things you would have thought would have been invented by now

Given the leaps in computer technology every year, how far are we away from this?

 

We still can't get over the hump with any 3-d technology. Monitor companies have built prototypes of 3-D displays have been created, but nothing becomes mainstream.

Knowing that, we're a LONG way of from holodecks.

 

1. More hybrid animals like Zebra-Jaguars
2. Voice activated **** (no more remotes)
3. Portable scuba gear that fits in your hand
4. Things that change color, like vehicles, walls, shirts, food

Virtual Reality and Genetic Engineering are what I see as the two most important developments of the near future.

 

I don't know. They're getting closer. This is the new robot toy. It can control the pets on the right. Sounds pretty bad ass, and it's significantly improved over last years model:

 

Uhhhh... then they wouldn't be EXTINCT now, would they?

 

A decent grammar /spell check for browsers...

J/K

 

That guy is a snake oil saleman.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/07/29/trudeau/index_np.html

 

Hold on. Those titles are real? And here I thought it was the next Doonesbury compilation.

 

Is Trudeau the guy who comes on late at night, trying to sell those books on how to get government grants? He wears those suits with question marks and stuff?

 

Nice,

But that's a long ways from the IRobots stuff

We should be farther along so we could all worry about the robots turning on us.

 

I don't think they should've invented this by now, but I have to say that I hope one day, the Food Replicator is invented; you know that thing in Star Trek that allows you to replicate anything you want to eat....cooking is such a pain sometimes.

 

I want a pill that would either never make you sleepy. I'm talking about being awake 24/365.

That would be bliss. Imagine the work you can get done.

 

No. Trudeau is the guy that USED to be on TV selling memory power and speed reading books. His claims are so fraudulent that the FTC will not allow him to make them anymore on TV. He claims he is being persecuted. The FTC has not banned HIM from TV they just banned the selling of fake crap.

Kevin Trudeau, who developed and appeared in all the infomercials, including the one for his "Mega Memory System," will pay $500,000 in consumer redress and will be barred from making false claims for the products in the future. Trudeau will be required to establish a $500,000 escrow account or performance bond to assure compliance. Infomercial producer Mega Systems International, Inc., and its principal, Jeffrey Salberg, also will pay $500,000 for consumer redress. Kenneth Wright, inventor and promoter of "Eden's Secret Nature's Purifying Product," and Roger J. Callahan, promoter of the "addiction breaking system" will each pay $50,000 in consumer redress.

Trudeau, Mega Systems, Salberg, Wright, Callahan, Eller, Berg, and Tru-Vantage will be barred from making the alleged deceptive claims relating to their products in the future. In addition, Trudeau, Salberg, and Mega Systems will be required to have substantiation, which, when appropriate, must be scientific, for claims about the benefits, performance or efficacy of any product or program they advertise; promote; sell; or distribute in the future. They also will be barred from misrepresenting the existence, contents, validity, results, conclusions or interpretations of any test, study or research. Wright, Callahan, Berg, and Tru-Vantage will be required to have substantiation, which, when appropriate, must be scientific, for claims about the benefits, performance or efficacy of any product or program like those they allegedly deceptively promoted.



Consumer Affairs

Kevin Trudeau has been banned in Boston, and everywhere else in the U.S.

Trudeau has also agreed to pay $2 million to settle charges that he falsely claimed that a coral calcium product can cure cancer and other serious diseases and that a purported analgesic called Biotape can permanently cure or relieve severe pain.

Trudeau, a prolific marketer who has either appeared in or produced hundreds of infomercials, is banned from appearing in, producing, or disseminating future infomercials that advertise any type of product, service, or program to the public, except for truthful infomercials for informational publications.

In addition, Trudeau cannot make disease or health benefits claims for any type of product, service, or program in any advertising, including print, radio, Internet, television, and direct mail solicitations, regardless of the format and duration.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/trudeau_informercials.html

 

But sleep is fun. It feels good. You sometimes get to have cool dreams. I'd miss it. (Not that I get as much of it as I should anyway.)


That Trudeau guy just looks like a snake oil salesman, given the picture above... slimy.

 

Exactly. The technology for practical fusion has NOT been invented yet (hence my qualifier "commercial"). As matter of fact, last time I read anything on this, scientists were still trying to figure out exactly how to harness the power. Despite the advances in fuel technology, our energy conversion method is still primitive -- still basically the steam engine, only difference being whether you heat water with wood or uranium. This doesn't work with fusion, since the magnetic bottle that contains the plasma also locks in much of the energy (and you can't really use it to boil water to make steam to drive a turbine).

I'm surprised we haven't made more advances in energetics, material sciences (nanotubes, hydrogen sheets, etc.), and fuel storage (batteries). Advances in computing will certainly help, but I suspect an Einsteinian-esque inspiration is going to be crucial in order to make that next leap.

 

Uhhh... I thought you'd want to be awake to PARTY, SLEEP, PLAY, or maybe FISH, or something... but... WORK... WORK??? WORK!?!?!?!?!?! C'mon, man...

Nobody likes WORK that much... unless you're REALLY ENJOYING your work... (which as you can see I am NOT)

 

Where the heck is all that candy from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?

Everlasting Gobstopper
3 course meal bubble gum
and of course...fizzy lifting drinks! Drink a soda and you can fly? That would be awesome! You think that, over thirty years later, he'd have time to perfect them...

 

Well I didnt mean work in the usual sense. I meant in getting stuff done. Like being able to read more, play more xbox,helping the helpless, sex more, play, and have fun etc..

A good portion of our lives are spent just sleeping away, when you can be changing the world!!!

 

If a drug company developed a cure for cancer, there is no way they would release it to the public. Which would be more profitable, one shot that cured cancer, or months and months of chemotherapy drugs with a possibility for a relapse? They also couldn't charge more for the one shot than they would charge for the chemotherapy drugs, because insurance companies wouldn't pay for it.

Also, if a "cure" were developed, it would only be a matter of time before a preventative shot were developed, which would cut the profits of the drug companies even more...and we're not even getting into all the hospitals that would go out of business because of all the lost chemotherapy and radiation therapy money. If all those hospitals go out of business, to whom would the drug companies sell their drugs? Then, there are the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, and technicians who's sole purpose is in treating cancer that would be unemployed, causing a nationwide financial crisis.

As for those non profit organizations...this may sound a little conspiracy theory-ish, but I'd bet that every one of those organizations has a few moles on the drug companies payrolls, reporting the activity. If one of those organizations developed a cure, rest assured that organization probably wouldn't be around for long...