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

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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.newscient...nce-forecasts

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

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A practical fusion reactor

Leader! Most 1st Place Votes
One that actually generates usable energy for the generation of electricity.

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Human Organ Farms

using transgenic animals
(you didn't say it had to be cool or of sound ethics)

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13  votes
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Cure for Cancer

(No description provided)

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13  votes
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Cheap and durable space shuttle

make space tourism available to everyone!

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9  votes
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Wetware

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware An alternative definition of Wetware, common in many contemporary science fiction novels (... [show more]

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7  votes
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Impossible to predict

(No description provided)

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5  votes
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Practical Ozone Seeder

To know that we can save ourselves from our own presumed oblivion could be dynamically empowering.

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5  votes
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Humans 2.0

bioengineering, baby.

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5  votes
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Screening & prevention of all heritable diseases

...prevention at first through selective termination, and then by gene therapy.

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Curing retroviral diseases: AIDS, HPV, herpes, etc.

very tough. clearly, vaccines are coming first. but there's a hell of a lot of people carrying these nasty fucking viruses... [show more]

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Flying cars

(No description provided)

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4  votes
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Where time comes from

Understanding where time actually comes from will provide the backbone understanding of the underlying infrastructure of the multi... [show more]

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This topic was started by holotone holotone has 44,565 Grupie Points on November 20th, 2006. 59 grupies have voted on one or more of the 14 answers.

Tags: history, places, science, strange, technology, wish

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