Introducing.... iPhone!

Introducing iPhone!

iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

Very cool. Music player, cell phone, a whole computer in the palm of your hand! Anything you can do on a regualar cell phone, only easier, e-mail, web browsing, texting. Great new gadget. Too bad it will cost upwards of $500.

Sci-Fi's Broken Promises

Sci-Fi's Broken Promises

...Science has delivered; the problem is that science is so scientific. Research progresses in such a linear way you could scream. Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face—they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

A Q&A with Daniel H. Wilson, Author of "How to Survive a Robot Uprising." Rather interesting.