For you, me our species and even Apple are going to be long dead before it happens.
For folks pining for a future with holodecks, however, this is the kind of baby step that's likely needed to make such dreams a reality (though, to be honest, you'll probably be long dead before a real holodeck comes to fruition).
ENGADGET: NTT DoCoMo's augmented 3D chat system lets you have your virtual cake
The story continued yesterday with Craig Whyte gathering sports reporters to reassure them about Rangers' finances, and to tell them that Rangers will still be playing at Ibrox long after they're all dead.
While the dicey dollar may roil markets, an even dead-lier long-term downer may be that hardy perennial: taxes--or, more accurately, higher taxes.
Although Brunner could still be alive - he was once sighted in Syria - he would be almost 97 and both the Klarsfelds believe that he is long dead.
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Obama's renewed focus on climate, including his call for "market-based" solutions -- meaning reopening the idea of carbon markets or other such mechanisms, a couple of years after such ideas were considered by many to be dead -- was a return to promises made long ago.
Vintage clothes For a long time, image-conscious Italians wouldn't be seen dead in second-hand clothes.
As ACT THREE begins, Orlando has been missing for so long that Ruggiero, Bradamante and Astolfo all think he must be dead.
The Library of Congress recently issued a 78-page document called "The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan" whose purpose is to ensure that our descendants will be able to listen to the sounds of the past long after we're dead and gone.
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The source link below is still dead as of right now, but it simply can't be long before the lights are officially turned on.
Finally, should REGN727 have safety issues which arise on long term use (CETP inhibitors come to mind), this compound will be dead.
For the most part, when people think of cryonics, people think about long-term cryonics that is, freezing people who are dead so they can be revived at some point in the future, as in the Alcor case studies I mentioned, or the mythical frozen corpse of Walt Disney.
It's not really clear why the old CableCARD hasn't taken off as expected -- consumers blame their cable providers, who blame the card manufacturers, who blame device makers -- but nonetheless, the technology is far from dead, and now it looks like those long-awaited multi-stream CARDS could be available before the end of the year.
ENGADGET: CableLabs approves Motorola's multi-stream CableCARD
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