And the discs can't be erased, so you'll need to stock up on quite a few blanks. Obviously, only recording studios and a couple of rich-kid audiophiles will be able to afford the Meridian CD recorder. But breakthrough technology is always more expensive than the everyday products that follow. By this time next year, the first moderately priced CD recorders could be on the market, and in perhaps another year to two we should be able to buy compact disc recorders at about the same price as fancy VCRs. As for the matter of rescuing the world from its energy crisis, scientists announced in Utah that they had found a way to generate fusion energy at room temperature.
Fusion is the type of energy conversion that takes place on the sun.
Everyone had figured that fusion was only possible at very high temperatures and equally high costs. That is, all this could happen if what the scientists say is true. And further, it could happen if nothing gets in the way. That means that if this notion of table-top fusion really works, it can't be expensive, it can't be dangerous and it can't upset the balance of trade. And it can't make apples unsafe to eat or make grapes poisonous.