Not quite true. Current 747 have a higher cruise speed and reduced fuel usage compared to the 1969 model. It isn't breathe taking difference but it does exist. Basically all new business jets run at mach .95 instead of the mach .6-.7 of 30 years ago. Why not faster well fuel usage goes up, and viable flight paths go down due to supersonic restriction laws.

Like batteries we are at limits of chemical energy storage. Even hyper velocities are tough to maintain at a practical level. Improvements are only coming slowly. Without a major energy breakthrough we are going to be hitting some major roadblocks in the future.

Drones is the obvious use actually. The next ar parrot will be able to do indoor mapping. Heck even if data collection and processing needs to be offloaded rescue, fire, hostage negotiations even real estate could all benefit.

But computing isn't going to change much in the next ten years. 15 maybe. The biggest changes coming down are merging interfaces consoldidating and standardizing interface features. I don't see the desktop and file metaphors going anywhere soon.

Hopefully we will move back to cross platform connectedness. However that is a long road. Why can't iCloud work with other browsers?

Never had one to begin with. I was never comfortable with the fact anything posted on Facebook became face books property. Oh sure they added some weasel words around it but it is still there.

While I occasional miss some good stuff I never miss the bad and stupid.

Nasa should borrow the navy's rail gun for you know testing purposes.

Rapid fire space shots who wants to watch?

Without a college degree your pay. Is capped at $40k a year which isn't enough in most areas to buy a house let alone have a family. Now that doesn't apply to everyone and some push beyond it but trade jobs for all but really good welders are basically capped at 50% more than poverty level for single people, and for under the poverty level for married with families.

So trade jobs equals poverty. Do you want your kids in poverty? What we need is not to boost minimum wage but to boost median wage. This country needs the 20million people earning 40k a year to earn 50k a year. That would boost the economy more than all the we combined did and would cost significantly less.

Money, lots and lots of money, billions of dollars of money.

True but the ISP are trying to deny equal opputunrity by charging three times for the same data. By creating fast lanes they are saying those with money are better no matter what. Which isn't true. The next google, Facebook or twitter will never be born with fast lanes.

Which is why kids long ago frequently committed suicide and hide the truth from their parents. That is why sucicde rates have dropped off dramatically. The other point is we stop to listen now as opposed to saying suck it up or die. Like they did before

But the Cheshire cat and SchrÃdinger's cat is one and the same.

What is the difference between a dead cat and one that is invisible to your detection methods

Torrents should make the isps happy. A torrent duatrubtes bandwidth. Increasing the amount of data transmitted which helps their peering.

Why isps hate symatrical peeering agreements is beyond me.

I can understand mandatory voting, however I will only accept it if there is a non of the above option. Should non of the above receive the most votes then a new election has to be held and none of those candidates can run in the second election.

I figure it will take one or two run off elections and the hardliners on either side will disappear for more moderate people.

This is very true, just see the number of people who posted doing ileagl things on failbook and then got arrested.

I see this dying by corporate interests quickly though. It goes against money and thus will get wiped out .

According to you google itself shouldn't exist. As google the search engine was a moonshot. Hell ms DOS was a moonshot.

Damn straight every state should have their own currency and military and if the Feds any to attack someone they have to beg the go snouts for permission to use those troops. That way the southern states can create the theocracy that they desire so badly and we can watch jobs return to the north east in re ore time.