Listening to the TV last night while I was cleaning up and taking care of some plumbing issues, I heard something that really perked my ears up.

I know that using carbon molecular circuitry is not a new concept, and has been bandied about and played with for quite some time. But it seems that scientists are not happy with the overall results, so now they are in the process of splicing in DNA molecules with the carbon molecular strands to provide even faster calculating speed.

Is any of this sound vaguely familiar?

Call my a bit paranoid, but you would think that after all these years that scientist would take science fiction a bit more seriously. That or we need to sit them down in the movie theater for about a week, we can start off with something light hearted like War Games, then roll into something like Battle Star Galactica, then cap off their viewing pleaure with the Terminator Series. Then when they are finished with that, give them a few reading assignment with folks like Asimov, and finish it with Deborah’s book, and have them do a paper based on the similarities of all subjects.

Do you think they’d figure it out by then? Somehow I doubt it.

Well I believe most scientists at least know about science fiction to an extent, but dismiss the ideas until further research is done. However they still remain blind in the minds eye to what many scifi authors have cooked up for decades. When you juxtapose a scientist and a scifi geek together there is a difference. A scifi geek knows all the technologies and how they work while a scientist seeks to create those technologies with dismissing the ideas because they are too absurd and unrealistic. For the most part science fiction has always been regarded as “fiction” in the community and therefore the proposed technologies in books are unrealistic. In this day and age those things are possible. So I think scientists are blind to scifi because their predecessors were blind and dismissive to the fact that scifi proposed impossible ideas. Now they just need to open their eyes to see the light.

For the most part I think that sci-fi helps to create sci-fact. Look at the origianal Star Trek series for that matter, I remember thinking how cool it would be to have a communicator. Now my Palm Centrino does more then a communicator. We haven’t gotten close to warp speed yet NASA did send up Deep Space 1 that had a ion drive, they did have those in Star Wars. Mostly I think it would be the money behind the discoveries that could dictact how things end up. Look at Cyberdyne in the Terminator series, made some great advances for the wrong people and poof, end of the world. That was later replaced with hot terminator chicks lol. Makes you wonder if these people are creating for the good or bad since…. http://www.cyberdyne.jp/English/

Indeed… I think technology, we’ve far exceeded our capacity of understanding. And yes, yesterday’s SciFi is today’s science.

You figure 100-150 years ago, books were being written about sending a man to the moon. We’ve been there several times, and now other nations are in a race to go. The computer that you are using at this moment to read this is more powerful than the entire room that they had of mainframes that sent a man to the moon.

30 years ago, I sat down to my first computer, a start of the art mobile system called a KAYPRO 2. The 3 1/2 in floppy disks have more memory than my entire system and disks combined.

The 1960’s brought us Star Trek, the 70’s brought us Star Wars, the 80’s brought us The Terminator, the new century brought us a logical Battle Star Galactica and a reason why Cylons exhist.

We have reached a point where we are running in the dark. As kids we learned that it was not a good thing as we can’t see what’s going to trip us up? Scientist and technicians are at a point where they don’t need to ask if they can… They should be asking, Should we?

Man you guys are old….....lol

Yep, we are pre internet Strike lol. I remember buying 1 meg of ram for around $200, not to mention having a system with a 8 inch floppy drive, that was serious technology there.

Wasn’t there just a survey out about nanotechnology that the masses decided wasn’t a good idea? Think it was fairly recent in fact. Basically the scientists asked the question “should we” and everyone said no without knowing much more then what they have seen on TV and in the movies.

There is some progress that just has to be made and only those people in those fields can do it. The world is flat, man would have wings if he should fly, noone can survive in space, all statements that people have said and if they had there way chances are we would still be riding horses. There is good and bad in everything but mostly it is the way it is used and those who use it are the ones to be concerend about.

Hey, I remember 8” floppy disks… My first computer that I had for the Marine Corps had an external dual floppy drive… and I was considered to be the guy on the cutting edge of technology in my building…

Of course it looked like a plastic toaster sitting on my desk, LOL.

My grandfather has an old laptop. It weighs about 10 pounds and looks like you can kill an anteater with it. Oh, the first mobile phone too. Haha phone calls anywhere at anytime with the phone doubling as a club in the event of being attacked.

