Those world minds are interesting but I too am far more interested in this shared history that nobody on Earth seems to be aware of as some forgotten colony.

Larry Niven proposed the teleportation booths and stepping discs for his Known Space novels but even he admits the science is very implausible.

You don’t necessarily build the sphere to live on the surface as Dyson proposed but Evan Currie’s Odyssey One series has a pretty good modification of this idea.

People didn’t always have cybernetic enhancements to their mental calculation, memory capacity, storage and recall, digestion, cardiovascular and vision systems?

I helped a civil engineer measure traffic when I was a teen for a busy intersection so it always bothers me when lights in towns clearly are not configured with regard to maximum continued flow. But there should be radar or laser detection to indicate if any oncoming traffic warrants a signal change.

Yes, been there but I’m too impatient to wait that long.

Yeah, the weight sensors aren’t responsive enough for what I’m talking about. They’re good for some situations.

They aren’t the norm in CT. As a driver for over 30 years I tend to stop, look both ways and proceed and treat lights as stop signs and suggestions. I don’t like that this exposes me to arbitrary enforcement but nor should I wait just because a timer says I should. I can judge safety.

I’d like just Spider-Man with no unmasking. That seems possible for Civil War and other MCU movies.

So do personal helicopters and automatic cars but is it the rule rather than the exception?

Not here yet, they are spending the money on useless projects that won’t help traffic

Nanotech that supplements biological function like cleaning arteries instead of resorting to bypass, capturing sugar and alcohol to protect liver and kidney function, etc.

Traffic lights that don’t operate on timers but respond to traffic conditions

HAHAHA. OK my day job’s being expressed in my typing muscle memory

I love that Whedon can kill but at least in the case of Coulson’s resurrection it came at a cost that he paid and was well explained on Agents of SHIELD. The consequences may seem settled but these dueling versions of SHIELD have kept the skepticism on what being resurrected using an extraterrestrial’s biology could…

Be great if it was Pixar or Dreamworks level art.

Philip Jose Farmer’s opus Riverbed was treated quite poorly by SyFy

Interview with the Vampire was pretty good despite arguable casting of Tom Cruise but the sort of sequel Queen of the Damned was thoroughly terrible.

Surprised it took someone this long to use the exception as the rule.

Sorry, SM Stirling, not RA Salvatore