Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? 439
museumpeace writes "In the NYTimes book review blog, David Itzkoff takes a look at a new book devoted to predicting which 'science fiction' technologies may really fly some day. The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he bears a hearing. His picks include light sabers, invisibility and force fields." Which sci-fi tech do you think needs to get invented over the weekend?
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Michio Kaku and Discovery (Score:3, Informative)
Worth to see IMHO.
Linkage. (Score:5, Informative)
Dr. Michio Kaku also has a radio show (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.mkaku.org/radio/ [mkaku.org]
Apparently, he also has a myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/mkaku [myspace.com]
No, not by itself (Score:5, Informative)
We'd still need great improvements in reaction drives, for example, to overcome the velocity differences between different star systems.
Lacking magical Star Trek style sensors, we'd need to find ways to detect and analyze planets.
Life support systems. Expedition craft that can handle a takeoff as well as a landing. Power sources. Cripes, it goes on and on.
Really, it's not like Masters of Orion or some other 4x game.
Me, I'd settle for that Mr. Fusion someone mentioned uptopic.
Re:That's an easy one! (Score:5, Informative)
You also assume that there's an absolute frame of reference... which there isn't.
Re:That's an easy one! (Score:3, Informative)