I wear glasses, and if they suddenly had a HUD that was smart enough to keep out of my direct line of sight unless I wanted it, and if they had a camera and could understand some basic hand gestures from me, and make a virtual keyboard if necessary, and if they had headphones integrated into the part that rested on my ears, and if they were a smart phone and GPS and video camera and web browser, and if they didn't cost more than your average smart phone, and if they looked like normal glasses, I would be ok with that.
It would make a great platform for space observatories. Imagine a grid of radio telescopes on the dark side. It would also probably be a good place for a gravity wave detector.
Of course it will never be settled. Even if we are capable of comprehending all the laws of the universe and we do eventually figure them out to explain all observable phenomenon, it will always be logically valid to say there is something we haven't observed yet. Induction does not lead to logical truth. It is even possible (but unlikely) that the universe is actually completely chaotic with no laws, and what we see as gravity and the other forces just a really big coincidence.
The failure of Linux to become the dominant operating system before Android didn't mean that an open source operating system wasn't viable. It just need the right platform to thrive.
My advice to Americans is to avoid dairy while in China. Every American I've known who ate dairy while in China was incapacitated with violent vomiting and diarrhea. Some needed to be hospitalized. The dairy technology and culture there isn't what it is in the west. I once asked a Chinese co-worker why he didn't like cheese. He said it was the smell. If I never had cheese before and then was confronted with a pile of feta I probably would feel the same way.
My step-son owns Google Glass and he went with us on a cruise recently. All the reactions I saw were very positive. He allowed other to wear it and demonstrated how it worked to anyone who was interested. If anything, it added to his popularity.
You buy a virtual car online.
You store your virtual car in a virtual garage.
The virtual garage collapses to virtual rubble, and all the virtual cars that were once inside are now gone.
The Father-Thing isn't much more than an Invasion of the Body Snatchers story. If you want to add a P.K. Dick story, I would choose Pay for the Printer which explores the consequences of 3D printers (although in this case the printers are alien beings.)
As far as I know the only way to go back in time involves the use of wormholes. Where you arrive in the past depends on the position of the other end of the wormhole. If you want to go to a specific time and place you have to hope someone created a wormhole then and there, and then brought one of the ends into the future using time dilation.
Starting in 2018, four astronauts will leave for Mars every two years to begin a human settlement partly funded by crowdsourcing and a reality TV show."
[cough]Bullshit[/cough]
Eventually the pile of corpses will provide sufficient material to create a viable biosphere.
Here I am pointing out that what many people consider to be a problem with COBOL, that it is too wordy, has in fact a functional purpose. Although, using the word PLUS for '+' did go a bit too far. I have to assume most business managers know what '+' means.
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
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Oh yeah, and understand natural language commands and stream ultra high-def video.
I wear glasses, and if they suddenly had a HUD that was smart enough to keep out of my direct line of sight unless I wanted it, and if they had a camera and could understand some basic hand gestures from me, and make a virtual keyboard if necessary, and if they had headphones integrated into the part that rested on my ears, and if they were a smart phone and GPS and video camera and web browser, and if they didn't cost more than your average smart phone, and if they looked like normal glasses, I would be ok with that.
I want to do away with this base 10 nonsense and institute a base 12 numbering system. Try evenly dividing your primitive base 10 system into thirds!
It would make a great platform for space observatories. Imagine a grid of radio telescopes on the dark side. It would also probably be a good place for a gravity wave detector.
Just wait until the foreigners start building robots to immigrate into America for them. Then we'll be in trouble.
Of course it will never be settled. Even if we are capable of comprehending all the laws of the universe and we do eventually figure them out to explain all observable phenomenon, it will always be logically valid to say there is something we haven't observed yet. Induction does not lead to logical truth. It is even possible (but unlikely) that the universe is actually completely chaotic with no laws, and what we see as gravity and the other forces just a really big coincidence.
The failure of Linux to become the dominant operating system before Android didn't mean that an open source operating system wasn't viable. It just need the right platform to thrive.
My advice to Americans is to avoid dairy while in China. Every American I've known who ate dairy while in China was incapacitated with violent vomiting and diarrhea. Some needed to be hospitalized. The dairy technology and culture there isn't what it is in the west. I once asked a Chinese co-worker why he didn't like cheese. He said it was the smell. If I never had cheese before and then was confronted with a pile of feta I probably would feel the same way.
My step-son owns Google Glass and he went with us on a cruise recently. All the reactions I saw were very positive. He allowed other to wear it and demonstrated how it worked to anyone who was interested. If anything, it added to his popularity.
I'm 47 years old and those are my 2 favorite games.
You buy a virtual car online.
You store your virtual car in a virtual garage.
The virtual garage collapses to virtual rubble, and all the virtual cars that were once inside are now gone.
Connections effected my view on the nature of the world more than any other single work.
Ubik is my 2nd favorite P.K. Dick novel, after A Scanner Darkly, which is the one I would recommend for its study of identity and surveillance.
The Father-Thing isn't much more than an Invasion of the Body Snatchers story. If you want to add a P.K. Dick story, I would choose Pay for the Printer which explores the consequences of 3D printers (although in this case the printers are alien beings.)
+1 Insightful to the above.
If I throw the ball to first base then who gets it?
Once you attain a certain level of wealth, money is no longer money. It's just weight that you throw around.
The last valuable commodity shall be fame.
As far as I know the only way to go back in time involves the use of wormholes. Where you arrive in the past depends on the position of the other end of the wormhole. If you want to go to a specific time and place you have to hope someone created a wormhole then and there, and then brought one of the ends into the future using time dilation.
Starting in 2018, four astronauts will leave for Mars every two years to begin a human settlement partly funded by crowdsourcing and a reality TV show."
[cough]Bullshit[/cough]
Eventually the pile of corpses will provide sufficient material to create a viable biosphere.
Correction, I meant 'ADD', not 'PLUS'. It's been over 20 years since I've programmed in COBOL and I've done my best to block it out of my mind.
Here I am pointing out that what many people consider to be a problem with COBOL, that it is too wordy, has in fact a functional purpose. Although, using the word PLUS for '+' did go a bit too far. I have to assume most business managers know what '+' means.
I think we can blame all the faults of COBOL on the fact that she wanted it to be human readable by business managers. What would your programming language look like if the Pointy-Haired Boss had to be able to understand it?
Give everyone a robot. That robot can go earn a living for them.
Disclaimer: this is a joke. Please don't tell me how this is not practical.
Does this mean they will be able to vote?