Not just plastic. Recycling in general. People will not stop buying things they want just because of the environment, so the reducing part is off limits. We gotta get to the solution of the problem in some other way in order for this to be sustainable. An efficient way to recycle most daily stuff (glass, plastics, metals, cardboards, stuff with grease and oils), would be amazing.
So much this. If we can provide power to the world, eventually everything kind of falls into place. We've seen the positive effects that even small amounts of power can do for remote communities, via solar/wind energy. Beginning to reverse the dependence we have on fossil fuels would be amazing, too.
The google translator app on my phone is way closer than anything I ever expected. It translates stuff at least so you can understand whatever you’re pointing your camera at
Just curious, how practical is this? 'Cause I'm learning to be an interpreter and if this will happen within the next 10 years, I might have to rethink my career path.
A cure for cerebral palsy would be life changing. My identical twin sister has suffered CP her whole life, has never been able to walk, eat, or speak on her own. Can barely move at all. I love her so much, it also sucks that we’ve missed out on the connection we could have had if CP didn’t restrict everything. I really hope there is research being developed out there for some form of treatment aside from PT.
MS as well. A family friend got diagnosed a few months back and it is devastating to watch her health slowly deteriorate knowing that (at least in her case) she likely only has a few months or a year at most to live.
Came here for cancer. There's gotta be some kind of simple solution out there we've yet to discover, like either using nano-bots or using MRNA technology to train viruses to sniff out the tumors like a bloodhound and eliminate them.
There are many "cures" for cancer. Many drugs target pathways that can effectively stop cancer growth without affecting other cells. For example, most breast cancer cells have hormonal receptors on it and drugs that block them have drastically improved the survival rates of breast cancer. Another effective treatment is immunotherapy. Many people have immune cells that target cancer cells. For people who don't have immune cells that can target cancer cells, their immune cells can be modified with the immune cells from the people who can target their cancer cells, in what's called CAR T-cell therapy.
I've been telling my children for years that in their lifetime, when they need an organ transplant, doctors will just grow an exact genetic match for them in a vat. Time to get cracking on this.
I read about scientists in MIT and Japan working on a machine that records your dreams and allows them to be played back. I would love something like that because I have some pretty crazy dreams that I would love to experience again.
This is almost like that one Final Fantasy movie I loved. It was set in the future of an apocalyptic Earth after an invasion of spirits that takes souls. There was a woman there who would record her dreams and she could play them back from her ship. Was interesting to watch.
I would love and hate that. I have some crazy ones too. Especially when I was pregnant. I had heard others talking about crazy preggo dreams but I thought that they couldn't possibly be crazier than the ones I already have. I was so so wrong. Lol. In one dream, my baby was an egg roll. And I had her wrapped up like a baby and was showing her off to my friends.
A time machine. Not one that physically allowed you to travel through time but something that allowed you to watch the history of the unvierse as its own kinda movie
Thanks for putting this into words, I was trying to think of this like something where you don’t alter history but can instead watch history like a movie.
A way to fully process plastics. There’s a lot of different environmental concerns we have, but plastics are a giant pain that’s definitely not going away unless we work this out.
Any human made mechanism that can mimic the co2 recycling of trees at scale to truly change the numbers on medium and long term climate change impact. (Short term is not good.)
"Longer than you think, Dad!" it cackled. "Longer than you think! Held my breath when they gave me the gas! Wanted to see! I saw! I saw! Longer than you think!"
100% on this. Like Mike Teevee from Willy Wonka except not shrinking. Pods everywhere you could teleport to from your home pod. Subscriptions like cell phones. Would be amazing
An airplane terminal but replace airplanes with teleporters. Imagine walking through the tarmac and going through the portal instead of the plane.. THAT would be cool
The closest we'll come to teleporting is some sort of Augmented/Virtual Reality internet - where the world has a digitized twin - and you can simply drop yourself around different parts of the planet and experience a lot of it in real time or near real time via... all the camera devices that continually capture and surveil the public landscape.
A long-distance space shuttle, or maybe colonization of distant worlds. I always dreamed of travelling space-side. Something like Old Man's War always appealed to me.
Yeah, same here. I hope we can colonize at least Mars in my lifetime, and hopefully to the point where space travel is possible for not just a select few highly trained astronauts.
