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Predictions made by
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Artificial
Intelligence |
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Intelligent machines |
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Computers that
predict the future |
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Original music
from software/machines |
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Computer
mediators that resolve legal disputes |
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Superintelligence |
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Machines/robots
given rights |
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Biology/biotechnology/medicine |
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Extended/eternal life
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Synthetic life |
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Repairing/manipulating DNA |
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Organ
replacement / growing organs |
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Designer babies / designer bodies |
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Personalized
drugs |
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Gene
therapy/manipulation |
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Biostasis
- Cryogenic sleep |
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Human cloning |
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Virtual/robot
medicine |
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Instant pain
relief |
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Bionic implants
to allow for extreme strength |
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Morphing of the
human body |
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Age reversal |
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Creation of
organisms |
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Synthetic
organs |
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Enhanced senses |
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Alteration of
our bodies in superhuman ways |
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Bionic limbs |
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Never have to
sleep or eat |
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Use genes of
other animals to implant in us |
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Artificial
immune system |
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Computer
generated life, e.g., design a tree,
generate a seed, plant it in the ground and
watch the tree grow |
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Creation of new
animal and plant species by genetic
manipulation |
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Human/animal
waste elimination |
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Gene
manipulation to change eye and hair color at
the salon |
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Cloning of
dinosaurs |
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A capsule that
can be swallowed which will cure all diseases |
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Instant hair
color changer |
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Brain |
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Download your
memories/brain |
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Complete digital record of
your life |
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Mind/emotion
control devices |
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Dream control
devices |
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Brain
enhancement implants - memory, telepathy |
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Transfer of
information into the visual cortex or
subconscious mind |
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Artificial
telekenesis - an implant to alter physical
things with your mind. |
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Brain
Transplants |
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Tapping into
unused parts of the brain |
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Download
training experience, e.g., someone could be
able to fly a jet or guide a submarine |
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Memory/personality manipulation |
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Chemistry |
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Replication
and/or transformation of one chemical element
to another |
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Super lubricant |
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Artificial
spider silk |
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City |
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Megacities/entire world is one city |
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Moving/floating/underwater cities |
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Underground cities |
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Cities/houses
could be one huge organism which can repair
itself |
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Self-constructing buildings, built on demand |
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Anti-seismic buildings |
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Vertical
(skyscraper) farms |
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Communication |
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Instant
information |
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Virtual
presence |
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Wireless
everything |
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One small
mobile device does everything |
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Virtual reality |
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Internet-connection implant |
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All media (movies, tv
shows, etc.) on-demand |
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Holographic messages |
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Language translator
implants |
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Telepathy |
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Phone implant |
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A house phone which
is a mobile when you leave the house with it |
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Computers |
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Computers
equivalent to the human brain |
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Nanoscale computers everywhere |
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Optical computers |
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DNA computers |
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Quantum computers |
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Global network |
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Computers that
animals can use |
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Self editing
software |
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Faster than
Light or Instant Data transfer |
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Laptops built
in desks |
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Computers that
never crash, are impervious to all viruses,
never a need to reboot |
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Mind-reading
Computers (Computers able to Communicate w/
Humans via Thoughts) |
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Earth |
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Weather control |
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Abundant food
and water supply from technology |
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Eco-manipulation (deserts into forests) |
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Man-made
precious materials like gold |
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Mining of
Earth's mantle |
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Recycling of
everything |
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Water shortages |
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Technology is
developed to help nature |
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Ability to
instantly purify water so all water is
drinkable |
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Carbon dioxide
into oxygen |
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Universal
tunnel boring machine |
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Global Warming
Stabilizer |
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Electronics |
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Printable/paintable/flexible/see-through
electronics, screens, touch panels, solar
panels |
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Invisible
video/sensor surveillance |
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Holograms |
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Holographic tv
on your wrist |
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Voice/brain
command over computers and appliances |
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Contact lens
displays/computers |
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Glasses that
