Cool technology you know will never exist.
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Holograms have existed for years, but they're incredibly expensive and time consuming to make.raxer92 said:
OT: I'm amazed no one has said the portal gun yet. Just imagine...the possibilities [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/thinking-with-portals.php] are endless.
Erm...Duke Nukem Forever?
In all seriousness, a single games console that can play anything, so that fanboys don't rage on about which console is the best.
"The Gamestation32k is the best! You're all stupid!" "Oh yeah, well the Gamestation32k is...wait...that's the only one..."
In all seriousness, a single games console that can play anything, so that fanboys don't rage on about which console is the best.
"The Gamestation32k is the best! You're all stupid!" "Oh yeah, well the Gamestation32k is...wait...that's the only one..."
Or we'll just accept that the structure of the atoms at the exit is exactly the same as those at the entrance, right down the chemical processes taking place, the direction, momentum, and type of every single atom in their body. It's effectively the same person. They'll be able to remember closing their eyes just before they get beamed up.fix-the-spade said:
My ideal vision of the future is Mass Effect. Wouldn't THAT be cool?
But in case BioWare ISN'T from the future, I'd settle for mass-produced WunderWaffe DG-2s... but they'd make criminals pretty damned good.
But in case BioWare ISN'T from the future, I'd settle for mass-produced WunderWaffe DG-2s... but they'd make criminals pretty damned good.
Wait, what? People would accept commiting suicide because what comes out the other side is just like them?Danny Ocean said:
That's like killing someone's cat and presenting a clone. They won't think it's alright you've gave them a clone, they'll be too busy noticing that you killed their cat.
<spoiler=(Just some of) The many what ifs of teleportation>
What if the people that come out the other side aren't, y'know, people? The real you is dead, what if this new one is somehow fundamentally different in ways beyond scietific understanding? What if it doesn't have a soul? What if there's even a tiny error in the set up of the teleport that makes the replacement you degrade? What if the new you explodes on leaving the teleport? What if someone works out that the real you died and sued the teleporter company? Would you live with something that effectively murdered your family/friends to phase into existence? What if teleported humans are or become aware that their life up to exiting the teleporter was not their own, but that of someone else who they destroyed? What if people don't accept that the teleport exiting copy is the same as the person who entered? What if they ask for the original back?
That's all assuming that 'teleportation' means deconstructing something, transporting the structure of the atoms (as opposed to the atoms themselves) then constructing a copy of the original using the data and atoms from the local area.
If teleportation means deconstructing something, transporting the structure and atoms themselves, then reconstructing, that leaves the possibility of the original you (the real one) surviving the process. That could work... maybe...
It does quite hurt when a girl is kicked in the crotch too. I imagine. Having never actually been kicked in the crotch...Draco Kaiser said:
Virtual Reality for me also, but slightly different. A friend of mine did his final year electronic engineering project on brain impulses controlling actual electronic controls (as in, the theory behind wiring your brain up to a computer and you think 'turn on the light', the computer recognises the signal, it is also wired to the lightswitch, and it turns on). ANYWAY, on a less boring note, if you could apply that same technology to say virtual reality in gaming, where you train a computer to recognise the general basic functions like walk and interact with the world like you would in a normal game. Then you don't have the big mess of having to actually walk around and wave your arms in fake combat.
Right, after typing all that it made my head hurt a bit to think how bone chillingly complicated that would be.
Give it time and nearly everything will be invented, just almost never in the way you expected it too. Disregarding that, I'd say perpetual motion.
The thing with flying cars is, it's become such a joke now that even if the technology were possible, no one would take it seriously enough to actually put any effort/money into it.
But if Back To The Future Part II is anything to go by, we have about five and a half years to get cracking on them. Also giant holographic sharks.
But if Back To The Future Part II is anything to go by, we have about five and a half years to get cracking on them. Also giant holographic sharks.
