What dream tech would you like to see?

[Gingerbread Demon]

We might get there with utility fog (aka the smoke monster from Lost?), I guess, to simulate objects, both inorganic and organic, although a suitable, adaptable template would have to exist in the database with AI control to animate it based on cues from the human creator.

The Krell's direct conversion of energy into structured matter (or force fields or whatever the invisible monster was) under complete mind control, I doubt will be feasible for a very long time, if ever.

Three words

Bose Einstein Condensate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose–Einstein_condensate

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Three words

Bose Einstein Condensate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose–Einstein_condensate

I have PhD in physics and I have no idea how the properties of a BEC could be used to emulate other matter. It'd also freeze your tits off.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I have PhD in physics and I have no idea how the properties of a BEC could be used to emulate other matter. It'd also freeze your tits off.

Nah, don't worry about the freezing if you can manipulate it into moving or doing stuff and it has tons of applications.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Nah, don't worry about the freezing if you can manipulate it into moving or doing stuff and it has tons of applications.

Please provide peer-reviewed references please if possible or at least arvix ones.

A pure BEC behaves like a single quantum entity, which decoheres rapidly on contact with its surroundings, reverting it to a non BEC state. The only BECs of which I'm aware require cryogenic cooling to near absolute zero. They have interesting optical properties and can be used to manipulate laser beams, slow light, and study vortices, solitons, black hole analog physics, and superfluids.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Please provide peer-reviewed references please if possible or at least arvix ones.

A pure BEC behaves like a single quantum entity, which decoheres rapidly on contact with its surroundings, reverting it to a non BEC state. The only BECs of which I'm aware require cryogenic cooling to near absolute zero. They have interesting optical properties and can be used to manipulate laser beams, slow light, and study vortices, solitons, black hole analog physics, and superfluids.

What about quantum computing?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

What about quantum computing?

Yeah, that too I believe. Decoherence is still a problem. Not a utility fog though, is it.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Yeah, that too I believe. Decoherence is still a problem. Not a utility fog though, is it.

No.... I guess "shrug"

 

[Qonundrum]

One doesn't dream technology. One works to make it real.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

One doesn't dream technology. One works to make it real.

That is true. But going with the premise of my OP at the start of the thread would such a device be a game changer for artists and creatives?

 

[Santaman]

A mind to music machine.. and I need a death growl for dummies book..

 

[Butters]

A time camera would be nice, preferably one you can download as an app. Set the time and date on your camera app and snap away as normal, but instead of a real-time image, you get a view of the programmed date.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

A time camera would be nice, preferably one you can download as an app. Set the time and date on your camera app and snap away as normal, but instead of a real-time image, you get a view of the programmed date.

Needs a bit of quantum trickery to work but I like this idea.