Before you die, what do you want to see become a reality

[MathJakob]

Without being ridiculous and try to keep it within the boundaries of what could be possible, what would you like to see become a reality more than anything else?

Some examples:

Discovery of life elsewhere.
Servant robots.
Digitisation of the brain.
A cure for cancer.
Conclusive proof other dimensions exist.
How the big bang happend.
Discovery of another universe
World Peace.

ect

 

[1MileCrash]

Live a long life, raise a family, and spend my life doing the things I love.

 

[turbo]

I'll give into the beauty queens and say "world peace". There will always be disagreements and conflict, but it would be great to see killings stopped, especially the killings of innocents.

 

[Abstr7ct]

World Peace, but since this is impossible to happen anyway I would choose discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. As intelligent as humans at least. Within this context, I would like to see a human-alien collaboration.

 

[leroyjenkens]

Discovering life on another planet would be the biggest discovery since Newton discovered gravity.
I would choose that.
Even if it was just some coherent radio signals from elsewhere in the universe of alien music or maybe even their voices, I would die happy.

 

[DennisN]

A sustainable Earth.
A discovery of some kind of extraterrestrial life.
A quantum theory of gravity.

Oh, these are modest wishes .

 

[Evo]

Based on your examples of what you think is possible within a current lifetime...I want my replicator. Tea! Earl Grey. Hot!

 

[MathJakob]

Based on your examples of what you think is possible within a current lifetime...I want my replicator. Tea! Earl Grey. Hot!

I'd really like to see quantum computing become a reality, along with the discovery of intelligent life or the gradual colonisation of Mars. I know there are so many variables where the colonisation of Mars is concerned but with the rapid development of technology, I'd like to think it is doable.

 

[krash661]

lol

immortality.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Based on your examples of what you think is possible within a current lifetime...I want my replicator. Tea! Earl Grey. Hot!

Assuming they don't cost much to build, or in terms of energy to operate, these would be my choice, too.

 

[reenmachine]

Better mental health care system.
Discovery of alien life , intelligent or not.
More opportunities to make a living for pure mathematicians and theoretical physicists.
Less importance given to money and possessions.
Better education system.
More general respect for the elders from the younger generations.

 

[OmCheeto]

...
More general respect for the elders from the younger generations.

More general respect from the elders for the seventh generation...

 

[reenmachine]

More general respect from the elders for the seventh generation...

I don't know what the seventh generation is.

I guess I should also have said that I wish for better overall parenting in the world , but all of these ideas are wishful thinking at it's finest.

 

[D H]

I vote for ect.

 

[lisab]

I'd like all humans to have self-determination, and to respect others' right to self-determination as well.

 

[DennisN]

I vote for ect.

Would that be Electroconvulsive therapy or Einstein–Cartan theory?

 

[WannabeNewton]

Scentless scented car air fresheners.

 

[Aero51]

Itd be nice to be happy

 

[D H]

Would that be Electroconvulsive therapy or Einstein–Cartan theory?

I'm not sure either. It is one of the choices offered, and none of the others grabbed me:

Some examples:

Discovery of life elsewhere.
Servant robots.
Digitisation of the brain.
A cure for cancer.
Conclusive proof other dimensions exist.
How the big bang happend.
Discovery of another universe
World Peace.

ect

 

[jedishrfu]

Assuming they don't cost much to build, or in terms of energy to operate, these would be my choice, too.

You could make one with a box of earl grey, a robot arm (like on Back to the future), a supply of hot water, a microphone and a raspberry-pi trained to detect the word Tea from Evo. The arm slides a cup into place drops an earl grey teabag into it and then activates the hot water controls and bingo hot earl grey tea.

Future models can include other teas, condiments and some fancier programming.

Or you can franchise a StarBucks and let the barristas do it.

 

[tiefenb7]

Space colonization! The ability to get on some sort of spaceship and go to Jupiter in a few days...

 

[strangerep]

What would I like? An end to all superstitions and hernias!

Oh wait, Ghost-in-the-Shell technology might accomplish both, so I'll vote for that.

