02-14-2014, 01:40 PM
(rant)
Aside from "Rapid exploration and colonisation of the Solar System," there is very little in this article of interest or utility to me (as always, YMMV). The advances described in the article might be of interest to some (including, no doubt, many of the members of this list), but to others, like myself, they hold as little interest for me as does a smartphone (or any wireless telephone, for that matter). I do take exception to being characterized as being an old-fashioned technophobe simply because I haven't abandoned my sense of personal utility so as to join the technophilic hordes waiting impatiently for the Next New Thing. Reading this article, I can take comfort in the expectation that I will have shuffled off this mortal coil before these predictions come to fruition (if they ever do).
(/rant)
Radtech497
Aside from "Rapid exploration and colonisation of the Solar System," there is very little in this article of interest or utility to me (as always, YMMV). The advances described in the article might be of interest to some (including, no doubt, many of the members of this list), but to others, like myself, they hold as little interest for me as does a smartphone (or any wireless telephone, for that matter). I do take exception to being characterized as being an old-fashioned technophobe simply because I haven't abandoned my sense of personal utility so as to join the technophilic hordes waiting impatiently for the Next New Thing. Reading this article, I can take comfort in the expectation that I will have shuffled off this mortal coil before these predictions come to fruition (if they ever do).
(/rant)
Radtech497
"I'd much rather see you on my side, than scattered into... atoms." Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe