I’m looking back at last year’s end-of-year tech columns and feeling totally bummed out. We still don’t have globallink communicators with roll up screens a la “Earth: Final Conflict.” It remains something for the lab, like this prototype. Still no sexbots. Perhaps they’ll be one of those techs like videophones — featured in scifi, but, […]
In pursuit of Xcellence
The Ansari X Prize for the first reusable private space craft capable of doing two missions in two weeks got a lot of media coverage, and was successfully won, back in 2004. But did you know that there are other X Prizes still on offer? For example, if you can sequence 100 genomes in 10 […]
A Bridge Too Charged
[Our scene is set some decades in the future.] GRANDPATurn out those lights, Billy, you’re wasting electricity! BILLYSo? Electricity is free and green. GRANDPAAre you on drugs, Billy? DAD Silly Grandpa, seems we have this conversation every day. GRANDPAWho are you? Didn’t I used to date your mother? DAD Billy is right, Grandpa, electricity is […]
