Wednesday, August 6, 2014

A subtle reminder

We really are living in a sci-fi world.

Everyone who reads this is taking part in the world of tomorrow as well.  You are probably reading this on a screen that is no thicker than three inches and possibly even something that is a quarter inch thick.  It is much more power efficient than ten years ago when we were still going away from the CRT beasts of yore.

Other people have a Kindle with E-Ink.  Ink that changes size to make words or images on a page.  A paper page mind, not a crazy screen but something that is more like paper in a book than not.  We are developing OLED screens that one day can give you a real time HUD on your car or turn every wall in your house to a vivid landscape.

We have a nuclear powered, laser equipped science lab the size of a car on Mars that has been happily doing tests for two years with no real signs of stopping that we landed there using a frakkin flying saucer. We know more about how the universe works and we are using that to our advantage.  The NIF in California is a prime example of this.  Heck, that place is so Sci-Fi they used it as the warp core in the last Star Trek.

Point is, I am happy to be here.  I'm glad you can join me.  Lets learn about something fantastic.

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