…what we don’t have is the money.

Wired has an article entitled, straightforwardly, “10 Sci-Fi Techs We Could Build If They Weren’t So Damn Expensive.”

Android Armies
Cost: $1bn a battallion
Seen Asimo? If you want your own, expect to pay Honda about a million dollars. Cheapskates can lease one for $166,000 a year. And he still can’t handle stairs.

Still, if you need to defend something very flat with robots (rather than automatic turret guns), simply because that’s a totally bad-assed thing to do, we could put out a battalion for about a billion dollars. Not too shabby, eh?

Orbital hotels and railguns get a mention, too.

Link (via Posthuman Blues)