Post: #1

I'll start. Have always such a list would be interesting, and possibly a refreshing diversion from the constant LGBT doomsday scenarios.

This is an example:

I've always noticed watching sports, when they show a replay from a different angle - it's significantly more fun to watch. Seeing a replay from the quarterback's angle is better than the standard zoom out.

Same with soccer, a replay at field-level is simply more entertaining.

To this day, there is no option to a choose a different camera angle. It would probably cause for some arguments, but the technology is available. There's no rational explanation as to why this doesn't exist yet.

Add any ideas to the list

Post: #2

Widespread solowheel use.

Post: #3

Schools without a fixed schedule or classes.

The main drawback to schools(mostly public, though private suffers from this too) is the lack of flexibility. You go to classes because you "have to" not because you actually learn anything useful. You cant even necessarily pick the teachers who suit you best(or are objectively better). Its all luck of the draw.

The solution is to allow students to pick their classes/teachers. Allow them to join and leave at any time. Its likely that the teachers who manage to do really well will likely have a "full" class of 50+ at any given moment. You could have the class for 30 mins if its easy or 2+ hours if its hard. The teacher may have a set schedule for what she is going to do according to a timetable but its up to the students to join or leave at any time. Performance based pay helps but importantly horrible teachers who no one likes should be fired. Basically it incentivizes teachers to teach well. Ideally you wouldnt even have teachers doing set "subjects" like Math, English, Science etc but they would be free to teach interesting subjects that have real world relevance.

Even better is if the students can join/leave the school grounds at any time. Its been proven that teenagers especially suffer from early mornings. But children need to be free to, you know, just be children. But the government/helicopter parenting culture may make this difficult...

Post: #4

(06-28-2015 11:50 PM)la_mode Wrote:  I'll start. Have always such a list would be interesting, and possibly a refreshing diversion from the constant LGBT doomsday scenarios.

This is an example:

I've always noticed watching sports, when they show a replay from a different angle - it's significantly more fun to watch. Seeing a replay from the quarterback's angle is better than the standard zoom out.

Same with soccer, a replay at field-level is simply more entertaining.

To this day, there is no option to a choose a different camera angle. It would probably cause for some arguments, but the technology is available. There's no rational explanation as to why this doesn't exist yet.

Add any ideas to the list

I think that this is a good topic... but for some reason nothing is coming to mind at the moment... It's maybe one of those topics that kind of come up all of a sudden...

like, they should have an ap for that....

Post: #5

Mass commercial use of hoverboards and flying cars are the obvious ones, but I'm also surprised at just how little the oceans have been explored, or developed.

For example, we're just now starting to see small underwater hotels, and there isn't a submarine tourism industry to much extent compared to cruises and yachts.

Post: #6

-A cheap electric car

-cheap solar panels to replace hydro

-time travel

-cheaper medicines/treatments

Post: #7

Widespread use of ground effect vehicles as passenger and cargo craft. The Russians worked on such craft during the cold war for military purposes. It's sadly a relatively undeveloped technology.





As a south Floridan, I'd love to take the seaborne route to the Carribean,Mexico,somewhere along the eastern U.S seaboard or maybe even transoceanic in one of these bad boys traveling at several hundred mph.

Post: #8

(06-29-2015 01:28 AM)Tytalus Wrote:  -A cheap electric car

-cheap solar panels to replace hydro

-time travel

-cheaper medicines/treatments

Post: #9

(06-29-2015 01:09 AM)Magnesium Chloride Wrote:  Schools without a fixed schedule or classes.

The main drawback to schools(mostly public, though private suffers from this too) is the lack of flexibility. You go to classes because you "have to" not because you actually learn anything useful. You cant even necessarily pick the teachers who suit you best(or are objectively better). Its all luck of the draw.

The solution is to allow students to pick their classes/teachers. Allow them to join and leave at any time. Its likely that the teachers who manage to do really well will likely have a "full" class of 50+ at any given moment. You could have the class for 30 mins if its easy or 2+ hours if its hard. The teacher may have a set schedule for what she is going to do according to a timetable but its up to the students to join or leave at any time. Performance based pay helps but importantly horrible teachers who no one likes should be fired. Basically it incentivizes teachers to teach well. Ideally you wouldnt even have teachers doing set "subjects" like Math, English, Science etc but they would be free to teach interesting subjects that have real world relevance.

Even better is if the students can join/leave the school grounds at any time. Its been proven that teenagers especially suffer from early mornings. But children need to be free to, you know, just be children. But the government/helicopter parenting culture may make this difficult...

Seconded, but with the requirement that students have to take tests or perform activities that demonstrate certain knowledge or skills.

When it comes to subjects like math, I think the students who learn the material and become comfortable, do so because they are going home and practicing over and over again with the homework....not because the classroom instruction is any better than a properly produced set-by-step video on factoring.

English credits could be earned not by wasting time reading classics that were written to be performed, but rather by writing a non-clickbait blog that achieves a certain number of subscribers or is positively reviewed by a third-party panel.



Honestly, I think it's pretty ridiculous that the people doing the teaching are the same ones that are doing the testing of students.

I'm not sure if nationwide standardized testing is the answer, but I'm equally convinced that current system of education is an inefficient time suck that equates to little more than babysitting.

Post: #10

more realistic real dolls.

Post: #11

(06-29-2015 01:09 AM)Magnesium Chloride Wrote:  Schools without a fixed schedule or classes.

