Robots May Gradually Attain A Degree Of

Today, Your Cell Phone Has More Computer Power Than All Of Nasa Back In 1969, When It Placed Two Astronauts On The Moon. Video Games, Which Consume Enormous Amounts Of Computer Power To Simulate 3-d Situations, Use More Computer Power Than Mainframe Computers Of The Previous Decade. The Sony Playstation Of Today, Which Costs $300, Has The Power Of A Military Supercomputer Of 1997, Which Cost Millions Of Dollars.

You Cannot Create New Science Unless You Realise Where The Old Science Leaves Off And New Science Begins, And Science Fiction Forces Us To Confront This.

Already From Your Own Cells Scientists Can Grow Skin, Cartilage, Noses, Blood Vessels, Bladders And Windpipes. In The Future, Scientists Will Grow More Complex Organs, Like Livers And Kidneys. The Phrase 'organ Failure' Will Disappear.

To Understand The Difficulty Of Predicting The Next 100 Years, We Have To Appreciate The Difficulty That The People Of 1900 Had In Predicting The World Of 2000.

Once Again, My Colleague Stephen Hawking Has Upset The Apple Cart. The Event Horizon Surrounding A Black Hole Was Once Though To Be An Imaginary Sphere. But Recent Theories Indicate That It May Actually Be Physical, Maybe Even A Sphere Of Fire. But I Don't Trust Any Of These Calculations Until We Have A Full-blown String Theory Calculation, Since Einstein's Theory By Itself Is Incomplete.