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Mon Feb-09-09 06:12 PM
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Televisions 'to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years' |
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Mon Feb-09-09 06:14 PM
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1. Should make the whole "driving while on a cell phone" issue seem trivial. |
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Mon Feb-09-09 06:16 PM
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I have heard some noise along this way, but currently they are working on using it to help visually disabled people.
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Mon Feb-09-09 06:23 PM
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5. Futurologist must be to technology what Dr. Phil is to psychology? n/t |
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Mon Feb-09-09 06:16 PM
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3. Yeah. Uh-huh. And the burnt retinas are free. |
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Edited on Mon Feb-09-09 06:16 PM by WinkyDink
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Mon Feb-09-09 06:22 PM
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4. I think by the time I'm 60, I'll be a Conservative. |
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But by then all the important, Liberal things will have been accomplished, and I'll just want to stand astride history (and technology) and yell, "Stop!"
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Mon Feb-09-09 06:31 PM
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6. "I asked this sun glass salesman why it was $300 for a pair but only $200 |
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for a TV set that decodes a digital signal it picks up from outer fuckin' space...
...Then it turned out that glasses got basic cable and I felt like a dickhead!"
-- Ron White
So, it used to be just a joke.
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Mon Feb-09-09 07:11 PM
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7. "Don't sit so close to the TV!!!!" my mom would yell. |
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Mon Feb-09-09 07:15 PM
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8. Or maybe we will have fallen into so deep a depression |
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that nobody has working contactlenses or eyeglasses any more.
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Mon Feb-09-09 07:51 PM
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9. Said the same thing about flying "Air cars" |
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in the 70's....Still waiting.
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Mon Feb-09-09 08:03 PM
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