Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-13 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/web/resources/articles/lifeinthefuture/MIRACLES%20OF%20THE%20NEXT%20FIFTY%20YEARS.htm > > The year 2000 as viewed from 1950 "...Tuberculosis in all of its forms is cured as easily as pneumonia was cured at mid-c

Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-13 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:15 PM 7/13/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/web/resources/articles/lifeinthefuture/MIRACLES%20OF%20THE%20NEXT%20FIFTY%20YEARS.htm > > The year 2000 as viewed from 1950 "...Tuberculosis in all of its forms is

Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-13 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > >--- Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > >http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/web/resources/articles/lifeinthefuture/MIRACLES%20OF%20THE%20NEXT%20FIFTY%20YEARS.htm > > > > > > The year 2000 as viewed from 1950 > > > >"...Tubercu

Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-13 Thread Julia Thompson
Deborah Harrell wrote: > > --- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (If nothing else, recall that the reason the > > retirement age for Social > > Security was set at 65 was because at the time > > relatively few people would > > live long enough to draw any benefits . . . ) > > I do

Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-13 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: > > http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/web/resources/articles/lifeinthefuture/MIRACLES%20OF%20THE%20NEXT%20FIFTY%20YEARS.htm > > The year 200 as viewed from 1950 1) I like the idea of just being able to hose down everything in the house. (Doesn't cover older things suc

Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 10:50 PM Subject: Re: The limits of vision > Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > > http://arch

RE: The limits of vision

2003-07-14 Thread Chad Cooper
I thought that they got some of it right. I found this part most funny: >The purpose of this improved Zworykin-Von Neumann automaton is to predict the weather with an accuracy unattainable before >>1980. It is a combination of calculating machine and forecaster. The calculator solves thousands of

Re: The limits of vision

2003-07-14 Thread Russell Chapman
Chad Cooper wrote: What we call robotic factories they call "intelligence integrate industrial production" . I find this interesting because they seemed to lack the proper language to describe robotic automation. They also mentioned using endless punch cards to program the robotic process. I lik