Better technobabble? Maybe. Better science fiction? Not for a light year.

Made me remember more Lovecraft than Transformers. Something in the middle of the ocean where geometry didnt look right? How that battleship will be called, R'lyeh?

A previous classic example is the glorious short tale "...and he built a crooked House" from R.A.Heinlein

Unfortunately Discworld don't translate too well to big screen, or into visuals in general. There is that thing that you should put over it, called imagination, that even the masterpiece that was the illustrated version of The Last Hero didn't captured fully the potential of those books.

Picking the "top 10" is tricky, as there are so much examples around.

Depending on what you will use/do, installing Linux, even several Linux, along or instead with Windows should speed up what you do with your computer.

Where is antigrav in this list? Science MUST do it, before 2015 where all kids should have hoverboards.

Calibre does more than just converting to PDFs to HTML, it convert to your e-reader format, and not just with PDFs but also with other formats that could not be understood by your ereader (i.e. Epubs for Kindle). And is more than just a converter, it manages your ebook collections, handles most available ebook readers…

Im more worried about how problematic is for your personality to have something like superpowers. All the alphas we saw so far had, or could potentially have, big problems. For a moment got the feeling that could be like Sucker Punch, with a bunch of people in a mental institution going thru their problems acting like…

Don't seem to work in my nokia 1100

As far i remember, the pre-LOTR advances were more about how they do the tricks, was more about filming technology than watching the everyday filming crew doing their job. Won't be all of this a bit like showing the 4th wall to a lot of us, making the movie to lose a bit of its magic?

At least for civilizations that perceive time as we do, getting anywhere else is really a big investment of time and resources. So unless earth basically is a pile of someone's else unobtanium, AND our knowledge of universe speed limit is wrong, you shouldnt see aliens around... unless we count us as aliens if…

Would be interesting to match that graph to percent of people that believes in god, supernatural things and another not science backed beliefs. If well is reasonable to believe that could exist somewhere else in the universe intelligent life, that be so close or so able to bend universe rules to be here and among us…

Could be those lines be formed by how are constructing the thing instead of being something weird? Like the law of 80-20 vs the normal distribution.

What about other cultures, including different cultures and subcultures in the same country? Could those glases become obsolete if a popular enough person shows in the media some new expression that gets widely adopted?

We already know that Macs can hack alien spaceships... now stealing information is the next logical step. Well, that or they bribed all those pesky men in black

I suppose that it could become more interesting if have any chance to affect us. Will be the big rip tomorrow? Or could we provoke somewhat little rips and that way get "free" energy or something that could count as FTL travel?

I would be more impressed if they bid a Googol, they are named after that number after all. And could be in Zimbabwe's currency (or better yet, of Bitcoins), so won't be so out of this world anyway.

3 suns... even if exists life in planets there, even if they are intelligent, they probably won't have any civilization, it would be destroyed every nightfall.

This serie should be oh so full of blue butterflies. Being able to go to the past, interact with your former self, and make changes, is just a big cheating machine. You dont even need to fight, if you know things in advance, just need to misplace a box to make a minimum necessary change.