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[The Speculist] The Speculist: Convergence 08 Wrap-Up: * Well, okay, there is the one dude who always wants to talk to me about his plan for an army of robotic Supermen. (I believe I posted a video of him talking about that at the Singularity Summit last year.) Anyhow I think he's kidding.
[Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] What are the best movie gadgets ever? | PopWatch Blog | EW.com: The Rocketeer's jetpack was cool, and in Terminator 2 the kid got his own KILLER ANDROID. Dude, how can any of Bond's gadgets compare to your very own Terminator?
[Cracked: All Posts] 5 Awesome Sci-Fi Inventions (That Would Actually Suck) | Cracked.com: You can live on the beach in Hawaii and live in New York. Sit there in the morning and sip coffee until about five seconds before the meeting is set to start, then step into your transport and there you are, in the conference room.
[Boing Boing] Jetpack reviewed. Verdict: undeniably awesome. - Boing Boing: Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. He called it “about the coolest desire left to mankind.”
[The Marquee Blog] The Marquee Blog: Watch Showbiz Tonight on Headline News Blog ...: I like the darker, more mature direction they’ve taken Bond in, and I think Craig is as good a Bond as we’ve ever had. For me, Bond has NEVER been about gadgets, supermodels with absurd names, and supervillains who want to blow up the world.
[Modern Mechanix] What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?: Also, the article, though I confess I did not read it in its full length, appears to be an outgrowth of the Cold War era, which promised technological advances for society (and as we’ve seen without concomitant social development.) In lieu of flying cars, I would hope by the year 2030 that we’ve learned to accept individual/group differences more, put an end to foreign wars that buttress technological development, and by then hopefully we would witness a narrowing gap between the tailends of the economic distribution in terms of ‘quality of life.’ What is the social/existential trajectory of the United States?
[Comments for The List Universe] Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions - The List Universe: Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy during World War II, advising President Truman on the atomic bomb, 1945.[6] Leahy admitted the error five years later in his memoirs
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