Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow?

museumpeace writes "In the NYTimes book review blog, David Itzkoff takes a look at a new book devoted to predicting which 'science fiction' technologies may really fly some day. The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he bears a hearing. His picks include light sabers, invisibility and force fields." Which sci-fi tech do you think needs to get invented over the weekend?

Comments

Re:That's an easy one!

[The Ancients]

It's worse than you thought - you're mom was real cute when she was younger ;-)

Been Done

[my $anity 0]

We are sexy, sexy von Neumann Machines

Re:That's an easy one!

[TheLazySci-FiAuthor]

It's worse than you thought - you're mom was real cute when she was younger ;-)

That sounds like something my Dad would say....hey wait a minute!

Re:bears a hearing?

[PiMuNu]

The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he bears a hearing.

After all, an inventor of string theory must be an expert on science fiction...

Re:"Mr Fusion"

[Weaselmancer]

How about an identical accordion 180 degrees out of phase with the offending accordion?

Re:bears a hearing?

[proxy318]

Yeah, well I've got a friend who's a fisherman, and he bears a herring. I've also got a friend who's a pirate, and he wears an earring. I could do this all day.

Re:That's an easy one!

[Fred_A]

Well, maybe you could use the earth's gravity then; you would step into your time travel vehicle, move back a second, fall back to earth, move back another second, fall back to earth again (or reposition yourself). If you do it quickly, you wouldn't notice, and you'd still be on earth when you arrived. That's pretty much the system I'm using, except I'm moving forward in time, not back, and it takes a second to move a second. But it's very reliable so I'm confident I'll get there eventually.