- 1. Virtual Reality
26 years (!) after the movie “Brainstorm” piqued our curiosity, most people don’t get any more “virtual” than Second Life or the latest episode of “Survivor.”
- 2. Home Automation
Lights, thermostats, and the coffee-maker, maybe, but not so much on the rest of the smart house scenario. The Jetsons this ain’t.
- 3. The Paperless Office
Yeah, right. So much for saving those rain forests.
- 4. Time Management
Computers bring efficiency, but that piles more tasks onto workers, while ubiquitous communications devices make certain we’re never far from work.
- 5. Locomotion
Moving sidewalks, flying cars, suction tubes zapping us from one place to another —stuck in neutral. Heck, we have wait lists just to a get a Prius.
- 6. Register-Free Checkout
RFID chips embedded in product packaging and ATM cards were supposed to do away with checkout lines. Not yet.
- 7. Telesurgery
Surgeons operating anywhere, via robotics, high-speed data connections, and electronic medical records!
- 8. Foodtopia
Meals-in-a-pill? Instead, we’ve got genetically altered foods, e.coli cross-contamination of crops, and rampant obesity.
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