which technology do you think is the most jaw dropping to you personally??

[Chango]

The Bomb has to be #1 on my list too. There are a couple minuteman missles and "dummy" warheads on display at my local air force base museum... the feeling I get when I see them is one of horror, awe, fear and power on a level that I have never felt while looking at any other piece of technology. Just to think how easy it would be to end everything humanity has produced and accomplished over thousands of years in just a 20 minute rain of those things chills me to the bone.

The only other thing that brought such an emotional response on me was seeing "the big piece" brought up from the wreck of the Titanic. I've been fascinated with that boat since I was a small child... I actually climbed up on the base and touched it (against the no touching rules, of course..and I didn't get caught), in a movie-like emotional moment...

[Willsson]

I earlier listed the transistor as the uber achievement but I've just read about an approaching Ubuntu PC on a stick that makes feel like the future may be a bit closer today that it was yesterday...

Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25

Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into a HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25.

The hardware being offered is no slouch either. It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0 allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed. Storage is catered for by an SD card slot. It also looks as though modules can be attached such as the 12MP camera seen in the image above.

Of course, I grew up with Dick Tracey comics in the Sunday paper and think his wrist console is our destination. His hat, of course, a data/solar dish.

[wrcousert]

Nanotechnology

[Willsson]

Originally Posted by wrcousert

Nanotechnology

That, too! ! !

[southseeker]

For me it's a tie between nukes and airplanes. It always amazes me that one bomb can make such a impressive presentation when detonated.

As far as airplanes, I just like the fact that I'm in the air and witnessing earth and all its gory from a different perspective. It makes you apperciate a little, at least for me, the natural and unnatural beauty of our planet.

[Werone]

Future technology is jaw dropping until it becomes a thing of the past. I think it is Artificial Intelligence or AI and Quantum Physics and the new ways of communication and computing that the understanding of quantum phenomena such as entanglement will bring.