I feel like it’d be less like Star Trek and more like The Expanse. Like historically, a “The Expanse” scenario would seem much more likely. Planets fighting each other for independence, and then for territory/tech thereafter. Entire generations of individual colonies (for mining or whatever) marginalized and taken advantage of.
Surprised I needed to scroll so far down for this answer. It would certainly be better than hybrid work zoom calls. And could go towards a Matrix like dystopia. On the other hand, the hell of having to LIVE through Facebook/meta ads you can’t skip just to access the content you want sounds like a whole other kind of torture.
I don't want me, or any of my siblings to die of Alzheimer's, but it's the cause of death for half of my family on both sides that makes it to old age. I want to see a cure for Alzheimer's.
"After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.
It’s not an invention but is beyond our current technical ability: I’d like us to discover and hopefully interact with an alien planet. I’m really curious how different societies evolve over time and with as global as Earth has become I think it’d be cool to find a new civilization with its culture, religion, entertainment etc
A proper sci if scanning device. Currently the best thing we have is an MRI machine. This requires massive amounts of finite liquid helium, massive magnets, and they take up a huge amount of space. Even with that, they cannot distinguish one tissue from another, only densities so some things are missed. I would love to see a machine like the scanning pods in Passengers that can diagnose any issue.
But, wouldn’t that lead to inconsistencies? I mean, if anyone were allowed to time travel (to the past), then the present would be constantly changing.
This one preempts half this thread. Just use the tech while alive. Robotic bodies can be maintained indefinitely so it cures all diseases, psychological included if you can tweak your psyche. No need for transportation, just zip to another rent-a-host on the other side of the world. No need to sleep, eat, shit, piss.
A machine that feeds on the pollution (air,water,land) and makes better air, stabilizes the atmosphere,the land and the water habitats. And that also makes biodegradable objects with the physical pollution
San Junipero or that gene that turns aging off applied to humans. I don't want to live forever, but 70-90 years isn't enough to spend with my beautiful wife and wonderful friends. There are too many books to read, songs to hear, foods to taste, and places to see for one standard human lifetime. I'd settle for another couple of decades...
Something that eliminates all debt, resets all economies, and equalizes wealth for all, so we can stop fucking each other for money, and start doing things we like, for each other, and living beautiful lives. Put it in a box with a button on it, if you want.
As a kidney transplant recipient, I would love to see cloned organs so that people can get a new organ that is a perfect match, and does not require anti rejection medication.
Dental regrowth would be friggin sweet! Expensive...but sweet...
I remember seeing something about a proposed Alzheimer's drug that causes tooth growth a few years ago. And then I've never heard of it again
I could use that right now. Would also need to regrow parts of my jaw. I got most my teeth knocked out in a car wreck.
Idk about regrowth, but you can technically remineralise your teeth if they aren't too far gone with decay, cavities or other damage.
Yup, first thing that came to mind too. I fear im too old to see this.
Efficient water desalination and or plastic recycling
Not just plastic. Recycling in general. People will not stop buying things they want just because of the environment, so the reducing part is off limits. We gotta get to the solution of the problem in some other way in order for this to be sustainable. An efficient way to recycle most daily stuff (glass, plastics, metals, cardboards, stuff with grease and oils), would be amazing.
The problem with desalination is hyper salinity comes out the other end. We also need to find ways to safely and responsibly dispose of that salt.
Instead of trying to desalinate the ocean, why don't we just add pepper?
We already have efficient water desalination, but the war on nuclear power put a stop to that.
Cure of most genetic diseases or cancer or Alzheimer.
Tinnitus cure please
I have a genetic disease and I am part of a first in human trial for a Gene Therapy treatment. I was dosed a week ago.
And another thief, ALS.
Any neurodegenerative disease really
Full time operational fusion energy.
The power of the sun in the Palm of my hands
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It’s just 5 more years away.
So much this. If we can provide power to the world, eventually everything kind of falls into place. We've seen the positive effects that even small amounts of power can do for remote communities, via solar/wind energy. Beginning to reverse the dependence we have on fossil fuels would be amazing, too.
Cure for age related deafness/tinnitus.
I'm trying to imagine what life would be life without the constant screaming in my ears. I...I can't.
I second this, my tinnitus is constant in both ears and its not even age related (I'm only 24). Been years of constant dog whistle in my ears.
Cure for all deafness/tinnitus would be even better.
And a cure for aging in general.
Cure for als and Parkinson. Oh and gol-dern flying cars, geez I wanna flying car
I don't even trust people driving normal cars, I think flying cars would be a massive safety hazard
Universal translator.
