The most explosive *recorded* invention in the history of mankind was the printing press.

And it set Europe on fire.

But this led to the Renaissance.

You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

What is going on now with the internet and mobile devices and communication in general --- like the printing press or like radio or television --- is going to upset the status quo in 57 different ways.

Embrace these ways, understand how they will be used for good (yes --- if you think citizens are upset, just imagine how upset tyrants and governments are --- people in power hate change) ----

Communication advances always causes flowers to bloom --- any heartache always looks dumb and old fashioned in a decade of hindsight, because it yields new freedoms and rights that were never expected. If you doubt this, why do civil right continue to grow and governments to ever more tend to the welfare of their people?

Protip: Everyone dies. Was it ethical for your dad and mom to love you and teach you to walk and talk and make you smile with ice cream knowing the inevitable result is your death?

Death is part of life, a meaningful death is worth living for and the pinnacle of what it means to live.

Exactly because Japan sent old men into Fukushima's reactor, knowing the risk and offering hefty sums for their descendents.

If I were 80 years old and in good health, I would volunteer for a one-way trip (colonize Mars, spacewalk on a comet or even the most risky missions like colonize Jupiter).

> You'll most likely get multiple cameras, stitched views, and more coverage, not less

Which is why things will inevitable drift towards the "beehive style mirror view". Although it is a bit confusing at first, you can bee seeing all angles at once.

And it bee far safer for everyone involved.

I think they should do both and get the best of both worlds.

Opportunity is an intangible but sometimes it stares you in the face and you have to answer the door.

Sure, many startup dreams are irrational and almost no one is going to end being a billionaire, but if you have an approach to a problem that few others see and are willing to accept the risks ... GO FOR IT!

Or live a life of wondering "what if"?

Few people as a percent are suited to take the risks of a startup company, but when you are young the risks are the most easy to handle and if you fail, just go get a "real" job. Or work on your startup at night, work a real job during the day.

Live life saying you tried and gave it your all for an interesting idea! You might lose, but even moderate success in a small business is a lot of money.

1) Cars should make beeping noises in reverse just like trucks

2) Cars should have backup sonar/radar/sensor to detect pedestrians and other cars

My car has a backup camera and I usually use it, but sometimes I'm not looking at it when backing up and instead using mirrors.

The point being, a backup camera doesn't mean you are necessarily looking at the screen --- especially when you don't think there is anything behind you to worry about.

Some of these episodes are from over 25 years ago.

Although Star Trek TNG was outstanding, the real problem is that there hasn't been much high quality science fiction TV series in the last 25 years.

Monster.com is mostly robot email spam hell with equally useless job listings.

So this is just builds character and makes the site more intriguing and entertaining, kind of like how adding a Wookie makes a Star Wars bar scene more fun.

"at some point we're going to end up with a civilization like in Star Trek TNG"

First --- I wish, that would be an incredible and ideal future.

But society is based on power and control, both in government and private industry.

Government and private industry simply isn't going to say "Dear commoners, robots will do everything and you don't need to work and you get a free ride" --- will never happen!

And --- even if it did, look at what people with too much time on hands do to this world: crime, gangs, terrorists, cults, drug users --- most of societies ills are AVOIDED by making these people have jobs so they don't have free time.

I'd love to get to a Star Trek TNG future, but the vast majority of the populace isn't going to start creating and researching or coding solutions to the world's problems in their spare time, which is why it won't work. And the power and authority would never support a free ride of "their creations" or their use of their power.

> "If I can type the exploit into the address bar and I need no more than autohotkey to download their entire god damned database then that's not a hack"

Quit being a weeny and go do it!

Then you can be cell-mates with weev, and everyone can point fingers at you and laugh.

["Yout honor, I didn't burn down that house, it was the house being made of wood that was unsafe because fires occur in nature ..."]

Most gut instinct thoughts of this can think of 8-9 good reasons to not have faith in Sony's ability to do this.

But this gut instinct thought Facebook would be gone years ago, that the Wii would fail in the previous console generation and that Microsoft Office would have been made irrelevant years ago.

Sony has plenty of experience and desire to succeed in this area and is good at hardware and programming specs --- and this is exactly the kind of technology they could probably "get right" and have plenty of motivation to want to do it.

Society naturally gravitates towards monopolies.

Why: A default answer is easy, because it requires no decision making.

Fragmentation has never been the natural state of anything just like "nature abhors a vacuum".

This is why your electric company, gas company, phone company, cable company are one monopolies.

Also think of E-Bay (what is alternative?), Amazon.com (what is alternative?), or how companies standardize on Microsoft Office and Windows and how schools standardize around iPads.

I am more offended by the idea of someone working at Microsoft trying to have a cultural thought --- from a place devoid of the concept of higher cultural thought and beauty.

The discouraging thing is the one guy in the entire world who owns one of these contraptions is taking the train!!!

"I don't see why a dealership would rather sell a gasoline car rather than an electric car."

A dealership has management and sales people that currently exist, so by default they excel at selling what they know: the gas cars.

An unconscious bias, but it is a huge one.

Would you want a Microsoft guy as a salesman for Apple or Linux solutions? He'd probably steer people towards Windows-based solutions because it is what he knows and is comfortable with.

Likewise, a non-dedicated electric car dealership will likely just by habit steer people to gas cars because they are not super-knowledgeable of the product because they are not exclusively dedicated to it.