Reasons I Can't Wait for the Future: Lilypads

This is the first post in what I hope will be a long series about real and potential advances in technology that make me jump up and down in my desk chair. Just a little. I have to keep it somewhat professional here at the WAVY offices.

Posts will range from "entirely plausible" to "Indiana Jones 4." To kick everything off, I'm going with the latter: I give you The Lilypad, a floating metropolis that can supposedly provide life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness for 50,000 people. No word on shuffleboard, but I've got my fingers crossed.

I'd put up a picture, but they wouldn't let me copy anything from the site, and I'm terrified of breaching terms of use since the MySpace case. In its place, I give you... this thing... which is kinda the same idea...



(Which could probably also get me (read: Chris) sent to jail...)

Every now and then these floating city ideas come up, inevitably looking fantastic and making me wish for the high seas and handheld devices that make Skittles appear out of thin air. Fortunately for me, my gleeful anticipation is not sullied by little things like "science." Thinking about that might make me ask questions about waste management, energy efficiency, and disaster prevention (didn't these people see "Poseidon"?? Rogue waves are for real). For now I'm just excited about getting an underwater apartment in 2057.

That is, of course, assuming that we're not all reduced to grey goo by then.