Hello everybody- I'm doing an independant study for college on how Sci-fi books/films etc represent what the writers/directors think the future will be like- and I found some frankly shocking stuff in my research: 1. Superbugs that are unaffected by antibiotics have increased 600% in some parts of the world. 2. Attention spans around the world are dropping and the novel may die out. 3. You will be able to live without leaving your house, many people work from home and ordering food etc from the internet made £775m in 2002. 4. IBM have apparently made a computer chip 100,000 times smaller than a human hair. 5. The increase in public skepticism/cynicysm would mean that anyone claiming to show psychic powers would be ridiculed- even if proven. Remember we only use about 9% of our brains. 6. Gene splicing has created - A goat with rat genes to make healthier milk. 'Enviropigs' whos dung lessens environmentail degradation. A Catfish with moth genes to protect against infection. Featherless chickens that grow faster and bigger. 7 -The POD intelligent car can detect when you drive badly and play soothing music to calm you down. It also changes colour when its 'happy'. 8 - NASA are/were researching an antigravity machine. 'Gravity Sheild' Well, what do you think? I need some opinions or more facts for my project so anymore science fact/fiction things you could add would be very useful. Cheers- I'm going to stock up for the apocalypse now.
Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio gives one possible next step for humanity, with improved empathy so people can get along better. Don't get distracted by % brain used. 2 million years ago homo habilis came along with a brain 50% bigger than any earlier man-like varieties, which gave him an edge. Homo erectus had part of his brain (Broca's area) not found in apes and associated with speech. No reason why the next step shouldn't have another size increase and another new area.
It is a good thing we only use 9% of our brain. I kill lots of brain every week in the pub. If I was using 100 % i'd get more stupid every week.....
Research into anti-gravity devices (and unlimited energy reactors, for that matter) has been going on since early in the last century. If not before. Many (sane, logical people, not conspiracy nuts) maintain that working devices were around before WWII and have long been supressed, with the general public being left oblivious.
This is my opinion, obviously im not as well imformed as others but scientists know "gravitons" exist (i think that's the name) but they have yet to find anti-gravitons. Afaik, every other nuclear particle has an equal opposite which has been proven to exist or made synthetically, yet noone has made or proved anti-gravitons exist!? With the discovery of them i believe will pathe the way for anti-grav stuff.
Hmm...not so sure about that Bindi- I'm a Physics student and I certainly haven't heard anything about them discovering "gravitons". They're still working on that AFAIK- my friend is doing his Phd on research into gravity waves. Anyway, its easy to make an anti gravity machine in 3 simple steps. a)find a cat. Cats, when dropped, always land on their feet. b)get some butter. Buttered toast always lands butter side down. c)butter your cat's back, and drop it. Instant anti-grav Sam
One theory on this is that brain cells act as a herd of antelope. The alcohol acts as a lion/cheetah/etc chasing and hunting down the antelope. The herd is only as fast as its slowest member and only as strong as its weakest member. Since the predator will pick off the slowest/weakest members, the herd as a whole is getting faster and stronger as the less "fit" members are removed. Replace antelope with brain cells and lion with alcohol. The more you drink, the more brain cells you kill. But those will be the weaker brain cells. So in effect you are making yourself smarter because you are removing the less "fit" brain cells. Survival of the fittest. Actually we only use a very small part of our entire bodies' potential, not just our brains.
