Generalism

The news inbox made today a real wake-up day for future-gazers; in one single 24 hour stretch, a lot of exciting things just got a lot less “future”. Perhaps we should start calling them “now-gazers”… Nah, that sucks.

What most certainly doesn’t suck is one single bout of mental exertion by a geezer going and digitizing the analog gearing in the humble wind turbine, effectively doubling wind energy power generation overnight. That’s all wind energy production. Everywhere. New and old systems alike. Double is very cool.

On a more sobering note, it’s good to see that South Korea’s money is being well spent in a time of financial upheaval. Their new hi-tech battle uniforms, straight out of an XBox360 shooter, should see them well-placed to go and nick everyone else’s money when theirs runs out. This is an example of uncool. Anticool. Absolutely cool, NOT! I do wish people would stop inventing better ways to kill and be killed…

NASA has finally gotten round to testing the internet in space, and subsequently pronounced it good. When my wifi connection is up and running again, and I’ve spoken to my ISP about my dial-up speeds, I’ll dig into this one further. Thank goodness NASA’s keeping my Marsphone working a treat. Now would someone please pick up at the other end?

I have a certain empathy for those people on the sharp end of the pro-choice/anti-choice organ donation debate currently bouncing around the world of UK politics. However I can’t help but think that every additional pound spent campaigning and coercing people along dictatorial party lines would be better spent on a real solution rather than simply shoring up a problem that’s lasted nearly eighty years. A temporary, and, for the 21st century, rapidly becoming the wrong solution to boot. The right solution comes in the form of pre-grown body parts, straight out of science fiction and into people like Claudio Castillo, recently having had stem cells grown into new windpipe tissue to repair damage from an extreme TB infection. A new windpipe made to order? Certainly madam. Would you like that with no donor issues and no body rejection? Take a seat, it’ll be with you in a jiff. Now that is what I call a viable solution for this shiny new millenia.

And finally, just to make sure we bring today kicking and screaming into tomorrow, holy moley if they haven’t gone and created a whole ton of anti-matter using the good old straight-out-of-a-Bond-movie laser beam. Those in the know already appreciate the almost unreal potential behind the power of matter/anti-matter reactions. Everyone else, listen up; they get this right, and all of the above becomes a mere blip on the discovery “X-Factor” radar. This may well be the one here with most distance yet to travel, but to even be moving forward in this area commands reverence of the utmost intensity. Marry this with the work Virgin Galactic and NASA and of course the LHC are all doing around energy and space travel and things could get very very interesting very quickly.

Blimey, I think I need to go take a lie down.