Well, those are good things to remember and reflect on… One day Strike, you’ll be as old as some of us here. And when you catch up with the rest of us, you can share some of those memories with the younger generations. ;)

yep, and they will all be going…really, you had to type in words, there wasn’t any speech recoginition and you looked at things on a screen..wow that’s really old stuff

Like writing is becoming a dying art with our younger/upcoming generations, I’m sure that typing and word processing will become a lost art as well.

Why am I invisioning a world kind of like the Matrix… Just plug in and tell the computer what you want to know.

I never was much of a writer, had a typewriter before a computer though. I can just get things down faster by typing, when I write it takes to long

lol. Well add like 20-30 years later and I’ll see. I prefer writing to typing. In this day and age everyone writes slow and types fast. I’m the opposite. I’m and average typer, but I can write fast and neatly. I do shorthand mostly. There are speech2text programs on the market today, but they still need to be improved. I have two programs, but neither are efficient at recording exactly what I say. I have to speak like I’m giving a speech in order for it to be accurate.

Soon there will be no keys, only fingerprint readers. I can imagine cell phones and computers becoming ultra-minute or having one thing that does everything with 1000x the processing power we have today. And then my children will be like That was so slow, big, or heavy. lol

So did y’all commute like the Flintstones back in the day? You know stone cars powered by your feet. rofl.

I know you guys aren’t THAT old…its a possibility though. haha

Well you are old enough to be able to dance “thriller’. lol

well I did see the first video being played on MTV, back in the day when they actually played videos on there.

Opsidian… Now we’re really starting to show our age.

But yes, I remember when MTV first came on the air, and the cheesy videos from the period… And yes to confirm… MTV really did play mainly music videos when they first aired.

And yes, I remember watching, dancing, and skating to Thriller. And many other MJ songs, before the countless surgeries and when he was still a cute kid.

LOL. You ever went to a roller rink back in the day?

Did I ever go to a roller rink back in the day? LOL… Aside from my other activities, yes… I spent a ton of time at the Rink.

Once upon a time, not only did I go to the rink… I worked there, and practiced there, because I used to skate figures and freestyle for competition when I was younger. And yes I did all the jumps and spins that you see the Ice Skaters doing and some that they can’t do because they skate on blades.

For some of us there were three places that were popular to hang out at, the Skating Rink, the Arcade, and the Mall.

I realize that skating is not nearly as popular as it used to be, Arcades have all but died out, and depending on where you live, the Mall has it own inherent risks now a days. So times change, but people still try and find things to do when they are busy with sports, school and/or work.

As for my kids, it’s either Ti-kwan-do; video games via PS3, Game Cube, Wii, or some hand held game system; or they enjoy writing and drawing.

Fortunately they have pretty good imaginations, so their writing and drawing can be very unique. :D Can’t imagine where they get that from. ;)

Haha. Sounds fun. Maybe you should incorporate that into your blog sometime. lol. I take a good guess where your children got the creativity from. Ooo Wii. That’s my system plus FPS on PC’s. Did you buy Brawl for them yet? haha. Rollerskating has gone down in the past decades, but theres been a rise to a bunch of new things. Street dancing, skateboarding, etc. Surfing and bodyboarding is a big in the islands. I caught some good waves yesterday…I’ve been trying to do a handstand on my board, no luck yet though.

There is a roller rink about a mile away from my place, never been there but I hear it has been around for ages. Must admit the I went to the roller rinks myself back in the day. I stoped skateboarding about 10 years ago, same with surfing, moved away from the waves so it all kinda fell to the side. Used to be able to do a handstand on the skateboard lol.

Ah. A handstand on a skateboard is easier than on a surfboard. The ocean is unstable, unpredictable, and can wipe you off in a second. Its so hard…..lol I’ve only done a halfhandstand before being hit by a wave.

I grew up on the east coast, our waves aren’t big enough for handstands unless your out during a hurricane lol

Well its super hard with like 5ft waves. My half-handstand was in near still water. Its easy to do in a pool, but the ocean is another story. I haven’t had the chance to surf on the east coast, but I don’t think I could stand the near-freezing Atlantic water. I like the tropical weather down here :P. I’ve surfed in Australia though. I love the waves there especially during in season surfing.

thats what they make wetsuits for lol.

Yea… but for those waters, would you need a wetsuit, or a dry-suit. :P

But then what am I talking about, I don’t surf… The last few times that I tried to do that I nearly drowned myself. I’ll stick with body surfing and swimming. Adding a board into the mix just gives the folks something to cart me off with. ;)