Posted on 03/26/2011 9:50:00 AM PDT by EveningStar
Growing up, physicist Michio Kaku had two heroes.
The first, predictably enough for the man who co-founded a branch of string theory, was Albert Einstein.
"Second?" he said. "I used to watch 'Flash Gordon.' "
Kaku, author of the new book "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100," combines those two loves on the Science Channel, where he hosts "Sci Fi Science" and a tech-themed segment introducing reruns of sci-fi series "Firefly," which airs at 10 p.m. ET Sundays.
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No flying car unless you have a pilots license!!!
No drivers in the sky!
Well now, it takes time to work out the kinks in any new invention. I’m sure somebody will figure this out. Flying cars. Just think of it! ZOOM, SWISH!! Look Ma, no insurance!!
“No flying cars unless you have a pilots license!!!”” Ah jeez, always a kill-joy! :-)
Comics are for idiots and those under 5.
Compared to the world I was born into in 1964, the world has gone very much sci fi in some respects.
When I was a kid most people were still watching air broadcasted TV shows on black and white TVs. Party line telephones were still pretty common and you could still find the occasional outhouse on the farm.
On the other hand we watched the moon landing in black and white but have seen very little in manned spaceflight since. We see deeper into space with greater detail all the time but even robotic missions have been pretty anemic.
“Can your fantasy crap and try living in the real world!
Comics are for idiots and those under 5.”
Well, I’m glad you’re not scared of the dark and never have to worry about the “what if’s” of life.
I have the same memories. I was in high school in the mid-Seventies, my stepmother was all over me to pick out a career to devote myself to. I remember sitting down one day and wondering if the profession that would really grab me hadn’t been invented yet.
I do IT now.
> I’m still waiting for that little dorm-fridge size nuke plant that would sit in the basement and make all the electricity we’d ever need.
Rossi will be providing that sooner than most people think.
“I’m glad you’re not scared of the dark and never have to worry about the “what if’s” of life.”
Niether ever entered my mind.
My great grandmother (born in 1900) told me that he mother refused to ride uphill in a car.
The reason being that the early cars didn’t have a great deal of forward torque so they were often driven up steep hills in reverse. My great great grandmother declared that a horse could walk up hill without backing up so that’s what she would do.
She actually had another more practical reason. It seems that a lot of people died on the steep northern Michigan hills when gears and brakes failed.
Ghost drivers in the sky!
But I was showing my Droid2 to a neighbor just the other day and commented that the Dick Tracy Wrist TV was today a reality. And that's just secondary function to what it's mainly meant for. Plus everything else it can do -- almost a laptop in capabilities.
The "video phone" was part of the World That's Coming in the 1960s. And the funny thing about video phones now being commonplace? Hardly anyone uses them.
Saw first plasma screen in a computer mainframe lab in early 80s, they said it would be in tvs soon....... when did it show up on shelves.... 2000 ?? +-
Read 3yrs ago that computers will have no moving parts by replacing spinning-disk-hard drive with flash drive......... tik-tik-tik-tik....
where is that flexable & foldable plastic computer sheet we can read newspapers on???........more tiking....
My maternal grandmother was born in that same year. She drove almost until she passed away in the Seventies.
No such thing!
It ain't ticking anymore, you slept through that alarm. My laptop has a SSD and no spinning platters.
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