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The Wireless Web Fin |
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| A few years ago, people could only dream about the freedom to log onto the Internet without using a wire plugged into a telephone jack. Today, it"s become routine to connect to the Internet wirelessly, at 100 times the speed of a dialup connection, while at a fast-food restaurant or a train station. |
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Quantum Computing Ad |
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| Many of the problems of nanotech, biotech, and anti-terrorism are so complex that today萸� computers ?based on an architecture defined nearly 60 years ago ?can萸� address them. However, hope is on the horizon as researchers get closer and closer to building commercially viable quantum computers. |
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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��셱e 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��셲 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��셲 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 ��쏶tar 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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