[torg] [NNWS] So, Core Earth, about that Tech 24...

[James Knevitt]

2008/10/7 Morgan Nash <morgan.nash.uk at googlemail.com>

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>  "The Japanese Government is pushing huge financial and technical weight
>>> into the development of three-dimensional, virtual-reality television, and
>>> the country's Communications Ministry is aiming at having such technology
>>> available by 2020."
>>>
>>
>> That's 12 years off, not the usual guesstimate of 5-10 years. Do they
>> know something we don't?
>>
>
> That's to sucker you in. When the new technology appears quicker than the
> estimate, you will feel all grateful towards them and willing to accept that
> their methods (and Reality) are best.
>


Seriously, though, if the Japan of the real world started coming up with
Tech 24 stuff I for one wouldn't be surprised. My reaction would be more of
"huh, that's kinda cool".

-- 
James Knevitt
jknevitt at gmail.com

"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."
-- TS Eliot, 'The Waste Land'
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