Historically, we have seen it before: Science fiction becomes science.
NASA is creating something it calls "Highway in the Sky" which is a computer aided transport matrix for allowing people to fly anywhere they want, anytime they want.
Teachers in a Jamestown elementary school are using iPods as a classroom tool. Read the full article in the Washington Post Online. (Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Page B01)
The research firm IDC estimated spending on "software as a service" (which means over-the-Internet corporate computing) will double during the next five years, totaling $10.7 billion in 2009
The movie The Matrix made many of us wonder exactly how close we are to direct neural implants which act as an interface to computers. In fact, Microsoft has been awarded a patent on the human body as a power and transmission device... hmmm.
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