Looks like Paul Allen wants to create a Science Fiction Experience multimedia museum in Seattle. I’ll reserve comment until it opens, but it should be interesting to follow.
(Nitpick note: it’s Heinlein’s “Rocketship Galileo” that inspired him as a kid, not “Spaceship Galileo”. Ya-hey.)
Not sure if it will happen, but it would be nice to see Segway kiosks the next time we go to Paris. I’d love to be able to rent a couple of Segways at the train station, strap our bags to them, and zip over to the hotel. Tooling around the museums and such would be easier, too, especially if it’s easy enough to lug one onto the Metro. The Segway site has video examples of the kiosks, too.
Ever wonder who thought up the mouse? Now you can watch the 1968 demo that introduced it to the world, along with hypertext, the “document”, WYSIWYG editing, and a host of other staples of modern computing.
I’m not sure how big a grain of salt to take this with, but Scientific American has just published an overview article on the state of the art of parallel universes.
I’m glad I waited to put up photos of our sprouting seedlings. Three days later, they’re reaching for the sky! Only a few of the seeds haven’t burst forth from our hi-tech Seedling Growth Pods ™ (T.P. tubes to the uninitiated) .
Apologies for the blurry close-ups. It’s hard to see ‘em when the dirt pieces are bigger than they are. ;)