The main drawback to schools(mostly public, though private suffers from this too) is the lack of flexibility. You go to classes because you "have to" not because you actually learn anything useful. You cant even necessarily pick the teachers who suit you best(or are objectively better). Its all luck of the draw.

The solution is to allow students to pick their classes/teachers. Allow them to join and leave at any time. Its likely that the teachers who manage to do really well will likely have a "full" class of 50+ at any given moment. You could have the class for 30 mins if its easy or 2+ hours if its hard. The teacher may have a set schedule for what she is going to do according to a timetable but its up to the students to join or leave at any time. Performance based pay helps but importantly horrible teachers who no one likes should be fired. Basically it incentivizes teachers to teach well. Ideally you wouldnt even have teachers doing set "subjects" like Math, English, Science etc but they would be free to teach interesting subjects that have real world relevance.

Even better is if the students can join/leave the school grounds at any time. Its been proven that teenagers especially suffer from early mornings. But children need to be free to, you know, just be children. But the government/helicopter parenting culture may make this difficult...

I like the idea but it would quickly become a popularity contest vs actual teaching.

And for OP, hoverboards. Chicks dig hoverboards.

Post: #12

(06-29-2015 01:50 AM)Seboist Wrote:  Widespread use of ground effect vehicles as passenger and cargo craft. The Russians worked on such craft during the cold war for military purposes. It's sadly a relatively undeveloped technology.

As a south Floridan, I'd love to take the seaborne route to the Carribean,Mexico,somewhere along the eastern U.S seaboard or maybe even transoceanic in one of these bad boys traveling at several hundred mph.

There were several being developed in Asian markets around the same time that microjets were introduced. Not sure what happened.

Post: #13

(06-29-2015 01:22 AM)LeBeau Wrote:  Mass commercial use of hoverboards and flying cars are the obvious ones, but I'm also surprised at just how little the oceans have been explored, or developed.

Lexus is developing one right now.

Post: #14

I read in the World (Kids?) Almanac in 2003 that the Japanese have started developing "flying cars." Haven't seen any yet.

Post: #15

I think that a gender pay gap should exist.

Post: #16

A la carte cable/sports channels. Although it looks like its finally starting to happen.

Post: #17

Decentralized power generation. At the bare minimum some form of thorium based water heating for homes and businesses.

Post: #18

(06-29-2015 01:09 AM)Magnesium Chloride Wrote:  Schools without a fixed schedule or classes.

The main drawback to schools(mostly public, though private suffers from this too) is the lack of flexibility. You go to classes because you "have to" not because you actually learn anything useful. You cant even necessarily pick the teachers who suit you best(or are objectively better). Its all luck of the draw.

The solution is to allow students to pick their classes/teachers. Allow them to join and leave at any time. Its likely that the teachers who manage to do really well will likely have a "full" class of 50+ at any given moment. You could have the class for 30 mins if its easy or 2+ hours if its hard. The teacher may have a set schedule for what she is going to do according to a timetable but its up to the students to join or leave at any time. Performance based pay helps but importantly horrible teachers who no one likes should be fired. Basically it incentivizes teachers to teach well. Ideally you wouldnt even have teachers doing set "subjects" like Math, English, Science etc but they would be free to teach interesting subjects that have real world relevance.

Even better is if the students can join/leave the school grounds at any time. Its been proven that teenagers especially suffer from early mornings. But children need to be free to, you know, just be children. But the government/helicopter parenting culture may make this difficult...

All boys schools without homework. Homework is the stupidest thing ever invented, I do not know how it has persisted so long.School should be year round and homework should be eliminated. Boys and girls learn differently and core subjects should be taught separately while bullshit classes and easy stuff should be co ed.

Post: #19

the Avro Arrow.

Post: #20

(06-29-2015 04:54 AM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

(06-29-2015 01:50 AM)Seboist Wrote:  Widespread use of ground effect vehicles as passenger and cargo craft. The Russians worked on such craft during the cold war for military purposes. It's sadly a relatively undeveloped technology.

As a south Floridan, I'd love to take the seaborne route to the Carribean,Mexico,somewhere along the eastern U.S seaboard or maybe even transoceanic in one of these bad boys traveling at several hundred mph.

There were several being developed in Asian markets around the same time that microjets were introduced. Not sure what happened.

Boeing was working on a version a couple years ago but I don't think it went anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican



Most of the current ground effect vehicles are on a much smaller scale.

Post: #21

Commercial flights to the moon. That is all.

Post: #22

Like someone on the forum said a while back, the technological advancement of the world is woefully stagnant and inadequate compared to the previous pace (early 20th century), only most people are too distracted by pointless "innovations" like Facebook and YouTube to see it.

Post: #23

(06-29-2015 07:29 AM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:  A la carte cable/sports channels. Although it looks like its finally starting to happen.

Seriously. I think a person should be able to go to mlb.com on any given day and buy the feed to any game they want. Make the price $1.99 or something and I would do it. The current system is so stupid and convoluted, if I buy the mlbtv season package ($25/mo!), I can't get ANY of the games from teams in my regions due to blackout restrictions. Way to market your product, mlb! I'm not paying $80+/month for cable plus sports packages plus a DVR, etc., just to catch the few games I'm interested in.

Post: #24

interstellar travel: the US military should just disclose the fact that they have alien technology retrieved from the Roswell crash and get some help from other countries to back-engineering the gravity propulsion system used by the Reticulians.
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Post: #25

We should also have a topic of "Things that do exist but should not"