Seeing as how it's "Pop Science Friday", this seemed appropriate:
Every now and then you come across a worthwhile article link on the MSN main page. Usually it's the featured Slate article or perhaps an ESPN offering, but today the MSN Business page gives us Bruce Sterling on 10 technologies that deserve to die.
- Nuclear weapons
- Coal-based power
- The internal combustion engines
- Incandescent light bulbs
- Land mines
- Manned spaceflight
- Prisons
- Cosmetic implants
- Lie Detectors
- DVDs
My blog commentary is
here.