http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQYYfp4KgM

I hope to see the 2013 version.

You’re right about the fifty-, seventy-five- (and even hundred-) year-old buildings still being around–as they are today. OTOH in the preceding forty years we sure did tear out a lot of electrified transit systems in most of our cities, as well as a significant amount of heavy rail, especially the freight spurs that used to deliver from central freight depots to businesses all along their routes. All that’s gone, replaced by local delivery trucks and paved over and built on in many cases.

By the way, your usual hateful, hysterical troll B.S. won’t fly here.

Look at this fucking moron! I guess he got his walmart machine

The pre-Internet references that stick in my mind are the minisec and comsole from Arthur Clarke’s “Imperial Earth”–the “open mike” on Titan’s surface that young Duncan discovers is to me a presaging of streaming audio…

According to Wiki…

“A Logic Named Joe” is a science fiction short story by Murray Leinster that
was first published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
The story is particularly noteworthy as a prediction of massively networked
personal computers and their drawbacks, written at a time when computing
was in its infancy.

Apologies it was not the Esophagus that was transplanted, rather the trachea
http://www.thelancet.com/journ.....6/fulltext

Related article
Triumph for ’spare-part’ surgery as scientists grow new bladders
New organs made from patients’ own tissues went on to be transplanted successfully
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....701749.ece

2) California, engineer has developed a new way to drill deep wells. Which will allow geothermal wells to be drilled nearly anywhere. Currently Iceland in the fore front of Geothermal technology, heat there homes, sidewalks and greenhouses with it, as well as produce a significant portion of there electiricity from it.

National Geographic Special

3) Driling technology has developed to the point that oil reserves previously unaccesible do to geological issues, can now be tapped economically.

Magazine article at doctor’s office.

4) Ultracapacitor technology has progressed to the point where an electric vehilce is to be produced in 2011-2012 that will perform at the same level as an IC engine car. The company currently produce an electric car. (NO not the Volt)

See website for the maker of the ZEN electric car.

5) An America company has developed a way to take waste organic matter and produce an oil from it similar to Saudi Sweet crude.

Turning Garbage Into Oil
http://www.science.tv/watch/a8.....e-Into-Oil

6) Photonic processors currently under development will make electronic processors obsolete.

Thank you to Firebrand38 for a reference.

7) Despite intensive efforts by the Iranian goverment to censor news of the mass protests currently occuring. It is still flowing out of the country through the internet. In order to stop it would require them to shut down the whole telecommunication network in Iran. Essentially leaving the Goverment/police/military, deaf blind and mute.

Bypassing Iranian Goverment Censorship
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10267287-38.html

The major issues facing people in 2048 will not be technological, but rather social; poverty, ignorance, hate, fear and apathy.

The human species is highly adaptable, it has survived ice ages, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanos, plauges, famines and wars.

The future will not be what we hope it will be, but it won’t be what we fear it will be.

Comment by David Lamothe — June 21, 2009 @ 11:25 pm

1) France, woman suffering from cancer had her esaphogus replaced by one grown from her own steam cells on an armature. No tissue rejection!

Apologies it was not the Esophagus that was transplanted, rather the trachea
http://www.thelancet.com/journ.....6/fulltext

A related item to the above:

Triumph for ’spare-part’ surgery as scientists grow new bladders
New organs made from patients’ own tissues went on to be transplanted successfully
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....701749.ece

2) California, engineer has developed a new way to drill deep wells. Which will allow geothermal wells to be drilled nearly anywhere. Currently Iceland in the fore front of Geothermal technology, heat there homes, sidewalks and greenhouses with it, as well as produce a significant portion of there electiricity from it.

National Geographic Special on Geothermal Energy, saw it a few months ago.

3) Driling technology has developed to the point that oil reserves previously unaccesible do to geological issues, can now be tapped economically.

Read it in a magazine while waiting at my doctors, Business and Technology Magazine? If I knew I was going to use it in a post and needed to quote sources I’d have written down the magazine’s name and issue date.

4) Ultracapacitor technology has progressed to the point where an electric vehilce is to be produced in 2011-2012 that will perform at the same level as an IC engine car. The company currently produce an electric car. (NO not the Volt)

See the website of the manufacturer of the Zen Electric Car.

5) An America company has developed a way to take waste organic matter and produce an oil from it similar to Saudi Sweet crude.

Turning Garbage Into Oil.
http://www.science.tv/watch/a8.....e-Into-Oil

6) Photonic processors currently under development will make electronic processors obsolete.

