tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post116141774978937318..comments2010-11-23T14:10:39.989-08:00Comments on HERE IN THE FUTURE: It's Great Living Here In The FutureKevinBBGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00564925623767566081noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-8540304187787082872010-11-23T14:10:39.989-08:002010-11-23T14:10:39.989-08:00Always wondered how you're doing nowadays. Th...Always wondered how you're doing nowadays. This is Sam, bro! We worked together for a bit at the old Collegiate Pacific in Gardena with Allan Watkins (what's he up to nowadays?) under Rex Morache and Joe Kaufman.. etc.<br />Glad to know you are alive and well. I'm still in the Tshirt biz and feelancing and living in Ventura Cty. Email me sometime.<br />Regards!<br /><br />sigbin@gmail.com<br />PS Funny but I'm on the same side as you on most if not all the issues you've mentioned in your blog.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04058196674654831506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-25534948961982795012006-12-05T15:04:00.000-08:002006-12-05T15:04:00.000-08:00Or imagine what might be done with nanotechnology....Or imagine what might be done with nanotechnology. Inject some in your bloodstream that automatically make their way to your brain and allow a direct mind to computer wireless connection? Or ones that ate up excess cholesterol or sat in your stomach and ate excess fat and sugar before your body could digest it? A cyborg merely means part human and part machine, it doesn't have to be the Six Million Dollar Man.KevinBBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00564925623767566081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-46121100092359034992006-12-05T14:57:00.000-08:002006-12-05T14:57:00.000-08:00Cyborgs are inevitable, merely just an extension o...Cyborgs are inevitable, merely just an extension of of the plastic surgery we have today. People always seek to improve themselves, it's just a matter of the technology and surgical techniques become advanced enough and cheap enough. As someone who has worn coke-bottle eyeglasses all my life I would jump at the chance of getting bionic eyes that could see better than 20/20, see in the dark and even have telescopic vision. And what musician wouldn't want ear implants that improves his range or hearing dramatically and won't be damaged by <br />loud music?KevinBBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00564925623767566081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-2289143631679363812006-12-05T11:33:00.000-08:002006-12-05T11:33:00.000-08:00Most people, for some obscure reason, imagine the ...Most people, for some obscure reason, imagine the future with humans being changed. Technology changes but humans do not. They do the same things they have always done but with newer gizmos.<br /><br /> The imagined future, in the past, is not even close to the present for a host of reasons, with the foremost being that quantum mechanics forbids us from predicting the future other than in general, probabalistic terms.<br /><br /> But we will not have cyborgs in the future because that would take away our human side and if cyborg's show up they will most likely be accident victims and not willing volunteers.<br /><br /> The first rogue computer AI will wind up being in a video game or the one created to drive our cars for us by some automaker in the next twenty to thirty years. These are generalized predictions and quite possible but if you let your mind free you still can't predict stuff like cell phones.<br /><br /> Star Trek was the origin of the cell phone and it took over twenty years to get the suckers to work right and we still don't have power supplies for them that last but we are making them use less and less electricity with incremental improvements in the core processor technology and fading batteries will not be a problem in cell phones in a couple of years.<br /><br /> But, what about the impending doom from the oil consumption? Well, drive less. Most people can work from their homes if they want to these days because collaborative work tools form Microsoft and others make it possible to do so. A safe prediction is that we can solve the school shooter problem by moving the kids home for school and using telepresence tools to teach the little buggers and watch them more efficiently than we can in a public school building.<br /><br /> Choosing to do stuff on the web makes your individual need to burn dinosaur farts far less likely and that, in itself can save the planet...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-24283719319723567282006-12-04T15:54:00.000-08:002006-12-04T15:54:00.000-08:00Enjoyed my visit. Took a look at the cats and gra...Enjoyed my visit. Took a look at the cats and grandkids - two of my favorite subjects, too. You might enjoy seeing the cat portion of my website. http://aclowderofcats.blogspot.com/ <br /><br />In that section, I also made a links list in the sidebar, putting it into the Blogger ‘Links List’ Page Element and it’s working on all pages. Don't know why yours isn't. <br />I'm flounder in the Help Groups (but I'm not one of the Helpers.)Barbee'https://www.blogger.com/profile/18369121682874102420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-46971338671704618972006-12-02T15:59:00.000-08:002006-12-02T15:59:00.000-08:00People aren't easily categorized into such clear c...People aren't easily categorized into such clear categories as "liberal" or "conservative." Most lie somewhere between the two extremes.Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18386579255928488916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-63167187434891409002006-12-02T14:02:00.000-08:002006-12-02T14:02:00.000-08:00I think they still have meaning but I think we nee...I think they still have meaning but I think we need about 8 designations, not just 2.KevinBBGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00564925623767566081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36385355.post-1161473092636776222006-10-21T16:24:00.000-07:002006-10-21T16:24:00.000-07:00It feels good to be alive in the 21st century. Th...It feels good to be alive in the 21st century. There are slews of things that need to be relegated to the past, including political designations that no longer mean what they once did, such as "Liberal" and "Conservative."Village Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10299021164466991478noreply@blogger.com