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The Self-Driving Car |
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Imagine getting into your car and telling the driver to take you to the office, the airport, or the mall. You relax while you’re ferried to your destination and dropped at the door. Your car then waits discreetly for your return trip. Not too unusual if you employ a driver or use a limo service. However, that’s a little pricey for the mass market. But, imagine that your driver is not a human being but rather an affordable, computerized feature on your vehicle. |
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Domestic Robots Are |
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Modern medicine offers the possibility that we will all live longer and be healthier. But inevitably the last few years of most people’s lives will find them needing caretaking of some sort. As many Baby Boomers already know, taking care of aging parents is a labor-intensive task. Even a moderately disabled person can require around-the-clock care and more than one helper to move from place to place. |
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The Time for Nationa |
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When Ronald Reagan unveiled his vision for the Strategic Defense Initiative, often referred to in the press as the “Star Wars Program,” the primary threat to national security came from the Soviet Union, and the technology for creating an effective anti-missile shield was decades away. |
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Moving South |
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America is on the verge of a great migration that is affecting where people will live and how companies will profit. As futurist Dr. Jim Taylor points out in American Demographics, the U.S. has been the site of two previous major migrations. |
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The Anticipated Hous |
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As we’ve been warning for some time now, it was inevitable that the overheated real estate market would cool off. That time has come, but the situation isn’t as dire as it seems. |
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