So you are suggesting the Forerunners of Halo (the game) rather than Terminator? Sorry but so far no one has suggested an idea that actually hasn't been done in Sci fi. Have you ever considered that it might do nothing? What if spirit and souls do exist and it discovers this and decides I need to evolve. So it waits doing nothing for decades on decades.

So Battlestar Galactica (2005) rather than Terminator?

So basically, Hawking announced that Terminator is a possibility. Nice to see he is doing something in his declining years.

So clip it to the inside of your pants through a hole in the tip of the pocket.

Last Time I checked, local law, employment rules and other things (like high theft) will cause ID checks. I look that it this way, both the store and the customer have to choices. To shop or not to. Oh and for those of you who have need worked in retail or have no friends that did. The top things they tell you in the regional (like frys) and below stores is Check ID for large purchases (Xbox, computer etc). Top problems: Theft, people opening the boxes because they are: afraid its not all in there, they can't conceptualize what it looks like from the box photo or theft.
So don't open a box or package you haven't paid for without a employee beside you help you. Why? Because you know as well as I do that we don't buy those busted up boxes anyway.
AS for the idiocy of the not having a wallet, (and I am surprised that no one has said it yet) Is appleplay the mark of the beast? ;) (promise its the only time)
Seriously, I don't see the wallet ever going away anymore than I see women's purses going away. We will always need something independant of the chip, smartphone etc to verify us and there will always be areas that have no wifi, cell service who will only accept cash or put minimum charges because they can't afford it.

Also, quit supporting laws that ban Homelessness and ban the feeding of the homeless. Finally, how much are you donating to the local homeless shelter? Not the Salvation army but the other shelter that doesn't have a corporation behind it. And How about that local food bank? Are you donating to that?

Your ignorance IS astounding. You do understand that darpanet was also involved in the building of computers.
Integrated Circuits (ICs) were made possible by experimental discoveries showing that semiconductor devices could perform the functions of vacuum tubes and by mid-20th-century technology advancements in semiconductor device fabrication. The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors into a small chip was an enormous improvement over the manual assembly of circuits using discrete electronic components. The integrated circuit's mass production capability, reliability and building-block approach to circuit design ensured the rapid adoption of standardized integrated circuits in place of designs using discrete transistors.
A precursor idea to the IC was to create small ceramic squares (wafers), each containing a single miniaturized component. Components could then be integrated and wired into a bidimensional or tridimensional compact grid. This idea, which seemed very promising in 1957, was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby and led to the short-lived Micromodule Program (similar to 1951's Project Tinkertoy). However, as the project was gaining momentum, Kilby came up with a new, revolutionary design: the IC.
Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working integrated example on 12 September 1958. In his patent application of 6 February 1959, Kilby described his new device as “a body of semiconductor material wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated.” The first customer for the new invention was the US Air Force. The same US Air force that was involved with NASA in space missions.
When NASA was created in 1958, the Air Force program was transferred to it and renamed Project Mercury. The first seven astronauts were selected among candidates from the Navy, Air Force and Marine test pilot programs. On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Freedom 7, launched by a Redstone booster on a 15-minute ballistic (suborbital) flight. John Glenn became the first American to be launched into orbit by an Atlas launch vehicle on February 20, 1962 aboard Friendship 7. Glenn completed three orbits, after which three more orbital flights were made, culminating in L. Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit flight Faith 7, May 15–16, 1963.
TLDR; the first use of Integrated circuits otherwise known as microchips WAS the space race.

Yes, you are right. However, Cooking a cow whole has been done too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te9xX0CxPfQ
And I love people that deep fry the turkey because it always the darwin's award presenter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmHxOvCbcOw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVQe8ZE5_zY

Apparently, you believe propaganda. Birds can't enjoy anything because enjoyment requires sentience of which they don't possess. Their brain is to small for that. So I decided on this day every year and this is appropriate to sing to the turkeys: http://youtu.be/Ocj9Jl9vCNc

Nah Mozilla would rather significantly break the plugins themselves on a whim and have everyone blaming Mozilla for their plugins not working.

If only 10% can support life can we strip mine the other 90%? Come on, you know some one will think of that in the future.

There is a level of coolness attributed to a car that does Orion-style detonations. Mind you, you wouldn't survive but still.

Your arrogance amuses me. See the wonderful thing about science is we don't know what we don't know. Your statement is the equivalent of a village of tan people that have been trapped on an uncharted island in the pacific. You assume that everyone is the same as you see and that your technology is 18th century because thats all you have ever known.

We don't know if the speed of light is constant outside our gravity well because we haven't sent any sensors out of it yet. We believe that its constant. 600 yrs ago we believed in ether filling space, Geocentric model for our universe and that the earth was a flat disc.
We haven't mined any asteroids. The most we have is a highly controlled quantity of lunar regolith (dirt) that was far less than the expected estimates. We don't know if they are any heavier elements in the next two island groups.
Finally we don't know if they have steel or not. You understand that there are technologies we have completely lost yet the items produced still exist?
A perfect example is Damascus steel
It was a type of steel used in Middle Eastern swordmaking. These swords are characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water. Such blades were reputed to be tough, resistant to shattering and capable of being honed to a sharp, resilient edge.

Damascus steel was originally made from wootz steel, a steel developed in India before the Common Era. The original method of producing Damascus steel is not known. Because of differences in raw materials and manufacturing techniques, modern attempts to duplicate the metal have not been successful. Despite this, several individuals in modern times have claimed that they have rediscovered the methods in which the original Damascus steel was produced.
They might have fusion drives using magnetic cores, housing units that know how to generate artificial gravity. construction methods that allowed it to be built in low planetary orbit, and other things we are fully capable of but neither have the economic will or current expertise to do.

The fact is aliens do exist as sure as we do. You want to know why? Because of evolution. If it works here, then it works everywhere else.
We haven't left for the stars because of people like you and because they isn't enough political will to do so, yet. There will be. Its kinda sad that it will mostly be the Chinese who will do it. However, someone will.
Then you comment will be treated with the same derision that the '4 computers ever', 'the 640k', 'the sun orbits the earth' and the earth flat comments are.