Re: We will have comlocks one day.
Marvin J. Mooney
> Much is made of how Arthur C. Clarke foreshadowed the mobile telephone
> with his "minisec" in his novel Imperial Earth in 1976. But a year
> earlier in 1975, the television series Space: 1999 had "comlocks", a
> hand-held portable combination video communication device, remote
> computer access device, and door opener (sic!). Reality has yet to
> completely reach where a sci-fi television series once went. However,
> it is catching up. Although the "Car Remote" app for the iPhone is a
> trick, Palm Pilots have in fact been unlocking car doors since 1998 (see
> RISKS 20.10), and could have possibly, had they had some videophone
> enhancements, just barely made it before the September the 13th, 1999,
> deadline. (-:
How about the LCROSS bombing, eh? Looking for water was
just a cover story for Abian's sleepers in NASA. I guess
they'll have to try again.