What 25 Inventions Does Humanity Need To Create?

[Maximum7]

What 25 things do we need scientists to create in order to "live long and prosper"?

[Maine farmer]

How would you define "long" , how would you measure prosperity, and how would you define "need".

 

It seems as we invent more things, we just fill our lives with junk, and push satisfaction ever farther from our reach.

[sanctus]

Why 25 and not 22? :-)

Clean energy for a start.
Proper benevolent AI.
Eradicate starvation from the globe.
Sustainable methods of transportation both of people and goods.
etc.

[Deepwater6]

For "long term" my vote would be propulsion. To get humans to other habitable planets within hundreds of years instead thousands. Propulsion to drive a ship quickly that can support and sustain multiple generations while making the trip. 

[Maine farmer]

Why 25 and not 22? :-)

 

Clean energy for a start.

Proper benevolent AI.

Eradicate starvation from the globe.

Sustainable methods of transportation both of people and goods.

etc.

One flaw here, a glaring one to a farmer, is to "eradicate starvation from the globe".  That is not an invention, nor could any invention guarantee to do that.  Our trouble here on Earth is not inadequate production of food, but of getting that food to the people who are going without.  Politics is largely the cause of starvation.

 

If people can't learn to help one another, we will be doomed in spite of our inventiveness.

[Buffy]

Batteries that actually, you know, "work."

 

"Work" == Enough capacity to generate large amounts of power in a very small space (e.g. battery for an electric car  that's smaller than 0.05 cubic meters), and can be fully recharged in 10 minutes or less.

 

 

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? :phones:

Buffy