Date: 8/07/2013 22:27:59
From: Arts
ID: 344085
Subject: Tomorrow's World
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
Date: 8/07/2013 22:55:10
From: wookiemeister
ID: 344090
Subject: re: Tomorrow's World
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
wookiemeister said:
skynet won’t use nuclear bombs, it will use loans. we will all be enslaved by robot banks that will offer low interest rate loans then jack them up – to crush us
I call shenanigans – apparently we are set to have fusion power in 7 years – everyone knows that fusion is ten years away…
diddly-squat said:
I call shenanigans – apparently we are set to have fusion power in 7 years – everyone knows that fusion is ten years away…
Still
I also wonder about the likelihood of a building being 10km high… do we even have a likely candidate in terms of building material for such a structure?
pommiejohn said:
diddly-squat said:I call shenanigans – apparently we are set to have fusion power in 7 years – everyone knows that fusion is ten years away…
Still
always
;)
diddly-squat said:
I also wonder about the likelihood of a building being 10km high… do we even have a likely candidate in terms of building material for such a structure?
Tell ‘em they’re dreamin’.
diddly-squat said:
pommiejohn said:
diddly-squat said:I call shenanigans – apparently we are set to have fusion power in 7 years – everyone knows that fusion is ten years away…
Still
always
;)
One of my classmates from college went to work at Culham ( Joint European Torus project ) straight from college and fusion was about ten years away, in 1979.
pommiejohn said:
diddly-squat said:
pommiejohn said:Still
always
;)
One of my classmates from college went to work at Culham ( Joint European Torus project ) straight from college and fusion was about ten years away, in 1979.
someone should have told 1989…
Hang on. Haven’t we already got fusion power available? Just a matter of getting enough government-subsidised radiation collector-converters installed, IIRC.
Michael V said:
Hang on. Haven’t we already got fusion power available? Just a matter of getting enough government-subsidised radiation collector-converters installed, IIRC.
LOL, you’re right, I’ve got a fusion power plant on my roof!
pommiejohn said:
Michael V said:
Hang on. Haven’t we already got fusion power available? Just a matter of getting enough government-subsidised radiation collector-converters installed, IIRC.
LOL, you’re right, I’ve got a fusion power plant on my roof!
fusion power collector
pommiejohn said:
diddly-squat said:
pommiejohn said:Still
always
;)
One of my classmates from college went to work at Culham ( Joint European Torus project ) straight from college and fusion was about ten years away, in 1979.
every thing is ‘ten years away’ they said the same about a cure for spinal cord injury in 1996, then in 2006 and we are due for another one in 2016…
Arts said:
pommiejohn said:
One of my classmates from college went to work at Culham ( Joint European Torus project ) straight from college and fusion was about ten years away, in 1979.
every thing is ‘ten years away’ they said the same about a cure for spinal cord injury in 1996, then in 2006 and we are due for another one in 2016…
Dense Plasma Fusion is only two years away, and that’s only as long ago as 2007 so it’s much closer.
Spiny Norman said:
Arts said:
pommiejohn said:
One of my classmates from college went to work at Culham ( Joint European Torus project ) straight from college and fusion was about ten years away, in 1979.
every thing is ‘ten years away’ they said the same about a cure for spinal cord injury in 1996, then in 2006 and we are due for another one in 2016…
Dense Plasma Fusion is only two years away, and that’s only as long ago as 2007 so it’s much closer.
me going postal is now only 25 yr away… much closer, and more likely, than all the others put together… should have put that on the infographic…
we’ve already fusion power
we don’t need to reinvent the wheel to get the benefits of fusion power either, its here right now every day
the experts are telling us we need to split the atom to get hot water!
what would be the point of a driver free car?
purple said:
what would be the point of a driver free car?
Johnny Cab.
purple said:
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what would be the point of a driver free car?
;)
purple said:
what would be the point of a driver free car?
Computer controlled cars would presumably be safer.
so we have empty cars all over?
I don’t miss the old sssf at all
it became poisonous
What about velour one peice jumpsuits with the legs tucked inside your boots, I look forward to future fashon.
(remember the days when 1999 was the future)
gaghalfrunt said:
What about velour one peice jumpsuits with the legs tucked inside your boots, I look forward to future fashon.(remember the days when 1999 was the future)
I can remember the days in the old school yard, we used to laugh a lot.