I just read an artical on Salon.com. Simon Reynold eager for the futuristic themes instead of nowadays boring asphalt roads, which he expresses in his artical, Back to the Future. It starts like this:
Science fiction promised us a tomorrowland of jetpacks, Smell-O-Vision and male mammary implants. So what happened? [...]
Read more here.
Yet I think Simon Reynold forgot something. Economy and progress in technology doesn’t fit together very well, which is why we create false technology in movies and books, and when the money is there we try to develop it. Yes, we put billions of cash into it, but it’s not enough. In Denmark, 90 % of the money we use for progress in science is for nanotechnology, yet the so-called scientists has a hard time even explaining what the hell it is! We hit a nudge, and it’s hard to overcome. We have so many new technologies which are hard to develop. It’s as we know everything, however when we do overcome that nudge, there’s a whole new world. It’s like when scientists discovered atoms, it was hard to understand.
Simon Reynold also forgot that not all technology are neither meant for the public nor is available to the public. When the auto mobile was produced, it was legally binding to have two guards walking in front of it, in case it should blow up!
I’ve seen a timetable that says in about ten years or so, we’ll know 3 times more than we do now, and not long thereafter 3 times more than we do then – and so on!
Posted by mpheak 
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