Thank you to Firebrand38 for the reference, 11:25pm after a long busy day is not the time to write a post that will be seen be numerous people.

Just say IBM is developing photonic processors http://domino.research.ibm.com.....index.html (see how easy that was?)

7) Despite intensive efforts by the Iranian goverment to censor news of the mass protests currently occuring. It is still flowing out of the country through the internet.

In order to stop it would require them to shut down the whole telecommunication network in Iran. Essentially leaving the Goverment/police/military, deaf blind and mute.

Bypassing Iranian Goverment Censorship
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10267287-38.html

The major issues facing people in 2048 will not be technological, but rather social; poverty, ignorance, hate, fear and apathy.

The human species is highly adaptable, it has survived ice ages, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanos, plauges, famines and wars.

The future will not be what we hope, but it will not be what we fear either! (Think this is a better phrasing)

Comment by David Lamothe — June 21, 2009 @ 11:25 pm

There’s no specifics beyond an “engineer” “The company” “an America[n] company”

Just say IBM is developing photonic processors http://domino.research.ibm.com.....index.html (see how easy that was?)

2) California, engineer has developed a new way to drill deep wells. Which will allow geothermal wells to be drilled nearly anywhere. Currently Iceland in the fore front of Geothermal technology, heat there homes, sidewalks and greenhouses with it, as well as produce a significant portion of there electiricity from it.

3) Driling technology has developed to the point that oil reserves previously unaccesible do to geological issues, can now be tapped economically.

4) Ultracapacitor technology has progressed to the point where an electric vehilce is to be produced in 2011-2012 that will perform at the same level as an IC engine car. The company currently produce an electric car. (NO not the Volt)

5) An America company has developed a way to take waste organic matter and produce an oil from it simialr to Saudi Sweet crude.

6) Photonic processors currently under development will make electronic processors obsolete.

7) Despite intensive efforts by the Iranian goverment to censor news of the mass protests currently occuring. It is still flowing out of the country through the internet. In order to stop it would require them to shut down the whole telecommunication network in Iran. Essentially leaving the Goverment/police/military, deaf blind and mute.

The major issues facing people in 2048 will not be technological, but rather social; poverty, ignorance, hate, fear and apathy.

The human species is highly adaptable, it has survived ice ages, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanos, plauges, famines and wars.

The future will not be what we hope it will be, but it wo’t be what we fear it will be.

Not true. Since poor people are no longer needed for people with capital’s wealth creation, they’re simply pushed out of the system (i.e. left jobless and pennyless) and left to die, having long since been robbed of their land. They don’t get to “use their full mental potential,” or even … Read Morecontinue to live. This has happened throughout history and continues to happen today. With technology sufficient to reduce the work week to 4 hours, it would happen on a scale which would dwarf today’s injustices. A point conveniently avoided in this peabrained article.

And in such a society, I don’t think that many are using their full mental potential.

Pretty much everything he described in detail was remarkably accurate, then he added vague Future things for color. And even some of those are kinda true (e.g. robot maids=Roombas).

Just like virtually EVERY primate (in fact…ANIMAL!!) species, we posess a strong “Dominance Hierarchy” which in turn instinctively drives most of our actions/decisions! These are NOT based on conscious considered thought, but rather whatever seems to us to raise our “rank” among what/whoever we perceive to be our hierarchic group. Thus we ALWAYS want “more money” (numbers make it simple to evaluate?!), a larger home and grounds, a faster automobile (we watch a LOT of racing on TV!!)…and whatever else we perceive as defining our position among whomever we see as our “US!”

Worse yet, we also perceive a similar “rank” among our “packs!” Our “us” has to outrank all the other similar groups(”packs”)!

Note that our “wants” are NOT based on reality…even though they are VERY real! However, think about how much stupid-human behaviour this idea explains neatly…?!

Steven C. Barr, Oshawa, Ont’o., Canada — stevenc@interlinks.net

I see a future of perfected human kind of all types, not merely racist Chinese wanna bees. A future in which Yerushalayim the city is there in perfection, where all people have faith and the word on their hearts. No prejudice, no disease, no death, only life and joyful life at that.

Are drawing and eMailing Apps available on the iPhone? They didn’t predict that!

However, as I said in #44, and as the Russian submarine designers discovered,
impellers really should be computer designed.
I suspect math is involved somehow.
The US Navy frowns on such practices. (For Russian subs!)

BTW…Did the author mean the OUTSIDE of the attache case? Like a Tablet PC?
Wouldn’t it get scratched or cracked?
Maybe his screen is man-made diamond.

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