In a recent Wall St. Journal, there was an article about Rio Tinto’s mining operations that involve a remote controlled satellite linked mining machine. The idea sounds like Asimov or Avitar. It seems like another bit of science fiction coming true. I’ll be looking in more detail at this idea in future blog posts, but it is fascinating.
I’ll be taking a week’s sebatical and attending the SCIP 2010 meeting this week. See you next week.