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Technological priorities critical to real global social progress.
Available Living Space:
Develop deep underwater and space colonization technologies to ensure an abundance of available space for residential and research programs. Develop structures capable of withstanding the pressure, salinity and sea life of deep underwater environments. Seawater extraction is a likely source for oxygenation. Artificial substitutes will satisfy human needs for sunlight. Personal mobile suits and vehicles will serve for excursions external to the facilities. This model will also ensure that the human race will have a greater chance of surviving in the event of catastrophic global surface events.
Further advancements in space colonization technologies will also ensure that the human race will have a greater chance of surviving in the event of total catastrophic global events.
Design portable, light-weight devices performing two-way transformations between life-size structures suitable for temporary or permanent living quarters and returning to compact, portable form upon demand. Portable, high-powered ground anchoring at required minimum depths will provide stability sufficient to withstand hurricane winds. Minimum structure strengths will withstand impacts comparable to traditional brick housings. Transformations will be activated manually or by internal power. Structures also serve to support the continued eradication of homelessness. This technology could be used for personal, aboveground protection structures in physically dangerous environments such as close-proximity wildlife observations.
Renewable Energies:
Expand permanent and portable solar cell technologies which will provide power independent of geographic location. Expansion of ultraviolet ray solar power cells to provide energy during unavailable direct sunlight is desirable.
Material Strength:
Continued research and application for strong, lightweight materials ( example: carbon nanotubing)
Foods Expansion:
Place emphasis on technologies that identify, locate, produce, multiply, extract, preserve and facilitate availability and absorption of essential food nutrients, medicines and quality air on an individual basis. An abundance of these resources minimizes negative public responses from critical need deficiencies, frequent government and local leadership interventions, competition for food resources and declines in optimum health among global citizens as they support a cooperative mentality.
Chemistry knowledge expresses that any substances can be be simply expressed as combinations of molecular bonds from elements which consist of varying quantities of protons, neutrons and electrons. It is known that any substance could theoretically be created by intelligently manipulating specific particle combinations, ratios, energy levels and other properties. Continued research emphasis should be committed to technologies to break down organic raw material molecules into proton, neutron and electron atomic particles. After successful separation and containment, select particles can be recombined in predetermined ratios to created any food substance on demand. Furthermore, perhaps experimenting with technologies to vary other chemical properties may create foods of specific characteristics on demand. This technology may require extensive amounts of power. This research will become more feasible as more advanced power generation technologies are revealed.
Individuals will gather and input freely available, raw, organic materials into the food generator (duplicator or replicator) device for conversion into practically any food upon demand, according to its known, digitally-stored database of chemical characteristics. This invention proposal has the greatest capacity to advance human social conditions beyond any other technology.
Nutrient and Toxin Detections:
Design personal units to detect, classify and assess the bioavailability of organic plant life and unknown substances. The scanning units will display chemical data and analyze items and substances by comparing the physical and chemical properties to known items within the database. Ideally, the scanner will determine the nutritional qualities of a plant and assess whether it is suitable for human consumption. Nevertheless, scan results could alert to its dangers or recommend possible medicinal and other applications.
Global Language Translations:
Develop widely available master voice and text translators for two-way language translations between any two languages in real-time. Technology should incorporate intelligent capabilities such as automatic input language detection and settings for default output language. Initially, mobile web-enabled devices can be used for worldwide exposure and rapid technology updates.
Impaired:
To best incorporate visually-impaired communicators, develop internet and hand held enabled software to automatically convert audio voice input into video output for sign language receivers. To best incorporate audio-impaired communicators, develop internet and handheld enabled software to automatically convert camera-recorded, video sign language input into audio for audio receivers. Furthermore, software should interact well with with various hand-held, portable devices as convenient input/output tools.
Input/Output Combinations:
audio/ audio (language pair translations)
audio/ video (output sign language for hearing-impaired)
video/ audio (input camera recording sign language / output audio translation )
Transportation:
Design highly fuel efficient aerial and surface transportation vehicles for individual use.
Research the potential to shift from lubricated, moving parts propulsion systems. One possible system could use artificial or actual magnetic properties of the earth for levitation, as an extension of current magnetic rail systems.
Personal Defense:
Design non-lethal but highly :effective defense devices to reduce human killings.
Inmate Safety & Proximity Control:
Design bracelets or other worn devices programmable to create a safety radius among all or specified risk inmates.
Technological priorities critical to real global social progress.
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