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No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??

 
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It doesn't matter so much when something is invented - as to when it is made practical, economically feasible and adopted by a significant amount of people.

Blockchain tech (digitized ledgers and means of exchange), 3d printers and portable finger touchscreen tech/ergonomics all new inventions in just the past decade starting with iphone in 2007.
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In the past 2-3 decades i'll also add advances in computer graphics tech making it possible to play 3d games. This is the first artist visual representation of our reality we have created as humans and the implications are already huge - look at how much time our youth especially males sink into video games. This will undoubtedly have huge effects on humanity going forward... and it was only invented some 25 years ago.
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I invented a wheel that is an engine that is gravity powered.

The patent lawyer advised me to hide it away because the laws have been tailored to Companies now.

There is no protection against inventors anymore. The patent system went to hell when they changed from first to invent to first to file. They don't give patents to the inventor anymore. They give patents to companies and patent trolls.

The system has stifled advancement in favor of big business.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
It doesn't matter so much when something is invented - as to when it is made practical, economically feasible and adopted by a significant amount of people.

Blockchain tech (digitized ledgers and means of exchange), 3d printers and portable finger touchscreen tech/ergonomics all new inventions in just the past decade starting with iphone in 2007.
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In the past 2-3 decades i'll also add advances in computer graphics tech making it possible to play 3d games. This is the first artist visual representation of our reality we have created as humans and the implications are already huge - look at how much time our youth especially males sink into video games. This will undoubtedly have huge effects on humanity going forward... and it was only invented some 25 years ago.
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All using the exact same transistor technology from the 40s, just smaller and faster.
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Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?
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They steal your ideas. I passed on many ideas but never got even lunch for it. I got smarter & would leave the key information out. Guess what, they couldn't figure it out.
All the ideas that I passed on, I saw it in different shape & forms. Complaints doesn't make any difference.

So why should I pass on major break through. Remember, people that are detail oriented, are the one's that can generate ideas. The Industry can brain storm as much as they want, people are not stupid.
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They stole from Tesla constantly but he just kept inventing.
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Yep. Westinghouse stole BILLIONS in royalties from Tesla. And he was one of Teslas "partners."
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
here is a free one for you.


wires with rat poison in the insulation.

Million dollar idea i'm giving to you for free.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
The guy who invented the SuperSoaker (Lonnie Johnson)

.. has invented a really interesting solid-state thermoelectric engine,
with theoretically double the energy efficiency of modern PV (solar) cells.

Johnson thermoelectric energy converter
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
[link to johnsonems.com]

The way it works is brilliant; I've never heard of anything like it.

Basically, it works by heat-induced compression/expansion of hydrogen gas through a proton exchange membrane (PEM), which ionizes the gas (i.e. strips electrons), inducing a current through electrodes attached to the membrane.

It operates as a closed system with no moving classical mechanical parts, requires no input of fuel, and creates no exhaust.
 Quoting: wiki


It's so elegant, you'd think someone would have thought of it before. But it's completely original, and predicts up to 60% energy conversion efficiency, compared to 5% efficient Peltier cells, or <30% efficient solar arrays.

There are new inventions and ideas. They don't always get sufficient funding or attention, idk why.

Maybe pressure from the status-quo of existing industry cash cows.
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01/17/2018 05:15 PM
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here is a free one for you.


wires with rat poison in the insulation.

Million dollar idea i'm giving to you for free.
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This one was better but it is not a new invention. Thread: Billion dollar business idea.
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01/17/2018 10:34 PM
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?

I dont consider self driving cars or new models of CPUs or phones as new inventions as they are just modifications of existing products.

Same A/C power since Tesla invented it. Same wireless since Tesla. Same cars since Ford. Same airplanes. Same CPUs. Same transistors. Same rocket engines. Same robots. etc, etc, etc,

Yes, they all have gotten more perfected over time but nothing is new.
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That is depressing but true.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?

I dont consider self driving cars or new models of CPUs or phones as new inventions as they are just modifications of existing products.

Same A/C power since Tesla invented it. Same wireless since Tesla. Same cars since Ford. Same airplanes. Same CPUs. Same transistors. Same rocket engines. Same robots. etc, etc, etc,

Yes, they all have gotten more perfected over time but nothing is new.
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IQs are falling as "diversity" spreads into white countries. Diversity simply means the end of the modern world.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?

I dont consider self driving cars or new models of CPUs or phones as new inventions as they are just modifications of existing products.

