Friday, July 28, 2006





Quantum leap

She steps into the shower. The tiles inside detect her presence and start displaying the day's top headlines. The manned mission to Mars is going to launch ahead of schedule. U.S. military drones have destroyed another terrorist training camp using smart dust. A top Manhattan banker has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 10 years of low tech.

(Via KurzweilAI.net.)

1 comment:

Mac said...

Jose,

That struck me as a little implausible, too. If you can predict something as inherently unpredictable as a daily weather forecast five years in advance, you effectively have a time-machine.

Then again...