Blue Sky Limousine

I was reading Megatrends the other day, an old ’80’s copy, and it was talking about how Nuclear Power used to be touted (before the book was written) as the one and only necessary total solution for our energy woes. Megatrends went on to say that the best solution would instead be diversification.
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Here’s my crrrrraaaaazzzzzy theory, in short: The Atom Smasher will be activated this August, take 2 months to warm up, and then destroy the world on Halloween. If the world survives, the machine will be upgraded in 2012. That’s right, a Super Atom Smasher will be built. Then we’re all dead [...]

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Sure, it’s just a tiny image. No big deal. But Google is huge. And this one tiny change just seems to be pretty wild. At least to me.
I had gotten used to Google’s old favicon long ago. It seemed timeless. But now, in 2008, with a new, lowercase, transparency [...]

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Lots of change going on. If you look at things one way, we face many problems that have the potential to make things bad. But if you take a different perspective, we have a major opportunity to do some good.
I remember hearing about the Greatest Generation, great because they triumphed over incredible adversity. [...]

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How fast can we make the conversion? I want one! Well, I want it to be safe. None of the whole, “Oh, the humanity!” issues to worry about. But seriously, are we moving along developmentally at a steady clip? Or could things go faster?
How quickly and efficiently could we set [...]

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I’ll bet antigravity or some other sensational new technology will make its debut at some point in the future, after the military has exhausted its uses as a secret weapon, and it will begin to infiltrate all kinds of current industrial areas. Cars could get it. Planes could get it. Even skateboards!
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I like the old “Knight Rider” show. I think its neat to imagine having an intelligent artificially intelligent friend inside your car. I think that scenario is possible, just like the one where SkyNet decides to kill us all. But a Knight Rider future seems like a lot more fun.
I wonder if [...]

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There are doomsday scenarios left and right nowadays, some involving nuclear war, some involving a peak in oil production, some involving the economy, and some involving 2012. It seems like we’re working to avert problems caused by rising fuel prices, but I’m not sure we’re doing enough.
It’s like people are going about their daily [...]

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I love it that we’re getting closer and closer to the point where all televisions are super light, super thin, and super awesome. The picture quality has already improved so much with HD, and we’ve already begun to see TV’s only a few inches wide…
I’ll bet in the future an awesome graphic display will [...]

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Just think: We’re close to developing AI already. If we could build a machine that was smart enough to build smarter versions of itself, at some point one incarnation would be powerful enough to come up with a sure-thing solution to global warming.
When Google changes its name to SkyNet, maybe we could ask [...]

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