Posted by
michael
on from the dreaming-the-future dept.
Anonymous Coward writes: "Ray Kurzweil and other digerati discuss when popular sci-fi concepts will manifest in the real world. See part I or
part II."
Jeff Goldblum's "virus"
by
PhantomHarlock
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· Score: 4, Funny
I can't believe they used that scene from Independence Day as an example. It's the worst, most banal attempt at science fiction that hollywood has ever made. How much did apple pay to have their laptop in it? The idea of Jeff Goldblum as a '133+ h4x0r with a magic powerbook is worse than "This is a unix system, I know this!" from Jurassic Park.
Re:Jeff Goldblum's "virus"
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gusnz
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· Score: 4, Funny
Scene from the alien mothership:
Alien Commander: Are you sure this thing is secure?
Alien MCSE Tech: Trust us, it's unhackable. We built it with our reliable DRM 2 encryption code, and we've told the puny Earthlings not to publish exploits...
Alien MCSE Tech: Trust us, it's unhackable. We built it with our reliable DRM 2 encryption code, and we've told the puny Earthlings not to publish exploits...
Oh, I see... So the aliens were just enforcing the DMCA. Now the whole movie makes sense! Thanks!
Re:Guessing prophets.
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Black+Parrot
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· Score: 3, Funny
> Hasn't anyone learned from the mistakes of A.C. Clarke and his predictions? I'm quite sick of it.
I'm still waiting for that technology that's indistinguishable from magic. When it hits Radio Shack I'm gonna be the first kid on my block to get it, and then I can fit a brim onto my dunce cap and pass myself off as a wizard.
Concept: Using the brain for information originally stored elsewhere, possibly encrypted, or indeed upgrading human memory using plug-in chips, PC-style.
"Encrypted"? Suddenly the DMCA brings a whole new meaning to the term "thought crime":).
If they want a Babel Fish, they're going to have to make sure they have the Towel, the Pile of Junk Mail, and a bunch of other crap.
I eventually got mine, but I hope nobody asks me how I did it. I don't remember and I'm not about to figure it out again!
If one really cared, they could just do a web-search for a walk-through. I'm sure one is out there.
30 years for a Babel Fish. Shesh.
--
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
the future
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
why is the future so hard to see when:
a: moore's law,
- which btw, does not simply reflect the speed of integrated circuts, but physics, biology and nanotech in general.
b: exponential growth of internet population and traffic
2002:
- 4gz processors
- 1-2 gigs of ram
- wireless networking explosions, bandwidth jumps to 10 mb/s
- p2p software explosion
- massivly multi-player rpgs gain huge grounds
- physisists and biologists play with.1 micron sized objects
- genomics will be twice as big as it was in 1999
etc etc
- population of the internet will exceed 1 billion
- internet traffic will continue to tripple every 6 months . . .
2003/2004:
- 8 - 10 gz processors,
- multiple processors become standard in PC's
- 1/2 the population of the world will be online
- Open Source will have overtaken the development of comercial software . .
2005:
optic cpu, mother, and internet backbone fuse, creating an "inflexion point" in which millions of computers around the world become the worlds fastest super computer.
2020-
artificial brain implants finaly teach me to spell!
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I can't believe they used that scene from Independence Day as an example. It's the worst, most banal attempt at science fiction that hollywood has ever made. How much did apple pay to have their laptop in it? The idea of Jeff Goldblum as a '133+ h4x0r with a magic powerbook is worse than "This is a unix system, I know this!" from Jurassic Park.
... is only ten to twenty years away, people!
(I'll go read the article, now, with low expectations.)
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
...everyone will still get 99% of their predictions wrong :).
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> Hasn't anyone learned from the mistakes of A.C. Clarke and his predictions? I'm quite sick of it.
I'm still waiting for that technology that's indistinguishable from magic. When it hits Radio Shack I'm gonna be the first kid on my block to get it, and then I can fit a brim onto my dunce cap and pass myself off as a wizard.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"Encrypted"? Suddenly the DMCA brings a whole new meaning to the term "thought crime"
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If they want a Babel Fish, they're going to have to make sure they have the Towel, the Pile of Junk Mail, and a bunch of other crap.
I eventually got mine, but I hope nobody asks me how I did it. I don't remember and I'm not about to figure it out again!
If one really cared, they could just do a web-search for a walk-through. I'm sure one is out there.
30 years for a Babel Fish. Shesh.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
why is the future so hard to see when:
.1 micron sized objects
.
.
.
.
.
a: moore's law,
- which btw, does not simply reflect the speed of integrated circuts, but physics, biology and nanotech in general. b: exponential growth of internet population and traffic
2002:
- 4gz processors
- 1-2 gigs of ram
- wireless networking explosions, bandwidth jumps to 10 mb/s
- p2p software explosion
- massivly multi-player rpgs gain huge grounds
- physisists and biologists play with
- genomics will be twice as big as it was in 1999 etc etc
- population of the internet will exceed 1 billion
- internet traffic will continue to tripple every 6 months
2003/2004:
- 8 - 10 gz processors,
- multiple processors become standard in PC's
- 1/2 the population of the world will be online
- Open Source will have overtaken the development of comercial software
2005:
optic cpu, mother, and internet backbone fuse,
creating an "inflexion point" in which
millions of computers around the world become
the worlds fastest super computer.
2020-
artificial brain implants finaly teach me to spell!