How about Nanotechnology and personal manufacturing with 3d printing?

You should probably read the article. Krugman is not saying these things, Gordon is. Krugman disagrees with him.

What Gordon then does is suggest that IR #3 has already mostly run its course, that all our mobile devices and all that are new and fun but not that fundamental. Itâ(TM)s good to have someone questioning the tech euphoria; but Iâ(TM)ve been looking into technology issues a lot lately, and Iâ(TM)m pretty sure heâ(TM)s wrong, that the IT revolution has only begun to have its impact.

Perhaps someone who has more knowledge can elucidate me, but when they say "diluted by the Pacific ocean", I think the implication is that it is like dumping a million gallons of Kool-Aid in the ocean - it would disperse so much that the things that identify it as Kool-Aid - color and sweetness - would essentially disappear into the soup.

However, as I understand it, we are talking about irradiated particles. The radiation does not "dilute", right? It is like adding 2-3 deadly ping pong balls to a sports arena full of ping pong balls. The chances of encountering one are slim, but, if you do, you could die or be seriously hurt. ( I am talking about ingestion ).

And, it's not like the risk of ingestion is a function of the volume of the ocean necessarily, as there are specific vectors of distribution - mainly things like seaweed, krill, tuna, etc. that are small compared to the mass of the ocean, but significant in likeliness of human contact due to the over fishing and reliance on the ocean for food.

So, am I looking at a greater risk of ingesting a particle of cesium when I eat my canned tuna and having it give me cancer - or are we really saying that the properties of radiation are somehow lessened by contact with so much sea water?

Awesome, now we have a standard format to send the fraudulent vote tallies to the server.

Which is why Apple has a rich library of user gestures and large glass trackpads on laptops and external trackpads for desktops. Same idea - in a horizontal plane.

Even with your eyes open, you have to look - sometimes in the dark or without reading glasses - and react, and turn it around and try again and you know what, why can't we just plug the connector in without worrying about orientation. It's trivial, when reduced to a single event, but doing this day in and day out adds up. People don't get Apple. For me, every bit of friction removal like that has value. It's the attention to detail, the shine on the chrome, the icing on the cake.

sure, I acknowledged the convenience.. but it will come at a heavy price.

That's what they grunted about fire.

I'm sure there is a self diagnostic and calibration that can sense when a sensor is dirty and prevent the car from operating. I also don't imagine that the car will be programmed to stop any more suddenly than is safe for all concerned. But, what's the alternative - plow into the pedestrian? Any of us would slam on our brakes anyway and stop as rapidly as we can. The thing about autonomous cars is that they will see the pedestrian and implement braking the microsecond he becomes visible - unlike human operators who are likely tp be brushing tacos off of their lap, fiddling with the stereo, texting, or watching some chick's ass on the side of the road.

There is no dispute, as far as I am aware, about the cause of the rapid, devastating acidification of the oceans - anthropogenic carbon dioxide uptake. We could talk about that instead, but the truth is that our planet is run by an alien species bent on destroying the planet, ala "They Live". Either that or we are just generally stupid, lazy and greedy as a species. I prefer to believe it is aliens.

It does seem that, while both sides are complicit in the problem, the left, at least, supports acting on science, while the right continues to rely on magical thinking - climate change denial, lower revenue to balance the budget, context-selective sperm, abstinence-based sex programs, 6,000-year old earth, you name it. You can present them with all of the evidence in the world, but they live in their own reality.

Yeah, we're just a bunch of brutish chimps. Should we wallow in it or try to be better? I'd rather we channel our agression into exploring Titan and Europa and the Marianas trench than creating more terrorists by constantly bombing wedding parties. This made me proud to be human and proud to be American. Burning up small children in the Middle East makes me ashamed in both counts. Lets look at the beauty and creativity of the olympic ceremonies and the striving of the athletes to be the best we can be and lets loom at this achievement here today and lets try to transend what it means to be human.

These may be famous last words, but I have used Macs for 15 years and the only trouble I ever had involving viruses was when I briefly installed Norton antivirus back in the day. I promptly removed that and have never looked back. I use reasonable caution, I don't download executables from entities that seem suspicious and, from time to time, I monitor network activity and logs for anything that looks funky. However, I am not shy about the sites I visit. The funny thing is that the only people I KNOW are infected are the friends and colleagues on Windows that unknowingly send me spam emails - corporate clients no less.

As has been pointed out here, this is not a virus, it's a trojan and it doesn't seem to be a problem. There is a reason Mac haven't been the ones on the news with huge numbers of machines infected. And, no, it isn't because of market share. Apple sold 5.2 million macs last quarter alone - the target is plenty big, the user base has money to steal and the hackers are bitter at Apple. So where's all the viruses?

If the weather cannot be accurately predicted 100% of the time for three days in advance, why would anyone believe they can predict it based on some trending for the next 50 years?

I find weather forecasts to be generally accurate and extremely useful. 100%? That's a tall order for such a chaotic system. However, I find the success rate high enough that I trust the science behind it and use it to plan my week. Why should longer term climate predictions ( which are not weather predications ) be different?

Yeah, high speed trains, 2-3 weeks vacation, more sleep, better metrics for infant mortality, overall greater health care coverage, more people self-identified as "happy"... Must suck to be European. I don't think you can generalize because Greece is having a debt crisis.

I don't think the idea is that it will "solve every problem". I think the idea is that it will make things genrally safer and more convenient - you know, like computers, can openers, hospitals, etc.

This would also elminate missing a short light becaus the person in front of you isn't paying attention. As well as traffic jams caused by the wave phenomenon and gawkera of accidents.