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All the scientists and various technology development people around the world are given a blank check to develop, research and generally discover whatever they want to do.

The money is drained for their use from a collection of all the money owned by all the goverments on this planet.

Where are we 10 years from now?
If we had a blank check like that described above what new advances would we have?

>> No.2337349

Smokeless marijuana.

>> No.2337429

Affordable, practical cars that don't run on terrible technology any more.

Maybe flying cars.

Cancer treatments with a 90%+ success rate.

An MMO to compete with World of Warcraft.

>> No.2337436

>>2337429
The flying cars would have to drive themselves. But we're not so far from that, either.

>> No.2337447

>Where are we 10 years from now?

Bankrupt.

>> No.2337468
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2337468

>>2337349
Kumar already did that

>> No.2337491

we would have defenseless boarders, shitty broken down roads, massive amounts of pollution, poverty, starvation, bankrupt hospitals, and no schools

>> No.2337505

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of you asking me that question.

>> No.2337528

>>2337491
America spends 67% of its federal discrtionary budget on the Department of Defense, over 500,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico come to America every year, it would probably cost you close to a trillion dollars to get your roads back to a good state, you already have huge amounts of pollution, 10% of the population is unemployed, 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty, 35 million Americans don't know where their next meal will come from (Kraft ad) and you are the only country without a single-payer healthcare system, and your schools are third-world grade.

tl;dr You suck

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2337548

Probably a number of megastructures; Huge great particle accelerators, giant underground fusion reactors, space elevators, launch loops and the like. Some would work, while other would be failed attempts. A large number of labs in space, on the ocean floor and deep underground.

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2337565

>>2337548
<3

>> No.2337569

>>2337548
What about Martian/Lunar colonies, and interstellar sleeper/generation ships?

>> No.2337602

>>2337333

>>Where are we 10 years from now?

* automated roadways - high speed and no accidents
* large colony on moon and eyeing mars
* stds becoming a memory (albeit a bad one)
* all peoples everywhere at least college educated
* the possibility of interstellar flight getting closer
* the common cold and herpes eradicated - flu on it's way out
* sweeping cleanup of earth and it's environs
* balanced population

and else...

>> No.2337639

>>2337569

Possibly, but I often think getting people on Mars is more governments trying to dick-wave than scientists trying to do research.

Although after 10 years we would have reached the point where we would be able to safely sent people there and back again.

I don't expect generation ships by then. It would take decades of research and construction before we would be ready to send one of those off.