I used to lament how my nieces and nephew would never be able to appreciate the modern internet because they grew up with broadband. Now I don’t think about it cause the idea itself has got old.
That said, I like this comic and saved a copy because it’s a historical artifact. I love history. Thanks for posting.
Don’t worry. If the recently discovered superconductors at room temperature lk-99 is real they’ll be visiting mars.
I’m not a materials scientist, can you please explain how room temperature superconductors eventually leads to Mars colonization? Serious question. I hear a lot about how it’ll change society, but it just seems to be “existing tech but slightly better” from what I’ve read.
My take on it is that it does improve existing tech, but by a lot. That makes whole new use cases possible. Consider long-distance power transmission.
It’s funny, we basically have magic now
I can talk to anyone, miles away instantly, anywhere on earth. It’s mental. But it’s totally normal for us to make phone calls.
I was having a conversation about telepathy and blew my own mind. Essentially, telepathy would be a means of sending thoughts to other brains. It would require some sort of transmitter organ to produce waves that travel through space, and then some sort of receiver organ to “hear” the transmissions.
That’s when we realized we do have all of that. Our brains convert ideas into words, and we form those words passing expired air across muscles we constrict to form specific wavelengths that can transmit through the air. We also have tiny hairs that pick up the otherwise imperceptible vibration stimulus, and a completely separate area in the brain that decodes antennae hairs back into ideas.
It’s so mundane, and yet hardly any other living can manage it, and hundreds of lifeforms have inconceivable forms of communication that we cannot perceive.
Anyway, people rarely marvel at the amazing things we have.
Yeah, speech is a form of telepathy.
So is telephone call.
Also, a virus is what was referred to as a “ghost” or “spirit” at earlier times: You cannot see it (it has no body), yet it carries information.
