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re: What potential invention could change society like the internet did?

Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:32 pm to
Posted by LSUFreek
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:32 pm to
Most likley something in transportation, energy, medicine, communication, or food/water.

LiFi is supposedly just around the corner where the internet travels by a light bulb in your home.

But if AI ever becomes a relevant entity, it could make the world unrecognizable as we currently know it, maybe even for disasterous effects.
This post was edited on 5/10/18 at 11:35 pm
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:34 pm to
I really don’t think much of humanity is ready for the level of technology that’s here, much less coming.


I believe we’ll see a neo-Luddite movement in the near future. The pendulum has swung too far too fast.
Posted by rpr4695
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:35 pm to
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How exactly would that be society altering like the internet? It’s not like many dudes are turning down sexual encounters as it is



There would be no consequence of pregnancy no matter how many women they slept with.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:37 pm to
Lots of good answers here. The freaky thing is most of them are coming in our lifetimes. Many in the next 5-10 years.
Posted by vilma4prez
Lafayette, LA
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:48 pm to
I vote for when the terminators take over and kill humanity
Posted by Houma Sapien
up the bayou
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:51 pm to
A machine that will instantly transport you to sonic
Posted by Seeing Grey
Member since Sep 2015
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:51 pm to
Honestly, I think nothing on the horizon could change society such as the internet. The ability to share information in real time across the world's population, generally free of censorship affects everything. Sure AI is here or coming, but what good is it without the internet? As more and more things become digitized, the internet will only become more important.

Not that I'm not exceptionally bullish on the technology in the near future, it's that they are largely just a further extrapolation of the internet.
Posted by starsandstripes
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:52 pm to
Real time optimization of one's major hormones.
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Posted on 5/10/18 at 11:59 pm to
Cancer cure.
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:05 am to
Q
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:07 am to
CRISPR

LINK
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:08 am to
Crotch-Watch
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Posted by Darth Aranda
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:23 am to
Why would I give you my ideas
Posted by Seeing Grey
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:27 am to
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CRISPR


Certainly huge potential and the bioengineering and biohacking will only become more influential.
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:41 am to
The Me262 operational in 1938.
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 12:47 am to
I told you before. Time travel.
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 1:04 am to
Lawyer eliminator
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cocaine
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 1:14 am to
Holodeck

People want even have to interact with real people again.
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 1:40 am to
Flux capacitor
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