I say if you don't work for it, you shouldn't have it.

No uploadable skills please.

i think that would fall into the same grey area as cloning, where it would be too much of a moral issue to ever gain a foothold.

I don't mind cloning. I think cloning could be amazing, especially if it were used for something like making children for people who had nobody else willing to have a child with them, or simply couldn't have them,

What I don't like, is the inevitable that would come with that, is they would be treated as "Lesser" and would probably be used in wars etc, if it were possible to engineer the clone as an adult.

But I just think if you haven't worked for the skill, it isn't really a skill. You have to earn it to have the right to use it.

I'm all for cloning

just imagine.......a whole army of newbs.........what a wonderful world it would be.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../Newb3_3-1.jpg

Thanks, i now have steely dan playing in my head.

Re: Time travel - It isn't possible because Time is a basic human concept. It is not measurable because it isnt an entity in itself. People have argued that it MIGHT be possible, but if you take the cause/effect scenario into the equation, it pretty much negates the whole idea.

Even if the Earth started to spin backwards (ala Superman) it just isn't possible to revert time to an earlier date.



On the tech front, computers definitely. And cellphones, PSPs, iPods and smaller handheld devices...alongwith DVDs, Blu Ray, huge storage devices like big-capacity HDDs...

Nanotech has certainly taken gigantic strides in the past 10 years or so. It is a boom of sorts, and there's plenty more to follow. Being a tech geek myself, I am happy to lighten my wallet to the self-indulgences of the latest technology.

they seem to have hit the wall as far as processing speed goes ... getting things smaller seems to be the focus now.

i'm sure the technology exixts to make a computer the size of a watch now (or soon) it's just cost prohibitive at this time

There are some seriously interesting articles around on quantum computers. Far above my understanding, but it could lead to leaps and bounds as far as processor speeds go.

Look up quantum computers and the use of qubits in computing.

Hurray for people smarter than me, they bring the fun.

quantum computers would be amazing. if they could perfect superconducting fluids, they could make computers whose processors never heat and process at the speed of light. Video games would be like the matrix.

I have read articles about quantum teleportation, where there are subatomic particles that are linked somehow, and distance seems to have no bearing on this link, so technically, you could have 2 particles in different galaxies, and what you do to one (make it black, flip it over) happens instantaneously regardless of distance. with that, you could, in effect, download a file from the andromeda galaxy instantly.

Sounds like you're on your way to a pretty cool short story or manuscript, Vodstok. Keep going with that...