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Comment Re:What is good for the consumer? (Score 1) 232

To some degree this is correct; however when you let Cheap and Plentiful run rampant you get what you have now -- everything made to last for about a year, landfills full of cellphones and similar that will be intact a thousand years from now, etc. Our planet simply can't sustain that kind of mentality.

Comment Re:Yeah... Cheating... Sure... (Score 2) 232

It seems as if you're not taking into account the subsidization by the Chinese government that takes place so that Chinese products almost always undercut domestic-made products in price, driving domestic companies out of business. It's one thing to "compete" on product quality; it's another to simply flood the market with subsidized waste.

Comment Re:Real scifi isn't about predicting the future (Score 1) 258

6: And the big one; fewer and fewer people will have traditional jobs, letting the robots/computers do the admin / manual work for them. Instead, we'll be exploring, learning, creating, having fun, or socializing (eventually mankind will realize that higher unemployment is a good thing, and not a bad) .

The problem with this is that it's exactly what they said would happen back in the 50's... we'd have all this leisure time and it would become a problem since no one had anything to do. I don't know about you, but I have less time for anything now than ever before.

Comment Re:The box for Schrödinger's cat (Score 1) 285

So perhaps it should be renamed to "dark force" (or something not so ridiculous-sounding) so as to not make it sound as if it describes an actual physical thing (i.e. "matter" which has mass and occupies space.) While this seems to express some of the qualities of matter (gravitation) we haven't actually seen or recreated it as in antimatter.

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