The Hyundai, make nice looking cars with a lot of features that make them seem like they can compete against the big luxury names... However the features/price comes at a cost of vehicle quality.

I actually wish I could find, a basic Car, without any fancy features just, do what a car does, and do it well.

I expect it will be a lot like cruise control where it will only kick on when particular conditions are set.

For the most part I see this as a great safety feature. Having driven highway for 5-6 hours in one shot, your eyes get strained from staying focused, and your instinct is to just close your eyes to let them rest a bit. Just having a feature to keep you in your lane, and not ramming into the car in front of you, is useful, where you can let your eyes focus on something easier for a few minutes, or away from some glare.
Oddly enough if you are not so intent in watching out for danger, you can be less focused and see what is happening around you much easier.

Well yes.
Wouldn't that be great.
Infrared camera, to detect if the heart is beating or not. Being able to see what things are made out of.
The thing Star Trek missed, was the fact that they had horrible screens, and are really bulky, and they never seemed to play flappy bird on it.
 

I think part of the problem is every issue has became political.
Even issues that really shouldn't be political. Like if humans are causing global warming. So if you were to write a science fiction book about a future devastated by global warming, then it is a political statement.

Science fiction points out what if scenarios, and how would the world be if they follow down a particular sliding scale.
Political debate today has long gone past intelligent debate and fear mongering on the sliding scale worst case scenarios.
Most of the political debates today are science fiction. If you vote Republican you will create a future where there will be a small section of Wealthy elites, and a huge slave class serving them. If you vote Democrat then you will create a future where all your rights are micromanaged by big government.

However science fiction is fiction... It takes the worse case scenarios... Are we living in a 1984 future? No... However there are elements that did come from it, however there are also protections that have prevented it from reaching the worst case scenario.

In terms of politics, good politics is about working on the issues that are at hand for the short/mid term. This long term forecasting, while effective for getting people polarized to vote for you, is bad at actually working on the issues. The debate for global warming, shouldn't be if it is there or not. But what would be the proper balance for correcting it? Efficiency, Economy, deployability of less carbon energy. How to transition workers in Fossil fuel energy to other sectors. How much the government should mandate vs. allowing free market to follow its own trends. Looking at legacy rules and regulations that may may getting new energy source difficult... There is plenty of room for political debate with trying to mitigate climate change.

But it makes politics boring, and not fit for prime time, vs. showing a future, where the statue of liberty is under 10 feet of water, and New York City is covered. Or where a made up Crisis is made to get people to drop all their worldly possessions and follow the guiding rules of the government.

I don't see this as people loosing their jobs. It is the same device but with a different part for the hookup.
They will probably do the same thing but with Xbox.

Offering higher speed, doesn't mean comcast is being a better company... They just want to make sure that you don't switch to fiber.
The slow US speed, is about reporting on average, where the US has a lot of rural areas which do not have access to high speed.

The interesting part of a conspiracy logic, we can have more and more people as part of it... It is just you who is some how left out.

However if the NSA couldn't keep snowden from releasing his information, who is rather low level. What makes you to think, that such a large conspiracy has such power behind it.

Sure there are some apps that need more direct access to features. However I don't get why web apps are ignored?
Most of the apps for the phone are just basic forms that then connect to the Internet and get data back. This is stuff we have been doing on the web already.

The neat thing about web apps are the following.
1. They work on multable mobile devices.
2. You can update and upgrade automatically.

It might help with people who have injured calf muscles where that extra 10lbs can help out a bit.
But effenancy isn't good for exercise as we want to burn calories and build up muscles.
However it could be used for jobs where there is a lot of walking where the effenancy can allow you to have enough energy at the end of your shift to be more effective.

Exactly.

It is easier to setup a secure SSH server then a HTTPS server. We have the issue of Certs, and the browsers only wanted trusted certs, If you don't go threw the trusted method, then you get scarry Alerts on how such a horrible site owner you are, for not shelling out cash to be on the good guys cert list.
 

I think this is more of a situation for anyone who reads YouTube comments.

But having access to Google information is a great help to the average joe. Back in the good old days when I was programming before google. There were things that I just wouldn't be able to code. Say accessing a piece of hardware, or trying to communicate with something else. Just because I had no reference to it... So I just couldn't do it. Post Google, I am confident in the stuff I am working on, because if I don't know how to do it. I can Google it. I usually take the extra step, and understand it before I use it blindly. Then I can get much more done very quickly.

The problem that I see is how we define smart people. School is about Memorization and regurgitation, so the person with a good memory was considered the smarter person. However with Google, and instant lookup of information. The smart person needs to be more artistic and creative. But we really don't measure that much yet.

There are complex issues to wide scail deployment.
First is what I think is a short term political problem. Where the energy industry is fighting the change, and lining the pockets of political parties that are willing to make sure things don't change. Technically solar power is more akin to conservative ideals, as it allows the individual to generate their own power without having to handle what big brother says.
Secondly solar requires consumers to buy in. In terms of price even with tax incentives for my home and usage it is about the same price. So there is a hidden cost for me to find a source and deal with the salesmen trying to find a good deal. So it makes it more expensive then current energy. Other forms of energy you don't need a huge buy in. They buy some land, build a plant and the community has power. Just as long there are more people benifitting from it then who are harmed society is happy.
Third trees. Contrarary to the world view of Americans, we like trees a country that is 50th in population density means a lot of us lives in more rural areas, and our homes have a fair amount of tree cover that we do not want to get rid of.