Jonsmilez

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

DD_545i

Cool. Time to invest in a glass-cleaning products company

tex_phil

this is the future

craigm1841

sure it is.

Remember in back to the future II, when they went into the future and there were flying cars running on garbage and hoverboards?

Well that is less than four years from now.

This may be the future, but to the exent the video portrays, not in our lifetime. How was the countertop video recording the people looking at the counter where the dad put the video? That dashboard in the car? you cant even buy a car in 2011 that has a multimedia interface that doesnt lag. You cant even get an SUV that gets 30 mpg using a technology that was developed in the 1300s, albeit more common after 1850 (I am of course referencing the internal combustion engine).

Sorry to be so cynical, but dont anyone get their hopes up. The future will likely consist of severe over population where we are restricted to a certian square footage, and are only allowed to leave our homes on certian days because there isnt enough room on the streets if a global nuclear conflict doesnt wipe everyone out. Maybe our future will look something like "book of eli" long before technology like this is mass produced and a functional part of society.

We may never experience anything like i have referenced above. Maybe 300 years from now, maybe 1000, but I think my scenarios are more likely than some digitzed glass world.

v_therussian

Craig, as soon as porn can be enhanced by any of these technologies, Apple will be selling them for 200-600 dollars per appliance

And STFU about nuclear holocaust and over-population, you Republican dummy! Its never gonna happen... much like hoverboards and flying cars. And stop watching Tosh.O

DD_545i

Imagine going into "the store" where they're selling fridges. Well sir, you can have this one at $500, this big one here at $1000, or we've got this one over here where your little girl can play with it moving pictures around on the glass front for $15,000. Mommy, can we get the glass one? can we? can we? That's when Dad says, no but we'll get you that pack of fridge magnets for $5.

Cost will be the restrictive factor on all that tech, not the inventiveness or technical limitations. Same reason we don't all have LCD windows that can be electrically tinted. They were invented in the last century but cost a freaking fortune.

craigm1841

i knew i heard that reference on TV last night, i just couldnt remember where! haha.

You really think a nuclear war cannot happen? you are definately in denial, but I expect the general population to be in denial about something like that. I would love to get into it, but i cant. Believe it or not, the book/movie, 'Sum of All Fears' may be fiction, but the threat is very real. The international intelligence and political community collectively does a very good job making sure it doesnt. But shit happens... or so i have seen on a bumper sticker.

With that said, I dont lump you in with the general population, as I consider you more intelligent than most Americans. You can understand the threat exists. Maybe holocaust is a strong word, but all it takes is one well planned attack from a terrorist organization at the right time, and it could cause a serious international problem.

I also hate being called a republican. I am more democrat than republican. When I get a new license in VA, I am probably going to register independent. Although that serves no purpose, as the real benifit to registering with a party is being able to vote in the states primary if it is a closed primary state. But I dont vote anymore, so it doesnt really matter. I align myself with groups based on fiscal or social issues, but I would rather volunteer in my community for a cause I believe in, partisan or not, than vote. Voting doesnt make a difference, but getting out and personally helping others does. Our political system is a giant two-party perpetuating peice of shit, filled with a bunch of privelaged elitist cunts. From the president to your city counselmen although federal is the worst of all. Definately the entire executive and legistlative branches, and parts of the judicial branch straight up blow asshole.

v_therussian

Dude, there are cars with electro-chromatic glass for sale already. And the cost of these technologies will come down, as mass production grows.

Also, if you consider how much paper can be saved, trees remain untouched, oxygen produced for our over-populated, polluted and nuclear-threatened planet, it is well worth the extra cost.

That said, it is still in the science fiction dept with most of the technologies displayed in this ad. Unfortunately.


Anything can happen. Of course, it boils down to some fanatic in some hole somewhere, that no one ever took seriously, until... but I always go back to my memories of life in the Soviet Union. Even in the years of it's demise - perhaps even especially in the years of it's demise - and the economic disaster that happened afterward, people loved America and Americans. No one ever yelled any anti-U.S. slogans. Not where I'm from - and I'm from second largest city in Russia, which is considered the cultural and scientific center of Russia to this day. I've only seen people in awe of the U.S.A. - everyone wanted to at least visit, every kid wanted a souvenir "made in the U.S.A.", I wore a stars and stripes flagpin on collar when I was a kid for Christ's sake! And everyone looked at it with envy.

