Dalek Dave wrote:
When they discovered how to make buckyballs there was no immediate gain, but now look at the nanotechnology.
Actually is this not a great example of what Marc is talking about? I do believe there is future use in it but is there anything that we have actually made to date using the technology in real life situations? Maybe there is but I am unaware, but most of the articles I have read are "Oh and we can do XYZ and yadda yadda"... Well do it. I still have yet to see anything resulting that effects my day to day life. Well at least that I know of. Maybe it has integrated and I am simply oblivious. Have any actual examples?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.