The future just got a little closer, methinks. The Pirate Bay (better known for illegal downloads of the latest Hollywood schlock-busters and whatever drivel passes for music these days) has started a new category of downloads for what it calls "physibles" - object definition files for 3D printers. The idea is that some day (hopefully soon), when ( Read more... )

An interesting website here - they propose that, if time travel eventually gets invented in 500 years, a few dollars invested now will be more than enough to pay the costs in the future, thanks to the promise of compound interest.

Too bad they forgot to account for the global economic collapse just a few years before time travel gets invented...

I highly recommend this article (from Wired). The key point seems to be (if I can paraphrase) that globalization is on the verge of killing the big corporation ( Read more... )

I just posted this as a comment to a posting over on rfmcdpei's journal, but I want to capture it here as well. It seems rather topical, given that we've just entered 2010 ( Read more... )