IBM Measures The Force Required To Move Atoms

You should also mention Gene Roddenberry. By the way the original title of the book from which Blade Runner was taken is called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". The same author of "A Scanner Darkly". I believe his last name was Dick. A paranoid schizo who commited suicide. Intelligence can drive some people mad.

Wiki is the sum of all human knoledge.

I seriously doubt your statement about education levels (;. As far as academics foes - where I live it can be so conservative community. They don't like any challenges to their authority, even from their own field. They fight with their 'competitors' (other scientists, whole universities...) and their 'offspring' (students, grads, friends - you name it). I'm afraid it can be universal. Citing Wikipedia in a science paper surely is a sub-standard practise. Using it for research - surely not.

I will check out that website.

I disagree with you about the quality of Wikipedia rivaling that of Encyclopedia Britannica, as Wikipedia is seriously frowned upon by university standards, and there must be a good reason for that. I am obviously ignorant to your level of education, but it has been in my experience that even the mere mention of Wikipedia in the academic field is laughable. Actually, it is recommended to avoid most of the internet for info, unless using registered journals.

So how about the Internet Society's site? Check their 'Brief history of the Internet' and highlight all the instances of 'DARPA'. It will shine like a X-mas tree. And yes, everyone can write whatever he wants in the Wikipedia. However there is verification system in place, and Wikipedia's quality rivals that of Encyclopedia Britannica.

bare this in mind, science fiction that isn't stupid is usually the base for the future, check out Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and the movies, re watch Blade Runner. The premises come before the reality, always.

Recently, my World Lit professor told us how the internet was originally designed by scientists to transport vast amounts of info to each other that was absurd to transport otherwise. I do not know if that was any military relation. Also, in terms of academie, please refrain from using Wikipedia. Anybody can get on there and edit whatever they want, as it's not peer reviewed and thus, not accurate or credible. However, it's not bad to check out the sources listed.

The internet WAS military...The goverment originally developed it to allow communications between military installations that possessed nuclear weapons...The whole paranoid mindset that the Cold War disputes started. I guess something good came out of it; if it wasn't for a paranoid government, there would be no internet. Either that, or someone else would have invented it.

IBM is always a step ahead of all the other companies (dell, HP, apple, gateway etc..)

I can't wait to see how IBM will revolutionize technology 20 years from now.

Yes, laptops, I-pods etc but many authors have
speculated in the past that, by now, we would have individual mini-helicopters and other such things. Only a few percent of the
technological ideas will eventually become reality in the near future. The rest of them are just science fiction...