First Cruise has an eye transplant to avoid discovery. Second he gives his ex-wife his original eye to break him out of prision-stasis.

There was story this week about the police approaching a 3d printing prothestics expert to reconstruct the fingers of a dead guy to unlock an iPhone. They tried the fingerprint image which didnt work.

Rodenberry said in his book The Making of Star Trek that he eschewed shuttles and invented transporters to cut the cost of filming and avoid the extra time it would take to depict a shuttle in the show. Ditto for many of the other devices. Constrast this to the Iron Man movie why they glory in showing expensive FX gizmos.

It less silly than Lost In Space or ominus as the Outer Limits. Two years before 2001 Space Odyssey and three years before the Moon landing.
(The Salt Monster was like 5th filmed including two pilots)
(One of the 2001 actors was guester star of 2nd pilot)

Works fine with my 720 line digital TV. Paid for itself by avoiding cable DVR fees. I hear it wontbwork with a 1080.

Mainly because scientists have focused on reading and invented clever technologies to do so. The guy who made the reading breakthrough, Craig Venter, is also a writing pioneer in his synthetic biology work. Earlier this year there was a secret meeting ran by a Harvard prof to launch the DNA-WRITE project to improve write technology. The meeting was secret because it was feared that anti-GMO groups and general Frankenstein fear might quash the efforts prematurely. P.S. Some computer write memory technologies are also much slower than reading.

No being killed to obtain it. Hopefully less land, energy, carbon, etc.

Much of their compression comes from they dont use full 32 bit floats or integers to store the discrete cosine transform coefficients, but variable bit length numbers which can be squished more tightly. I didnt read the paper deep enough to study how efficient this bit hacking is machine operations. There might be few clever tricks there. Bit hacking was more common in the early days of computers when core memory was very expensive. I recall Woz had some clever way of compressing color and shape graphics in the Apple II.

Much of the time when I "watch" tv I am doing something on the side like cooking or surfing the net. Fast forward would probably require my whole attention.

An incubator fellowship, like from ycombinator, hides the expenses until you get version 1.0 out. If its any decent, then a vc will throw money at you.

Web 3.0 is about the merger of browsers and apps with advantages of both and no longer see the distintion between the two. Apps were a temporary aberration to wall of pieces of the internet often for financial gain. No longer will there be the tyranny of of app store censors.

Plenty of people watch various net videos like youtube or porn, but dont consider it television.

Scaling up the K computer to an exaflop at one gigaflop per watt would require a gigawatt of power. The Green500 lists says the most efficient super runs at 7 gigaflops per watt in 2015. There are plans to do a lot betterbthan this.

By Maryland physicist Joesph Weber. He used pizeolectric strain sensors on large metal cylinders. No one could repeat his results nor prove his experiment was sensitive enough. The LIGO project is a direct reaction to this failure with a supposedly better approach. But it took over 30 years of fund raising and technology development to make LIGO work. During those 30 years Congress threatened termination several times. And skeptics like myself though there might be something incorrect with LIGO physics until they finally got a result.

The Colorado legislature incorporated a state credit union for handling the growing volume of all cash pot transaction (nearly a billion according state strict monitoring laws). The regional Federal Reserve Bank refused membership of this bank and participation in final clearing services. Without Fed clearing services you cannot transfer money, cash checks or credit. The credit union lost a lawsuit earlier this year to reverse the Feds decision.