Leading thinkers predict technologies that will turn the world upside-down


	Leading thinkers predict technologies that will turn the world upside-down

balthazarus

1-2-2009 8:38 AM

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1-3-2009 11:54 AM

Jorjor

The more "they" predict change the more things stay the same.

That said, I'll just get in my flying car, verbally instruct the on-board computer to take me to the local spaceport where I'll take off on the first leg of my lunar vacation.

1-3-2009 12:55 PM

aklimento

To actually move forward now we have to refuse from many even relatively recent inventions: ball pen, printing press, physical books, newspapers, money, pills, TV, religion, political technologies and so on... Old and obsolete things always obstruct progress and their aggressive defenders sometimes present serious danger for society and even whole world.

1-3-2009 1:30 PM

AcesLucky

Snow Crash

1-3-2009 2:07 PM

balthazarus

and diamond age

1-13-2009 7:24 PM

AcesLucky

I'm way behind. I just got done with two Heinlein's:

Rocketship Galileo and Stranger in a Strange Land.

Recommend any others? Another of my favorites, Ender's Game.

1-13-2009 7:27 PM

thisnamecantbetaken

I'm way behind. I just got done with two Heinlein's

:

I need to get some sleep! I could have sworn you wrote two Heineken. .

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