Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> > too bad we have to wait for some egghead to figure out how to convert
> > matter to energy then back ... hey 10/15 years ago the idea of a 3d
> > printer would have been considered a pipe dream, so I don't think the
> > eventual reality is /too/ far fetched.

>
> Sometimes that happens because the technology is feasible. For example,
> people carrying what effectively amounts to less-than-wallet-sized
> supercomputers in their pockets was basically an unthinkable dream
> just a mere 20 or 30 years ago. (Modern cellphones are most certainly
> supercomputers compared to even the fastest mainframes of 30 years ago.)


How true, I have been re-reading a few science fiction books written from the

public phone booths although their clothes come out of machines. That one
slipped past all the future-ologists.

Stephen

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