A couple of cool things

First, Isaac Asimov wrote about the 2014 World's Fair after attending the 1964 World's Fair.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html

My blatherings on it....
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While on the subject of the future of computers from the perspective of the past, this interview with computer pioneer Alan Kay was really good. He was a researcher at Xerox PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center, that brought us more inventions that benefited computing than I'll ever be able to name or count. His biggest disappointment with what they wanted to do back in the '70s and '80s compared to what became reality was the iPad and Android tablets. The fault is in the DRM preventing sharing, not in the tablets themselves.

http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/


And finally, how about a full-size replica of the Starship Enterprise, built in downtown Las Vegas? It came down to one person and one meeting to being reality, and that person said 'no' and killed the project. Very sad.

http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/index.php/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992/