Greater virtual realism is always shown in television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as people who act out an alternate life as a farmer or solve mysteries in the 1800s, and that may happen, but long before that any technology like that will be used by young people to shoot each other.read...
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You remember Myspace, right? It came after Friendster but was smart enough to take a check from Rupert Murdoch instead of withering away to obscurity and then being sold for peanuts. If you’re a teenage girl in love with customizing as many colors and fonts as possible, you may even have a Myspace account. Facebook, of course, killed Myspace and News Corp.’s $500 million purchase...
read moreThomas Edison did a lot right but there is one thing he got very, very wrong.Namely, a talking doll that was sure to be an inspiration for generations of future horror movie fans. It was a bold idea, of course, Edison had a lot of those, but sometimes even a marketing juggernaut can't make something work for the public given technological limitations - we are also talking to you, 3-D movie...
read moreBut...but...you have to love journalists, according to journalists. Only we hold government accountable and gotcha videos and bloggers rehashing what we come up with or they see in press releases can't be the same thing, they insist.Well, it can, actually. Journalists stopped being trusted guides long ago and the public caught on. Journalists can complain about how much more...
read moreWhen is a multi-million dollar business that charges money before a science article can be seen by the public superior to another multi-million dollar business that charges money before a science article can be seen by the public? Apparently only if they claim to be non-profit.Scientists are not business people so it is easy to understand why anyone would confuse non-profit status with...
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