7th June 2003, 4:59 PM
The engine room eh? What, is the whole thing powered by a hamster in a wheel? The true nature of future technology isn't to make the most complex thing ever, because that means a million things can go wrong. The real goal is to make the most useful device out of pure simplicity. In other words, a gigantic ultrapowerful wishing thingy operated with a single button made out of ONE thing with no moving parts except the button (replace the button with a heat sensitive area, takes out that degredation :D).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)