[00:00.00]Transportation
[00:02.17]Will we float over highways
[00:05.13]or drive on the road surface
[00:06.99]as we do now?
[00:08.74]Will the cost of a gallon
[00:10.82]of fuel still be our concern?
[00:13.33]What will our vehicles
[00:15.52]look like? Will the profile
[00:17.60]of our automobiles look like
[00:19.57]the shape of a space age aircraft?
[00:22.30]Will the notion of using
[00:24.50]paint to protect the car’s exterior
[00:26.58]be obsolete? Perhaps the coating
[00:30.18]on the car will give
[00:31.82]a durable shine and we
[00:33.47]will never need to
[00:35.00]wax or polish it.
[00:36.42]What kind of battery will
[00:38.72]we use to power our car?
[00:40.90]Will we still have a mechanic
[00:43.21]repair our car at
[00:44.73]a service garage or will
[00:47.14]robots that are computerized do it?
[00:49.66]Will the motor be powered
[00:52.17]by a new kind of petroleum
[00:54.25]product or by hydrogen?
[00:56.11]Will the cars still be
[00:58.30]equipped with horns as
[00:59.94]a warning signal or will
[01:01.36]a new device be available?
[01:03.22]Will there be a gauge
[01:05.63]to warn us if our speed
[01:07.60]is too fast or will
[01:09.57]radar be used to guide
[01:11.10]the car so that driver error
[01:13.29]is no longer a concern?
[01:15.26]Electronics
[01:18.21]Will we be able to
[01:20.95]play any musical instrument
[01:22.48]such as a guitar easily
[01:24.34]with a process the machine
[01:26.30]teach us? Will other media,
[01:29.37]such as movies, be interactive?
[01:31.45]Will we have access
[01:33.75]to opticaldiscs that can
[01:36.04]be played by laser?
[01:37.57]Digital images will more
[01:39.66]closely imitate reality.
[01:41.74]They will be so realistic
[01:44.69]that it will be virtually
[01:46.33]impossible to tell them
[01:47.75]from the real thing.
[01:48.85]Our enjoyment of watching
[01:51.03]a video will be enhanced
[01:52.89]by the quality of the images.
[01:54.42]Will we have equipment
[01:57.38]capable of manipulating ideas,
[01:59.89]eliminating the need for journalists
[02:02.30]to write and edit
[02:03.62]the news?Will computer software
[02:06.13]be available to modify
[02:07.77]what we type so that our errors
[02:10.29]are corrected automatically?
[02:12.15]Will computer hardware include
[02:15.65]massive a mounts of memory
[02:17.83]that will allow us to
[02:19.69]file an enormous amount of material?
[02:22.21]Will we be in the habit
[02:25.27]of carrying a small device
[02:26.81]with us that can be
[02:28.45]used as a cell phone,
[02:29.65]a fax, a microphone and
[02:31.95]an internet connection?
[02:34.45]Summary
[02:36.86]Look at the world around you
[02:39.05]and consider some of
[02:40.58]the concepts discussed in
[02:42.22]this document. Careful observation
[02:45.50]will lead you to the conclusion
[02:48.12]that many of these things have
[02:50.97]already happened. I urge you
[02:53.92]to reread each paragraph
[02:56.33]of this article to see
[02:58.52]if perhaps they are all
[03:00.60]things that are available somewhere
[03:02.57]in the world currently.
[03:04.21]If that is the case,
[03:06.50]then you will agree that
[03:07.71]the future is now |