What areas of technology do not meet your expectations?

[dunksby]

No, I'm not asking for jet-packs, but I used to think supersonic commercial planes would have become an integral part of our lives by now. Plane tickets are way cheaper now compared to the 70s, I concede, but I'd rather fly faster than spend it watching movies I don't care about or have already watched. What makes everything worse is that it seems like a lot of big airlines are struggling and they either lay off people or have their flights cancelled due to strikes...As much as I like my smart phone, its advanced tech isn't that tangible and gripping, it just lets me do stuff I do on my laptop on my phone.

[fiddy]

maglev>planes for the future imo

[DCL]

for me, it's always been the battery life of anything... laptops, phones. they keep on coming up with new technologies that I don't even personally need yet, but the battery power has not improved drastically. sure, more computing power obviously requires more power, but i think it would be nice to have devices that don't require charging every single day or even every couple hours.

[dunksby]

maglev>planes for the future imo
Yep, I wanted to compare aviation with train tech but they already surpassed my expectations with those bullet trains.

[Ancient Legend]

Space Travel has slowed down when you consider the achievements of the past century

110 years ago, first flight.
66 years later, man set foot on the Moon
46 years later (2015): Nothing groundbreaking. You would think we would have landed on Mars by now.

[Dresta]

Pretty much all of it. The current technological advances all seem to be about providing incessant distraction/stimulation to consumers, giving them a new means to pretend their lives aren't shit, boring and pointless.

Genuinely productive innovation like shortening flight times costs too much money and effort and risk: better to just put some extra gadgets on the plane, finally allow people to use their phones, etc.


Space Travel has slowed down when you consider the achievements of the past century

110 years ago, first flight.
66 years later, man set foot on the Moon
46 years later (2015): Nothing groundbreaking. You would think we would have landed on Mars by now.
Problem is, technological achievements like this tend to increase in cost exponentially, with no guarantee they will produce something viable, either.

[fiddy]

46 years later (2015): Nothing groundbreaking. You would think we would have landed on Mars by now.
What for? Its an expensive expedition, so we can say "Yey, we landed on Mars". We got the technology, but whats the point of simply landing on Mars? We are not yet capable of effectively exploiting other planets or moons, World Government/New World Order has to come before that, we need more unified efforts in that direction, not just single world powers struggling to do it on their own.


for me, it's always been the battery life of anything... laptops, phones. they keep on coming up with new technologies that I don't even personally need yet, but the battery power has not improved drastically. sure, more computing power obviously requires more power, but i think it would be nice to have devices that don't require charging every single day or even every couple hours.
I think that batteries wont exist in the future as the electricity would be transmitted trough air or something like that.

[DCL]

also, things like locating a damn passenger plane during any moment of flight... thought we'd have that by now, but no, commercial planes can still go missing under the radar. we can send and track shit far outta space, yet we can't locate a damn passenger plane on earth if a pilot turns off a few simple switches. thought we'd have basic technology to track any commercial flight at any moment by now...

[iamgine]

Space Travel has slowed down when you consider the achievements of the past century

110 years ago, first flight.
66 years later, man set foot on the Moon
46 years later (2015): Nothing groundbreaking. You would think we would have landed on Mars by now.
I think the difference is capability.

When we set foot on the moon, we wasn't even sure we could do it.

Now, even though we haven't set foot on Mars, we are pretty confident we could even land on Pluto if we really want to.

[embersyc]

Mostly space technology, air travel, and the US's resistance to high speed trains.

[iamgine]

One area that disappoints me is electric car and how they haven't replaced gasoline cars yet.

[knickballer]

One area that disappoints me is electric car and how they haven't replaced gasoline cars yet.

Oil industry is deliberately crushing it along with the inefficiency in airplanes and other green technology. They have a vested interested and will squash any competition.

as for the question I agree with the OP on planes and anything related to trasnportation. It seems liek we've gone backwards or stagnated in the US. All the public transporation infrastructure are decades old and crumbling while we just invest in highways and roads... You look at countries like Japan, Switzerland, Germany, etc, with all their fancy trains, subways, etc, and I wonder why can't we have that?

BTW, I live in NY and we seem to be the pinnacle of public transporation in the US.

[Velocirap31]

One area that disappoints me is electric car and how they haven't replaced gasoline cars yet.

This. Although I think big oil's partnership with most major car manufacturers has everything to do with it. Once the oil money dries up, Shell and Exxon will be unveiling their new lithium ion car batteries for mass use.

[L.Kizzle]

Morphing and teleporting and time machines and Jetsons like food.

