To: Sector Investor who wrote (23497 ) 9/2/2000 10:46:38 PM From: John Curtis Respond to Sector: LOL! Well....let's seeeee now. What we've got under development is neural network mimicking artificial intelligence. We're (humanity) also at the beginning stages of self-healing inorganic materials. We've started developing chip structures which are self-wiring, and capable of re-wiring themselves. We're thinking about quantum computing, to say nothing of what's being played with regarding the uses of such as DNA for computational purposes. We've got such as Honda with bi-pedal robots capable of independent locomotion. We've got the first robotic, highly self-sufficient, space craft able to pilot on its own by taking readings on the stars, and which is propelling itself to rendezvous with asteroids (already done) and a comet (currently heading to it) using ion propulsion. We've got people in Seattle experimenting with creating magnetic "bubbles" kilometers in diameter, which could be used in a solar sail fashion (and perhaps as some sort of solar radiation shield while traveling in space??). All of this, which is really only skimming the surface, has come about in a very short period of time. And do you get the sense it's accelerating? There's no need to read science fiction (as much as I love it). We're LIVING science fiction! ;-)
