Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used to think that, but it's been awhile. I don't pretend to think I'm as smart as Noam Chomsky, but I'm smart enough to ask him questions...
...house of the future with sleek lines and magically appearing appliances capable of performing the most onerous of household tasks with just the simple touch of a button or a voice command. And while there still may not be a way to get out of actually scrubbing your tub, smart-home technology is giving the homeowner a level of automation futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study by the Z-Wave Alliance found...
...while you'll still have to do the folding yourself, Whirlpool is testing a line of "smart" washers and dryers, which enable consumers to monitor the status of their rinse cycle remotely and control the washer or dryer by computer or cell phone. But presumably it still takes a human hand to separate the lights from the darks...
...recent sign of the turnaround is the changing fate of the DaimlerChrysler/Mercedes Smart car, which is a megahit in Europe, Australia, Asia and Canada because it gets up to 69 m.p.g. (diesel) and is so small that two can fit into a parking space but which Mercedes delayed bringing to the U.S. for fear of tarnishing its identity as a status brand. Now the company is scrambling to get it to the States as quickly as possible...
...Harvard. “I wasn’t a good student. I was sort of creative or whatever,” he said. “But, you know, the depressing thing is you come here and meet all these guys who are creative and really smart and have it all going on.”After his recent visit to Harvard, it seems like Stiller’s two children, a four-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy, will not be attending the “Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can?...