Bo Stern

"Guests would circumnavigate the globe every 80 minutes and see the sun rise 15 times a day. They would get around their "pod" rooms by wearing Velcro suits that stick them to the walls to enable them to crawl." - Bo Stern from Bookmarklet

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"Space explorers have yet to get their hands on the replicator of "Star Trek" to create anything they might require. But NASA has developed a technology that could enable lunar colonists to carry out on-site manufacturing on the moon, or allow future astronauts to create critical spare parts during the long trip to Mars." - Bo Stern from Bookmarklet

"EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The highly technical contest brought teams from Missouri, Alaska and Seattle to Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, most familiar to the public as a space shuttle landing site." - Bo Stern from Bookmarklet

"Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically." - Bo Stern from Bookmarklet

All being well, IBM plans to enter its Watson computer into the US gameshow Jeopardy! in 2010. In order to win, the machine will not only have to understand the questions, but dig out the correct answers and speak them intelligibly. - Bo Stern from Bookmarklet

"Intel and Numonyx have announced a significant milestone in the development of phase change memory, or PCM. Their researchers say they have successfully stacked multiple layers of PCM arrays in a single 64 megabit die." - Bo Stern from Bookmarklet