Fri, 24 May 2013 06:09:05 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14657#Comment_14657 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14657#Comment_14657 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:18:10 -0800 Alan Tyson
What's your favorite technology that isn't, but could be? If I ever actually write the thing, I'll be sure to include your suggestions and give credit. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14660#Comment_14660 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14660#Comment_14660 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:26:51 -0800 Rootfireember No more waiting for my beater car to heat up in winter, just *Boom* home. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14661#Comment_14661 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14661#Comment_14661 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:28:47 -0800 Dragone http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14672#Comment_14672 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14672#Comment_14672 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:29:22 -0800 m1k3y Where's my Jetpack? A Guide to the Science Fictional Future that never Arrived

I read most of it whilst waiting for my futurephone (N95 8Gb) to get fixed.. experiencing the worst approximation of customer-service I've seen yet
(as Cory says: technology giveth and technology taketh away)

this is also Warren's thesis in Doktor Sleepless, yeah?!

none of this means i don't have any of that "generous anger" re: the future we were promised, but has still failed to arrive

man.. i grew up late 80s / early 90s clipping bits from the newspaper promising us a functional International Space Station by 1995.
i thought for sure i'd be an astronaut by now.
wtf happened to that?!

we have all these cool toys to play with
but we've gone backwards in so many other regards (ie customer-service)
most companies seem to worry only what their shareholders think - and could not care less about the ppl who buy their products

"Not My Future" - that's for sure!!! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14673#Comment_14673 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14673#Comment_14673 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:36:20 -0800 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14685#Comment_14685 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14685#Comment_14685 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:16:56 -0800 synthsapien this then...

I need memory enhancement drugs and/or tech desperately... I feel the onset of altzheimers already. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14686#Comment_14686 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14686#Comment_14686 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:25:38 -0800 Unsub
Seriously we need better batteries mostly. If we had a better more efficient wat to store electrical energy a lot of our pollution problems would be history. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14690#Comment_14690 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14690#Comment_14690 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:00:58 -0800 m1k3y
i'm sure we all agree with the good Doktor when he says he "needs a bigger brain. the one he's got isn't enough" ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14693#Comment_14693 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14693#Comment_14693 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:40:29 -0800 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14694#Comment_14694 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14694#Comment_14694 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:40:30 -0800 Dragone
@m1k3y Yes we all should be astronaunts now. I do remember when the Internation Space Station was supposed to be all done and such. With that we should be on the moon. Damn it. What the hell happened to the future that we were promised.

Been thinking at length on the subject because of Doktor Sleepless. There was a point when the future that we were promised stopped being talked about? It was just understood that a certain future was going to happen and then it stopped being talked about at a certain point? DAMN IT!! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14700#Comment_14700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14700#Comment_14700 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:45:51 -0800 Inexperto
But if I was to put my naive optimist hat on, what I really miss is the Gerry/Sylvia Anderson vision of the future: some millionaire on an island sending his kids off in international rescue missions in rockets, a high-tech international peace-force where officers are referred to by a rank and a colour of the rainbow, people living on a space station on the moon while it hurtles through space. Freaking Stingray. That sort of thing.

Anderson even named one of his series Space 1999. Then again, Orwell wrote about life in 1984 and he was only out by about 20 years, so maybe we just need to wait a little longer for that space station on the moon.

edited for spelling and Html ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14739#Comment_14739 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14739#Comment_14739 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:06:25 -0800 synthsapien http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14930#Comment_14930 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14930#Comment_14930 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:54:16 -0800 KitsuneCaligari
http://www.lileks.com/institute/funny/08/71.html

Comedy gold, that is.... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14954#Comment_14954 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14954#Comment_14954 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:07:32 -0800 Egon
As an Orange County, CA resident, this would be awesome, as we have many shitty drivers. GPS systems that talk to you aren't enough for the drunk or, even worse, the elderly. Some people just suck at driving young and sober. There's plenty of room for manual over ride for the genuine car lovers. They tend to be the best drivers anyhow.

And I guess since we're on the subject of traffic, I can't go down either the 5 or the 405 without envisioning 2 giant magnet powered monorails, both soaring between the North and Southbound lanes. With 10 mile gaps between stops, it'd be golden! GOLDEN!!

If I were a local politician, this would be my mission. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14959#Comment_14959 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=14959#Comment_14959 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:28:16 -0800 neogrammarian
I'm up for the monorails. As says OctEgon, let's think future in terms of public, not more private, transit, eh? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15156#Comment_15156 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15156#Comment_15156 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:18:01 -0800 frisrob A few brave souls have accomplished individual, powered flight."

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/it.s-2008-here.s-your-jet-pack ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15207#Comment_15207 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15207#Comment_15207 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:24:52 -0800 KitsuneCaligari http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15272#Comment_15272 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15272#Comment_15272 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:26:32 -0800 Tim Murr http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15282#Comment_15282 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15282#Comment_15282 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:55:30 -0800 m1k3y
Lazy Scientists? Or Cunning?!

