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What do you think the next greatest technological invention will be within the next 50 years /sci/

>> No.1506321

A.I.

>> No.1506322

an imageboard without trolls.

>> No.1506323

Clear Aluminium will become affordable.... I hope

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AI
Life expectancy is rising higher than one year per year from advancements in technology
Fusion
iPad Femto

>> No.1506420

highly efficient solar panels

>> No.1506423

>>1506420
http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13325

They did.

>> No.1506428

Nanotech

>> No.1506429

>>1506423
nice, I hope they will be cheap to produce

>> No.1506435

>>1506429
Each wire measures between 30 and 100 microns in length and only 1 micron in diameter. “The entire thickness of the array is the length of the wire,” notes Atwater. “But in terms of area or volume, just 2 percent of it is silicon, and 98 percent is polymer.”

In other words, while these arrays have the thickness of a conventional crystalline solar cell, their volume is equivalent to that of a two-micron-thick film.

Since the silicon material is an expensive component of a conventional solar cell, a cell that requires just one-fiftieth of the amount of this semiconductor will be much cheaper to produce.

>> No.1506464

>>1506435
>>1506435
Excellent. I just added it to my pending reading list, that's why I didn't know that. My fault.

>> No.1506476

>>1506315
farmville 2