At first I thought, "why is this specifically a Democrat issue"? Then I remembered the X-Prize. The private sector is about to put NASA outta business. THAT'S why Democrats are struggling to prop NASA up now. They don't want the government to lose control of space!
Of course the way the Republicans have been acting lately, it's a wonder they didn't beat the Dems to it...
Actually my expectations have been exceeded in one area. I remember seeing a late night (Leno or Letterman... Carson?) interview with the guy that coined the term Virtual Reality. And no, it wasn't William Gibson.
Anyway, in this interview, this guy said that computer graphics will always look "computer-y". We'll never see truly photo-realistic computer graphics. About two years later the GPU was invented.
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At first I thought, "why is this specifically a Democrat issue"? Then I remembered the X-Prize. The private sector is about to put NASA outta business. THAT'S why Democrats are struggling to prop NASA up now. They don't want the government to lose control of space! Of course the way the Republicans have been acting lately, it's a wonder they didn't beat the Dems to it...
These are in many ways the same predictions we talked about in the late '80s.
Actually my expectations have been exceeded in one area. I remember seeing a late night (Leno or Letterman... Carson?) interview with the guy that coined the term Virtual Reality. And no, it wasn't William Gibson. Anyway, in this interview, this guy said that computer graphics will always look "computer-y". We'll never see truly photo-realistic computer graphics. About two years later the GPU was invented.