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...widespread concern over Internet privacy, which usually only involves a couple of our credit cards, it's hardly surprising that we're not so hot on the idea of letting strangers rifle through our genetic identities. What would happen if, for example, during an interview in the not-so-distant future, a prospective employer shook your hand, walked into a lab and used the traces of you skin to evaluate your life span and your overall cost to the company's health insurance coffers? And let's say you were predisposed to developing breast cancer - how could you be sure...
...mistake, if it takes you a little bit longer to settle into school, if you need to take a semester off, things will change--and most often for the better. Your bodies will change--they don't call it the Freshman Fifteen for nothing. You might grow extremely distant from the person you were during high school. But by leaving home to attend college as an independent adult, you are not growing more distant from who you once were, but rather closer to the person that you will become...
...cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat, in which weapons in the field are remotely controlled by distant operators. At least there's still a certain macho frisson to be had in the idea of embedding a tactical shard of glass in your head, and crazier things, really, have been done in the name of king and country...
...next 25 years, bits were of interest only to a few specialized members of the scientific community. But of late, bits have become important to everybody, because we can represent anything as bits--anything. In the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to describe the human body with bits and try out new drugs on these models rather than on living beings...
Just around the corner, say all the big automakers, are smart highways embedded with millions of tiny sensors and even smarter cars that are constantly aware of the traffic that is flowing around them. Drivers in the not-too-distant future, they say, will navigate from their home to the nearest freeway entrance ramp, at which point the collision-detection computer will take over. Commuters will barrel down the highway at 120 m.p.h., with only a few inches between their car and the next. But will they worry? No, they'll be checking the NASDAQ and gabbing on their cell...