The future's so bright, I've got to wear shades

So much is just around the corner

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&vq=medium

A pristine future full of beautiful people? I am thinking it will be more like Wall-E:

Jennifer goes from snuggling in the sack, to a nice pants suit and out the door in 20 minutes?

Gotta be SciFi

I take nuclear science, I love my classes! Thank you so much, that's going to be in my head for a week.

I find it really annoying that the participants of this utopian future couldn't make it 14 feet without 75 screens all up in their business.

Doubtful, those shiny happy people don't even make pyrex cookware from borosilicate glass anymore.

Why hello there glass future...

oldtin wrote: Why hello there glass future...

Exactly what I was thinking. Imagine the damage a simple rock fight would cause, and think of the replacement cost!

Did anybody else think of how sweet it would be to have the fancy touchscreen glass dash in the car compatible with megasquirt? Think of all the digital gauges you could have displayed.

Did anybody else think of how dirty everything would be with everybody and their children touching it all?

Careful, there. Don't dare to point out the faults with depending too much on technology or you'll be accused of blocking self driving cars which allow sleeping on the way to work.

Curmudgeon wrote: Careful, there. Don't dare to point out the faults with depending too much on technology or you'll be accused of blocking self driving cars which allow sleeping on the way to work.

I have mixed feelings about those anyway. I'm not gonna buy one, but after living in Boston i'm not against getting these people to stop driving themselves.

Just think- connected to the ECU, built in accelerometers, gps, and video (like the kids video chatting on the counter) and you'd have built in datalogging from the factory after someone hacks the thing. Granted the manufacturers would probobly do something to ruin my dreams, but someone must be able to fix all of that.

The stove, ultra thin touch screen tv and glass that can tint itself is pretty sweet.

93EXCivic wrote: The stove, ultra thin touch screen tv and glass that can tint itself is pretty sweet.

Only gas stoves for me, please. Dying to get rid of my electric range for something that allows instant changes in temperature.

Glass cooktops are for people who just want to heat food, not much fun for really cooking.

That's right, not only is my car not an appliance, even my appliances aren't appliances!

In reply to ransom:

I have never had any problem cooking on an electric range.

ransom wrote:

93EXCivic wrote: The stove, ultra thin touch screen tv and glass that can tint itself is pretty sweet.

Only gas stoves for me, please. Dying to get rid of my electric range for something that allows instant changes in temperature. Glass cooktops are for people who just want to heat food, not much fun for really cooking. That's right, not only is my car not an appliance, even my appliances aren't appliances!

I think I do all right with my glass cookstove -- but in a `project Camry kind of way

I see a bright future indeed for ophthalmologists everywhere!

This future is clearly fake. Unless I missed something, the couple trade sides of the bed from morning wake up to evening sleep. It's way more likely that the government will pass on the chance to record Jennifer's every move than that My Side/Your Side will ever vary.

My wife says the same for gas ranges. She thinks its better for various reasons. I have kindof a dumb sense of taste (I think Mt. Dew is heaven in a can) but charcoal cooled burgers sure taste better than electric grill cooked ones to me, so I guess I can understand how the heat source makes a difference.

I can also see how this tech could be used in not so good ways. As awesome as it may be, do I really want all of that in my car/livingroom/bedroom when it's internet connectible and loaded with cameras? The screens might be kinda dumb, but at the rate things are going those tablets will all be internet connectible. Quite a quandary.

In reply to Rufledt:

Yup! As soon as I saw the phone light up with Jennifer's info and the ad I thought of Minority Report. Berk that and everything to do with it!

yes, I too noticed the person tracking where the bus sign changed language because it knew who was reading it. It could have just as easily provided different instructions to people of different economic backgrounds.

The car also recognized the driver.
I expected for Flo or the Gecko to come on the screen and have you sign/validate the user agreement.

I also wondered if porn was going to go up on the big screen when the model visited the office.

Rufledt wrote: My wife says the same for gas ranges. She thinks its better for various reasons. I have kindof a dumb sense of taste (I think Mt. Dew is heaven in a can) but charcoal cooled burgers sure taste better than electric grill cooked ones to me, so I guess I can understand how the heat source makes a difference.

It's not a question of the taste that the heat imparts to the food (neither gas nor electric cooktops do that), but rather the control that it gives you. The resistive heating element in an electric stove has a very large thermal mass, so it responds much more slowly to changes in the temperature setting than a gas one. Get a pan of water up to rolling boil on a gas burner then shut it off, and the bubbles will stop within a few seconds. Do the same on an electric range, and it'll take much, much longer.

I'm told the newer induction cooktops offer similar levels of control to gas, but I've never used one.

codrus wrote: I'm told the newer induction cooktops offer similar levels of control to gas, but I've never used one.

Marketing BS, at least on our new range.

ransom wrote:

93EXCivic wrote: The stove, ultra thin touch screen tv and glass that can tint itself is pretty sweet.

Only gas stoves for me, please. Dying to get rid of my electric range for something that allows instant changes in temperature. Glass cooktops are for people who just want to heat food, not much fun for really cooking. That's right, not only is my car not an appliance, even my appliances aren't appliances!

I miss gas... but my mom had one blow up in her face as a teen... she refused to have one in the house so I never experienced gas untill I was old enough to move out :(... at least our glasstop was full heat within seconds... but still not gas... that being said for quick temp changes you get used to sliding the pans to only partly on the burner... and the cast iron that we use to cook most stuff in our house holds in a ton of heat anyway...

I grew up on gas. The house I bought a year ago came with an induction cook top. I like it and I have done a similar ice cube trick as shown in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIKq4RkZ1M
Doesn't work with aluminum pans but works great with cast iron.

Since when did VW make an EOS with that much tech?

Keith Tanner wrote: I take nuclear science, I love my classes! Thank you so much, that's going to be in my head for a week.

Well, on a completely off-topic note, I've had "Mexican Radio" going through my head. So you can now have 2 songs to alternate between.