Perhaps because human biology is one hell of a lot more complicated that microprocessors and plastic spoons? We've come a long way in the past 100 years - we still have a much longer way to go. We will get there (and what a mess we will make of it) but neither you or I will be alive when it comes about.

Exactly. Do your gen I stuff in a smaller environment that is less price averse. The problem is that it doesn't fit Google's business plan - not enough 'customer' info in a few, likely secured, industries. Google should spin it off to another company that can figure out how to make it work on it's own.

I don't sit at a desk all day. I run around. Charging a phone / watch / whatever multiple times per day is a non starter. My iPhone 4S is barely tolerable. On long days it gets dangerously close to dead. And yes, I can and do charge it while I'm desk bound, but I'd rather not. There is a balance. I don't need a week, I do need 48 hours. YMMV.

The bigger problem is that, if we ever get battery technology good enough to run Google Glass for a week, it's going to have an energy density on the far side of TNT. That has a number of issues. The other way to go about it is to decrease energy use to get to where batteries are today (or perhaps tomorrow). That's going to take time.

Nothing is permanent. The breakup of Ma Bell did allow for exciting technology such as 2400 baud modems and telephones that had features. It's unclear if the Internet as we know it would exist today if Ma Bell were still alive. Now that the Bell System /SBC has reincarnated itself in AT&T / Verizon it's unclear if the Internet can continue as we know it for much longer.

So I would agree with the the premise of Mr. Jasper - we have to cut the head off the new Zombie before it completely engulfs us. If successful (which I rather doubt), it may set the monster back another decade or two but it will always be there. Under the bed. Hungry. Waiting.

Ah yes, this thing. Saw one (perhaps a copy) when I was a kid. Totally amazing what you can do with gears and math.

Great you guys.... The post is a wonderfully pedantic argument about dating (things, not people, we don't worry about the latter around here). Nothing about the actual substance of the post (which is pretty cool, beats Bennett Halselton posts any day).

I think the Aspberger's pheromone is strong today. Lighten up. At least say "Cool, but ...."

Group hug time?

My dog would just love this!

I think you might be going about this backwards - find a group who's goals, methods and timelines interest you. Poke around, see if they can use whatever tech skills you have. It probably will be a non tech group - they're the ones that never can get enough money or expertise for everything. Join them and help out. Depending on your interest, skills, time and their needs, you might end up working with several such organizations.

And you think ICE vehicles are a rational response? Have you seen the way these people drive? If there is any reason for a better way to transport people and goods through a snowstorm, I don't know what it would be. Barring that, perhaps we could make sure that people graduating high school were comfortable with the concept of friction, the inclined plane and conservation of momentum and energy.

Except we've sort of tried that and the results are plastered all over the road.

Just print it! Geez guy, haven't you been keeping up?

APK, is that you?

No, luxury was getting your father's secretary to punch out the deck for you. Those were the days!

Maybe you should see if you can pass the Turing test before posting.

Iron Man is not a documentary ....

No so hard, as it turns out.