What is on Your Mind?

Though we got surplus amount of primary memory, and big HDD when comapared to 20 or 30 years back, and cloud computing...

What other technology advancement you still need ?

Note: Feel free to add more options to this poll.

Decent eyeglass displays have been a "just around the corner" tech for going on 20 years, and they're one of the few barriers to making computers much smaller yet. You can only make a laptop as small as its screen and keyboard, after all...

Plenty of prototypes, but nobody's made a computer-resolution production model that sells; they keep making overpriced personal-TV-viewing versions, wondering why they don't sell(which is obvious enough to me -- the use of a tiny TV is limited, while the use of a tiny computer...), and abandoning the market again. With OLED technology they might be a lot more practical now, if anyone was willing to try hard enough to make it sell..

Wireless power supply's a real good one, as in, very badly needed, but I'm not sure I'd call it an advancement of existing technology. Right now we don't know where to begin; beams of energy powerful enough would burn people, too, and fields diminish rapidly with distance, and the power-line-cancer-fearmongers would foam at the mouth. There was an article many moons ago of a potential system utilizing magnetic rather than electromagnetic transmission, over long distances, via resonators tuned to be very inefficient radiators; they seemed to connect via some other electromagnetic effect. But there's been little to nothing about that since, so it may have been another cold fusion.

Wireless power (or rather, a subset of it) is already deployed in South Korea (Reference), where a bus is constantly recharged through coils in the pavement. The next step IMO would be pads that could be embedded into walls and desks to power TV sets/monitors/PCs/mobiles/...

6 months mobile battery, I think

Oh there are several things I would like to see :
personally:
- a solar powered notbook that loads with artificial light too
- a wireless chip that connects my brain to the internet wherever I am and whatever I need to lookup or do in the web right now - no display required
- expandable days with the option to add more hours if required to have finally the time to use all the wonderful technical enhancements that do already exist
- a self adjusting bank account where always a dollar is remaining after I have bought all the gadgets that do exist and I would like to have but simply cannot afford to buy

professionally:
- OS enhancements and upgrades that do not need a reboot
- expandable memory to be implemented into userbrains - optionally with a replay function that allows them to replay explanations I gave them already a couple of times before - until they understand what I am saying
- security software that doesn't make any kind of work on the box impossible after implementing it - and that gives each user exactly the amount of permissions he needs to have to do the work he is supposed to do - not what had been configured

What about a way to fast travel long distances?

You know, instead of driving to the office, or walking 1/2 mile to a restaurant or spending a whole day at the airport if you want to travel to the other side of the globe, it would be nice to have "something" that let us travel instantly, or at least faster.

People that want to do harm to others would benefit from that technology too - you sure you still want that? Also humans would degenerate even more not moving their limbs

---------- Post updated 11-03-10 at 01:02 PM ---------- Previous update was 11-02-10 at 04:59 PM ----------

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Not a solar powered notebook but at least a keyboard - Logitech will bring such a device on the market in the middle of November:

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