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Don't fear technological change Rookie One!

Here is another new battery like device. It will uses corbon nanotubes to replace the corbon electrodes found in capacitors of today. Basically, these ultracapacitors will hold as much energy as a battery can now. But, because there is no chemical reaction, they will never ware out! To me, it is one step closer to an electric car that will never require battery replacements.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/batteries-0208.html



I have read that the world's oil supply will begin running out in about 15 years. Oops, sorry RookieOne, I didn't mean to scare you!

Lol. I'm not scared about the oil.

But just imagine. If they already are performing genetic engineering on viruses, they can make new bio weapons! They could engineer something that attacks the brain and takes control of it... And then poof! And you have a zombie outbreak.

Creepy.

Im sure that is not far off. Have a look at these two MIT news items.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/prostate.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/plasticity.html

That second one is about ways to change people's perceptions. It could be used to disable an attacker, or maybe an army! I keep using MIT to make my point, but think of all the other schools that are researhing this stuff!

I was at my brothers friends house the other night, he owns a telescope but has never known how to work it, I brought it home last night to learn, I already got the technique down, its pretty simple, it has something like 13000 objects in its memory, you type in what you want to see and it automatically finds it, everything from the moon to quasars, very cool.

It was cloudy last night but I saw Jupiter, 4 of its moons and could also make out the cloud belts on Jupiter, could see about 5 horizontal stripes across its face.

This is the scope: http://www.telescopehouse.co.uk/page.as ... action=lnk

I will be sad when I have to give it back

That is one cool high tech toy! You should buy it from your brother's friend--at a very reduced price of course, ha ha.

The stars in my small home town are very bright, but I hardly ever look at them. Although, I do like to watch the the annual Leonid meteor shower in mid November. I also like to keep up with what NASA is doing.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1

This should have a lot of applications in the near future-
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/ ... ology.html

Just found this cool video of a proposed military/cargo/passenger airship.

http://www.aerosml.com/Wholesm2.wmv



I don't think it would be workable for the military--because it would surely become a very big, slow-moving, target! But then, so are C-5's and they seem to do pretty well.

well rook, think about it. most mechanical inventions are worn, cars and robitic industry come to mind, so the next big obstacle, one of Earth's last, is biological. we're still working on the DNA code, bioengineering is on the rise, it's the new magic. imagine an experiment that bolstered your memory 100x without side-effects? or, liek tom said, something that placifies an opponent?

a zombie outbreak would be EXTREMELY difficult to engineer, how would it spread besides those few zombies? how would you manage to control them or make them smart enough to control themselves?

seems unlikely to me, at least in hte common sense. i can see a cranial poison, but not a zombie outbreak.

The fact that it would be extremely hard to engineer such a thing doesn't mean it's impossible. I'm sure they will do should an opportunity arise.

And as to the spreading of the disease... You haven't seen any of George A. Romero's zombie films or Resident Evil, have you?

This is disturbing
http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_sto ... 15444.html


I like what this guy says about it
http://www.foldedspace.org/archives/004213.html

lizardkid wrote:well rook, think about it. most mechanical inventions are worn, cars and robitic industry come to mind, so the next big obstacle, one of Earth's last, is biological. we're still working on the DNA code, bioengineering is on the rise, it's the new magic. imagine an experiment that bolstered your memory 100x without side-effects? or, liek tom said, something that placifies an opponent?

a zombie outbreak would be EXTREMELY difficult to engineer, how would it spread besides those few zombies? how would you manage to control them or make them smart enough to control themselves?

seems unlikely to me, at least in hte common sense. i can see a cranial poison, but not a zombie outbreak.

Sure! lets see what you say 28 days later!

lol, seriously, making such a virus infectious would have to be simpler then actually causing it in the first place. People are looking into these sort of things, and have been for a long time, in essence to cure psychosis and dementia effects. TO cure things you need to know how it works, thus its a two way street, although I dont think this is a realistic fear... like for example... an enormous asteroid WILL hit the earth in the future likely killing most of its population(unless it is redirected before it gets here) and the sun WILL go supernova one day and render the earth pretty much useless. A plaguelike virus that causes dementia or psychosis or especially more advanced mind altering effects is only something that could be feasible, not an ievitability.

But bio-engineering is not the only wave of the future, mechanical and technical fields are not tapped out by any means. Especially fields like bio-mechanical and minitiarization.

for hog's post.... Bio-mechanical stuff does have uses, and the only reason it makes me nervous is stated also in that other post...

4. The conflict between transnational corporations and average consumers will reach some sort of crisis. One of the insights I gleaned from reading Henry Adams is that some sort of financial crisis in the 1890s (Adams isn't perfectly clear on the cause) allowed a paradigm shift in this country, taking power from the individual and granting it to the corporations, suddenly creating a dichotomy between industry and the worker. (I'd love to do more reading about this.) This conflict has only intensified over time, and corporations have only grown in strength and arrogance until they've reach their current might. Something has to change, and I think it's going to happen in the next twenty years.

the classic sci-fi horror story comes about when this is resolved in favor of the corporations. Mix that with the capabilities of technology, such as implants and bio-engineering... add to it that one possible evolution of the corporatation is to replace 'government by the people for the people' with 'government by the corporations for its people' and in by 2030 we may all be playing Robert Deniro's part in 'Brazil'. Government, controlled by the wealthiest corporations, who have the technology, to not only monitor, but possibly control the average person.

There is a current apathy about such things really... and a backlash against unions(which to be fiar, are often guilty at some levels of corruption, and thus have brought it on themselves) which is another scary order of the day in this respect. People really need to care more about the power of the corporation.

And who engineered the virus in Resident Evil? The Umbrella... That's right, Corporation!

Corporations are evil. (think micro$oft)

So where are all the corporations run from?

Bohemian Grove, im convinced of that.

That was a great post splaetos, good job man.

lol rook, yes microsoft is planning the earths demise using products used by billions of people and a zombie outbreak to convice the other billions that their product of choice is inferior.

Corporations are perhaps the biggest source of technology these days. components for new inventions just arent a mason jar and a candle anymore. to make new things you need a lot of money for research and materials... whcih corporations can get. dont hate on the things taht keep technology moving.

or you could support some people that try to one-man it with a $50 a month budget working in a garage trying to make that time machine.

MY comment on bio/mechanical/digital was to say we've explored the mechanical/digital worlds, we've conquered them. we know almost everything there is to know about them, it's jsut a matter of ingenuity and time. biological, however, still has a lot of potential and unexplored avenues. my point was biology has the most mystery to it these days.

lets be honest with ourselves, we're individuals. we can't change the world without a flawless plan and the right words, which none of us are willing to create and use. the people who have established governments, who control the people. perhaps Corporations are the next evolution in society? everyone seems afraid of the corporation ruling them, demonizes it even. waht if it was the new government? what if you could choose what sort of policies your government took? governments are just one way to control the populace, maybe corporations would be a more effective way? don't be too quick to throw away possibilities, after all, Albert Einstein never got anywhere listening to reasonable ideas.

What does "Resident Evil" have to do with searching for new Technology? Ok, which one of you shot me in the head and highjacked my thread?

Why do you let Hollywood corporations contorl your view of the future? The truth be told, movie horror writters get there ideas from the high tech news that most people ignore. So, let's stick to the subject and beat them at their own game!!!