Dec 2010 Public SL meeting - Top 10+ Reasons to be excited for the next decade

1. 10+ Reasons to be excited about the next Decade ~5500 years of writing 570 years of the printing press Few decades of the computer and internet We have barely begun to see the changes that will take place! Welcome to the Information Age!

3. Cloud Computing

4. Transparent transistors

6. In comparison to conventional computers, we are at the point of inventing the transistor

8. Gravity Waves

9. Supersymmetry

11. Silicon Brain Modeling

12. Natural Language Machine communication

13. Nootropics (Smart Drugs) Drugs designed to increase general intelligence, enhance memory, speed up thought, improve sleep, etc Growing awareness and acceptance – more acceptance than steroids

15. Dropping prices of sensors with increased computing power

17. creating pluripotent cells from ordinary cells

19. artificial genetics

20. Epigenetics

22. Dark Matter / Dark Energy

23. New and better telescopes

25. Beginnings of computer/brain interfaces

26. Augmented Reality

28. Govt.s struggle with Wikileak clones

29. Copyright struggles with technology DESIGNED to share information

31. Electric Cars

32. Decline of the Operating System

33. E-books

34. Ultracapacitors

35. Tritium Batteries ?

36. The Age of the Amateur

38. GPS

39. Wireless

40. Mobile Web

41. This is going to be a very exciting decade!