Perhaps in the next few years we will do away with dual booting and instead run Linux, OS X 10.x (11?), and Windows Whatever Edition for x86/x64/AMD64 simultaniously where an given app for one of the three platforms will know to launch from the proper respective environment. Perhaps even being able to funcion under the GUI - or console - of user choice from any of the OS's.
I suppose this is made possible by the multi-walled cardbon fiber nanotube mass production facilities that are slowly going on-line. Is this where it all starts? Maybe I will look back on these next few years as the beginning of our ascendancy into technological wizardry? I tend to get ahead of myself, anyway.
This is actually rather interesting with shades of matrix. I imagine software like this will help greatly when it comes time to colonize the moon. By then we should (hopefully) have precise and comprehensive data about the environment in terms of the moons physical construction as well as radiation and space debris data. Just feed the data into the program and have a future version of this software design a habitat system almost as well (if not better) than humans could design. That could cut a decade off such an endeavor. I imagine the designs would need to be corrected here and there -- but the possibilities are fantastic.
Now imagine sending a fleet of probes to Mars consisting of an array of satellites and ground based robots that determine and design everything necessary for perminent human habitation. Imagine taking the initiative and sending such fleets throughout the solar system to all sorts of places we will want a foothold decades before mounting such complex missions. Such a system could red flag all sorts of problems with environments that would have otherwise caused a manned crew to turn around and go home. One step further: Imagine sending (even later in time) more advanced fleets that could study a place and contruct a human habitation with robots and materials before humans even left Earth to head where ever. Even further: now imagine sending such fleets to other star systems centuries before humans. The environment could assesed. Suitable structures built and pressurized with atmosphere. Everything could then be maintained by yet another group of robots for centuries or even millennia with every aspect of the greater system under the direction of planning software. Hell they could mine endless reserves of materials and chemicals that humans would want upon arrival. Alot of this would likely require advanced nanotech.
I am sure it can be taken to even greater extremes.
-I have a science fiction novella to write!
BTW - I have been visiting slashdot everyday since it opened in what, 96 or 97? As of this post I have only now bothered to create an account! So FIRST POST in a sense I guess.
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I suppose this is made possible by the multi-walled cardbon fiber nanotube mass production facilities that are slowly going on-line. Is this where it all starts? Maybe I will look back on these next few years as the beginning of our ascendancy into technological wizardry? I tend to get ahead of myself, anyway.
Now imagine sending a fleet of probes to Mars consisting of an array of satellites and ground based robots that determine and design everything necessary for perminent human habitation. Imagine taking the initiative and sending such fleets throughout the solar system to all sorts of places we will want a foothold decades before mounting such complex missions. Such a system could red flag all sorts of problems with environments that would have otherwise caused a manned crew to turn around and go home. One step further: Imagine sending (even later in time) more advanced fleets that could study a place and contruct a human habitation with robots and materials before humans even left Earth to head where ever. Even further: now imagine sending such fleets to other star systems centuries before humans. The environment could assesed. Suitable structures built and pressurized with atmosphere. Everything could then be maintained by yet another group of robots for centuries or even millennia with every aspect of the greater system under the direction of planning software. Hell they could mine endless reserves of materials and chemicals that humans would want upon arrival. Alot of this would likely require advanced nanotech.
I am sure it can be taken to even greater extremes.
-I have a science fiction novella to write!
BTW - I have been visiting slashdot everyday since it opened in what, 96 or 97? As of this post I have only now bothered to create an account! So FIRST POST in a sense I guess.