For the economics to work. Its 7 to 15 cents now according to RFID Journal (google). At one time Walmart was talking about rfid-tagging everything, but settled at the pallet level. I dont know what the bottleneck was. I like my library system for automatically checking out and returning books.

People have been looking for non-human sentience for a long time: ghosts, gods, aliens, smart animals and machines.

Obama expressed an interest copying Gore and doing something in Silicon Valley. Hope he doesnt get food led like Kissinger and Schultz (Theranos).

HAL was made at University of IIinois. In the 1960s they constructed the Illiac, a multi-core supercomputer. HAL became sentient in 1992.

Paying nine figures hoping for 2019 or so. With mulriple countries chasing the exaflop, so good ideas may come out of it.

Ive seen a number of traffic accident articles where the vehicle brand in the accident also appears in the ad. Like when a Jeep ran over a sunbather.

The first era of silicon valley was the commercialization the transistor between the 1950s and early 1970s by Shockley and his renegades from the east coast. This established the culture of quick startup companies and nomadic engineers you really hadnt seen elsewhere in the world. Then when the number of transistors on a single chip exceeded a thousand using cheap CMOS technology you could put a whole CPU on chip and complete computer in a box for a couple thousand dollars. This lead to the second era of the personal computer in the 1970s and 1980s.

I still have a school address from 1976. They used exclaimation signs for uucp instead of at signs then.

First Cruise has an eye transplant to avoid discovery. Second he gives his ex-wife his original eye to break him out of prision-stasis.

There was story this week about the police approaching a 3d printing prothestics expert to reconstruct the fingers of a dead guy to unlock an iPhone. They tried the fingerprint image which didnt work.

Rodenberry said in his book The Making of Star Trek that he eschewed shuttles and invented transporters to cut the cost of filming and avoid the extra time it would take to depict a shuttle in the show. Ditto for many of the other devices. Constrast this to the Iron Man movie why they glory in showing expensive FX gizmos.

It less silly than Lost In Space or ominus as the Outer Limits. Two years before 2001 Space Odyssey and three years before the Moon landing.
(The Salt Monster was like 5th filmed including two pilots)
(One of the 2001 actors was guester star of 2nd pilot)

Works fine with my 720 line digital TV. Paid for itself by avoiding cable DVR fees. I hear it wontbwork with a 1080.

Mainly because scientists have focused on reading and invented clever technologies to do so. The guy who made the reading breakthrough, Craig Venter, is also a writing pioneer in his synthetic biology work. Earlier this year there was a secret meeting ran by a Harvard prof to launch the DNA-WRITE project to improve write technology. The meeting was secret because it was feared that anti-GMO groups and general Frankenstein fear might quash the efforts prematurely. P.S. Some computer write memory technologies are also much slower than reading.

No being killed to obtain it. Hopefully less land, energy, carbon, etc.