Here, put this fish in your ear.
“Unfortunately it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language…”
The google translator app on my phone is way closer than anything I ever expected. It translates stuff at least so you can understand whatever you’re pointing your camera at
Not until 2060s, else I'll be out of job.
Just curious, how practical is this? 'Cause I'm learning to be an interpreter and if this will happen within the next 10 years, I might have to rethink my career path.
Have you seen googels new AR glasses that play subtitles for people speaking other languages idk when they'll be out but they looked pretty cool
Warp drive
Star Trek or Warhammer one?
Then I shall wish for a gellar field .
Cure for cancer or cerebral palsy, etc.
Alzheimer's. Both grandfather's suffered from it and now my own father. Shits terrible
I second this. I've never had cancer but I do have cerebral palsy and it's not easy
A cure for cerebral palsy would be life changing. My identical twin sister has suffered CP her whole life, has never been able to walk, eat, or speak on her own. Can barely move at all. I love her so much, it also sucks that we’ve missed out on the connection we could have had if CP didn’t restrict everything. I really hope there is research being developed out there for some form of treatment aside from PT.
MS as well. A family friend got diagnosed a few months back and it is devastating to watch her health slowly deteriorate knowing that (at least in her case) she likely only has a few months or a year at most to live.
Came here for cancer. There's gotta be some kind of simple solution out there we've yet to discover, like either using nano-bots or using MRNA technology to train viruses to sniff out the tumors like a bloodhound and eliminate them.
When people say a cure for cancer there are over 200 different named cancer diseases.
There are many "cures" for cancer. Many drugs target pathways that can effectively stop cancer growth without affecting other cells. For example, most breast cancer cells have hormonal receptors on it and drugs that block them have drastically improved the survival rates of breast cancer. Another effective treatment is immunotherapy. Many people have immune cells that target cancer cells. For people who don't have immune cells that can target cancer cells, their immune cells can be modified with the immune cells from the people who can target their cancer cells, in what's called CAR T-cell therapy.
I've been telling my children for years that in their lifetime, when they need an organ transplant, doctors will just grow an exact genetic match for them in a vat. Time to get cracking on this.
This and bionics, fuck prosthetic arms we should have robot arms with full motion and upgrades by this point
I think there have been some experimental transplants grown in pigs
Nah, they will just 3d print a synthetic one, they pretty much have that tech now..
Diabetes cure.
Only 5 more years...
I read about scientists in MIT and Japan working on a machine that records your dreams and allows them to be played back. I would love something like that because I have some pretty crazy dreams that I would love to experience again.
This is a good one, I always think about experiencing some strange dreams again.
This is almost like that one Final Fantasy movie I loved. It was set in the future of an apocalyptic Earth after an invasion of spirits that takes souls. There was a woman there who would record her dreams and she could play them back from her ship. Was interesting to watch.
That's gonna be a whole new genre of porn.
Black mirror
Only some, I don't want to experience that dream of falling of a flight of stairs
I would love and hate that. I have some crazy ones too. Especially when I was pregnant. I had heard others talking about crazy preggo dreams but I thought that they couldn't possibly be crazier than the ones I already have. I was so so wrong. Lol. In one dream, my baby was an egg roll. And I had her wrapped up like a baby and was showing her off to my friends.
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I believe it records what you say while in lucid sleep, it’s not literally a video recording of what you’re seeing.
Oh god, not good for people with PTSD nightmares
A tiny portable almost free energy source.
Here you go
"The power of the sun in the palm of my hand"
I'd settle for a massive, fixed, very expensive to build source of almost free energy.
I was promised jet packs
People cant even drive and this guy wants jetpacks
Hoverboards
Great band
They already exist
A time machine. Not one that physically allowed you to travel through time but something that allowed you to watch the history of the unvierse as its own kinda movie
Thanks for putting this into words, I was trying to think of this like something where you don’t alter history but can instead watch history like a movie.
Abstergo
You know people will be using it for history sex.
Have you read The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter/Arthur C Clarke? It's really good and sort of along those lines...
Asimov came up with such a device in a short story called The Dead Past, first published in 1956.
That was the coolest part of Devs for me
I just want to see the future, like billions of years from now if humans still exist and what they would be up to.
First person on Mars would be cool watching on a NASA live stream like when people watched the moon landing
“Ladies and gentlemen. There is now life on Mars!”
