NextFest
So my wife and I went to NextFest today. It was shockingly cool. It started out pretty poorly though. We intended to take the train, but were told that the southbound traffic was all stopped. Turns out someone fell under an El car. Now that would suck. But NextFest was cool. The theme is basically the future. They wanted to show what the x of the future would look like. They are calling themselves a “mini” world’s fair. Accordingly it is being reported from a blog. Go there for all the details. I just wanted to comment on a few important things I saw there. First, the reason I went. Then of course there was seeing all the cool dancing robots. Don’t forget the cloned pets. And of course the flying cars. Here is a pic of me with my company’s car. Oh, and in response to Mike’s post, we saw the Phillip K. Dick android.
June 27th, 2005 at 09:00
A humorous review:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050626-5041.html
-alain
July 1st, 2005 at 07:42
did you crop yourself out of that photo?
July 1st, 2005 at 12:15
Nope, I believe that I am still in the photo.
Oh you know what, I probably need to to the whole thumbnail thing. Haven’t uploaded an image in a while and forgot to do that. Oh well. Right click and view image if you want to see the whole thing.
July 7th, 2005 at 02:17
THAT’s your company’s car?? What the hell? I don’t think I have the vaguest idea what you do anymore, apparently…
Also you totally look photoshopped into that picture.
July 10th, 2005 at 14:58
OK, not my company car so much as the car being built by a company that I foolishly bought stock in. Actually it is the only company I ever bought stock in. I didn’t really see it as busying stock so much as making a donation to the future of flying cars. Even if they never get a car in the air, they have done huge amounts of work moving the FAA to the type of regulation environment that would eventually allow them to happen, so I see it as money well spent.
And the image is taken with a camera phone in a dark environment with a well lit model, so I’m honestly amazed you can see me at all.