Tech Talk: Will the world ever have a real Iron Man?
This article was first published by dmcityview.com Let’s say you’re 10 years old, you’ve just seen “Iron Man 3,” and your life is completely changed; you want to be Iron Man. Chances are you’ll never be bitten by a radioactive spider, and it’s too late to have been born on Krypton. But if you study hard enough, you could potentially become Iron Man, right? Most likely not. The chances are impossibly slim that you will one day build your own exoskeleton super-suit and fly around the planet fending off bad guys. But, theoretically, there is a chance. First, let’s examine the education necessary to build a fusion-powered, body-molded jet that responds to its pilot’s thoughts. From that very simplified description, you’d need a Ph.D.-level understanding of nuclear, software, materials and aerospace engineering, plus physics, chemistry and neuroscience. Tony Stark was a gadget-building prodigy growing up, so I guess he could master all those concepts. In the real world, though, if you...