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Museum of the Future

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the give-us-talking-fruit dept.

Magnavox writes "In Boulder, Colorado tonight there is going to be a rather unusual announcement about the DaVinci Institute's effort to create a Museum of Future Inventions. This will be a museum where they exhibit things that haven't been invented yet, like spray on clothing, instant sleep, genetically engineered Velcro sheep, and metric time. Pretty creative stuff. Some of the people they have involved are Dr. Paul MacCready, inventor of the Gossamer Albatross and Paul Dusenbery, Founder of the Space Science Institute. This looks like serious competition for Paul Allen's Science Fiction Museum."

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  1. Innovation... by Blue-Footed+Boobie · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Innovation is going to be the US export of the future. Outsource the crappy tech support, outsource the manual labor. Create a workforce of innovation. Own the world through patents and ideas.

    Maybe this museum ill bring back some of the creativity that is so lacking in this current fed-everything-through-games-and-tv generation.

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  2. Degrees in a circle? by Trejkaz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But there are 2*pi radians in a circle, using proper units.

    Shouldn't we make sure there are 2*pi hours in a day or something?

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  3. Not invented yet? by reality-bytes · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Surely if they've described the item / concept then they have just 'invented' it.

    At least that what the USPTO believes.

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