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- GeorgesII0
"Oh hell no, the first mobile phones are nearly 30 years old. I remember lunchboxes and carphones, and people with ham radio phone patches or even carrying around CB radios.
I have a gigabyte smaller than my thumbnail, and much more if I'd want to pay for it.
It takes me seconds to upload massive amounts of data. I have a gadget that talks to satellites and tells me where I'm standing on the planet. I have a half a dozen digital cameras. Sometimes I carry around about half a dozen miniaturized color displays.
We're bypassing optical discs for network-cloud and solid state storage. Up soon is holographic discs storing a terabyte on a business card, or several terabytes on a CD/DVD sized media. Other even denser quantum effects promise denser storage media, and the memristor is totally straight out of SF.
Drives are getting bigger and smaller all the time. Batteries are getting smaller. I have a dinky little hyperthreading dual-core motherfucking supercomputer in my lap that's now a low-powered, economical netbook. This shit is fucking ridiculous compared to my Apple 2 or my CP/M based portable "laptop", sort of a pre-cursor to a netbook with only 32k of user storage.
A few years ago some dumb-ass two wheeled electric scooter came out that is, really, totally sci fi no matter how impractical and expensive it is.
We have walking bipedal robots that talk and recognize faces.
Some egotistical maniac of a mathemetician just launched a fairly good natural-language parsing AI data service, even if it has an entirely unhuman hardon for numbers.
But you want a fucking jet pack. Ok.
You know why you can't have a fucking jet pack? Because you can't handle it. You're not fast enough yet. You're not evolutionarily evolved enough. Sorry, but it's true, you fat sloth monkey. You don't have the twitch skills.
It's ok. I'm not ready for it either. Neither is 99.9% of humanity. Sure, go make a few billion dollars, invent a plausible jetpack, release it at a price cheaper than a car tomorrow.
It will be a disaster. Most of us can't handle the 3D navigation skills required even given a suitable power source and reliability. It would be the biggest transportation massacre ever. There would be bodies falling out of the sky through the thin paper roof of your house every fucking day.
Yeah, you could solve the flaming, flying death problem computationally with smart systems - but would you trust a generally publicly programmed system that was programmed by monkeys that couldn't safely pilot their own jet packs?
That's why you don't have a jetpack. Because you're not ready for it.
If you were you could strap a mechanical joystick to a big honking ducted fan and a lawnmower and fly yourself all over the place, but since flying and balancing on a gimbled thrust-vectored fanbelt like some kind of aerial pogo-stick isn't natural for you, you can't. Yet.
Keep riding rollercoasters, bungie jumping and jumping on trampolines and playing 3D first-person games and maybe your grandkids or great grandkids will find it boring and totally natural. Try hang-gliding first or something.
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- imnotadesigner0
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
- bliznutty0
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)
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- version30
“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”
Carl Sandburg
- airey0
"fuck you"
me.
- version30
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
Mark Twain
- version30
You should never attribute to cleverness what can be easily explained by stupidity.
- Charles Johnson
- marychain0
"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on"
- marychain0
"Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling."
- blacklight0
"I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music."
Eric Cantona
- version30
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell
- ********0
"In 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn't do than by what you did."
- Mark Twain
- Doorman0
"I am the Lizard King. I can do anything"
Jim Morrison
- bliznutty0
"The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone."
Mumia Abu-Jamal
- version30
Pre-natal testing without pre-natal choices is medical fraud.
Dr. George Tiller
- Brainiac0
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield.
- roberthuston0
“ Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else’s green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved. Look up at the beautiful ‘melon sky.’ It will answer all your questions. It will unite us against the machine. My best friend taught me the best way to battle the machine is to ignore it. Ignore the obnoxious hipsters. Ignore those who will put you in a box because of what country you were spat out of. Ignore the judgmental indie rockers. Ignore the trench coat mafia. Ignore the right wing fanatics. Ignore anyone who rubs you the wrong way. Ignore me if you need to but don’t ignore love. It’s what I am fighting for.
— Max Bemis
- CGN0
To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.
-Anon
- version30
"Designers can facilitate strategic conversations better than anyone, because they have an ability to visualize issues and problems in a way traditional business consultants can't."
- Richard Buchanan, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
- CALLES0
Quote of the Day:
"You are the Great Cat, the avenger of the gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs, and the governor of the holy circle; you are indeed the Great Cat."
Ancient inscription on a royal Egyptian tomb.
- Experts are divided whether Great really means Serious or Ceiling.Amicus