For all we know they could be down in a bunker somewhere.. beta testing all of the above
and telling the FDA they just need a bit longer to be sure.

there's your future! - a bunker full of strung out geeks in lab coats having robot orgies and eating food pills ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15355#Comment_15355 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15355#Comment_15355 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:17:47 -0800 CDoring
Why are we still strapping ourselves to a great big tank full of hight explosives to reach orbit? There's got to be a better way.

-CD ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15357#Comment_15357 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15357#Comment_15357 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:43:30 -0800 Vespers
Although at least classical rockets ain't as stupid as the Orion idea. Not as cool either, though. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15382#Comment_15382 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15382#Comment_15382 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:46:10 -0800 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15414#Comment_15414 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15414#Comment_15414 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:42:15 -0800 Vespers http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15420#Comment_15420 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15420#Comment_15420 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:43:21 -0800 Inexperto
Branson is chomping at the bit to send anyone with $200,000 to spare into space. He is planning on bringing the price down after a few years, which is nice of him.

Handily, it also provides us with a theoretical watershed for when we can officially declare the the future becomes yesterday's news: the moment Easyjet start offering cattle-class trips into orbit for £5 with seven coupons from The Daily Mirror. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15441#Comment_15441 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15441#Comment_15441 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:53:44 -0800 DONAR
Given I'd rather drive a giant metallic behemoth down to do the weekly shopping than risk scratching it in combat, but the question remains. If AIBO and ASIMO are the top of the circuitry food chain, I'm not impressed. At least get going on the ED-209s, people. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15449#Comment_15449 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15449#Comment_15449 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:25:19 -0800 alwayscrashing Why the hell aren't we fighting wars with Battlemechs via remote control yet?

I think that sort of requires a level of trust and a sense of fair play not usually found between two countries who are at war... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15455#Comment_15455 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15455#Comment_15455 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:41:04 -0800 Inexperto
But again, my natural pessimism kicks in. Take a moment to look through any comments thread at www.kotaku.com and then try to imagine entire armies made up of console gamers. And then tremble in fear at the thought of the last war for the future of humanity being fought over which platform is better: Playstation or Xbox. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15460#Comment_15460 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15460#Comment_15460 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:55:53 -0800 Malsain this shirt over at threadless, but the last line just doesnt work for me :/ ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15555#Comment_15555 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15555#Comment_15555 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:45:33 -0800 ChrisSick
Self-determined lifespan would be a treat, too. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15558#Comment_15558 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15558#Comment_15558 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:03:11 -0800 Luke
And Unsub, your better batteries are on the way - a nanoengineered silicon arrangement that's looking at multiplying capacity and lifespan by about ten. This is the kind or real advance nanotech will make for us in every field - people might be waiting for their gray goo and their replicators, but the extension of existing fields to great extremes with molecular-level control is much more interesting to me. Perfect conductors are hoped for, vast memories are on the cards, improved batteries are on the way and they've already created nano-explosives for use against cancer tumours - and those are just the ones I read in the last couple of days. It's the ones we're not expecting that'll be particularly awesome. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15571#Comment_15571 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=15571#Comment_15571 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:52:58 -0800 synthsapien http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17029#Comment_17029 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17029#Comment_17029 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:51:29 -0800 MaC http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17057#Comment_17057 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17057#Comment_17057 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:09:41 -0800 Unsub
They are these life size quite realistic sexdolls from Japan(of course). They were so realistic that they fooled my girl radar and I did quite the double take when I realized they
were not models. At first I was not the least bit interested but now that give it some thought maybe when the price comes down? I would need one that laughed at my jokes
and said "tee hee hee unsub your so funny". when i press the remote though. I can honestly say i have dated girls dumber than a top of the line modern PC.

Luke i hope your right about the batteries. There are a lot of great stuff just waiting for the right power source. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17061#Comment_17061 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17061#Comment_17061 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:24:26 -0800 MaC
Yes, she was fully equipped for fake lovemaking. Yes, one of my friends used his finger. No, there was no orgy with the fake girl. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17244#Comment_17244 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17244#Comment_17244 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:22:30 -0800 Joe Paoli @MaC
A few years ago, I was at a Chiller-con with some buddies, one of our friends is an editor at Fango. So we hung out with him in his room, where they had left one of the sex dolls some indy studio had used to film a horror movie about the sex dolls.What was the movie? The only films I'm aware of that center on sex dolls are pornos.

edit: not counting 'Lars and the Real Doll' of course. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17293#Comment_17293 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17293#Comment_17293 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:36:32 -0800 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17347#Comment_17347 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=586&Focus=17347#Comment_17347 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:04:25 -0800 cmwich
Though I'd expected at least one lunar colony by now. I mean, come on. Good job on the internet, but we could do with a little more future than that.

That said, maybe it's best we're not getting a sci-fi future. Given the current state of things, we'd just end up with one of the dystopian ones. ]]>