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James Cameron into the Abyss

HONOLULU (AP) – Hollywood director James Cameron dove to the Earth's deepest point in a specially designed submarine, making him the first man to travel alone on the near 7-mile journey to the depths of the Marianas Trench.

The director of Titanic, Avatar and other films touched down in the western Pacific Ocean's low point shortly before 8 a.m. Guam time Monday, National Geographic said.

He reached a depth of 35,756 feet and stayed on the bottom for about three hours before he began his return to the surface, according to information provided by the expedition team. He had planned to spend up to six hours on the sea floor.

Supernatural Supermarket 'Ghost' Caught on Video

A supernatural supermarket "ghost" has been caught on videotape hurling fruit snacks, according to a store owner in South Australia. 

Brompton IGA store owner Norm Hurst told Adelaide Now that previous store owners told him the market was haunted. Now he believes it may be indeed after security camera video apparently caught something strange is occurring in the market. Hurst reportedly closed up the market last week with everything in order. Yet before midnight security video cameras apparently caught a Fruit Roll-Up package being hurled to the middle of an aisle.

Robotic Nation

 

Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

I went to McDonald's this weekend with the kids. We go to McDonald's to eat about once a week because it is a mile from the house and has an indoor play area. Our normal routine is to walk in to McDonald's, stand in line, order, stand around waiting for the order, sit down, eat and play. On Sunday, this decades-old routine changed forever. When we walked in to McDonald's, an attractive woman in a suit greeted us and said, "Are you planning to visit the play area tonight?" The kids screamed, "Yeah!" "McDonald's has a new system that you can use to order your food right in the play area. Would you like to try it?" The kids screamed, "Yeah!"

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The woman walks us over to a pair of kiosks in the play area. She starts to show me how the kiosks work and the kids scream, "We want to do it!" So I pull up a chair and the kids stand on it while the (extremely patient) woman in a suit walks the kids through the screens. David ordered his food, Irena ordered her food, I ordered my food. It's a simple system. Then it was time to pay. Interestingly, the kiosk only took cash in the form of bills. So I fed my bills into the machine. Then you take a little plastic number to set on your table and type the number in. The transaction is complete. We sat down at a table. We put our number in the center of the table and waited. In about 10 seconds the kids screamed, "When is our food going to get here???" I said, "Let's count." In less than two minutes a woman in an apron put a tray with our food on the table, handed us our change, took the plastic number and left.
You know what? It is a nice system. It works. It is much nicer than standing in line. The only improvement I would request is the ability to use a credit card.
As nice as this system is, however, I think that it represents the tip of an iceberg that we do not understand. This iceberg is going to change the American economy in ways that are very hard to imagine.
The Iceberg
The iceberg looks like this. On that same day, I interacted with five different automated systems like the kiosks in McDonald's:

• I got money in the morning from the ATM.
• I bought gas from an automated pump.
• I bought groceries at BJ's (a warehouse club) using an extremely well-designed self-service check out line.
• I bought some stuff for the house at Home Depot using their not-as-well-designed-as-BJ's self-service check out line.
• I bought my food at McDonald's at the kiosk, as described above.
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