• Question: If you could create one invention what would it be?

    Asked by farhanmannan4 to Joel, Kristian, Tim, Venus, Zachary on 14 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Kristian Harder

      Kristian Harder answered on 14 Nov 2013:


      Oh, there are soooo many things on this planet that need to be improved:
      – better batteries for storing electric energy either from solar panels or in cars
      – improved technology for detecting and disabling weapons
      – green technology reducing the amount of waste and pollution we create
      – more money in my wallet
      But here’s something I’d really like to invent to make my life much easier on the short term:
      – a good system for maintaining multiple parallel to do lists with varying
      priorities, deadlines, dependencies, recurring tasks and so on.
      Amazingly, even after looking very hard I haven’t found anything that can do all that and is easy to use.
      Not sure whether that would be a world-changing invention, but I do think it’s something important. 🙂

    • Photo: Tim Hollowood

      Tim Hollowood answered on 15 Nov 2013:


      That’s interesting…I love all the modern gadgets ipods, ipads, phones, video games….

      I know: a robot taxi driver to take my kids around.

    • Photo: Zachary Williamson

      Zachary Williamson answered on 15 Nov 2013:


      Real artificial-intelligence. Imagine how quickly our society could advance if we could just *create* millions of hyper-intelligent people. The ethical problems would be immense though, and I’m not sure our society is really mature enough to handle such an invention.

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