Electric motorcycles are practical today because of advances in battery technology.
Many of the things that all of you consider enormously "practical" today exist by virtue of Turing's commitment to study beautiful, impractical things nearly a century ago.
Studies demonstrate this is practical today, and would result in economies even without renewable energy, because it would reduce the number of power plants which must be built/maintained, and creates a bidding pool far more resistant to price manipulation.
"I'm being practical today," said Robin Beck, 43, of Lake Villa, Ill., who on Saturday spent $30 on a half-price Wüsthof knife set at a Crate & Barrel store in Deer Park.
"Molt Taylor and I spent years drawing up a list of the technology needed to make a flying car practical today," Mr. Sweeney said, and advances in technology have shrunk that list.
Analysts say AI is more practical today for businesses than it has ever been.
But doing anything as sophisticated as Wolfram Alpha on existing decentralized Semantic Web data would simply not be practical today, if ever.
As developers turn their attention to office applications, the newly-available combination of 3-D, motion capture and high-definition video and audio will enable brilliantly visual and interactive productivity as well as collaboration apps that are simply not possible or practical today.
