10 Life-Changing Innovations

From omnipresent Internet to cloned donor organs, LiveScience picks 10 new technologies that, when fully developed, will transform our lives.

1. Digital libraries: When all of humanity's texts are digitized, any factual question will be answerable online.
2. Gene therapy/stem cells: The key to curing some of our nastiest afflictions.
3. Ubiquitous wireless Internet: WiMAX and 3G point the way to a future where communication between any two devices is possible.
4. Mobile robots: Too lazy to go to the store? Just send your car!

5. Cheap solar cells: The cost is finally dropping—will your house soon power itself?
6. Location-based computing: Point your cell phone at a business to visit their website? It's not that far away.
7. Desktop 3-D printing: Download a mug design from Pottery Barn and run yourself off a couple.
8. Confirmation of Moore's Law: The Intel co-founder said computing power will double every other year—and he's been proven right so far.
9. Therapeutic cloning: Dolly and dairy cows aside, cloning's real goal has the provision of accessible spare body parts.
10. A hydrogen economy: This fuel whose only byproduct is water may help reverse global warming and foster energy independence.

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