…within 5 years you’ll be able to get a kid version complete with camera + 3D printer that prints action figures with your kid’s face on them from a low-cost Mattel-ized MakerBot. Maybe Microsoft will sell a Kinect “printer” one day…
Cures for cancer, smart computers… another world war?
…recreating the mammoth by starting with an elephant’s genome and changing it at the 400,000 sites at which elephant DNA differs from that of the mammoth.
“WANT to learn a musical instrument, but can’t find the time to practice? A device now under development can take control of your hand and teach you how to play a tune. No spirits of dead musicians are involved.”
The mountain of coins is the unintended result of a 2005 act of Congress. The law requires that more and more coins be minted, despite a lack of demand by the public.
We are about halfway between 1962, the year the original Jetsons TV show was produced, and 2062, the year in which the series was set in. I don’t know about you, but it was that TV show that pretty much set up my expectations for what the future would be like.
…in a campaign designed by the seoul branch of advertising agency cheil, tesco homeplus supermarket opened last fall a virtual grocery store in a south korea subway station, permitting users to shop using their smartphones.
