Comments on: A Small Lie http://romansturgis.com/2010/01/27/a-small-lie/ Fiction podcasts and my blog. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:25:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: miser http://romansturgis.com/2010/01/27/a-small-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-277 miser Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:28:24 +0000 http://romansturgis.com/?p=601#comment-277 some more comments, do you usually use brand names, copy right stuff like amex, strake, shiner? i think its bock beer, and usually the electrics are motors, unless its a hybrid engine setup?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine some more comments, do you usually use brand names, copy right stuff like amex, strake, shiner? i think its bock beer, and usually the electrics are motors, unless its a hybrid engine setup?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine

]]> By: Roman http://romansturgis.com/2010/01/27/a-small-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Roman Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:25:38 +0000 http://romansturgis.com/?p=601#comment-272 Jim these are awesome comments! Thank you so much!! Will talk soon. RS Jim these are awesome comments! Thank you so much!! Will talk soon. RS

]]> By: Jim http://romansturgis.com/2010/01/27/a-small-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Jim Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:01:23 +0000 http://romansturgis.com/?p=601#comment-271 Hi Roman, We got a snow day up here in Chicago - lab is closed, but our street isn't plowed, so I couldn't get to work even if it was open. Taking the opportunity to finally start reading your book. Don't know if you want comments, but I'm going to give you a few anyways. Specifically on your science. Bud zero calorie will never exist, unless it is also non-alcoholic. Alcohol is caloric (~150 calories per ounce), which is why light beers never have as much alcohol as real beers, and ultra-light beers have less than 3% alcohol. The other flavors you can probably get no-cal versions of, but unless you have no alcohol, you will have calories. For reference, 12oz of 5% alcohol in water (nothing else with any calories besides alcohol) would have ~90 calories. I believe the implanted bluetooth and HUD on contacts will happen within our lifetime, possibly even autopilot on a car, but I think that this one little thing is impossible. I doubt projectors will be the way for TVs of the future. Projectors are still really expensive while flat screen prices are dropping rapidly. Currently there are two areas of research which could potentially change screen technology. The first is transparent conductors, which could enable screens like you see in the movie Minority Report (or the HUD on glasses or contacts). Many of my colleagues are working on transparent conductors, and I think we will see screens like that within our lifetime. The second is printable organic circuitry, which would enable you to print a screen on a piece of paper or cloth (or a transparency), roll it up, etc. Instead of projecting onto a wall, you could have bookcases or whatever else on the wall, and just unroll a screen in front of them, no projector necessary. Anyways, the writing is pretty good, definitely getting me interested. I also don't know how much you want the science in your writing to be possible and how much it (especially the peripherals like no-cal beer) just need to make the point that there is scientific progress. So take my suggestions or leave them as you see fit. Hi Roman,

We got a snow day up here in Chicago – lab is closed, but our street isn’t plowed, so I couldn’t get to work even if it was open. Taking the opportunity to finally start reading your book.

Don’t know if you want comments, but I’m going to give you a few anyways. Specifically on your science.

Bud zero calorie will never exist, unless it is also non-alcoholic. Alcohol is caloric (~150 calories per ounce), which is why light beers never have as much alcohol as real beers, and ultra-light beers have less than 3% alcohol. The other flavors you can probably get no-cal versions of, but unless you have no alcohol, you will have calories. For reference, 12oz of 5% alcohol in water (nothing else with any calories besides alcohol) would have ~90 calories.

I believe the implanted bluetooth and HUD on contacts will happen within our lifetime, possibly even autopilot on a car, but I think that this one little thing is impossible.

I doubt projectors will be the way for TVs of the future. Projectors are still really expensive while flat screen prices are dropping rapidly. Currently there are two areas of research which could potentially change screen technology. The first is transparent conductors, which could enable screens like you see in the movie Minority Report (or the HUD on glasses or contacts). Many of my colleagues are working on transparent conductors, and I think we will see screens like that within our lifetime. The second is printable organic circuitry, which would enable you to print a screen on a piece of paper or cloth (or a transparency), roll it up, etc. Instead of projecting onto a wall, you could have bookcases or whatever else on the wall, and just unroll a screen in front of them, no projector necessary.

Anyways, the writing is pretty good, definitely getting me interested. I also don’t know how much you want the science in your writing to be possible and how much it (especially the peripherals like no-cal beer) just need to make the point that there is scientific progress. So take my suggestions or leave them as you see fit.

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