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Antiques of the Future author Lisa S. Roberts looks into design's crystal ball to determine which household objects might become tomorrow's collectibles...
...give off a harsher, bluish light, and, in my experience, they take longer to fully brighten than standard bulbs. The only reason they’re starting to catch on is that they actually save consumers money in the long-term. By using the new bulbs, the average California household saves $40 per year in decreased electricity costs, according to the California Energy Commission...
...same hybrid motor used by SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004--laughing gas shot through rubber. In comparison, the spaceship being developed in great secrecy by Bezos' Blue Origin looks like a lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household disinfectant, though in a highly purified form, with a touch of kerosene) appears based on an old Delta Clipper design done for NASA. Musk's SpaceX designers favor the NASA look too--of old Apollo capsules--but that translates into ocean splashdowns...
...then all hell would be let loose. Iraq is a country where almost every household has at least one AK-47. If there is no Sunni-Shi'ite rapprochement, a full-blown civil war would raise the daily death toll from the scores to the hundreds--to say nothing of the escalation that would come if neighboring countries became involved, Iran backing the Shi'ite militias, Arab states sponsoring the Sunnis. Such a war could continue for years, with each sectarian community splitting into smaller factions led by rival warlords. In Baghdad, the ethnic cleansing would continue to its logical...
...average annual tuition and fees for a private college exceeded $22,000—a 200 percent rise over the last 30 years. Meanwhile, the real income of the median U.S. household has only risen 30 percent; today, only half of all households have incomes that exceed the average private college tuition. At the same time, entry-level pay in many fields (including public service) has declined since the early 1970s, while housing costs have escalated sharply, particularly in major cities, where many of the public service jobs are located...