Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

[Funk]

There are a few things I'd like to see before I die. These include:

- Quantum Computers
- Humans landing on Mars
- Bigfoot discovered
- Intelligence life on other planets discovered
- Robots with more human-like capabilities
- High fructose corn syrup outlawed
- A non-white and/or female U.S. President
- U.S. dependency on oil nullified
- Peace in the Middle East

I'd be interested in what other events/discoveries to which everyone is looking foward.

[Caciss]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

- Cure for AIDs
- The end of the world

[Nixon]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

- Cure for cancer*
- Star Trek style food/drink replicators

*It's a group of diseases, really, but even just finding a cure for one of the major types (lung, breast, prostate) would be fantastic.

[Caciss]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

- Teleportation
- Inter-galactic travel

[TechStorm]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

Pardon if my post is not very futuristic:

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I'd like to see some serious R&D (research and development) in the areas of education. I'd like to see the following *tested*:

1. In my opinion, students get crammed a lot of information in the early years, and then later on they are... taught the same thing? For me, I remember how a few classes in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th were pretty similar. Then, in the university we get to start off what should be the basics all over again (fractions, anyone?). My understanding is that cramming a lot of information early on does not work, it is allegedly a solution to the very problem it is creating. Here is what I would like to see:
*Less academic material and more social education in the early years. Why are some people bullies? Perhaps they have trouble at home.
*Absolutely no homework in the early years. So many hours sitting down... only to do homework when you're out? WTF.

2. More granularity in the ladders of education. Why do I have to take 5 months of classes only to understand some topics but flunk the whole thing? That's silly. I'd like to see courses of 2-to-4 weeks, depending on the topic.

I have a few more ideas regarding education, but I guess I'll stop now.

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Mandatory profit-sharing for large corporations i.e. *cough* Walmart *cough*

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RPG Maker for the Wii; with online sharing of portions of the game, in addition to whole games.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

Anything in Star Trek.

[Caciss]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

Mandatory profit-sharing for large corporations i.e. *cough* Walmart *cough*

I guess if this was communism, that'd be okay.

[Loki]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

Mother 3 in english.

[Denmo]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

Electric powered cars replacing fossil fuel dependancy.

Wal-Mart gone bankrupt.

Moon Colony.

Pill for basic human weaknesses: hunger, sleep, sickness.

[Shard]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

Space Tourism.


Robot-Slaves.


A Pandemic.

[Blackberry]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

-Nanabots.
-Cures for spinal and brain injures. (AKA: the people just shutting up and let the scientist work on it.)
-An American government that puts the everyday people first and not the politicians's businesses first.
-Colonization or terraforming of the Moon or a planet.
-More use of farming techniques that don't destroy the soil, the oceans, or human health.
-Organic computers (made by people).
-Space elevator.
-Greys or a flying saucer or the ghost of a dead relative.

I'd say an end to war, but I'm a realist.

[Vonwert]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

- Nanobots that are used to clean and repair teeth, so no more dentist.
- VR worlds that are fully interactive and can allow you to feel and smell and taste.
- Computers like in Lain that work superfast and everytime.

[Caciss]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

- Alexander Hamilton BACK FROM THE DEAD

[Manji]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

i'd like to see a real & true human evolution. i doubt it will be in my lifetime though. or ever for that matter... but i suppose we shall see.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Huge events/discoveries you'd like to see in your lifetime

The ability to never sleep.