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Glad 2020 Is Over
Another year into the record books; here are some of my favorites from the past year:
Massage Robot Has Soft Hands, Er, Pads Vascularized Human Skin 3D Printed Stratuscent Electronic Nose Out-Of-Work Blue Collar Robots Need Your Help Maybe We Could Hibernate Until The Covid-19 Pandemic's End MIT Wants To Catch Interstellar Visitors Google Now Expects Chips To Design Themselves SpaceX Will Build Floating Spaceports! Tesla's 20,000 Superchargers
See you next year!
'The automatic massager began to fumble gently over my naked form.' - AE van Vogt, 1944 (re: AE van Vogt)
Hey Fishboy! Three days and you're out! (re: Frank Herbert)
'It's picking up diphenyl compounds and tetra hydrocarbons.' - Michael Crichton, 1985. (re: Michael Crichton)
'His legs relaxed with a rattle as he cut off all power below his waist... and ran his eye down the Help Wanted - Robot column...' - Harry Harrison, 1956. (re: Harry Harrison)
'Cold-rest was a common last resort therapy for functional psychoses.' - Robert Heinlein, 1941. (re: Robert Heinlein)
'INVESTIGATE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ENTERING NEW CALEDONIA SYSTEM FROM NORMAL SPACE' - Niven and Pournelle, 1974. (re: Niven and Pournelle)
'What lay down there? Energy, tubes and pipes, wiring, transformers, self-contained machinery...' - Philip K. Dick, 1960. (re: Philip K. Dick)
'...a single perfectly level platform, which rose so high above the water that it was not splashed by the waves.' - Otfrid von Hanstein, 1930. (re: Otfrid von Hansten)
''To recharge the batteries, which can be done in almost every town and village...' - John Jacob Astor IV, 1894. (re: John Jacob Astor IV)
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