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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11:58 AM

    In reply to The Point Of Futurism Isn't To Make Accurate Predictions
    IMO:

    "futurism" is "this might happen".

    "science fiction" is "if this happens, this will be the consequences".

    "fantasy" is "this will never happen, but what fun anyway".

    None of them are "this will happen", and any attempt to do so even in the short term pretty much sucks at it.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11:01 AM

    In reply to The Point Of Futurism Isn't To Make Accurate Predictions
    I thought the point of futurism was to publish a lot of books.
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    Image of betty.black betty.black
    01:12 PM

    @Bill-Lee: Wait, I thought the point of futurism was to glorify war, ride fast cars, smash museums, make loud noises, and rape women.
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    Edited by betty.black at 12/11/09 1:14 PM betty.black was starred betty.black was unstarred
    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10:11 AM

    In reply to The Point Of Futurism Isn't To Make Accurate Predictions
    It's truly spin mastery when you can say that your job is worthless navel-gazing, and still get paid.
    -Kle.
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    Image of JimBonJovi JimBonJovi
    11:33 AM

    @Klebert L. Hall: He obviously does more with his life than navel-gaze. If that's all it takes to get paid, then I would be a billionaire godking by now.

    So basically you are saying that it's a waste of time to try and imagine how things could be, where things might be heading? Why are you here?
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    09:46 AM

    In reply to The Scariest Map Ever - At Least for Americans
    On the bright side, this would be an average year, in France.
    -Kle.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    09:32 AM

    In reply to The Point Of Futurism Isn't To Make Accurate Predictions
    Or to quote WaterWorld

    "WTF?"
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    08:50 AM

    In reply to The Point Of Futurism Isn't To Make Accurate Predictions
    An old quote from Alfred North Whitehead: "It is the business of the future to be dangerous."
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    08:42 AM

    In reply to The Point Of Futurism Isn't To Make Accurate Predictions
    Was it Ben Bova who said that futurism is science fiction with its balls cut off?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/10/09

    In reply to Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality
    Maglev cars that drive themselves would be great, thanks. But no talking.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    12/10/09

    In reply to Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality
    The fiction: SecureFoam
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    12/10/09

    The Reality: Air Bags
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/10/09

    In reply to Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality
    When do we get these then?
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/10/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: When the Singularity happens. Any day now...honest. Ray Kurzweil says so. He's a futurist. And futurists would never lie to us.
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    Image of RandomArt RandomArt
    12/10/09

    @Bill-Lee: They may not lie. But half the time they aren't right. Just look at 1984 and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's been 8 years since I found that obelisk and I'm still not a space fetus.
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    Image of Valkyrie Ice Valkyrie Ice
    12:43 AM

    @Bill-Lee: Untrue. Kurzweil's prediction is actually a conservative estimate of 2045 to 2060.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12:56 AM

    @Valkyrie Ice: Uh, yeah...I was making a joke. My comment was a play on words since one of his books is called "The Singularity is Near". And really, when you think about it, 2045 is pretty near...well within the lifetime of most of this blog's readers.
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    Edited by Bill-Lee at 12/11/09 1:11 AM Bill-Lee was starred Bill-Lee was unstarred
    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/10/09

    In reply to Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality
    I love Top Gear. Those boys are a riot.
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    Image of Mary Ratliff Mary Ratliff
    12/10/09

    @LittleDragon: I have to admit it's probably my favorite show on television right now. Whenever I'm in a bad mood or not feeling well I start looking up clips on YouTube.
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    12/10/09

    In reply to Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality
    When it comes to mag-lev train safety, I know of only one accident in the history of mag-lev, and that was caused by a conventional truck hitting the underside of a German elevated track. But it was ugly.
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    Image of Vexxarr Vexxarr
    12/10/09

    @MonkeyT: Actually, there are hundreds of mag-lev accidents every year but the extreme Gauss fields erase the survivor's memories and destroy any electronic media of the incident...in fact...what was I saying again?
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Scariest Map Ever - At Least for Americans
    That was terrifying.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/09/09

    In reply to Future Hawaiian Cities Will Be Partly Underwater
    Two problems:
    One criticism of diets high in animal proteins is that we eat the animals who have to eat a large amount of vegetation which is wasteful as opposed to just eating the vegetation.

    Farmed fish are not as popular amongst environmentalist as you might think. Salmon, for instance, have been accused of affecting the population of wild salmon, being more contaminated (with PCB's for instance) since there dietmay be contaminated and they don't range as wide and are not as rich in Omega-3 FA's as wild.

    Funny, now this post looks like one where somebody complains that wind power turbines kill migrating birds.
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    Image of Murray Meehan Murray Meehan
    12/09/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:

    Well, the good news is farming vegetation under the sea is a kinch, the japanese have been doing it for centuries. Hawaiian tourists may not have a taste for it though.

    As for the under sea protein farming, it's true, the current methods involve such massive levels of growth hormones and waste material that fish farms need to move every few years because the area around them is too poisonous to continue growing fish in. I hope somebody figures that out properly one of these days.
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    Image of Murray Meehan Murray Meehan
    12/09/09

    @Murray Meehan: to clarify, I mean seaweed. delicious, healthy, and unpopular-in-the-states-outside-of-sushi-restaurants seaweed
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    Image of Murray Meehan Murray Meehan
    12/09/09

    @Murray Meehan: oh, scratch that, oysters may be up to the job. [www.sciencedaily.com]

    There was an oyster farm by my old summer cabin, and as such I can happily say they require no artificial feed like salmon farms do, and are just as simple to maintain. I guess there's a fair bit of hope after all.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/10/09

    @Murray Meehan: Except that oysters taste like snot.

    Better than seaweed, I guess.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    12/10/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Oysters are okay so long as they are really fresh.
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    Image of CParis CParis
    12/10/09

    @Murray Meehan:
    Most farmed fish tastes pretty nasty, too.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/10/09

    @CParis: I don't know, some is OK. Catfish is pretty much all farmed and is not bad but it's hard to find anything but farmed north of the mason dixon line to compare it to. I don't much care for Tilapia - it has a metallic aftertaste to me. I'll eat farmed salmon but wild caught King, Keta or Coho - especially from the Copper River - has far more flavor and is worth the extra cost.
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    Image of CParis CParis
    12/10/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:
    Gotta agree on the King salmon. I avoid most farmed fish - just too bland for me.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/09/09

    In reply to Future Hawaiian Cities Will Be Partly Underwater
    "Future Hawaiian Cities Will Be Partly Underwater"

    That's good since the islands will probably be underwater anyway in a few decades.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/09/09

    I kid, actually. The islands are far above sea level. But the beaches are in danger.
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    Image of drclaytonforrester drclaytonforrester
    12/09/09

    @twophrasebark: It's already happening:

    Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking
    [news.yahoo.com]
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    12/10/09

    Whoa!
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