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Jennifer MaddrellTHIS is worth the read - fun, fun, funny! FOund via tweet from Alec Couros.
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edtechtalkTHIS is worth the read - fun, fun, funny! FOund via tweet from Alec Couros.
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Joe MurphyWho says archives aren't worth re-publishing?
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There is a memory-improving pill available now: Centrophenoxine. It’s not available in the US because the patent has expired and it’s quite cheap, so there’s no incentive for any drug company to get it approved in the US. The US pharmaceutical system is set up for drug-company profits as the highest priority. Centrophenoxine can be ordered from European companies, however. The four-hour workday prediction didn’t take into account the capitalist system and suppression of unions. Corporations kept the same workday and kept all increases in productivity as profits for investors. I predict 2048 will be a much gloomier era, since most of the oil will have been used up by then. (We’ve just reached the halfway point, and it will cost more to get the remaining oil. Google “hubbert peak”.) It’s hard to see how mass die-offs can be prevented in the next 40 years, as the (expanding) population is unsustainable with the dwindling oil supply. (Some have suggested the world’s elite (Google “Bilderberg Society”) have plans to forcibly reduce the world’s population by 80% before this happens.) Plant life produces oil from carbon dioxide in the air, water, and sunlight. In 2048 I predict this mechanism will be reproduced synthetically, and there will be oil factories, but research into this will be delayed by oil corporations that want to get every last cent of profit from oil pumped from the ground. The synthetically-produced oil will be too little too late to help humanity. Recycling will become crucial in the coming decades as we go through the limited supply of natural resources. I predict in 2048 robots will be mining the landfills of 20th-century garbage for raw materials such as metals. In 2048 the corporate takeover of the world’s democracies will be complete. Civil liberties will be a quaint idea from a simpler time. Corporations and governments will merge as only political parties financed by corpor
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A business associate wants a sketch of a new kind of impeller your firm is putting out for sports boats. You reach for your attache case and draw the diagram with a pencil-thin infrared flashlight on what looks like a TV screen lining the back of the case. The diagram is relayed to a similar screen in your associate’s office, 200 mi. away. He jabs a button and a fixed copy of the sketch rolls out of the device. He wishes you good luck at the coming meeting and signs off.
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Electrostatic precipitators clean the air and climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels. Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores. New materials for siding and interiors are self-cleaning and never peel, chip or crack.
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prepackaged meals into the freezer and lets the automatic food utility do the rest. At preset times, each meal slides into the microwave oven and is cooked or thawed. The meal then is served on disposable plastic plates. These plates, as well as knives, forks and spoons of the same material, are so inexpensive they can be discarded after use.
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2008 households is the computer. These electronic brains govern everything from meal preparation and waking up the household to assembling shopping lists and keeping track of the bank balance. Sensors in kitchen appliances, climatizing units, communicators, power supply and other household utilities warn the computer when the item is likely to fail. A repairman will show up even before any obvious breakdown occurs.
Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities. Not every family has its private computer. Many families reserve time on a city or regional computer to serve their needs. The machine tallies up its own services and submits a bill, just as it does with other utilities.
Money has all but disappeared. Employers deposit salary checks directly into their employees’ accounts. Credit cards are used for paying all bills. Each time you buy something, the card’s number is fed into the store’s computer station. A master computer then deducts the charge from your bank balance.
Computers not only keep track of money, they make spending it easier. TV-telephone shopping is common. To shop, you simply press the numbered code of a giant shopping center. You press another combination to zero in on the department and the merchandise in which you are interested. When you see what you want, you press a number that signifies “buy,” and the household computer takes over, places the order, notifies the store of the home address and subtracts the purchase price from your bank balance. Much of the family shopping is done this way. Instead of being jostled by crowds, shoppers electronically browse through the merchandise of any number of stores.
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programmed TV courses, which can be rented or borrowed from tape _ * libraries. In fact most schooling—from first grade through college—consists of programmed TV courses or lectures via closed circuit. Students visit a campus once or twice a week for personal consultations or for lab work that has to be done on site. Progress of each student is followed by computer, which assigns end term marks on the basis of tests given throughout the term.
Besides school lessons, other educational material is available for TV viewing. You simply press a combination of buttons and the pages flash on your home screen. The world’s information is available to you almost instantaneously.
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TV screens cover an entire wall in most homes and show most subjects other than straight text matter in color and three dimensions. In addition to programmed TV and the multiplicity of commercial fare, you can see top Broadway shows, hit movies and current nightclub acts for a nominal charge. Best-selling books are on TV tape and can be borrowed or rented from tape libraries.
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paul reidWell, we do have flat-screen computers you can write on that fit in a briefcase, but I’m still waiting to take my 250 MPH car to a business meeting in another domed city. Perhaps by the end of the year.
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Add Sticky NoteThe car accelerates to 150 mph in the city’s suburbs, then hits 250 mph in less built-up areas, gliding over the smooth plastic road.
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With the U.S. population having soared to 350 million
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200-passenger rockets blast off for other continents
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Electrostatic precipitators clean the air and climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels
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Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores
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The single most important item in 2008 households is the computer
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Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities.
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The average work day is about four hours
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