I truly believe there will be a colony on Mars in our lifetime (assuming you’re at most in your thirties).
A way to fully process plastics. There’s a lot of different environmental concerns we have, but plastics are a giant pain that’s definitely not going away unless we work this out.
Or a cheap, easy, sustainable plastic alternative. Something made out of farm waste (corn leaves/ wheat chaff/ soybean plants) maybe?
Would love to see them invent signal lights for bmws
"What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine? The porcupine has the pricks on the outside."
Ahahahaha
They already have them installed, but subscribing to that feature is like $50 per month.
Any human made mechanism that can mimic the co2 recycling of trees at scale to truly change the numbers on medium and long term climate change impact. (Short term is not good.)
We are genetically modifying trees to capture more carbon, does that count?
I'd rather see reforestation. It's cheaper and better.
And then we end up like the folks on Snow Piercer
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You'd probably come out the other end as a Cronenberg version of yourself
Dude. We invented teleporters and all you want is to turn up in an office?
"Longer than you think, Dad!" it cackled. "Longer than you think! Held my breath when they gave me the gas! Wanted to see! I saw! I saw! Longer than you think!"
If your body and mind is atomized and a copy of it generated on the other side, is it really still you?
100% on this. Like Mike Teevee from Willy Wonka except not shrinking. Pods everywhere you could teleport to from your home pod. Subscriptions like cell phones. Would be amazing
An airplane terminal but replace airplanes with teleporters. Imagine walking through the tarmac and going through the portal instead of the plane.. THAT would be cool
The closest we'll come to teleporting is some sort of Augmented/Virtual Reality internet - where the world has a digitized twin - and you can simply drop yourself around different parts of the planet and experience a lot of it in real time or near real time via... all the camera devices that continually capture and surveil the public landscape.
A long-distance space shuttle, or maybe colonization of distant worlds. I always dreamed of travelling space-side. Something like Old Man's War always appealed to me.
Yeah, same here. I hope we can colonize at least Mars in my lifetime, and hopefully to the point where space travel is possible for not just a select few highly trained astronauts.
I feel like it’d be less like Star Trek and more like The Expanse. Like historically, a “The Expanse” scenario would seem much more likely. Planets fighting each other for independence, and then for territory/tech thereafter. Entire generations of individual colonies (for mining or whatever) marginalized and taken advantage of.
This will revolutionize our civilization. Cheap, safe and frequent access to orbit (in that order) will open up so much for humanity.
Medical nanites for curing disease or repairing damaged tissues, teeth, bone, muscle, nerve.
Nano tech, hell yea. Probably dangerous but hell yea
Longevity technology!
Considering your username and your answer, I'd say you're a pretty cheery all the time.
Only if it means people will be healthy longer, not just live longer.
High speed trans continental railway system in the USA OR desalination of sea water on a mass scale. Oh! And the cure to cancer 🤍
Wasn't the inventor of 5 hour energy close to large scale desalination of water?
Large scale desalination is really just an energy problem.
We could cure a lot of cancers by simply having clean energy!
Full dive vr
Surprised I needed to scroll so far down for this answer. It would certainly be better than hybrid work zoom calls. And could go towards a Matrix like dystopia. On the other hand, the hell of having to LIVE through Facebook/meta ads you can’t skip just to access the content you want sounds like a whole other kind of torture.
A hoverboard, like back to the future level hoverboards. It would be great to purchase on like you buying a regular skateboard
I don't want me, or any of my siblings to die of Alzheimer's, but it's the cause of death for half of my family on both sides that makes it to old age. I want to see a cure for Alzheimer's.
As a cancer survivor -the cure for cancer
Congratulations on making it through
Faster than light travel?
A small alcove in my wall that will dispense hot. Earl Grey tea on command.
"After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.
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Tea Earl Grey hot?
practical nuclear fusion power plant
A streaming service that has everything
Return of proper piratebay would do.
It’s not an invention but is beyond our current technical ability: I’d like us to discover and hopefully interact with an alien planet. I’m really curious how different societies evolve over time and with as global as Earth has become I think it’d be cool to find a new civilization with its culture, religion, entertainment etc
Free WiFi .. every fucking where.
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A proper sci if scanning device. Currently the best thing we have is an MRI machine. This requires massive amounts of finite liquid helium, massive magnets, and they take up a huge amount of space. Even with that, they cannot distinguish one tissue from another, only densities so some things are missed. I would love to see a machine like the scanning pods in Passengers that can diagnose any issue.
