{"id":639,"date":"2008-02-22T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2008-02-11T15:09:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T19:09:19","slug":"we-have-the-toolswe-have-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"We Have the Tools…We Have the Technology…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…what we don’t have is the money.<\/p>\n

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

Android Armies
\nCost: $1bn a battallion
\nSeen 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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Orbital hotels and railguns get a mention, too.<\/p>\n

Link<\/A> (via Posthuman Blues<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}