What do you hope gets invented for your kids?

[ChickenVindaloo]

Inspired by the thread re what we have that would amaze our grandparents...

Do you ever think "one day we will look back and laugh that we did this"?

For me, I am sure that one day we will tell our children that ladies had to shave/pluck/wax etc regularly. That there wasn't a nifty machine that just got it all off forever once and for all (if that's what you want).

And ironing will look prehistoric.

And that in the olden days, people had to leave their homes and go into an office to all work together instead of just WFH using internet/teleportation where necessary.

I have a fair simpler wish - a buggy raincover that is rip-proof. DS has literally torn his off the pushchair today, the fasteners are still attached to the frame, the rest of the raincover is not.

Zero carbon power
Zero emissions road transport
A prophylactic treatment against dementia (actually I'd rather like that one in the next twenty years please).

I'm aware this is going to sound shallow but proper full hair transplants. My curly hair is the bane of my life (dramatic).

I can think of lots of reasons why that would working lurking. I have a wheelchair with a car harness for example, children and babies would need car seats.
Any kind of rural location either on holiday or your home.

for you doggymadmum.

Ditto Neonrainbow.

The artificial pancreas (actually I'm hoping they get that properly invented before ds2 leaves home).

And something that kills headlice dead instantly. That would be handy

When there are driverless cars, children and babies will not need car seats, because the cars won't crash. (They don't need them now in taxies, and driverless cars willl all be taxies, so no legislative change is necessary for car seats to become obsolete.)

I would think driverless cars won't have seatbelts either, given they're not expected to crash. No this isn't odd/strange/dangerous, it merely put you in the same position as you are now when you travel on a bus, except that the bus might crash.

Driverless cars should be more convenient for wheelchair users. I imagine them containing two bench seats facing each other, one at the front and one at the back, with a large gap between them for luggage. A wheelchair user should be able to occupy space in the middle in the same way they'd currently occupy space on a bus.

A cure for cancer, infertility and lots of other truly horrible conditions.

Pay equality.

An end to misogyny

Wine and chocolate with all the flavour and none of the calories

Knowledge chips. Want to learn a language? Get an implant. Do not understand Physics? Your problems are over. "Schools from 8 to 6? What for?"

And on a more shallow note, I would like something that allowed people to permanently alter their appearances, such as hair and eye color. "What do you mean, you had to dye your hair twice a month?"

A drug specifically for ulcerative colitis so that DD doesn't have to give herself immunosuppressant injections every two weeks that make her feel nauseous, exhausted and ill and wipe her out for days.

I'd like a machine that scans you and works out your bra size! We have gizmos that can measure feet or room lengths at push of bottom but 3D breasts no chance. Try on 150 still can't find one that fits.

Insta-Sleep, - machine which makes children sleep on demand!

When DD was a baby I used to curse having to BF her then place her back in her Moses basket as the putting down bit would always wake her. Bed sharing didn't feel safe and I remember saying to DH "they should invent a little half-cot that can pull up to the bed, so I can feed her lying down and not have to move her when she's done". Well, now pregnant with no 2 and I nearly cried with joy when I found this bad boy online

Another vote for cure for CF

A permanent cure for mental illness.

Most cars are in use about 5% of the time. The other 95% they are doing sweet FA. It's environmental lunacy (see climate change thread elsewhere) to continue to allow this.

Er - so 95% of the time they aren't actively polluting then. Rather than a robotic solution for keeping us all moving - as someone else observed, how about something that means we don't all have to travel about so friggin much? All the robot cars will still be generating loads of pollution in manufacture and use.

They aren't moving wasonthelist, but they're taking up space on roads, which increases congestion, or concreted parking places and they've required huge resources to produce. As we move to more sophisticated electric/hybrid vehicles that becomes even more expensive. If we can get away with only making and storing even half the current number of vehicles then there's a big saving to be made.

Diet Wine and crisps; the more you drink and eat, the more you lose!

Hallo But you didn't answer my point about us finding a way not to have be travelling so much all the darn time, which would surely be better as we wouldn't need so many robot cars?

I see you are a fellow devotee of the Church of Wittertaintment and therefore feel constraining not to push the arguing BTW :)

Joking aside, I hope the cure for world ignorance and self destruction is discovered. So my children can live in a world without fear or without threat, I'm harmony and equality with the rest of the world.

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The car solution just has to come.

I want them, (us), to invent real ways to recycle - everything - break it down into atoms and send them back into the world. No more landfill, no more plastic bags in the sea, no more pollution.

Cures for illnesses, of course, proper pain relief that just stops pain - melts it away..

But you didn't answer my point about us finding a way not to have be travelling so much all the darn time, which would surely be better as we wouldn't need so many robot cars?

The answer is simple. It ain't gonna happen. As a change this falls into the category of "if it was going to happen it would have by now".

In fact, the reverse has happened. I would be mightily surprised if a survey of miles/year/person in the UK (excluding holidays) has not increased since our childhood. Which - inconveniently - completely runs counter to the climateocalypse being preached elsewhere. It would be first thing to be tackled.

My hunch is the introduction of driverless cars will happen faster rather than slower, probably in two phases ...

• roads (probably motorways) where driverless control is permitted

and then -roads where driverless control is mandated - probably city/town centres.

And then joining the two.

If driverless cars don't happen, then it will be interesting and worrying in equal measures. Because the amount of resources being put into them is unparalleled - exceeding even the Apollo moon mission (which succeeded) . And it's not just hard cash from the worlds richest companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, plus every motor manufacturer, plus Uber). It's also the backing from government - the US and the UK being prominent. If having that much cash and lawmaking available can't deliver, then a very real question is how can other changes occur which aren't so heavily backed.

Seems we have chosen to live in interesting times.

I think the Apple Watch, or Fitbit will morph into a system that constantly monitors your blood and vital systems and then provides you with antibiotics, vitamins, medicine without you even realising you were getting sick.

GP doctors will be a thing of the past "you had to go to the doctor and they just guessed what was wrong??" and doctors will only be used for accidental injuries and more serious illness.