can see different wavelengths |
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Devices
controlled by eyes (wheelchairs, computers,
etc) |
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Nuclear powered
devices |
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Holodecks |
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Nano devices |
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Intelligent
jewelry, e.g., wristwatches that monitor blood
pressure and pulse, necklace that measures
brain activity. |
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Energy force
fields |
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Room
temperature superconductors |
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Scanners to ring up
everything in a basket at once |
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Three dimensional
television without need for cumbersome glasses |
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Energy |
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Eco-friendly
fuel |
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Unlimited renewable energy |
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Wireless energy |
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Alternative
nuclear energy (fusion, antimatter...) |
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Eco-friendly
electricity |
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Generating
electricity from mass or water |
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Home |
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Printable/self constructing homes and buildings. |
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Eternal beer
fountain (Uncle Walt's prediction) |
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Smart homes |
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Self washing,
drying, and folding clothes |
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Intelligent/adaptable
fabrics and clothing |
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Personalized
ergonomics |
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Ultrasonic
"showers" |
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Replicators |
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Hanging house |
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Pets that live
forever |
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All surfaces
are disinfecting and cleansing |
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Walls,
ceilings, (all other room surfaces) are
digital screens. Can turn room into any
environment with sounds and smells |
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Soundproof
rooms. Soundproof energy fields that you can
walk through |
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Self-cleaning
tabletop and dishes |
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Nanotechnology |
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Manipulate matter at the atomic scale |
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Custom molecules |
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Intelligent/adaptable materials |
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Self
replicating machines |
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Foglets/nanoswarms/grey goo |
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Desktop
nano-factories build anything |
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Frictionless
surfaces |
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Physics |
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Artificial black holes |
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Artificial worm
holes |
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Traveling
faster than light |
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Invisibility
cloaks |
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Zero-point
energy |
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Ability to
alter space and time |
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Time machine |
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Robotics |
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Personal/care
giving/cleaning robots |
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Nanobots |
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Robots perform
majority of labor jobs |
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Robot partners
(wife/husband) |
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Exoskeletons |
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Sentient robots |
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Robotic
prosthetics |
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Robots
controlled remotely with mind link |
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Security robots |
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Robots with a
genetic code |
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Robotic
cashiers |
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Robot rock
bands |
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Society |
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Digital money |
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Language translators |
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Anti-technology
groups |
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Transhumanism
(humans merge with machines) |
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Identification/credit card implant |
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Cashless
society |
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Paperless
society |
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Personalized
advertising |
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Compatibility
testers |
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Mental
entertainment |
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Bio-identification |
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People can
encode themselves and live in a computer's
memory/program (matrix) |
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Total
elimination of warfare and its causation |
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Unemployment
rates sky high due to robots replacing people
in the workforce |
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World peace |
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Insight into
the post-death experience |
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Space |
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Space elevator |
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Alien contact |
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Colonizing
space |
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Planetary/terra
formation (creating planets) |
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Orbital
stations |
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Solar sails |
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Mining of the
moon/planets/asteroids |
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Starships |
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Life on Mars |
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Control the
rotation of the planets |
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Travel to other
galaxies |
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Black hole
generator |
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Space tourism |
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Alien invasion |
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Interplanetary
trade |
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Replicate
(man-made) planet Earth |
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Transportation |
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Self-driving
cars on smart-highways |
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Flying cars -
Anti-gravity devices |
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Teleportation |
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Time machine |
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Inertia
dampeners, anti acceleration or anti breaking
devices |
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Ion or
electromagnetic propulsion |
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Flying boots |
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Boots with
turbo and wheels |
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Underground
highways |
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Unmanned cargo
ships |
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Transforming
transportation, cars that fly, planes that
swim, boats that go on land. |
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Warp speed
(traveling faster than light) |
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Use clothes to
fly. Clothes fly to laundry. |
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Vehicles
respond to environment (car lights
automatically dim when another car's lights
approach) |
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Last
update: 01/05/10
Mind-reading Computers, Global Warming
Stabilizer, insight into the post-death
experience, Robot rock bands.
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