Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future, Fowler says she would like to travel for a while and then definitely end up coaching. But since college coaching is a full time job requiring an enormous time commitment, Fowler says she'll probably focus on coaching at the high school level...
...networks of the future will become increasingly populated with new kinds of software entities known as personal assistants, or "agents." These agents will monitor the outside world, gleaning pertinent information, filtering out unwanted clutter, tracking appointments and offering advice. A travel "agent," for example, would be indispensable to a foreign traveler by doing simultaneous translations or pointing out sites of interest. A virtual lawyer could give expert legal opinions, a Wall Street agent timely investment tips...
Probes and people would sally forth into the deeper universe, propelled by thin sails filled by the feeble but inexorable pressure of sunlight or traveling on ion drives that get their boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...
...century to come, and the centuries to follow, will be complex, fast- paced and turbulent. Human beings everywhere have learned to live with, even thrive on, explosive increases in the volume of knowledge, the capacities of technology, the potential for travel, the electronic immediacy of once distant cultures. Change has become almost addictive, a jolt to energy and creativity...
Learning will no longer stop with high school or even college. Specialized knowledge will become obsolete so quickly that adults will be encouraged to take frequent breaks from work, subsidized by their employers, to catch up. "Learning vacations," even for entire families, will become a major part of the travel industry as well as a big moneymaker for colleges whose campuses and faculty would otherwise be idle...