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Give me an example of a type of gene therapy or genetic modification that's "mainstream" or even popularly known and I'll shut up about it.

Now, the one everyone laughs at, drone delivery, will become the next big thing. Especially when we get little drone delivery CARS that are electric, fully automated, and can zip through traffic.

How about the "hoverboard":

All of this stuff, with the possible exception of light gene therapy, never makes it out of the university laboratories. You just don't see it in mainstream medicine. Neural interfaces? BMI's (I assume that's what you mean by prostheses)? Gene modification for cancer treatment? Yes, this stuff...

Love that quote, especially the part at the end: "Oh shit, we have to be the parents now. We have to clean up the mess!" I suspect if DFW were alive today, he'd say we failed to face that challenge, failed miserably (especially artists), which is why the most powerful person in the world is an...

What happened to the biotech revolution promised in the '90's? Stem cells? Gene modification? All that investor money went down the drain I suppose. I guess the "playing God" argument worked. What a shame. Enough dwelling on the negative. What will be the actual next big thing in technology? My...

Not trying to sound cute, but I would call it "postmortem." As in, after viral or non-reflexive discourse (just everyone shouting at once) leads to splatter, the generation that comes after us will have to clean up the mess and then try to document and explain it. The splatter could take so many...

Almost forgot about Charlie Kauffman, screenwriter (Eternal Sunshine..., Being John Malkovich, etc.). Not sure what happened there. Maybe he was cursed like that crazy fella who directed the "Kony 2012" documentary? Wish he (Kauffman) would come back, we need his voice. I guess there's always...

Hawking died a year ago, Kanye went crazy, and the Galaxy Fold is the result of some coffee/adderall fueled recent CompSci graduate blurting out, "Hey, what if we mashed a smartphone with a tablet? That's something new, right? At least people will think it seems new, and like, gaze upon it in...

Hmmm good natured "trolling" versus good natured piling on: Which is worse? Uggh I'm so sick of thinking about this. About myself. I don't respond to authority, rules, local customs, or in-group codes of conduct. I was just born with an outcast "I don't get it" mentality. Philosophy and theory...

It wishes. The smartwatch is like the smartphone's runty annoying little brother. We liked it at first, it is not without its charms, but after 6-7 years it has failed to live up to expectations. Its parents, Samsung and Apple, probably have to reassure it constantly, "Hang in there little...

AHHHHHHH "Stardust" I was so close. But you know the studio execs had it narrowed to "Starman" and "Stardust." Probably flipped a coin on it. "Stardust" seems kind of moribund when you start to think about it.

"Boys Will Be Boys Will Be Girls." I like that one. A little offensive, but in a tongue-in-cheek way.

Any thoughts on a Hollywood title? They usually go with song titles, or some "clever" pun on the name. Maybe "Karma Chameleon," but that has too many syllables for middle America. He wrote an memoir called Take It Like a Man, but that's too suggestive. I'm thinking something like "A Boy and his...

I don't even know who that is and I'm a culture junky. Hollywood is all about brand recognition. They want recognizable names, they want narratives about stars that match up with the audience's preconceptions about that star's life. It might make a great movie, but you would have to find an...

I should just start a rolling thread where I can vent all my weird thoughts. You can all put me on your ignore list. I've found I don't need real social interaction, just the illusion of it.

whoa did we post at the same time? Freaky.

Since you have forced me to hedge, I'll throw in another, equally probable, possibility. Subject: David Bowie. Title: "Starman"

Google Glass The Occulus Rift 3D TV The Hololens (will never be sold to consumers) Augmented Reality (Pokemon Go! came and went) The Galaxy Fold (was just delayed indefinitely) Smartwatches (changed nothing) I'm starting to think the smartphone and the tablet were the apex of consumer...

Someone could have explained that to me, maybe in a DM... remember I'm a yank and I don't get your customs. Okay, for real this time (I found a new nest, one more worthy of my particular set of skills), I'm taking a long and probably permanent break. Just consider yourselves lucky I didn't start...