 

[ZombieFeynman]

I would like to see a theory of high Tc superconductors be able to predict the Tc of superconductors from first principles.

I would like to see room temperature superconductors discovered, made cost effective, and broadly implemented in our infrastructure.

Id like to see political cooperation and increased societal valuation of knowledge and learning.

Id like to see advances in spintronics further revolutionize information technology.

Id like to see broad expansions of fundamental research in industry and at national labs.

 

[chemisttree]

Definitely the cure for cancer... all of them.

 

[mfb]

Magic in general.

The discovery of extraterrestrial life, no matter how primitive or intelligent
Artificial intelligence on a human scale or more advanced
Total synthesis of life, artificial or natural
A unification of General Relativity and quantum mechanics, or a "Theory of Everything"
Large-scale access to space
Significant advances in medicine, but those are hard to break down to single events

Discovering life on another planet would be the biggest discovery since Newton discovered gravity.

Newton "just" found formulas for it and generalized it for other objects in space, the concept of "falling down" was known (discovered?) long before him.

immortality.

Does that count as "before you die"? :D

 

[handyman2]

I want to see cure for all kinds of incurable disease not only cancer.

 

[sym666]

I' d really like to be alive the day humankind will realize a journey to another star, but I believe it's unlikely to happen*. I sometimes ask myself if I would be prepare to leave Earth myself, if I were asked to do so. I don't know what my answer would be, but I like to think it'd be "Hell, yeah!"


*and, damn it, maybe for only a few hundreds of years

 

[McCartney]

What Jean Luc Pickard said to the 20th century stock broker that found himself in the 24th century.

 

[Trave11er]

I want to see cure for all kinds of incurable disease not only cancer.

Me too. Also I would be happy to see all mentally/physically disadvantaged people cured.
- Nuclear fusion or anything else coming to cover our energy needs.
- Everybody having access to clean water, enough food and medication.
- No government/corporations trying to control its people. Internet still free.

 

[tbg299]

The technological singularity. Human consciousness will be transferred to machines, so technically you will be able to live forever :)

 

[MathJakob]

Some great posts I enjoy reading them, keep them coming :D

I think witnessing the announcement of aliens on national TV or seeing them with my own eyes would make me cry with happiness. I don't think there is anything else I want to be more true than that. As for after long term I'd like to see more money being put into the sciences instead of wars.

 

[jedishrfu]

Some great posts I enjoy reading them, keep them coming :D

I think witnessing the announcement of aliens on national TV or seeing them with my own eyes would make me cry with happiness. I don't think there is anything else I want to be more true than that. As for after long term I'd like to see more money being put into the sciences instead of wars.

I always liked the Twilight Zone story of the benevolent aliens coming to Earth promising so much and presenting the President (I think) with a book entitled: To Serve Mankind written in alien language

Everyone wanted to visit their planet and as people were boarding the ship, a philologist studying the alien language realizes the true meaning of the book...

 

[MathJakob]

I always liked the Twilight Zone story of the benevolent aliens coming to Earth promising so much and presenting the President (I think) with a book entitled: To Serve Mankind written in alien language

Everyone wanted to visit their planet and as people were boarding the ship, a philologist studying the alien language realizes the true meaning of the book...

The thing about humans is we're so arrogant that even if super advanced beings came to Earth we'd probably attack them. That's why so many people think that if aliens come to Earth they will be aggressive, because that is how we would act.

So because we act that way, we assume other intelligent life would act the same, who knows there are probably life forms out there that just want to conquer and enslave but I believe there are other beings that want peace.

 

[prakis]

Biological explanation of Consciousness (Subjective experience).

And maybe Fermat's Last Theorem (using only Number Theory, without modern mathematics)

 

[nitsuj]

cheap, renewable, easy access energy. ...oh how that would throw economics for a loop.

Climate change that favors Canada.

A common understanding on the difference between hungry and starving.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Sensible answer

A workable theory of economic democracy that is both green and steady state along with a corresponding improvement in political democracy. Bonus points for both being able to institute a leisure economy through increased automation/mechanisation and reform of welfare to include a guarenteed minimum income system.

