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    The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980

    You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac

    A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking

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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    10/14/09

    In reply to The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980
    "A logic named Joe". Murray Leinster, 1946. About a home logic (computer) connected to other logics in other homes through phone-like lines to share data (servers on the Internet) who becomes a problem when it begins to correlate separate pieces of information in dangerous forms (AskJeeves meets the Anarchist Cookbook).

    Nineteen-fucking-forty-SIX!
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    Image of ArthurByronCover ArthurByronCover
    10/14/09

    In reply to The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980
    James Schmitz predicted the internet and the lap top in a Telzy story I reread not long ago. It was of course not the point of the story, it was just a passing notion, a way for his character to get information. Kinda like what we're doing now.
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    10/14/09

    @ArthurByronCover: So did Murray Leinster in "A Logic Named Joe", in a sense. Unless we go back to "The Machine Stops", I think Leinster takes the pennant.
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    10/14/09

    In reply to The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980
    How many times can a guy use the word "terminals"?

    What is that? Killer robot animals?
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    Image of Sleepyhead Sleepyhead
    10/14/09

    In reply to The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980
    It's a $2,010 prize. See, the numbers are in the same order as the year. 2010. Get it?
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment Sleepyhead was starred Sleepyhead was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/14/09

    @Sleepyhead: Ha, I just spotted that mistake myself, and I'm about to fix it... Went into comments to see if anyone else was pointing it out too... :)
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    10/14/09

    In reply to The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980
    Flying Cars - Nope
    Floating Cities - Nope
    Commercial Passenger Spaceflight - Nope
    Doing Alien women - Nope
    HAL 2001 style Computers - Nope
    Sexbots - Nope
    Robotic Servants - Nope
    Space 1999- Nope
    Eugenics War - Nope
    Manned Missions to Outer Planets -Nope
    Twilight - Yes
    Reality TV - Yes

    Future fantastic, my ass.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/14/09

    @ManchuCandidate: to be fair, the was space in 1999.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    10/14/09

    @ManchuCandidate: On the plus side, we aren't all slaves of the apes. There's that.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/18/09

    In reply to You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac
    So, this was the very machine owned by Roddenberry, but NOT the actual machine seen in ST:IV? Or is it both?
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/18/09

    In reply to You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac
    Judging from the color of the plastic casing, I'd say Roddenberry was a smoker.
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    Image of Selannia Selannia
    09/18/09

    @burlybax: Could be, but I remember those systems being just that ugly cream color.
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    cletar promoted this comment Selannia was starred Selannia was unstarred
    Image of cletar cletar
    09/18/09

    @Selannia: You're both correct! Congratulations!

    That beige color was particularly susceptible to smokey discoloration, IIRC.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/18/09

    In reply to You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac
    Isn't there something cheaper for the Trekkie/Trekker on a budget?

    You know, like say a used kleenex with Gene's snot on it? A ticket stub? A credit card bill?
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/18/09

    @ManchuCandidate: There was a few items at the Trek auction, but even there most props and stuff went for a grand or more.

    I actually know some of the guys who bought the filming models who dropped tens of thousands of dollars or more on JUST the one off ship of the week models!
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/18/09

    In reply to You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac
    "It has an estimated sale price of $800-$1200."

    Yeah, not in this universe. If it goes for less than $5000 I'd be shocked.
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    Image of Communist Pope Communist Pope
    09/18/09

    @Lassus: I was thinking the same thing. Either this auction house severely underestimates the fervor of many old school Trekkies, or they're intentionally announcing a very lowball estimate so as to attract as many bidders as possible.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    Badger badger badger badger...
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    Image of WindowlickinDaywalker WindowlickinDaywalker
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    "She sprinkles gold nanoparticles on the ends of the wires...suffuses the particles with a superheated silicon gas...solid silicon begins to form at the end of the wire."

    Bullshit. Dr. Ross, you made a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, didn't you?
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    Image of psychiccheese: You're awesome ( psychiccheese: You're awesome (
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    every single comment so far is a penis joke. is there nothing else to say about this article?
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment psychiccheese: You're awesome ( was starred psychiccheese: You're awesome ( was unstarred
    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/01/09

    @psychiccheese: i knew a bad plastic surgon who also had trouble keeping the surface of silicon perfectly regular and uniform.
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    Edited by tetracycloide at 09/01/09 10:13 AM tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    "Mushroom shaped," huh?

    That's one sheltered life you've lead Lauren.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/01/09

    @Cash907Censored: seriously, where is meredith when we need her?
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    09/01/09

    @tetracycloide:
    Recovering from this week's ep of True Blood?
     Reply
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    The nanowire is my penis

    Wait a minute...
     Reply
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    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    09/01/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: Does your nanaowire do the weird stuff?
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    09/01/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: Well that sucks.

    Take it back and ask for the 'macro' version.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    Nanowires - the proverbial 'bag of dicks'?
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    Image of jrghoull jrghoull
    09/01/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: care to elaborate on your rather colorful metaphor?
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    Belabras ate my dingo! promoted this comment jrghoull was starred jrghoull was unstarred
    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/01/09

    @jrghoull:
    As in "eat a bag of..."

    Surely I'm not the only one who's heard this before?
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    Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! was starred Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! was unstarred
    Image of icelight icelight
    09/01/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: No, they clearly haven't been harvested yet. This is still in the "field of dicks" stage. Grow it, and they will come.

    Ugh... I had to write that during lunch, didn't I?
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    Belabras ate my dingo! promoted this comment icelight was starred icelight was unstarred
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