Same A/C power since Tesla invented it. Same wireless since Tesla. Same cars since Ford. Same airplanes. Same CPUs. Same transistors. Same rocket engines. Same robots. etc, etc, etc,

Yes, they all have gotten more perfected over time but nothing is new.
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IQs are falling as "diversity" spreads into white countries. Diversity simply means the end of the modern world.
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clappa
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06/02/2018 06:43 PM
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
The Internet was the last great new invention. It basically changed everything. Smartphones arent even an Invention, its just access to the Internet with a Display you can carry around.
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The Internet was the last great new invention. It basically changed everything. Smartphones arent even an Invention, its just access to the Internet with a Display you can carry around.
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But the tech behind computers and cellphones is the microchip. Invented in the 50s or earlier.
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but hey, if AI will be created in maybe 15 years (i dont think the western civilization will last long enough, before total collapse), there will be lots of inventions in a very short time.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
The Internet was the last great new invention. It basically changed everything. Smartphones arent even an Invention, its just access to the Internet with a Display you can carry around.
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But the tech behind computers and cellphones is the microchip. Invented in the 50s or earlier.
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sure but the microchip is just for processing. The Internet gave everyone the ability to communicate with everyone else on earth and much more.
The tech behind cars is also the wheel + any kind of engine.
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The Internet was the last great new invention. It basically changed everything. Smartphones arent even an Invention, its just access to the Internet with a Display you can carry around.
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But the tech behind computers and cellphones is the microchip. Invented in the 50s or earlier.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73033954


sure but the microchip is just for processing. The Internet gave everyone the ability to communicate with everyone else on earth and much more.
The tech behind cars is also the wheel + any kind of engine.
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You are "reaching" but I would consider a "new" car as using a new power source. A "new" spaceship as using anti gravity. A "new" from of electrical creation as not using Tesla invented power and transmission plants. A "new" plane as not needing to obey the aerodynamics from the Wright brothers. etc
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?

I dont consider self driving cars or new models of CPUs or phones as new inventions as they are just modifications of existing products.

Same A/C power since Tesla invented it. Same wireless since Tesla. Same cars since Ford. Same airplanes. Same CPUs. Same transistors. Same rocket engines. Same robots. etc, etc, etc,

Yes, they all have gotten more perfected over time but nothing is new.
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ALL THIS MEANS is that The Powers That Be have CONTROLLED The World more effectively for DECADES.

They DECIDE what makes it to the World Stage.

If you thought the Clinton Kill List was big...IMAGINE THE WORLD KILL LIST.

If you invent something they don't want out it is just like the Mexican Cartels

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"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries... We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller

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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
So you think that cars, planes, computers, etc. just magically appeared in their basic forms, and we've been improving on them since then?

There was progress to get to that point, and now we still see progress, great progress.
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So you think that cars, planes, computers, etc. just magically appeared in their basic forms, and we've been improving on them since then?

There was progress to get to that point, and now we still see progress, great progress.
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Same combustion engine. Same micro chip. Same aerodynamics. Same rocket engines. Yes, "refined" and "improved" but not "new" technology.

A "new" technology would be anti gravity, zero point, ion space engines, etc, etc
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So you think that cars, planes, computers, etc. just magically appeared in their basic forms, and we've been improving on them since then?

There was progress to get to that point, and now we still see progress, great progress.
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Same combustion engine. Same micro chip. Same aerodynamics. Same rocket engines. Yes, "refined" and "improved" but not "new" technology.

A "new" technology would be anti gravity, zero point, ion space engines, etc, etc
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Nothing new magically appears out of thin air. There has to be progress to get there.

Wheel.. Push car.. crank car.. steam car.. gas car.. electric car.. automated car..

This is called "technological evolution".
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So you think that cars, planes, computers, etc. just magically appeared in their basic forms, and we've been improving on them since then?

There was progress to get to that point, and now we still see progress, great progress.
 Quoting: Fishticon


Same combustion engine. Same micro chip. Same aerodynamics. Same rocket engines. Yes, "refined" and "improved" but not "new" technology.

A "new" technology would be anti gravity, zero point, ion space engines, etc, etc
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76658673


Nothing new magically appears out of thin air. There has to be progress to get there.

Wheel.. Push car.. crank car.. steam car.. gas car.. electric car.. automated car..

This is called "technological evolution".
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Read the thread, Op acknowledges that. However, we have seen a very long gap (relatively speaking) in anything really new. That is concerning since many of the inventions that we use today started out a century ago or earlier.
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Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?

