I always thought Herbert's Butlerian jihad with its ban of intellectual machinery was too far-fetched for a concept, but in a few years it can easily turn into nice forecast.
Up to mid-60s there was some quite good domestic computers in the USSR, but almost all of the developing teams (spare some military projects) were switched to, well, copying of the three unified systems from the West, mainly because Politburo's dumbfucks were educated not enough to effectively direct and support R&D. You know, command economy has no natural feedback and very skewed competition.
It also adds up as the nation's powerful energy reserve for the hard times. A pound of fat equals 15 megajoules of energy, and it's right on surface, ready to be, well, drilled or something.
Oh wait, you have one with the galvanic skin response metering. Just use some nice phone with two well placed antennas, short them with the patient's bare skin and do the math on the signal's drop.
Clever idea, also they can made use of built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes for measuring of pulse and blood pressure (with some pump). I hope in future smartphones will be equipped (strictly for usability purposes) with cheap thermometers and maybe even sensors for galvanic skin response metering.
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I have heard, typical acai berry farmers live past 200 years easily.
That's Burned Chrome.
I always thought Herbert's Butlerian jihad with its ban of intellectual machinery was too far-fetched for a concept, but in a few years it can easily turn into nice forecast.
Up to mid-60s there was some quite good domestic computers in the USSR, but almost all of the developing teams (spare some military projects) were switched to, well, copying of the three unified systems from the West, mainly because Politburo's dumbfucks were educated not enough to effectively direct and support R&D. You know, command economy has no natural feedback and very skewed competition.
Do not look down to Australia with the remaining space-based telescope.
It also adds up as the nation's powerful energy reserve for the hard times. A pound of fat equals 15 megajoules of energy, and it's right on surface, ready to be, well, drilled or something.
Oh wait, you have one with the galvanic skin response metering. Just use some nice phone with two well placed antennas, short them with the patient's bare skin and do the math on the signal's drop.
Clever idea, also they can made use of built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes for measuring of pulse and blood pressure (with some pump). I hope in future smartphones will be equipped (strictly for usability purposes) with cheap thermometers and maybe even sensors for galvanic skin response metering.
It needs to be filled with the free range cow farts for extra green points.
Actually they on All-Russian State TV Channel #7 read /.'s comments daily at lunchtime as a proof of imminent death of Western civilization