smoke hukka

you will remember... me for centuries WWHOOOOAAAAOOOOOOAAA WWWHHHHHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAA

i'm white i just listen to fall out boy and make puns.

we need to find new resources, we need to master cold fusion, we need to go further into space.

there's the legit answer

"Tomorrowland
How do we get there?"

Maybe you should sleep a night on that one.

Going to see the movie tomorrow (heh).

But the future technology as I see it lies in two key directions: microprocessing and energy.

A lot of the technology we're able to develop is limited in its capacity by either energy inflow or storage. Batteries/power cells can only be improved on so much, but small, efficient energy storage is always valuable. Then there's the simple problem of production: producing the energy to be stored/utilized. Ideally, I think highly efficient solar capture or safe fusion capture would be the ways to go, though if it's even theoretically possible to directly convert generic thermal energy (or temperature) into useful power that could have an incredible effect on what is possible.

The other avenue: microprocessing (in my mind) involves integrating computing technology with people and making that technology on a scale that works. We're already making strides in that area, and I think the next "big breakthrough" will have to be with some sort of neural interaction, possibly first done through prosthetics. If a computer that can both send and receive neural signals is developed we could do a hell of a lot. Either that, or developing A.I., but that's a whole different caboodle.

"Tomorrowland: how do we get there?"

Go to your travel agent and book a trip to Disneyland.

Pass through Todayville. It's not easy, tho. I hear that every day you wake up, you're always there, even if you try to leave.

Thanks for taking it serious guys... :P

WD and I gave legit answers... 2/3 i guess.

but there is so much to do for the rest of the world, if we start looking for utopia now many will be left behind. Go see Elysium (actually don't it SUCKED)

Went to see it, partially on your recommendation KC. The kids and I enjoyed it thoroughly. My 8 year old made me laugh out loud in the movie though. Right in the middle of Hugh Laurie's monologue, he leaned over & said "This is a really long sentence!" It was definitely a shot in the arm after a really challenging year. I had been feeding the wrong wolf.

The line "We have an epidemic of obesity And an epidemic of starvation. How does that even happen!" was probably the best of the movie though.

The movie seemed to strike a cord with the nostalgic optimism of the past vs. the stark realism (pessimism) of the present. It doesn't seem that many people are looking forward to a better tomorrow in our country.

How do we get there? They guys who are advocating doing away with money altogether are sounding better and better. There was an interesting TED Talk from a Dutch PhD (she is quite easy on the eyes too!) who went without money for a year to see how it would affect her lifestyle. She found that she had much greater interdependence since she was bartering her skills directly to producers who had what she needed. At the end of the year she opened up her wallet again and resumed her lifestyle but completely changed careers.

Here is the link, her name is Carolien Hooglien.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=A111US0&p=a+year+without+money