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The future is bright. No, really!
If “The Jetsons” has taught us anything, it’s that the future won’t ever get here fast enough and when it does, it probably won’t include the pneumatic travel tubes we all crave.
But loving technology is about loving possibility, so here’s a few things that aren’t too far-fetched that I’m really looking forward to:
- That the iPhone works as promised.
- Combo high-definition DVD players get so cheap and work so well, they make the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war moot.
- A file standard emerges for online stores that sell online movies and TV shows, allowing you to move them around as you like and play them with any standard video player or portable device. This one doesn’t seem very likely at the present, but could happen as the multitude of competitors thins out.
- A “Worms” game on Xbox Live.
- Hybrid car prices to continue dropping.
- The death of DRM (digital rights management).
- For Google to blow everybody’s mind with some new technology they’ve been keeping under wraps.
- Viruses and spyware get people so frustrated that they give a hard look at what operating system they should be using.
- Feasible pneumatic people-transporting tubes.
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