Cure for hairloss
This. They've cured it for mice like 60 times already 🙄
And on top of this, choosing where we want and don't want hair easily.
Technology to record memories or dreams and make them replayable
Read only, no ability to manipulate, then it would be awesome.
May I introduce you to black mirror.
As someone with total aphantasia. I too wish this was a thing.
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Time travel in a common man's reach. Yes, I dream of the impossible.
I don’t think I want to travel in time but it would be nice to be able to pause it sometimes
But, wouldn’t that lead to inconsistencies? I mean, if anyone were allowed to time travel (to the past), then the present would be constantly changing.
Websites without ads. Websites without pop-ups.
You mean return to 1994.
there's quite a few free and amazing ad blocker chrome extensions out there, i have two so all ads are gone. try that.
You dream of the impossible.
Replicator..
Star Trek replicators would solve a lot of world issues.
Full dive VR, like in sword art online or similar shows. It seems like it would be a lot of fun. (Provided nothing bad happens like in sao, lol)
My thoughts exactly
Fallout, here I come!
A McDonald's ice cream machine that doesn't break.
Consciousness upload after death, like in Black Mirror’s San Junipero.
Read “Altered Carbon” sci fi.
This one preempts half this thread. Just use the tech while alive. Robotic bodies can be maintained indefinitely so it cures all diseases, psychological included if you can tweak your psyche. No need for transportation, just zip to another rent-a-host on the other side of the world. No need to sleep, eat, shit, piss.
Would be nice if self-driving cars were standard by the time I reach the point of no longer being able to drive myself.
Or being black out drunk
Don't know if it counts as an invention, but a cancer cure would be nice
After the passing of my mother due to cancer, I’d like for there to be a way to cure others of it. I miss her a lot.
Teleporting water from floods to droughts.
Floods happen often during droughts because of droughts
We have the technology today (ie. pipelines), we just don’t have political will to spend the money to do it yet.
inexpensive way to recycle plastic at home
I'd much rather we stop producing so much single-use shit.
Alzheimer cure. That thing is horrible
Fusion energy. I just read today that they are close to a breakthrough. Imagine a world of limitless energy with no pollution effect or shortage.
A machine that feeds on the pollution (air,water,land) and makes better air, stabilizes the atmosphere,the land and the water habitats. And that also makes biodegradable objects with the physical pollution
A working system of government.
Proper treatment regimens for fibromyalgia. All my doctors I’ve seen just toss medications at me until something helps
A successful economic model that doesn't rely on the suffering of others, and also does not stretch world resources.
Ok, this is the most unrealistic request... and definitely the one I'd most like to see.
Workable/sustainable/affordable plastic recycling.
A haircut vacuum type thing. It would suck as it cuts.
My barber charges extra for that.
Teleportation devices. Then I can WFH in peace and when my boss “needs” me in the office for something: boom, I’m there.
And then boom he’s in your bedroom
Genetic engineering that'll work on an adult, that way I could cure my allergies & dogshit vision, and more.
Immortality. That way it would be in everyone's lifetime.
I kinda feel like immortality would only be discovered and only shared within the mega rich.
This is waaay too far down in the comments.
A drug for immortality would take forever to test!⏳🕰️
The common sense-inator.
And I totally read that in his voice
Protip
Cure for Cancer
San Junipero or that gene that turns aging off applied to humans. I don't want to live forever, but 70-90 years isn't enough to spend with my beautiful wife and wonderful friends. There are too many books to read, songs to hear, foods to taste, and places to see for one standard human lifetime. I'd settle for another couple of decades...
150 years seems like a nice number.
Something that eliminates all debt, resets all economies, and equalizes wealth for all, so we can stop fucking each other for money, and start doing things we like, for each other, and living beautiful lives. Put it in a box with a button on it, if you want.
100 percent accurate lie detector
Well that would cause the collapse of society as we know it.
You do not want that. Lies keep society from imploding.
A universal biometric mute button,
As a kidney transplant recipient, I would love to see cloned organs so that people can get a new organ that is a perfect match, and does not require anti rejection medication.
The Planet Unfuckener ™
Common sense for everyone
Time machine so i can go back to my childhood.
Tech to regrow teeth would be nice
That one healing machine they have in Elysium
Something that cures my type 1 diabetes
Programmable medical nanotech machines.