“PayPal had these goals of creating a new currency. We failed at that, and we just created a new payment system. I think Bitcoin has succeeded on the level of a new currency, but the payment system is somewhat lacking. ...
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One of my all time favourite comedies has to be Woody Allen’s Sleeper, one from his “golden era” where Allen, his usual nerdish self, wakes up into a future where America has become a totalitarian state. Allen, a crowning example of ...
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When you’re growing up certain songs have a habit of sticking in the mind. For me, one of those songs was Connie Francis singing “Robot Man“, where Connie expressed her pining for a mechanical man, having concluded that the real ...
Read More »If you really do want a flying car, then here it is …
Just an update on my previous post here. If you really do want a flying car, one that looks cool too, try the Aeromobil, described by its inventors as “a ‘flying car’ that perfectly makes use of existing infrastructure created ...
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“The future ain’t what it used to be” said Yogi Berra. By the way, that’s Yogi Berra, former American baseball player, manager and member of Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame, not Yogi Bear. Yogi Bear was a bear in ...
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