Tech | August 14, 2009 | 6 comments

10 Profound Innovations Ahead

source: http://www.livescience.com/technology/090806-top10-greatest-innovations.html

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Today's world looks increasingly like the future. Robots work factory assembly lines and fight alongside human warriors on the battlefield, while tiny computers assist in everything from driving cars to flying airplanes. Surgeons use the latest technological tools to accomplish incredible feats, and researchers push the frontiers of medicine with bioengineering. Science fiction stories about cloning and resurrecting extinct animals look increasingly like relevant cautionary tales.

But even the best of science and technology has yet to solve climate change and famine, or conquer disease. More and more people live on a planet with shrinking resources, which leads to political strife and conflict.

President Obama recently called for a renewal of the "spirit of innovation" to address those challenges, and so LiveScience examines some of the hottest areas where researchers hope to forge a better tomorrow.

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6 comments // 10 Profound Innovations Ahead

  • ColossalView
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      ColossalView  

    • In my family house we our always obsessed with how to eliminate how much trash we produce, and it interesting to think about were all trash goes to and just how much can be reused.

    • 2 years ago
  • royulery
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    • cabinettags; thank you for your attention and concern. i will remove that post. i was in a very dark mood having been ripped off by a few internet companies.
      this article is about the hope the new technologies inspire. they are the solutions that government can't give us.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
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    • "New biodegradable plastics could be tossed into the ocean without harming the environment"
      Technology CAN be a friend to the environment. Sometimes.

    • 2 years ago
  • royulery
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  • cabinettags
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    • royulery:

      Somewhere in there you lost me. We were sailing along just fine with overpopulation and your concerns about space for everyone. Then next thing I know you're calling for a religious war. This does not compute. What makes you think if everyone was prohibited from belief in the Lord that we'd stop having babies? Not that you could accomplish that anyway, but even if you could it wouldn't work. hello?

    • 2 years ago
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