includes being more open, and partnering with the private sector to find new technologies
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Once again it seems as if the five minutes into the future-principle proves to be clairvoyant.
And we all thought Bond films are just silly entertainment.
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… And get this on nanobots just in today’s paper!
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… oh, what a silly plot this film NTTD has…
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Remember that silliest gadget ever in FRWL, when Bond had a telephone in his car? 
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Now that would fit much more in Star Trek or whatever…
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Remember the silly idea in DAF that industrialists and multinational corporations could be more powerful/influential than government(s)?
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Ah, that would never happen in real life.
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Two other absolutely ridiculous gadgets were the one in TSWLM, where Bond had something like a motorbike that would run on water. Incredible that they tried to make us believe that something like that could ever work.
And the other one was in AVTAK, when Bond took the blade from that crashed snow-mobile and used it like a surf board. On snow! How stupid is that? And to top of it all, they used surf music to underscore, as if the kids would suddenly change from the sunny beaches to the cold mountains for something as ludicrous as that.
Instead of making up impossible gadgets, they really should listen to people who know about “things”, like that Ken Olsen guy, who said in 1977 “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
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Should I have started a new thread for this?
Bond told you so. The times Bond predicted the future
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Sounds like a great thread!
I still remember when Tomorrow Never Dies was considered to have had a preposterous plot. Bond vs Fake News, who would’ve thunk it?
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I’ve been hanging on to this thought for a while…had Goldfinger succeeded in radiating the US gold supply for 57 years, 1964+57 = 2021.
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I thought it was 58 years to be exact. So 2022….
Bond says 57, Goldfinger 58. Whose math should vwe trust?
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I’d wait until 2023 just to be safe.
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On the subject of Scott, Mallory’s C joke remains one of the biggest laughs I’ve seen elicited from a movie audience.
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