Take your car.

Santos=Dumont is Iron Man

In a USA with a corporate controlled government and that government knowing everything about everybody, what chance do you think policies that might interfere with corporate profits will have? Between blackmail and revealing embarrassing information on inconvenient opponents, exploitation of cheap labor and exploiting…

1. Any information that is collected and stored can be stolen, and if it is valuable enough it will be. You will be the collateral damage.

"so this farm of the future still had chickens pecking about in what today we might call "free range" conditions."

Just open up access to third party developers, so if you want a swype keyboard you can just get it. If it turns out that nobody likes the default keyboard, then just buy the company that makes the most popular. Evolutionary design, still going strong after 12 billion years.

least appealing cameltoe ever.

Unless things have changed since I checked Verizon iPhone 5s are unlocked by default, and you can use sims from any GSM carrier in them.

So Metric is based on 10 and Imperial is based on 12 and 16. If you consider things that you need to do often in making stuff, from construction and cooking, you often have to divide things into equal parts. With metric you can divide things easily by 2 and 5, whereas 12 can be divided easily into 2,3,4,6, and 16 can…

By the time these are rolled out they will be as useful as buggy whips. Who exactly are we expecting to fight with these? Smarter anti aircraft missles and autonomous fighter drones will be cheaper faster smaller and not be afraid to die.

What would this be useful for, except for draining your battery faster? Given a choice of double the resolution or twice the battery life on their laptop, I think virtually everyone would go for the battery.

"Ever try to make a Voice call from a tablet?"

Well Newt, I would call that an iPhone 4 or 4s with a Mophie case.

Wow, that is so helpful, thanks for your insightful comment!

"I loved her in Snow White and the Huntsman"

Whats the difference nowadays? There is so much corporate money in government, that the distinction is barely noticeable. When was the last time you saw an oil, pharma or financial company being held to account by the government?

vectored thrust controlled by lots of sensors and computing power.

Seems like a not as attractive version of the classsic Eames Chaise.

Drafting behind another vehicle is a whole separate category, since you are using the power of the engine in the front vehicle to suck you along in its wake. With an appropriately designed vehicle you would not have to pedal at all, with the right vehicle in front.

Funny apocalypse is very hard to pull off in a movie (I can think of maybe 5 successful ones). On a weekly series, I suspect it is nearly impossible.