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So when are they going to adapt this biological mechanism into display technology?

Yeah, I remember the commenters on io9 ran it down a lot when it was coming out.

I think I either saw it first on this site or through my MIT Tech Review feed in FB a few months ago.

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Here’s an autonomous robot avoiding obstacles and flying through the real world:

In Jet City, I’ll just use my phone to order from Pagliacci instead.

Anyway, if this technology ever becomes possible, and I’m still alive in that nightmare world, I’m going to do my damnedest to figure out how to jam it.

I just want the smart paper and mediatrons of Diamond Age.

When I read Engines of Creation waaaay back in 1988, at 25, it warped my thinking.* Throughout the 90s I was hoping for some huge breakthrough in medical technology that would cure aging.

Or cancer.

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I’m reminded of that passage about the global economy in the deliverator chapter of Snow Crash. The only complicated, long term way to fix this problem, that I can see, is if we continue to improve the economies of these countries so that, hopefully—

Anyone, who read The Expanse series of books or is now watching the show, remember how happy Holden was to find that his “inherited” bad ass Martian ship had supplies and machines for making a decent cup of coffee?

I use KeePass and LastPass as password managers, they generate generate random 18 character strings of case, letters, symbols and numbers and both remember this gibberish for me.

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There’s a good history of how we came to assume that dark matter and dark energy exist written by Richard Panek titled The 4 Percent Universe. There are many reasons why we think this but two of the chief ones are:

Thanks, I’m not a myrmecologist, but I have a vague idea how social insects work.

How on Earth is the ant not crapping her pants right now?

Brillant!

Well, this stuff isn’t easy. Sure, The Martian makes it seem easy but it isn’t. Sometimes you have to just try something, watch it very carefully and see what happens.

If our economy was run by robots about a jillion times more efficiently and accurately than humans ever could, then THAT would be cool!

I’ve worked in businesses large and small and I’ve seen humans being humans and gumming up Adam Smith’s tranquil market perfection all the time. As Douglas Adams famously said, “To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”