[DCL]

One area that disappoints me is electric car and how they haven't replaced gasoline cars yet.

i get the environmental advantages of an electric car... clean air, less pollution, energy efficiency, all that. but on a practical level, i'm not sure if i'd ever be interested in owning one since each full charge only lasts a couple hundred miles on the road. there will certainly be a lot of bullshit wait times if you're doing a road trip or anything that covers distance. with gas, you can simply refuel in 5 minutes and be back on the road. with an electric car, if it runs out of energy, you'll be stuck somewhere for a while.

[Draz]

Electric cars or alternatives to gasoline.

[iamgine]

i get the environmental advantages of an electric car... clean air, less pollution, energy efficiency, all that. but on a practical level, i'm not sure if i'd ever be interested in owning one since each full charge only lasts a couple hundred miles on the road. there will certainly be a lot of bullshit wait times if you're doing a road trip or anything that covers distance. with gas, you can simply refuel in 5 minutes and be back on the road. with an electric car, if it runs out of energy, you'll be stuck somewhere for a while.

I'd assume that would not be a problem in the future when the infrastructures are in place. I envision an easy solution like swapping your empty battery with a full one from a "gas station".

[Velocirap31]

I'd assume that would not be a problem in the future when the infrastructures are in place. I envision an easy solution like swapping your empty battery with a full one from a "gas station".

Or they'll just have recharge stations that get you from empty to full in a few minutes. It seems far fetched today, but they're already coming out with fast charging for cell phones.

[iamgine]

Or they'll just have recharge stations that get you from empty to full in a few minutes. It seems far fetched today, but they're already coming out with fast charging for cell phones.
Yeah I guess thats more likely. Batteries tech gets better = range gets longer, charging time gets shorter.

[dunksby]

Or they'll just have recharge stations that get you from empty to full in a few minutes. It seems far fetched today, but they're already coming out with fast charging for cell phones.
You are still going to burn fossil fuel to get electricity, the best solution is a hybrid engine consisted of a petrol engine that burns CNG and a weaker electric engine, that gets recharged while the petrol engine operates. You get your electricity while driving to your destination while dispersing drastically less harmful gases into the air.

[ace23]

I think it's kind of wild that car accidents and their resulting deaths and serious injuries are still a thing with the technology we have. Maybe the technology's not there, but I don't know. They seem so preventable.

[hateraid]

***** pumps.
You'd think they'd have it figured out by now...

[dunksby]

I think it's kind of wild that car accidents and their resulting deaths and serious injuries are still a thing with the technology we have. Maybe the technology's not there, but I don't know. They seem so preventable.
Drive a Volvo? They specialize in this shit.

[johndeeregreen]

Time travel.

[iamgine]

Stem cells

[Velocirap31]

You are still going to burn fossil fuel to get electricity, the best solution is a hybrid engine consisted of a petrol engine that burns CNG and a weaker electric engine, that gets recharged while the petrol engine operates. You get your electricity while driving to your destination while dispersing drastically less harmful gases into the air.

Nuclear power? Hydro power? Solar? Wind?

[~primetime~]

More advancements in the medical field...particularly cancer treatment, but that is still "advancing" at least


Coming expectations:
I expect a big break through in humans being able to reverse or halt the aging process in the next 20-30 years.

Have already reversed aging in mice:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-04/scientists-reverse-ageing-process-in-mice/5865714

eventually humans will be able to live hundreds of years, pretty mcuh conquering death. I hope this happens in my life time, I have a lot of shit I want to do before I go.

[Joyner82reload]

Unfortunately almost everything is geared toward consumerism at this point in time. Thus the market is saturated with things that are sometimes decades behind potential, but they sell so there is no need for the corporations to test the limits.

[Velocirap31]

More advancements in the medical field...particularly cancer treatment, but that is still "advancing" at least


Coming expectations:
I expect a big break through in humans being able to reverse or halt the aging process in the next 20-30 years.

Have already reversed aging in mice:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-04/scientists-reverse-ageing-process-in-mice/5865714

eventually humans will be able to live hundreds of years, pretty mcuh conquering death. I hope this happens in my life time, I have a lot of shit I want to do before I go.

Obviously living forever is a preferable idea, but could you imagine working the same job for centuries? Retirement wouldn't exist since pensions would be a thing of the past (can't pay people doing nothing forever). It would be a 9-5 grind forever with no end in sight. :banghead: I guess the typical plan would be to work for decades and save money, then quit working for years until starting over again with a new career. Also, the education system would change drastically with many new adult learners looking for a new career path even into their 80's, 180's, etc.

[~primetime~]

Obviously living forever is a preferable idea, but could you imagine working the same job for centuries? Retirement wouldn't exist since pensions would be a thing of the past (can't pay people doing nothing forever). It would be a 9-5 grind forever with no end in sight. :banghead: I guess the typical plan would be to work for decades and save money, then quit working for years until starting over again with a new career. Also, the education system would change drastically with many new adult learners looking for a new career path even into their 80's, 180's, etc.
Things would drastically change, yes.

