The Anonymous Widower

Magnetic Electricity

When I was studying Electrical Engineering at Liverpool University in the 1960s, one of the prize pieces of equipment was a laser.  They had been invented only a few years before and the one in the University had cost several thousand pounds.  Ideas were being researched for their use in commercial applications.

Now, we all own lots of lasers.  Every CD player and computer has at least one and their cost is only a few pence.  You see them in bar-code scanners at the supermarket and in many myriad applications from the mundane to the deadly.

So what will be the technology that now is just a scientific curiosity, but in forty years will be as commonplace as the laser is now?

Here’s one! Magnetic electricity.

Will it be the next great scientific advance?  Who knows?

October 15, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | News | Engineering, Science