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...geographically indexed databases. Using GPS with speech-understanding software that is emerging today, we will be able to get directions from our WIDGETS as easily as we once got them at a filling station. One can imagine driving in the car, asking our WIDGET for the name of the nearest Thai restaurant, getting an answer, asking for reservations and then for directions. Indeed, the car may be smart enough to handle the entire transaction and drive us there itself...
...Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, when they were younger--filled, no doubt, with a confident belief in boomer immortality, or at least boomer invulnerability--they saved for retirement much less conscientiously than their Gen X counterparts are doing today. As a result, a full 40% of boomers, and 30% of those nearest to retirement, have less than $10,000 in personal savings. That's more than 30 million people who are no better prepared for retirement than they are for a couple of weeks with the family at Disneyworld...
...with the University's capital campaign--Rudenstine's legacy--complete at last, the president has become a lame duck. Inevitably, power and attention will devolve to those around him. And his nearest subordinate, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, is trying to conceal his eagerness to take the reins...
...Grand Canyon, and it can tell you which path to take to get out. Not surprisingly, many of the localization services revolve around mobile commerce, which the industry has dubbed m-commerce. Your handheld, or for that matter your cell phone, can point you to the nearest Starbucks or Chinese restaurant. When you're lost on the road, it can lead you to the closest gas station...
...pagers with Web access can be a less expensive and highly portable way to access discrete bits of information. You can already use them to send and receive e-mail, buy the new Toni Braxton CD on Amazon.com ditch your Microsoft stock and get directions to the nearest cinema or sushi...