Oh and this applies globally.

Luxury answer

- A cheap, global system of personalised rapid transport (I'd prefer teleporters but they're not possible)
- Five star fully automated house ("Kitchen make me dinner and bring me wine whilst the bathroom preps the hot tub!")
- Life extension (bonus points for healthy life extension. Being 150 and feeling 90 doesn't seem much of an improvement)

 

[Ryan_m_b]

What Jean Luc Pickard said to the 20th century stock broker that found himself in the 24th century.

That's pretty much what I was going for with my sensible answer above after some searching I found the clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqW0YaN2ho&t=0m56s

 

[MathJakob]

I'd prefer teleporters but they're not possible

Not possible as in it would violate the laws of physics, or that we just don't have the energy or technology to do it?

 

[nitsuj]

Not possible as in it would violate the laws of physics, or that we just don't have the energy or technology to do it?

Gotta define what is meant by "teleport". I can email a design at near the speed of light.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Not possible as in it would violate the laws of physics, or that we just don't have the energy or technology to do it?

Impossible in the sense that there isn't a conceivable way to move an object from A to B without being in any intervening space.

Gotta define what is meant by "teleport". I can email a design at near the speed of light.

When I say teleport I mean the science fiction idea of objects disappearing from one location in space and reappearing at another (with differences in momentum compensated for).

 

[skyshrimp]

I hope everything goes smoothly in 2018 with the JWST launch. It's going to be 1 million miles from Earth, unlike Hubble which is only 370 miles away and can be physically repaired and upgraded.

 

[Kinase]

I'm young so, I'd like to not have to worry about dying. that'd be nice. Or at least cybernetic people or something.

 

[NATURE.M]

- Experimental evidence to support the multiverse theory. If not a testable scientific explanation on what came before the big bang.
- The discovery of extraterrestrial life forms.
- A society driven more towards secularism, rather than religious dogmatism.
-A more scientifically literate society.
- Great technological innovation and vast improvements medicine.
-Unraveling the mystery of 'consciousness'.

 

[haael]

Unicorns.

 

[jim hardy]

I always liked the Twilight Zone story of the benevolent aliens coming to Earth promising so much and presenting the President (I think) with a book entitled: To Serve Mankind written in alien language

Everyone wanted to visit their planet and as people were boarding the ship, a philologist studying the alien language realizes the true meaning of the book...

Ahhh yes, "Serving Man" was the title of that episode I think.

My particular favorite is "Next stop Willoughby" : a hard driven ad-man escapes to a place where there isn't any '.. haste to succeed in such desperate enterprises...'

I'd like to see society come to value that kind of life.

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi836544281/?ref_=tt_ov_vi

 

[bp_psy]

The technological singularity. Human consciousness will be transferred to machines, so technically you will be able to live forever :)

This is pretty much it. I do not believe it's going to happen though.

I do not care at all about the technological, political and economical situation of humanity after I am dead. I just hope that I do not see WW3 in my lifetime.

 

[McCartney]

That's pretty much what I was going for with my sensible answer above after some searching I found the clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqW0YaN2ho&t=0m56s

The Star Trek shows that advanced civilizations move beyond the silly greediness of current culture. Jean Luc scolds the man form the 20th century for wanting material things. He goes on to tell the primitive man for the 20th century that theye solved poverty and "want" (the accumulation of material things).

I another episode in Voyager Lt Paris talks about how Earth currency had been abolished in the 22th century. I tried to explore this topic in the General Forum.

 

[blokpoi]

Singularity and warp drive. :)

 

[Enigman]

Singularity and warp drive. :)

Singularity huh? I guess a super-intelligent entity would be kinda cool; that is until it goes all Terminator on us...

 

[blokpoi]

Singularity huh? I guess a super-intelligent entity would be kinda cool; that is until it goes all Terminator on us...

It would be cool, but it would also be nice to live forever. Which is one of the reasons besides being a super intelligent robot I picked singularity.