1991 Pop Sci

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Hospital waiting room today, I found a 1991 Popular Science. It was fantastic. If not for the limited room provided by my johnny, I would have taken it home with me. The big topics it focused on were interactive television -- what was to become telex in the UK, but really what was the predecessor in terms of development to the internet. It also focused on space debris, and the dangers thereof, efficient 2-stroke engines for cars, and fuzzy logic for programming.

It showed me that looking forward can work. And that by looking forward, you can profit. That is my main objective.

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