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What's Always Next?
bettiwettiwoo writes "In its 'What's Next' issue, Time has a charmingly silly piece called What's Always Next? , in which is provided '[a] sampling of the future that wasn't': things that have been predicted since day dot, but have somehow never materialized. The examples they give are: videophones; moon colonies; food in pills; cars that drive themselves; jet packs; and moving sidewalks.
... There are, after all, so many and varied things -- ranging from the very serious to the down-right silly -- that are predicted time and again, yet seem curiously absent in our daily lives. Examples: global catastrophies of the Armageddon kind (be they population overload, total environmental disasters, plagues, asteroids, or nuclear wars); a secure and bug-free Windows; the end of Madonna's singing career (her 'acting' career was, I believe, still-born)." So what are you waiting for?
I'm still waiting for Skittlebrau.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Flying Car? Hasn't there been concept sketches of flying cars in popular science since the 1920's? It's the year 2003, I was promised flying cars.
Team Fortress 2... And seemingly Half-life 2
...*BSD's imminent death ...Apple's imminent death ...Pigs to fly.
Flying cars, wristwatch videophones, people walking around in shiny plastic suits all the same design, the Starship Enterprise, site to site matter transportation, the end of money, the end of war, the end of disease ...................
I'll settle for the flying car.
Ed Almos
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.
Actually, I'm still waiting for some of the drivers on the local freeways to start exhibiting real intelligence.
I'm waiting for pasting links working on slashdot...
So videophones never materialised? So what's this in my pocket?
No, you're just pleased to see me.
Still waiting.
...just my 2 gil.
In a perfect world you wouldn't need a Utopia.
Suck figs.
Teleportation... please, I hate driving/ flying etc. Living in the UK, the roads are always jammed and the trains never run on time, and lets face it, were all a bit dubious about flying.
It'll also be a faster method of getting my pizza to me before it gets cold
I'm just waiting for this damn computer to get a cup of tea right!
I have a 3G mobile video phone on my desk and it works, so that one can be struck off the list.
Indeed, and a self-parking car has just been announced in Japan.
Truly these are great days we are living in!
Suppose we're gonna see lots of crappy flying car jokes here on /. and russia jokes.Oh crap.
In Soviet Russia, the car flies YOU!
(Oh dear.. my first SR joke and what a bad one..)
Q.
Ummm yeah... You didn't put a cover sheet on your TPS report. Did you get a copy of that memo? See we are including new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now. So if you could do that, it would be great.
And I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo...
Sorry, had to be said...
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
Maybe it'll be possible some day to pack a major amount of calories and various proteins into a convenient pill form, but I really can't see have much application beyond, say, the military.
... to ...
Food is supposed to be a sensual experience, part of the feedback system that ensures we eat. Sure, there are some people out there who just eat to live, but we're pre-programmed to find eating pleasurable, from the sight of a perfectly grilled steak, its brown crust glistening under a sprinkling of whole peppercorns, to the scents of exotic vanilla beans wafting up from a mound of cold, soft ice cream, to the texture of crusty, rustic bread, hand-ripped from a lovely brown loaf dusted with cornmeal, to the taste of warm, moist, yielding carrots, drizzled in honey and butter, to
I need to change my shorts. Back soon.
Progress is always slower in the thirld world.
Team Fortress 2... And seemingly Half-life 2
Don't forget Nuke Nukem Forever - which is the time it will take to develop and not the working title as many people mistakenly assume...
*** Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
Yeah, then I could get a good workout running around in circles in my living room trying to get a good look at Jennifer Aniston's butt.
30 is the largest integer n with the property that every smaller integer relatively prime to n is itself a prime.
... + 2929 + 3030 is prime. [Crespi de Valldaura]
30^(30 + 1) - 30 + 1 is prime. [Luhn]
n is a Giuga number if p divides (n/p-1) for every prime divisor p of n. 30 is the smallest such number.
11 + 22 + 33
With the exception of (5, 7, 11, 13), a prime quadruple must be of the form (30n + 11, 30n + 13, 30n + 17, 30n + 19).
30 is the smallest integer which cannot be expressed as the product of 2 distinct prime factors. [Copeland]
30*2^30-1 is a Woodall prime. [Dobb]
It is not known if there exists a mean gap of exactly 30 between the first n successive primes.
In which calendar year must a man be born, who lives no more than 100 years, in order to maximize the quantity of times such that both his age and the year are simultaneously prime numbers? Answer: In the year 30. The quantity of times is 18. This is the first and the only year this happens. [Rivera]
"(Playmate Baby Bright Eyes) has azure blue oversize eyes that blink, sweep the room and interact with your child. " If "interact" means to incude nightmares of epic proportions and cause damage a pyschiatrist and a priest couldn't undo, than sign me up. Hell, I don't even have children, I just want a good reason to keep them away.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
.... And I'm so full of conviction I daren't even put my name to the post.
My VCR doesn't even do 30 fps! 29.97, now thats where its at.
Mod point free since 2001
...and for dessert....here it comes....blueberry pie!
:)
Thanks, Violet.
What'dya mean there's no BLINK tag!?
Good news! It's a suppository.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Three shells... WTF?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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> Take a moving walkway for instance. The technology obviously exists, but have they been implemented anywhere, really?
When was the last time you were at the airport?
- etosin
Are they even using digital yet?
Just think, if they pry your gun from your cold, dead hand, you can just use those big horrible Motorola things as clubs. How's that for multi-function device?
ala 'Fifth element'. minus the anoyying automated ticket giver.
Yeah, but with the half naked Milla Jojovich in the back seat!
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So what's this in my pocket?
Not fair! Not fair! It isn't fair, my precious, is it, for it to ask us what it's got in it's nasty little pocketses?
Great. I don't call my mom anywhere near as much as she'd like as it is.
Now I'll have to wait 15 minutes every time I DO call for her to "put on my face."
This space available.
The rest of the world doesn't need drug development that focuses on losing weight without exercise and maintaining an erection for more than 30 seconds without a ruler and gaffer tape.
-- Proud descendant of semi-nomadic cattle-herders.