Metro is gorgeous. When I'm setting up Linux, I always aim to flatten things out and minimize chrome. I was sick of gloss and drop shadow even before Vista, so I'm stoked now that we're finally getting back to authentically digital interfaces.

"The human lifespan has already been extended many times."

Hmm... I was hoping the "standard" shell would adopt more of the Metro style, like the current Zune media player did. I'd love if that was the native look for everything.

Very few of any existing ethnic groups can legitimately be considered indigenous to their current location. This includes many of the North American peoples.

You've never had the freedom to live the way you want. You can try to live a certain way, but external factors inevitably interfere. You're free to choose how to prepare or respond, but you don't get to choose the threats or the outcome.

A leader is just someone with followers, regardless of how they get them. I don't see how anyone without followers could be a leader, or how anyone with followers could not be.

Sadly these will violate warranty terms in many cases. It's a pain having to send something in for an easy self-fix just in case something more complicated goes wrong down the line.

I really wish we could find some of the "softer" tools they no doubt used, whatever they made out of wood and animal parts. It would probably be much more enlightening than another drawer full of slightly different hand axes.

I don't think city size and degree of social decay are quite at cyberpunk levels. Neuromancer (e.g.) had sizable orbital colonies, too. So there might be room to play in there. The actual computers and electronic tools today seem to be at or past those in classic cyberpunk, but we don't have anything near the…

Exactly. Not that it can't get worse, it's just crossed my personal threshold of "bad enough." Now I get a kick out of checking up on Lucas now and again, since he seems to be the only one doing this sort of thing to such an absurd degree. I'm really curious to see just how far he can go with it.

Proposing Ctrl+T as more important than Ctrl+N. Also S and F have their images swapped.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine them all agreeing to not use planes for the duration of hostilities. WWII planes had pretty limited ranges. Today's planes? Not so much.

The "tabs" are in the taskbar, at least I find that works just as well as when I'm using Nautilus.

Agreed. I use that one, too. It seems to come from the "look nice, do less" school. But it has kept the most important stuff. I do need to fall back on uglier, more robust options occasionally. I just don't see a good reason for them to be ugly.

I've never owned an Apple product. I don't really know about their other options.

Ugh... why does no one writing windows utilities make them look nice?

History infographic's worthless. Only mentions the first Blackberry, and skips the entire electronic organizer/PDA side. Claims RAZR signals the start of personalization... Booo.

History infographic's worthless. Only mentions the first Blackberry, and skips the entire electronic organizer/PDA side. Claims RAZR signals the start of personalization... Booo.

Pretty sure the second is the CGI. And yeah, I normally prefer puppets but the one from exhibit A just isn't Yoda.

All that and a pretty face! Kudos Logitech. Still hearting the last few things I bought from you.