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What is the Next Big Thing?

Asked by mrentropy (17213points) March 17th, 2010

My great-grandfather was born in 1909, just six years after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk and one year after the Ford Model T was introduced, and died in 2001.

In his 91 years of living he had, more or less, seen the rise of the automobile and airplane, radio, television, space travel, and computers.

Many of these things, like television and digital computers, came in his lifetime as new things.

I, on the other hand, in my 41 years of living, have basically seen all of those things improved. I haven’t see anything new come on stage, that I can think of.

What do I have to look forward to, as the next big thing? What could the next innovation or invention be that didn’t exist yesterday but can exist tomorrow, that will change the world as we know it?

Not just an improvement, mind you, but something totally new.

Any idears? And, no, I’m not planning on using you all to make a million dollars.

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