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...modulating 2 to 20-watt microturbine fueled by liquid hydrocarbon and weighing less than 1 lb. (.5 kg) will power a soldier for six days...
...genes are located--65,000 of them with reasonable confidence, an additional 40,000 tagged more tentatively. For $10,000 a year, subscribers to DoubleTwist's website can read portions of the map; for $650,000 they can download the whole thing. And while the information is less detailed and thus less useful than what the gene sequencers will ultimately provide, DoubleTwist managed to get there first...
Some see these moves as steps toward a world full of nukes. But in retrospect what is striking is less the number of countries that have gone nuclear than the number that have not. And several, including South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, have even reversed course and abandoned once active weapons programs...
...rest of the world, content that they had achieved social justice even if their economies appeared to be stagnating. But with more information, your citizens simply know too much about the living standards, culture and alternative approaches of other societies. Since the world is not likely to get less complex and technological in the future, there is no reason to think that top-down, command-and-control methods are going to work any better than in the past...
...work, you could simply stroll through a secure, smart door and listen as your desktop virtual assistant reads aloud your schedule for the day. The temperature and lighting will adjust automatically to your preferences. Though we probably won't attain the mythical paperless office, there will likely be less of the messy stuff lying about, thanks to high-tech, rewritable parchment. And forget about typing: sophisticated voice recognition will let you tell your PC what to do (though all that yakking could just as easily make you hoarse...