Is all about investment. The City of Toronto is reportedly well behind its investments in the local Toronto infrastructure. The less you invest keeping equipment up-to-date the more breakdowns you will have. http://www.torontohydro.com/si...

Ya. An estimate of speed and increase in storage density would have been appreciated too. You can't do this kind of research without having done at least a back of the envelope calculation.

I understand that science journals have their place but I ain't paying no $32 to read an article. Why don't the authors submit a decently detailed popular version as a press release once their article gets accepted for the rest of us?

If I have my just laptop and no Internet connection ( besides LibraryBox) I can connect to the LibraryBox wifi signal and goto a set IP address and see and potentially download all the content?

At the heart I want a super computer running the house in much the same way that Jarvis does in Tony Stark's home. Voice recognition and good sound in every room. A house database that keeps track of everything about the house and captures information for prosperity about my life. It should handle all communications, voice, video and fax and keep records of all that. I've started to build a website to capture all the ideas for it. I'm a currently homebody living out of an apartment. I see customizing a small but comfortable smarthome for myself to be an excellent hobby.

Where are mod up points when you desperately need them?

Sounds like a job for memristors. Petabytes of instantly accessible memory would probably do the trick. Likely 10 years out.

I have a Galaxy S sitting in my closet that's perfectly functional save for a loose USB power connector. Without that connector the phone is crippled to the point of being useless. Repairing it would cost more than the phone is worth. Multiply that by 10's of millions of phones per year falling into the same in the same state across North America. That's just wrong.

I wrote mine today telling him that this would be a election great pony to ride.

I mean this : http://www8.hp.com/hpnext/post...

What about 'The Machine'?

If you have good genes and have taken care of yourself 75 can be a no-brainer. Personally I'd prefer a wait and see approach and see how things pan out. My mother is a vibrant 80 yr old who's currently having a lot of fun trekking around the planet. Sometimes you get lucky.

I've always thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ( from Poison Ivy) might be useful somehow in warfare. I got a dose of it last month from a trek through the woods and was really impressed by it's effects. I got a really light brush from a plant and the effects took better than a month to heal. Do a Google Image search and you'll see the effects can be very impressive.

I'm thinking these guys don't care much for studying history either.

Or at least data demand would if it could. Seems to me the focus should be on improving bandwidth and speed throughout the system rather than focus on prioritizing today's relatively low resources. In 20 years data transmission will be 1000x where it is today.