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What Will Be The Biggest Scientific Breakthrough Of The Next 50 Years? Add Answer

As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, the New Scientist asked 70 prominent minds for their thoughts on what the greatest scientific breakthrough of the next 50 years will be:

http://www.newscientis...e-forecasts

What does the hive mind have to say about all of this?

5 years ago by holotone

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27 522 p	A practical fusion reactor #1 One that actually generates usable energy for the generation of electricity. 2 Comments
15 287 p	Cure for Cancer #2 3 Comments
15 287 p	Human Organ Farms #3 using transgenic animals (you didn't say it had to be cool or of sound ethics) 3 Comments
9 173 p	Cheap and durable space shuttle #4 make space tourism available to everyone! Add a comment
8 151 p	Wetware #5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware An alternative definition of Wetware, common in many contemporary science fiction novels (Peter F. Hamilton's neural nanonics and wetware, Richard K. Morgan's wetwire and the second novel in Rudy Rucker's Ware Tetralogy), is used to describe cybernetic augmentation to human beings. The general theory is that the brain would have a cybernetic interface to electronic components capable of controlling the body. Such cybernetic implants could control everything from muscle movement, making a person super-fast or super-strong (as in the case of Morgan's books), or to provide a direct connection to external computer processing through wetwired connections in the skin. There are clear examples of wetware devices in the novels of William Gibson, certain individuals use a cyberdeck to jack on to a brain implant which provides them with sensorial connection to virtual cyberspace. Add a comment
7 131 p	Microscopic robot housekeepers #6 Hopefully. Add a comment
6 113 p	Practical Ozone Seeder #7 To know that we can save ourselves from our own presumed oblivion could be dynamically empowering. Add a comment
6 99 p	Curing retroviral diseases: AIDS, HPV, herpes, etc. #8 very tough. clearly, vaccines are coming first. but there's a hell of a lot of people carrying these nasty fucking viruses. 4 Comments
5 89 p	Neuroscience implementation #9 Add a comment
5 89 p	Humans 2.0 #10 bioengineering, baby. 1 Comment
5 87 p	Screening & prevention of all heritable diseases #11 ...prevention at first through selective termination, and then by gene therapy. Add a comment
4 74 p	Flying cars #12 Add a comment
2 40 p	Where time comes from #13 Understanding where time actually comes from will provide the backbone understanding of the underlying infrastructure of the multiverse, and in turn, errors in Relativity Theory will be corrected. In English: Quantum Computers on E-bay and a theory on inter-dimensional travel to any known point in our universe. Add a comment
1 20 p	Definitely the biggest www.EinsteinGravity.com #14 www.EinsteinGravity.com www.EinsteinGravity.com Definitely the biggest scientific breakthrough of the next 50 years. Add a comment
1 20 p	A unified theory of physics #15 Add a comment