That said, I've met many, no, not many - several people, who proved to me that there is some blind anger out there. Most of them right here in New York. I remember this one Pakistani guy, who yelled to me "I used to cut Russian soldiers' throats in Afganistan". And this other kid, who freely admitted having shot at both, Russian and American soldiers in Afgan. Curiously, I've never met a Persian with a similar mindset, come to think of it. But I'm sure there are fanatics - plenty of them. In my experience, these are deeply hurt, extremely ignorant and extremely dangerous people. These are the "quiet kids" in schools - the guys no one messes with, because there was this one time in second grade when he stuck a ruler into some teacher's eye, or something like that. Their percentage is growing - largely, in my opinion, due to the rhetoric that doesn't seem to cease. These people could have been excellent scientific staff under different circumstances. But life wasn't very kind to them, mostly by not providing them with appropriate coping skills from early childhood. Of course, it doesn't help when you've got NATO tanks coming through your neighborhood every 10-12 years either. But that just provides an outlet for these troubled individuals - that is neither the cause, nor the focus of their anger.

Guess, I'm a bit like Sting, hoping that they "love their children too". Somehow, I have no doubt, humanity will survive. Intelligence will eventually prevail. Unfortunately, we are in a time of a different sentiment now. I believe the origin of this sentiment must be found and neutralized at any cost. Otherwise, we are at risk of some really sucky stuff happening to us all. But I always think like this: if we wipe out the planet, we'll effectively just give it up to the roaches. And who the heck wants to give up his/her planet to a bunch of roaches?!




PS It is evident to me that every time yet another doomsday asshole shows up on the news (someone slap that douchebag Camping for me PLEASE!!!), these idiots crawl out of their holes everywhere. I'm not sure how many people here realize that these assholes, like Camping and that pastor down in Florida, who burned the Quran, are the largest - BY FAR THE LARGEST!!! - contributors to the shaping and growing of these fanatics, who have nothing better to do. Bad economy exacerbates this situation more, because not only are these guys connected to the internet and are finding all this fanatical rhetoric, they also happen to have lots of free time on their hands and no prospects for any kind of normal life. I'm sure someone somewhere wrote a thesis on this, that has been successfully put into storage by W's entourage. What we need is education, optimism. We have the entire energy and logistics industries to revolutionize, if we want to survive - there are plenty of places to put people to use. But... we aren't there yet.

craigm1841

Well I was actually thinking of pakistan when I was referencing nukes. People dont realize that Pakistan is a nuclear state with an extremely unstable government, and the general population hates Americans. Did I mention we went into their country uninvited a month ago and carried out a covert operation, run by the internationally despised CIA? Think Pakistan is okay with us killing bin laden? They arrested some people in the past few days that helped lead us to Bin Laden.

The Taliban is strong in Pakistan and the government is riddled with Taliban. All it takes is for some weapons to fall into the wrong hands, or the Taliban to topple the GoP.

When nuclear weapons come to mind, people typically default to the US/Soviet topic. I wasn't even considering Russia to be a nuclear threat, not because they dont have weapons, but if tensions rise between the US and Russia, diplomacy can be used to resolve the issues. Pakistan comes to my mind first and foremost, as diplomacy doesnt work with terrorists. North Korea comes to mind second, because while kim jong-il and his regime are nuts, they value their lives, and while a communist state, they are not a terrorists.

Aside from nuclear weapons, there are biological and chemical weapons as well.

I am not some glen beck fear monger douchebag, just saying... We arent going to be around forever. I plan on growing old... but i think I am not going to see glass shit like that in my lifetime. I was just using nukes as one example of something that can happen, and likely to happen before the sun burns out!

v_therussian

Dude, you just chalked up a couple of billions of humans to a "possible terrorist" stigma. That's a little ignorant. Rather, it is clear, the regimes in both of the countries you've mentioned are at least somewhat hostile. But it isn't a reason enough to go and nuke them as a "preventative measure" either, right? So what answer is there? Education. Stimulation of economy. Bottom line, if the general populations of these countries are prospering, the risk falls dramatically. Which is not to say that I'm advocating giving anyone money - we're in shit enough shape as is. But educating the growing generations, making sure internet reaches everywhere, driving crime down, and most importantly, getting rid of corruption in the higher echelons of governments will eradicate the threat.

As for going into Pakistan to get the bin - I have a feeling that most law-abiding sensible Pakistanis were cheering for the U.S. The presence of Taliban in the government shows that there is some serious corruption there. The system is lacking order and radical element flourished in this atmosphere. Again, we need to go after the corruption and the lack of education.

Screaming "Threat! Threat! Threat!" hardly helps anything - only makes the all out military conflict more imminent. That's how they got their numbers up over there, no? More or less, but all the soldiers of Taliban and such think they are protecting their countries from the "bad American invaders".