January 13, 2003

Okay, name the movie
"Times are changin', Betty. These nerds are a threat to our way of life."
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Magic hovercars from the future
What could be better than a car that burns no carbon and is driven essentially by the sorts of electronic control systems that get used in avionics? Yes, folks, it's the hydrogen-powered fuel cell prototype car, which, like all snazzy, efficient car technologies, is Seven To Ten Years Off™.
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Imagining computers before there were any
The Atlantic is running an old piece by Vannevar Bush (no relation to the Presidents, I think, but I can't be sure) about what the (then-) coming computer revolution was going to look like. Is it just me, or is writing of this free, almost unbearably optimistic sort hard to find nowadays?
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