• Question: What do you think will be the next biggest breakthrough in engineering?

    Asked by thetrumpet to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Amanda Lewin

      Amanda Lewin answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      I don’t know if it will be next but clean and efficient power sources are becoming more and more vital as we continue to use up natural resources. More research needs to be done into nuclear fission and other types of green energy like wave and geothermal.

    • Photo: Gary Boorman

      Gary Boorman answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Optical computer processors – they’re being developed now, but probably won’t be available to buy for a few years.

    • Photo: Ben Drumm

      Ben Drumm answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Additive Manufacturing (aka 3D printing/rapid prototyping), it makes creating almost any shape possible. If it takes off it will change the way products are made, and make a LOT of our current manufacturing techniques redundant…

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