Science continues to piss me off.

[Squirrel]

Is it me, or has it been aaaaaaaages since anyone actually invented anything that kicked ass? It's almost 2006, and I want my fucking robot to be packing all my crap for my moon holiday, damnit. :mad:

Discuss.

[Six Ways]

Stuff's going on all the time, it's just not necessarily stuff we can see. Like the technology the internet is based on is constantly being upgraded, but you don't see much of it because you're only one of countless numbers of people who use it. And robotics in general is advancing really fast, it's just that it needs to get to a certain point before it becomes obvious, i.e. when it becomes commercially viable. I could go on with more examples, but hopefully you get the idea.

[Squirrel]

But still, nothing cool has become commercially viable for a while. So I guess economics continues to piss me off instead. :)

[sad machines]

Read Bill McKibben's book Enough. You won't mind science slowing down a little after you read that one.

[XenonDreams]

lots teh kids seem to think those ipod things are nift...

the march of science and engineering for now is resigned to a steady march rather then dramatic bursts. but i mean look at the friggin internet? not really an invention, and not even that new, but what the hell was everybody doing with all their time 10 years ago?? things have radically changed even over the past decade, but we don't notice because it happens so steadily.

best bet is nano tech for the radical revolution! look out! scarcity will disappear and we'll all live forever!

[DrHibbert]

Nano tech would be cool.

Video games are getting a lot better.

I don't know much about it, but I think health care technology is making strides.

[Jackal]

I was reading Wired a few months back and there was an article about a new way to deal with pain.

I can't remember very well, but they discovered a way to stop the pain signals from, say your leg getting shredded from a bomb, going to your brain. And they keep the signals stopped until your healed so that your brain never even knows or remembers that it's been hurt. So you never have lingering pain from that injury.

And it stops the pain instantly, better than morphine.

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

Originally posted by Squirrel
Is it me, or has it been aaaaaaaages since anyone actually invented anything that kicked ass? It's almost 2006, and I want my fucking robot to be packing all my crap for my moon holiday, damnit. :mad:

Discuss.
They all lied about the inventions before, and now that they know we know, they darent not lie again.

[Nak Nak]

Robots aren't going to be the big thing everyone thought they'd be. I have a feeling that genetic/biological alteration will be the next big thing. MAybe integrated implants (internal computers etc) will be next too. For instance: an implant in your head which tells you the time if you form the relevant thought query.

[negatifzeo]

I read an article the other day, I think it was from FARK... Anyways, they say they have developed a microchip than can be implanted into a soldiers brain to give him the equivelent of 1000 hours of training.

Supposedly they have invented a pill the eliminates the need for sleep. No, not caffeine, something that you take and you feel like you slept 8 hours.

I read an article yesterday saying these guys in Japan had invented a way to remotely control a human by sending signals to their brain.

Basically, I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Breakthroughs are happening everyday, maybe you're just not looking for them. Don't tell me you expect this stuff to be headline news! When we have major stories like a single teenage party girl going missing in a carribean paradise, who has time for news that matters!

[kendra]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
Robots aren't going to be the big thing everyone thought they'd be. I have a feeling that genetic/biological alteration will be the next big thing. MAybe integrated implants (internal computers etc) will be next too. For instance: an implant in your head which tells you the time if you form the relevant thought query.

True. Why in the crap do I want R2-D2 clanking around when I could get a headset implanted in my FACE?

Okay, I don't want a cellphone in my face (cancer and all that), but I'm waiting for medicine to go nuts. It's for sure a vested personal interest, but still - gene therapy? That is EXCITING.

[Squirrel]

Yeah man. The idea that stem cells could cure things like paralysis and degenerative diseases, and that people could have organ transplants without danger of rejection.... holy crap.

On a more personal/selfish note though, I am SO READY for a robot that cleans your house. I was led by cartoons to believe that I would have one by now.

[Squirrel]

Or even just a pancake robot.

[Herr Lipp]

Medical nanotechonology - cancer-busters and what not. That's on the way, and hope it gets here before I'm age 50.

And sticking with the medical ting, they're creating awesome fake limbs nowadays, which are connected to your nervous system. That's FUCKING badass where the hell do you start??!?!?

[ramblingrose]

It's not really medical but I had to go see the work doctor bloke this morning (hence I'm no longer at work) and he had a special computer that typed what he talked so he didn't have to use his hands. He wasn't even disabled. That made me go :eek:

[Herr Lipp]

Oh please the albino kid at my school had that technology in 1999. He also had the Stephen Hawking Voice Projector thing, we bullied him into making it swear at the German teacher. "I love willy". Those were the days!

[ramblingrose]

I'm so primitive I'm almost Amish, alright? It impressed me. Although I could've typed about three times as fast as that bloody thing. 65wpm go me.

[Herr Lipp]

In my mums day they used to teach people (mostly birds) useful shit like Secretarial and Office Skills O Levels and typing was a prerequisite. They say education is gonna move into more vocational shit, which I think is a bonus. Other than Maths, Science and English Language - I really didnt like the other subjects. Though I still brapppped the GCSE's, but to fail GCSE's at my school you had to be a serious rebel.

[Spaced]

Medical science is moving along fairly quickly, although it still takes around 20-25 years for something to go from initial discoveries/development to clinical approval. Be prepared to pay up big as well, as it currently costs around $US500 million to have a new treatment go through clinical trials.