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...ruins might get a temporary reprieve, but those hopes vanished when the contractor announced that each month's delay would add $30 million to the $1 billion project. For disappointed archaeologists the only recourse is to scramble to rescue as many of the objects as possible before they disappear below the water at the end of the month...
...what might this workers' paradise look and feel like? Well, for starters, technology will be "invisible but unavoidable," as Bob Arko of industrial designer IDEO puts it. The tangled cables that snake through every office, for instance, should disappear, replaced by wireless systems that zap voice, data and video through the air. Smart materials could make any surface or gadget feel like wood one day and metal the next. Intelligent chairs might conform perfectly to your posture, giving you a much needed back rub in the process. Embedded systems and biometric, body-sensing technology will enable every piece of hardware...
...what jobs will disappear...
...Putting the situation in Austria into perspective will guarantee that just as quickly as the country appeared prominently on the world's front pages earlier this year, Austria is going to disappear again as quickly to resume its traditional place--somewhere between the travel and foods sections, and possibly even as a byline on the winter sports page...
These are the sorts of problems that were supposed to disappear, or at least not get any worse, after Washingtonians like me caved in to the city's conservative congressional overlords 18 months ago and propelled Barry into a second involuntary retirement. (His first involuntary retirement came in 1990, after he was videotaped smoking crack in a D.C. hotel.) In his place, we elected the city's former chief financial officer, Anthony Williams, a bow tie-wearing technocrat whose main qualification seemed to be that he was not Barry...