I dont consider self driving cars or new models of CPUs or phones as new inventions as they are just modifications of existing products.

Same A/C power since Tesla invented it. Same wireless since Tesla. Same cars since Ford. Same airplanes. Same CPUs. Same transistors. Same rocket engines. Same robots. etc, etc, etc,

Yes, they all have gotten more perfected over time but nothing is new.
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IQs have been steadily dropping in the West due to immigration of more imbeciles. We will be lucky to keep the tech that we have now going for another 20 years.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
Have humans now learned everything and stopped advancing?

I dont consider self driving cars or new models of CPUs or phones as new inventions as they are just modifications of existing products.

Same A/C power since Tesla invented it. Same wireless since Tesla. Same cars since Ford. Same airplanes. Same CPUs. Same transistors. Same rocket engines. Same robots. etc, etc, etc,

Yes, they all have gotten more perfected over time but nothing is new.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75373018


IQs have been steadily dropping in the West due to immigration of more imbeciles. We will be lucky to keep the tech that we have now going for another 20 years.
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Correct. It's amazing how stupid some people are...and the less educated masses have the same vote as the better educated minority...and I'm not talking race here. Democracy is going to be our downfall.
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06/19/2018 09:26 AM
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
No new Gödel, no new Husserl, no new Lobachevsky, no new Newton, no new Plato.
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And no Teslas? Why?
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Because they find them in grade school from the special tests they give. Then they fuck up the smart kids life so there is no focus.

Remember those pattern recognition tests? That is how they find and neutralize them.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
The guy who invented the SuperSoaker (Lonnie Johnson)

.. has invented a really interesting solid-state thermoelectric engine,
with theoretically double the energy efficiency of modern PV (solar) cells.

Johnson thermoelectric energy converter
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
[link to johnsonems.com]

The way it works is brilliant; I've never heard of anything like it.

Basically, it works by heat-induced compression/expansion of hydrogen gas through a proton exchange membrane (PEM), which ionizes the gas (i.e. strips electrons), inducing a current through electrodes attached to the membrane.

It operates as a closed system with no moving classical mechanical parts, requires no input of fuel, and creates no exhaust.
 Quoting: wiki


It's so elegant, you'd think someone would have thought of it before. But it's completely original, and predicts up to 60% energy conversion efficiency, compared to 5% efficient Peltier cells, or <30% efficient solar arrays.

There are new inventions and ideas. They don't always get sufficient funding or attention, idk why.

Maybe pressure from the status-quo of existing industry cash cows.
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Maybe? Yes , you will not advance while any of the existing power families still exist. You make life easy for them, and they will never give that up.

Simple, but true. Try making money obsolete, then there is a chance of energy freedom.
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Suppression of major technological discoveries by corporate giants..


that is the truth and if you don't believe it then your ignorant
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Some people here think corporations don’t kill people.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
There are some new inventions.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
The guy who invented the SuperSoaker (Lonnie Johnson)

.. has invented a really interesting solid-state thermoelectric engine,
with theoretically double the energy efficiency of modern PV (solar) cells.

Johnson thermoelectric energy converter
[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
[link to johnsonems.com]

The way it works is brilliant; I've never heard of anything like it.

Basically, it works by heat-induced compression/expansion of hydrogen gas through a proton exchange membrane (PEM), which ionizes the gas (i.e. strips electrons), inducing a current through electrodes attached to the membrane.

It operates as a closed system with no moving classical mechanical parts, requires no input of fuel, and creates no exhaust.
 Quoting: wiki


It's so elegant, you'd think someone would have thought of it before. But it's completely original, and predicts up to 60% energy conversion efficiency, compared to 5% efficient Peltier cells, or <30% efficient solar arrays.

There are new inventions and ideas. They don't always get sufficient funding or attention, idk why.

Maybe pressure from the status-quo of existing industry cash cows.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73649866


Maybe? Yes , you will not advance while any of the existing power families still exist. You make life easy for them, and they will never give that up.

Simple, but true. Try making money obsolete, then there is a chance of energy freedom.
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Thats why Morgan and Westinghouse eventually turned on Tesla, he wanted to make energy free.
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
There are some new inventions.
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So name them. Not refinements, NEW.
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they're waiting for another alien spaceship to crash
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Re: No NEW inventions or ideas for decades??
When physical technology far outpaces the conciousness of the civilisation you end up with a charcoal orb, devoid of life, circling the Sun. So it HAS to be throttled back to allow catch up.





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