My brother sent me a neat zoom thingy (ya, I not great with words yet today). It goes from a distance of like 100 million light years from earth to the subatomic on a leaf. Pretty cool. ;-)
There's a cool article on NT Times about self driven cars (linked from /.) I can see that in the next 50 years we get to something like cars in Demolition Man or Minority Report (the movie). As it is now, you just get in your car and tell the navigation system where you want to go, and it tells you exactly how to get there. Now cars can steer, break, etc. for you because the computer can make "better" and faster decisions than the driver. Will commuting be totally automated in the future? I hope so.
Listening to: Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
That "neat zoom thingy" kind of reminded me of something i saw on some cartoon once or something. The similarity between the shot of the stars, and the shot of the super close up sub atomic picture look pretty much the same. Basically the cartoon showed zooming out further and further, until it basically came back out to another universe. where the building blocks would have been like pieces of our universe. All very weird and mind-blowing. I think it was on the Simpson's for some reason.
ReplyDeleteI hope in 50 years we'll have the technology to make better movies than Minority Report and Demolition Man.
ReplyDeleteThe sci-fi ideas in the movies man, not the actual story telling...
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