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...really difficult problem will be a new kind of proliferation involving the acquisition of chemical, biological and cyberweapons by subnational actors such as terrorist groups, cults or angry individuals. These weapons are easy to make, hard to track and hard to defend against. This means that even if the U.S. does spend tens of billions of dollars on a system to shoot down North Korean missiles, we will still have to deal with the equally pressing problem of stopping doomsday cults or future Unabombers armed with deadly viruses...
HASSETT There is no question that if you run through history, Bob is right--that over some periods following peaks in the P/E, there were some bad times. My problem with that exercise is that if you took anything, any metric of how the market is doing, and calculated the average over time, then, of course, when you are above it, then you go down, and when you are below...
During the overlap of infotech and biotech, we will be digitizing many biological processes. Up until now, four kinds of information dominate: numbers, words, sounds and images. But information comes in many other forms, such as smell, taste, touch, imagination and intuition. The problem is that our technologies for smell, taste and other new information forms aren't yet developed enough to make them commercially viable. By the 2020s, they will...
...what--exactly?--will she actually do? Circa 2010. She will be at home. Working--for the next several months--for Ford on a fiendishly difficult engineering problem. She won't be on Ford's payroll, though she will be drawing full benefits, even as a contractor. (During President Hillary Rodham's second term, health care, pensions and retraining will no longer be tied to a company but to the individual.) Her 79-member project team, only one of whom she's met face-to-face (she considers face-to-face a quaint idea that her mom suffered), comes from...
...this easy to use, people would stop using the green stuff. Wrong. It was just too hard to change people's habits. When it comes to cash, people don't want gimmicks. They want something that is universally accepted, convenient and easy. Bank researchers figured out the real problem was that wiring even 30% of the "spend points" in the area wasn't enough. They would need blanket coverage to make e-cards into everyday currency...