Quote:
Originally posted by antoniseb+Sep 9 2004, 02:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (antoniseb @ Sep 9 2004, 02:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-astro_kct@Sep 9 2004, 02:46 PM
Considering how much computer technology has advanced in just 25 years or so ( remember using 8086 processors and Commodore 64 in the 80s?)
|
It might be more fair to compare it to how much the airline industry, or space launch capability has improved in the last 25 years. Computers have been benefiting by our increased ability to handle fine details, but large-scale transportation is up against limits of the energy content of transportable matter [fuel]. I think getting a probe up to 0.01 c within fifty years was a fairly generous prediction of how much we will advance technically on that front. [/b][/quote]
Fair enough...
Another area of potential fast-paced growth that may help is nanotechnology -- depending on where that field takes us, we may make advances we can only dream about today.