Originally Posted by tandempower

I admit that I didn't foresee Skype either, but that is because I didn't understand html as a latent potential of digitization. In fact, it was a long time before I understood how CDs relied on digitization. A lot of clarity is gained by understanding the basic science, from quantum mechanics up. Some things are really impossible, while others are possible but unfathomable by people due to cultural assumptions. Freeing your imagination from cultural assumption clarifies future vision, indeed, but freeing it from the laws of physics/nature only leads to crazy ideas like flying unicorns genetically engineered from fairy dust . . . and limitless energy/industry/consumption/development without climate change or other negative side-effects.