I don't think it's totally unreasonable to be nervous about handing your weeks-old baby to a babysitter you had to find within a week, though.

"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter... It is not too much to expect that our children will... travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds..." - Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission,…

Fusion has been five to fifty years away for at least fifty years. I'll believe it when I see it. I also firmly doubt that if anyone was close to developing fusion and could prove it, they would not need to 'find potential partners' they would do it in secret. More likely, the fourth quarter earnings looked a bit…

It sounds great, and it would obviously be a huge boon for mankind, but I'm not going to hold my breath. After all, the road to the Holy Grail of Fusion is littered with those who chose ... poorly.

as he commented how my pediatrician must be appalled that I am exposing my daughter to so many germs in court.

Are you fucking kidding me?????

>>Do Latinos appreciate being classified as being of Spanish descent (which is what Hispanic means)?<<

Yep. I consider my self Asian. I would consider you white. But if you want to get nitty gritty, I would consider myself Asian-American because culturally, I'm closer to an American than a person born and raised in Thailand/Vietnam/Japan/etc.

As 15-34 years old in America take over more political power, how will these numbers change?

Wouldn't know, seeing as being a millenial means you weren't born until after Return of the Jedi.

What? There are people who don't think of 1980 as the year of the second Star Wars movie? Isn't that the main thing that happened that year?

In 1980, the year that The Empire Strikes Back came out, 78% percent of 15 to 34 year-olds identified as white. In 2012, just 32 years later, only 58% identify themselves as white.

I am so sick of hearing about "Millenials" and "Gen X" and "Baby Boomers" and "The Germans"

I remember someone telling me that we're going to be in a paperless office in the 21st Century. Here we are now, raiding a rainforest to cover the mass printing we do in the office and believe it or not we have 4 fax machines that are used on a regular basis in a small office. Fax machines will still exist as not…

In Star Trek's defense, I can easily see a future where anything that is transmitted over any sort of wavelength can be intercepted, decrypted, and faked. Perhaps the only way to keep orders and secrets secure is to hand deliver them with a clear chain of custody?

Hello internet. My name is Tom, I'm a 27 year old video editor for a sports company in Baltimore, MD.

I came across io9 after finding Deadspin and Gawker. I stuck around io9 cause just about everything posted falls into my wheelhouse.

hiiiiii, i'm liza. i'm an engineering writer but i went to fashion school so that doesn't really make sense. i found io9 from starting to read jezebel and then i stayed for morning spoilers/open channels. also, the commenters here are the best gawker media commenters by a long shot. it's also nice to feel constantly…