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...Takano does win, he will face the problems engendered by Riverside's rapid growth. Traffic and crime have increased, as has unemployment, which currently stands at 15 percent...
Restic (after a pause, then with disgusted look on his face): "Sure I do, my gosh (starts walking toward the bus at a rapid clip), why would you even ask a question like that...why would you even ask...my gosh...silly question...we lost...
...everywhere -- home, the office, the beach. Thanks to a telecommunications system that will link phone networks, cable-TV systems, satellite broadcasts and multimedia libraries, getting connected to anything or anyone in the most remote parts of the world will be a simple matter. This easy access will spur the rapid growth of "virtual communities." If picture phones finally become widely accepted, people will begin to make network friends whom they may never meet in person. These communities will flourish as the cost of transmitting voices and images keeps falling...
Another pitfall is accepting too readily the idea of steady and rapid change. True, the scientific advances of the 20th century were watershed occurrences that created a world of swift and continuing transformations. But Steven Schnaars, author of Megamistakes, a critique of technological prognostication, says that in many cases the speed of change has been exaggerated. "If you look at the forecasts for the past 10 to 20 years," he says, "the most accurate ones assume a certain constancy to the world...
Full recovery from these natural disasters, such as a meteorite hitting the Earth or a rapid climate change, takes tens of thousands of years, Wilson said...