"He was wrong here, of course, and missed entirely how games would eventually drive the high end of the home computer market. Most interestingly in his predictions, Crichton clearly expected that computers would soon be as normal as home appliances like washing machines."
It's amusing to look back at how wrong he or others (Bill Gates with "nobody will ever need more than 64Kb" (paraphrase)) have been wrong about their predictions, but it all goes under the heading of "Hindsight is 20/20", and I don't think we can fault Crichton for that.
A lot of times when doctors go to operate on someone with heart problems, they discover other defects or abnormalities with the heart and surrounding vessels. Will a robotic system that is minimally invasive create "tunnel vision" so that doctors are unable to see other potential problems?
This seems like it could be of massive use in the creation of nano-scale motors... imagine an ICE that could power your laptop for days, due to it's great HP to size ratio and the precision of the parts... it would need an ultra-tiny catalytic converter:)
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"He was wrong here, of course, and missed entirely how games would eventually drive the high end of the home computer market.
Most interestingly in his predictions, Crichton clearly expected that computers would soon be as normal as home appliances like washing machines."
It's amusing to look back at how wrong he or others (Bill Gates with "nobody will ever need more than 64Kb" (paraphrase)) have been wrong about their predictions, but it all goes under the heading of "Hindsight is 20/20", and I don't think we can fault Crichton for that.
"Here [sptimes.com] is a story about a man that this surgery recently killed.
I'm glad I don't need this type of surgery."
No, that's a different type of surgery entirely. The Slashdot article talks about heart surgery....
From your link:
"robot with three mechanical arms used to cut blood vessels and remove a cancerous kidney"
A lot of times when doctors go to operate on someone with heart problems, they discover other defects or abnormalities with the heart and surrounding vessels. Will a robotic system that is minimally invasive create "tunnel vision" so that doctors are unable to see other potential problems?
I read somewhere that 47% of all statistics are made up. ./
This seems like it could be of massive use in the creation of nano-scale motors... imagine an ICE that could power your laptop for days, due to it's great HP to size ratio and the precision of the parts... it would need an ultra-tiny catalytic converter :)