I wouldn't work the same job for hundreds of years though, I'd have like 5 different doctorates...I'd be a doctor, lawyer, and other things. I'd be an expert at everything.

[Draz]

Funny that they're obsessed with making cars that drive themselves but can't find alternative to gas.

[The Iron Sheik]

virtual reality

[ballup]

I find this thread more about showing your ignorance in the sciences than realistic problems with technology.

[ace23]

Drive a Volvo? They specialize in this shit.
I don't drive one, but yeah, why isn't that kind of technology standard? I assume it's a cost thing.

[StephHamann]

Obviously living forever is a preferable idea, but could you imagine working the same job for centuries? Retirement wouldn't exist since pensions would be a thing of the past (can't pay people doing nothing forever). It would be a 9-5 grind forever with no end in sight. :banghead: I guess the typical plan would be to work for decades and save money, then quit working for years until starting over again with a new career. Also, the education system would change drastically with many new adult learners looking for a new career path even into their 80's, 180's, etc.

I bet "living forever" would get you super paranoid. There is always a chance you die randomly in a car crash or something like that, if you could possibly live forever people might get scared to interact in public.

[fsvr54]

I think it's kind of wild that car accidents and their resulting deaths and serious injuries are still a thing with the technology we have. Maybe the technology's not there, but I don't know. They seem so preventable.

It's simple solutions like magnets preventing cars from hitting each other, but the car repair industry is a billion dollar industry. They won't allow advances like that.

[Jasi]

Umbrellas.

They have been around in the same freaking version for what? millennia, now?
And they are still ineffective.

[johndeeregreen]

It's simple solutions like magnets preventing cars from hitting each other, but the car repair industry is a billion dollar industry. They won't allow advances like that.
:oldlol:

Cars with magnets on them repelling each other would cause about ten thousand more times more accidents than there are now. A magnet that would stop a collision of two 3,000 pound objects traveling at even 15 miles per hour would wreak absolute havoc on every other car just driving down the road.

The car repair industry would LOVE people learning to drive with forces coming out of nowhere pushing them off the road.:oldlol: But yeah, they're the ones stopping magnetized cars, not common f*cking sense.

[johndeeregreen]

Funny that they're obsessed with making cars that drive themselves but can't find alternative to gas.
There are alternatives to fossil fuels. They're just nowhere near as affordable or practical to the consumer.

[Clyde]

Medicine.

[LJJ]

http://www.colonialmedical.com/images/detailed/p_7615_1330525293.jpg

:cry: :cry: :cry:



Sorry to hear that's not working out for you so far bud. Don't stop believing. Remember it's the motion of the ocean!

[magictricked]

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[fsvr54]

:oldlol:

Cars with magnets on them repelling each other would cause about ten thousand more times more accidents than there are now. A magnet that would stop a collision of two 3,000 pound objects traveling at even 15 miles per hour would wreak absolute havoc on every other car just driving down the road.

The car repair industry would LOVE people learning to drive with forces coming out of nowhere pushing them off the road.:oldlol: But yeah, they're the ones stopping magnetized cars, not common f*cking sense.

My idea got you shook son, you wrote a two paragraph response. Anyways, some kind of hi tech sensor system technolgy is obviously being witheld.

[highwhey]

Thats stuttering. ...not turrets
You just got magicktricked

[ballup]

My idea got you shook son, you wrote a two paragraph response. Anyways, some kind of hi tech sensor system technolgy is obviously being witheld.
You mean the ones that are currently on the market of higher end cars? The same ones that help self driving cars operate without crashing into things? The similar technology being advertised on TV on some cars that detect and stop the vehicle when it detects something you can back up into?

[johndeeregreen]

My idea got you shook son, you wrote a two paragraph response.
Thank you for reminding me why I don't post here anymore. I mean that sincerely.

[fsvr54]

Thank you for reminding me why I don't post here anymore. I mean that sincerely.

Thank god for that

[oarabbus]

:oldlol:

Cars with magnets on them repelling each other would cause about ten thousand more times more accidents than there are now. A magnet that would stop a collision of two 3,000 pound objects traveling at even 15 miles per hour would wreak absolute havoc on every other car just driving down the road.

The car repair industry would LOVE people learning to drive with forces coming out of nowhere pushing them off the road.:oldlol: But yeah, they're the ones stopping magnetized cars, not common f*cking sense.

:applause: someone who understands physics


My idea got you shook son, you wrote a two paragraph response. Anyways, some kind of hi tech sensor system technolgy is obviously being witheld.


:facepalm lmao dude.... just lmao