someone down named Analintruder?

In addition to rope systems we should also use pneumatic tubes. Mail in Manhattan used to be transported across town efficiently, until GM convinced the Post Office to switch to trucks.

I also expect any day now for passenger dirigibles to make a comeback. Popular Science can't be wrong. They've been saying it since 1974.

Tollways in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX have done away with all toll booths and replaced them with cameras too. They'll mail you a bill for the tolls on a periodic basis, though you can still get a toll tag (RFID?). We don't live there but were driving on the tollways over the holidays. We have yet to receive a bill as we live out of state. So, depending on how accurate the system is, you may or may not get a bill. We'll pay it if it ever shows up.

electric golf carts advanced and road safe. Mission accomplished.

Well, I think it is doable. How many hybrid vehicles are there on the road now? I'd imagine quite a few.

Klingons have been spotted around Uranus.

My wife bought an iPad. Later decided she needed the 3G, so she bought the iPad 3G. I reluctantly made the sacrifice and took her old iPad.

The corn grown took fossil fuels to plant, grow, and harvest. So the energy return on investment was very low. Cellulosic ethanol is still years away. The ethanol boondoggle basically became a big giveaway to agribusiness (Cargill and ADM) and did nothing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The other problem is that even if we could grown all our corn organically, there would still be competition between growing crops for fuel and crops for food. We cannot put enough land under cultivation at our current consumption rate.

The only organic fuel that has the potential to replace fossil fuel on a large enough scale is biodiesel from algae. It could produce more oil per acre than almost any other plant but there are still problems to be worked out and scaled up. We'll still have to drastically change our lifestyle to live in more compact cities with greater public transportation. Even if we could go all electric with solar and wind, we still would have to use tremendous amounts of lithium and I don't there's enough in the world to make that possible.

My point is we are running into hard physical limits and to solve those problems require vast leaps in technology and energy production ability that are beyond what is even feasible with our rate of technological change. We can transition away from fossil fuels but it won't be easy and it's going to be a bumpy ride.

They'll have to rent a textbook which will expire at the end of the semester. And if for some reason you have to retake a class, you'll be forced to re-rent the book. College textbooks has always been a racket and publishers will use the new technology to extort as much money from the students as they can.

On second thought who pulled this story out of their ass? Why would Apple buy Facebook? Or why would Facebook by Apple? It makes no sense.

better not be on that list.

Just reply with your login and passwords and I'll tell you how dumb they are.

As long as Negroponte remains in charge of his baby the OLPC will never really take off. Eventually iPad technology will become cheap enough for the Third World. Too bad we have to wait for that to happen.

Actually, I'm learning HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. What I want to do on mobile platforms doesn't require an app.

you should.