsolved problems for which we might see the answer rather soon? In fields such as astronomy, physics .. well, all fields really :)
Cool stuff to expect in the near future.

Quantum computing, basically much faster than classical computing, and software that has already been made (theoretically) cuts down the number of operations needed for a series of things drastically. Also expect the research budget to increase once Moore's Law starts to fail.

The P=NP problem is also something we can expect to see a solution to sometime in the near future. As we begin to see more evidence that P is probably != to NP.

The DNA revolution, with the potential for cataloging the entire human genome is something interesting in biology to watch.

Human cloning has some ethical issues which will probably deter cloning research and of course the issue of shortened telomeres is another implication.
A human Mars landing is something that I would be very glad to see, that being said, I see it as something which isn't very likely soon because NASA is getting funding cuts left and right :thumbdown:.

[pranabjyoti]

In addition of my first post in this thread, I also want to add the progress of agriculture technologies like Aeroponics, Hydroponics, which can produce crop without land and need much much less water and cares almost nil about climatic factors like rain, temperature, humidity etc.
By those technologies, we can produce much more food in much less land and in our desired quantity. In short, we will be out of climatic factor domination of agriculture and huge amount of land will be free. We will then give that amount of land back to other species with whom we are sharing the Earth.

[bcbm]

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