Futuristic Inventions

[Tariniel he/him]

I am writing one of my first science fiction stories, and have benefited greatly from brainstorming groups before. I would be awesome if we started a thread where we just throw around ideas for advancements that could be found in a futuristic world. It's incredible how starting a discussion about something sparks ideas and opens roads that you had never noticed before.

Recently, I've been playing around with the idea of weapons that target the nervous system. This technology could be expanded in thousands of different ways, but I'm focusing more on pain enhancement aspect. Think about it, if we had guns that activated pain nerves, we could quickly incapacitate people, without doing any real physical harm. This would be a great help to the police and really any other enforcement agency. It could also be used in a couple of negative ways... What do you guys think?

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

CRUCIO

[PantsForSquares he/him]

On 10/11/2016 at 1:26 PM, Tariniel said:

Recently, I've been playing around with the idea of weapons that target the nervous system. This technology could be expanded in thousands of different ways, but I'm focusing more on pain enhancement aspect. Think about it, if we had guns that activated pain nerves, we could quickly incapacitate people, without doing any real physical harm. This would be a great help to the police and really any other enforcement agency. It could also be used in a couple of negative ways... What do you guys think?

That sounds like a highly optimized nerve agent, and might actually be illegal by the Geneva Convention, depending on the severity of the simulated pain.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

11 hours ago, PantsForSquares said:

That sounds like a highly optimized nerve agent, and might actually be illegal by the Geneva Convention, depending on the severity of the simulated pain.

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines as well, I mean, you don't see Aurors using Crucio on the Death-Eaters do u?