Yes, because companies would NEVER produce a new product they have patented that would be miles ahead of their competitor.

You know what, if it doesn't physically look like a bug while I'm eating it, I'm totally cool with it.

Hot dogs don't look like pig intestines, therefore I don't mind eating one or two (or twenty).

And the link to science fiction is that John Norman predicted all of this, years ago, when he wrote his long-lost classic Grad Students of Gor.

That makes sense. Only someone who has never cooked or baked would think that this stack of stuff is worth $150.

What? No love for Eclipse Phase, the RPG of a Transhumanist future? I discovered this Creative Commons game just a few months ago and have been blown away by its scope. The game encompasses hard SF and tons of classic concepts like uplift, AI, reputation economies, the singularity, aliens that are so alien as to be…

"It almost seems the more 'booksmart' humans get, the more unemotional and dispassionate we get."

I could see people with high empathy being increasingly shocked, hurt by people's reactions and then eventually starting to hate the entire human race. Especially if people with less empathy couldn't understand why the empathic people were so sensitive when it came to particular issues. It could lead them to start…