<font color="yellow">Bottom line however, as I'm sure you probably already know...we really don't know how vehicles of the 23rd 24th century are going to look. This despite my strong examinations and physical reality. Physical reality today may be radically altered by the 23rd C. </font><br /><br />True. We don't know the specific vehicle configurations or concepts, but we can extrapolate based on our advances in the last 200 years.<br /><br />Take computer for example, who would've imagine that just 20 years ago, the computer and the "internet" would have this far-reaching impact to our society as a whole? <br /><br />Today, we use computers to do precision machining, build composite materials, run complex simulation before we even cut a piece of hardware.<br /><br />Tomorrow, we might be able to manipulate molecular engineering on metals, plastics, composites just like we manipulate animal & plant genes today.<br /><br />The computer of tomorrow may NOT be silicon based -- it may be BIO-based using our DNA as CPU. <br /><br />Since we only use 5% of our brain capacity (less for products of public educational system), we may be a part of "distributed computing system" for a giant network. Humans maybe reproduced just for their computing power alone. <br /><br />Instead of a flat screen, we will be in a 3-dimensional virtual simulation with the computer. We can actually feel and touch the object generated by computer (okay guys --- NO virtual sex talk now).<br /><br />Who knows if the current law of physics will still hold? Afterall, how long has it been since we developed Newtonian law of physics? <br /><br />One thing is for certain, the future will be an exciting place. <br /><br />Resistance may be futile and we will ALL be assimilated <img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>