The extensive use of composite materials. Computer enhanced controls.
I suspect that most of the major "easy" advances have already been made. I see two areas for advance in the future. The first is an airplane in every garage, which would seem to require extensive application of mostly existing technology to provide adequate safety and convenience. The second is practical hypersonic flight, which requires heaps of money and development.
Assuming the various claims are true, heavier-than-air controlled powered flight is the achievement of several individuals in a variety of countries, not the amorphous "human race".
Resistivity of the FETs is roughly proportional to absolute temperature, so the RC time constant is proportional absolute temperature. If it weren't for speed-of-light delays, -100c should be about 36% faster than 0c. Lower temperature, by easing heat problems on the chip, may allow higher voltages (limited by breakdown problems) which also allow the chip to go faster.
Maybe. If the machine goes through a lot of thermal cycles, the cycling could be a problem. Differential expansion can cause fatigue. Continuous operation at low temperature should extend life compared to continuous operation at high temperature.
Greed is excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness . (Merriam-Webster) What evidence do you have that the actions of McDonalds are excessive or reprehensible?
One problem for train travel in some places is parking. Train tracks have been in place for a long time and the stations tend to be in very old downtown semi-industrial neighborhoods: slums. Parking tends to be either dangerous or expensive or both.
"Lack of interest"? Look at the idea from the standpoint of economic feasibility. Trains on conventional steel rails are probably a lot cheaper, so a maglev train would be a competitive failure. Thus the likely source of funding would be government, which means stealing.
TV dinners and microwave ovens are pretty close to a kitchen that cooks for me. I suppose I could put a hot food vending machine in my kitchen, but I prefer things the way they are.
FDR was the most damaging president this country has ever had. Invited the attack on Pearl Harbor. Extended and deepened the Great Depression. Created a national mindset of dependence on government.
So you'd rather vote for someone who's poor, i.e. unable to succeed well enough to provide for himself? Just what we need, a loser to ruin our country.
Monopoly is extremely difficult to attain or maintain in the absence of government force unjustly supporting the monopolist. If you have the unjust use of government force, you don't have capitalism.
Education is bad because the government funds it. Parents' demands for better education are mostly ignored because the parents have no direct (i.e. financial) control over the teachers.
By making cloning illegal, the money and number of people doing research will be greatly reduced. The advances that allow you or me to live 200 years instead of 80 may be delayed until 100 years after our births.
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According to the article, UV radiation has not decreased, and that's where most of the skin cancr comes from. It's visible and IR that have fallen.
I suspect that most of the major "easy" advances have already been made. I see two areas for advance in the future. The first is an airplane in every garage, which would seem to require extensive application of mostly existing technology to provide adequate safety and convenience. The second is practical hypersonic flight, which requires heaps of money and development.
Assuming the various claims are true, heavier-than-air controlled powered flight is the achievement of several individuals in a variety of countries, not the amorphous "human race".
80 and 96 bits are standard lengths for "floating point" formats. With 64 bit loads two cycles are required to load these numbers.
You may have trouble with mechanical things like hard drives and fans.
Resistivity of the FETs is roughly proportional to absolute temperature, so the RC time constant is proportional absolute temperature. If it weren't for speed-of-light delays, -100c should be about 36% faster than 0c. Lower temperature, by easing heat problems on the chip, may allow higher voltages (limited by breakdown problems) which also allow the chip to go faster.
Maybe. If the machine goes through a lot of thermal cycles, the cycling could be a problem. Differential expansion can cause fatigue. Continuous operation at low temperature should extend life compared to continuous operation at high temperature.
Having gone this far, he can put a new state-of-the-art processor in his cool machine.
Fastest possible single thread SISD performance. Multimachine setups can't do the same thing.
Greed is excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness . (Merriam-Webster) What evidence do you have that the actions of McDonalds are excessive or reprehensible?
One problem for train travel in some places is parking. Train tracks have been in place for a long time and the stations tend to be in very old downtown semi-industrial neighborhoods: slums. Parking tends to be either dangerous or expensive or both.
"Lack of interest"? Look at the idea from the standpoint of economic feasibility. Trains on conventional steel rails are probably a lot cheaper, so a maglev train would be a competitive failure. Thus the likely source of funding would be government, which means stealing.
TV dinners and microwave ovens are pretty close to a kitchen that cooks for me. I suppose I could put a hot food vending machine in my kitchen, but I prefer things the way they are.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Pigeons should solve the reliability problems.
Evil limited only by incompetence.
So you'd rather vote for someone who's poor, i.e. unable to succeed well enough to provide for himself? Just what we need, a loser to ruin our country.
Monopoly is extremely difficult to attain or maintain in the absence of government force unjustly supporting the monopolist. If you have the unjust use of government force, you don't have capitalism.
Heinlein was more nationalist than libertarian. He took patriotism as a fundamental virtue, not trying to explain WHY patriotism was good.
Ever see Asimov in person? Cranky, nasty, misogynist.
Inquisition.
Education is bad because the government funds it. Parents' demands for better education are mostly ignored because the parents have no direct (i.e. financial) control over the teachers.
And computers are nothing more than silicon, steel, and plastic. Software has no use.
Alas, there are far too many intelligent people who use their intelligence to support their beliefs rather than discover the truth.
By making cloning illegal, the money and number of people doing research will be greatly reduced. The advances that allow you or me to live 200 years instead of 80 may be delayed until 100 years after our births.
You obviously have no idea how bad Stalin and Hitler were. The rest of your argument is a complete nonsequitur.