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The Future in Gear
devmanager writes "A PC Magazine column takes a quick look at some technologies that are ready to change the world. Ranging from practical improvements on existing concepts (a 100 GB removable disc) to brand new (a DNA detector), these devices are all at least at prototype status. There's also a nod to the standbys: a robot and VR glove are both included. The article is interesting mainly from the standpoint that it shows items that really are getting close to production."
I want my flying car.
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Articles like this always bring out prostalgia. We all start longing for things that don't exist yet and cursing current technology - I know I do.
We've been promised so many things by science fiction and very few of them have become a reality. Where are our flying cars, our jetpacks, our teleporters, matter synthesizers, travel to other planets and video telephones? I curse the fact that I have to drive to work every day, sit in traffic, that my dentist still uses a drill, that I can't have my meal from a tube and that holographic 3d tv doesn't exist yet.
Science fiction spoiled us. It's time we accepted that we won't see the things I mentionned above in our lifetime, and got on with our lives using current technology.
They still havent invented things that *I* really need to change my life... for example :-
* Bottomless coffee cups
* A video card that will hug me back.
* A cigarette that's healthy and takes the place of food and sunlight (and leaves me smelling like a new car).
Until they're available on thinkgeek.com, I'll continue living with the pain.
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Wow what a piece of fluff.
Not only is it fluff, but Im getting really sick of the format:
"Imagine.. you are--- bla bla bla bla---... all thanks to your hickymadoodle, your DIGITAL hickymadoodle!
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni