For those of you who are news googling the phrase "COLD FUSION" you might have recently come across an entertainment link critiquing the latest Spiderman 2 movie, see:
http://www.nypress.com/17/26/film/MattZollerSeitz.cfm In the article Spiderman's nemesis is: "Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina), a cold-fusion scientist whose body merges with mechanical tentacles during a botched experiment." This is encouraging news! Speculative writers occasionally have an uncanny knack of predicting the direction of society's future technologies. Even though Cold Fusion is being used in a nefarious way as in this summer action packed movie, the point is that I suspect the writer of the film has probably already come to the personal conclusion that there really is something behind all the controversial reports on CF. This is not the first time I've noticed obscure science fiction writers or play writers have focused on the gimmick of using a controversial power source like CF to power their fantastic gadgets. I recently saw a pilot film, made for the Sci-Fi Channel based on the popular novel series "Riverworld", by Philip Jose Farmer. In the Sci-Fi televised version of Riverworld certain mechanical devices were, once again, powered by Cold Fusion. It's as if certain speculative writers have the uncanny knack of wading through all the political mumbo jumbo and backtalk that obfuscates the real evidence and get to the heart of the matter. It is amusing to me that occasionally those in the entertainment, literary, and personal expression fields can be better at predicting future events than the scientists we pay big bucks to manifest them. (WARNING: Insert mercenary self-plug here.) It is one of the concepts I attempt to manifest in my own art as well. (End of mercenary self-plug.) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
