Thursday, January 20, 2011

Tech Talk Thursday: Sci-Fi vs Reality?

So today is the first edition of Tech Talk Thursday. This is going to be a fun run as I’m not really a techie. Since science fiction and comic books have began, there have been countless gadgets that have turned into reality. The communicators from the classic Star Trek, for example, are today’s cell phones. It seems like half the stuff that Jules Verne wrote about over a century ago has happened.

So let now let’s take the cartoon show call M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) and see where we are going with that and today’s technology. We’re not talking about Transformers either. Nope, these vehicles aren’t robots in disguise at all. What they are is one vehicle to another vehicle and back. Imagine your Lamborghini speeding down the parkway and then getting lift off as it becomes a jet. Or your Volkswagen bus turning into an underwater vessel. Now, if you ask me that’s pretty sweet too.



So this seems pretty farfetched, right? Let’s look at what was in the news last week.



Or another example is the whole Exo-Squad set up being realistic. Sure Aliens had the E-Frames as well but let’s look at Exo-Squad just because I’m a bigger fan of the series that had J. T. Marsh battling synthetic alien clones for a good while in space during the 1990’s; the majority of my childhood. A couple of years, these actually started popping up as being real.

Heck, the jetpack idea has been a reality. Sure in World War II, the Rocketeer battled Nazis...

But is it that far fetched now? 



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