Future of Engineering

Technology proceeds at such a breakneck pace that sometimes it feels like we're rocketing into science fiction territory: Animal cloning, unmanned aircraft and space tourism are all recent realities. For some, though, invention isn't moving fast enough. Take the 95 CEOs and other executives who were interviewed (results in this post) over the past two years. The organization asked each person to name the one device they wish somebody would invent. The results range from the highly imaginative to the mundanely useful.

Excerpts from the results include
1. "Fountain of youth" pill
2. A simple, cheap means of water desalination.
3. A mobile phone that works everywhere — from mountaintops to subways, from California to the Kalahari
4. A do-it-all device that would reduce gadget overload.
5. A telephone/music player/electronic wallet or, more imaginatively, a telephone/music player/GPS/speedometer
6. An electronic Swiss Army knife
7. Single remote for all of their home entertainment devices
8. A power source that would work with all of their portable electronics.
9. A house-cleaning robot is much desired

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