predictions
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Kids From 2009 Predict Jobs Of The Future
Video: Want to feel old? The year 2009 was 10 years ago. No, really. And if you want to feel really old, here’s a video where Year Four students explain what jobs they think will exist in the future.
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Kids Of The 1980s Imagined The Year 2020 With Robot Butlers, Bubble-top Cities, And Nuclear War
Earlier this month we looked at predictions from kids at the turn of the 20th century. But what about more recently? Say, from the 1980s? Well, you’re in luck, because today we have predictions about the future from kids in 1984. And some of them are as dark and terrifying as you might guess for…
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Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years… Five Years Ago
On December 1, 2013, Americans watched a segment on 60 Minutes about Amazon’s plans to deliver packages by drone in just “four or five years.” Well, it’s officially been five years. And Amazon’s failure to make drone delivery a reality is a great reminder that PR promises from big tech companies are often not worth…
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99 Things That Robots Were Supposed To Be Doing By Now
Humanoid robots are still relatively primitive here in the 21st century. Sure, we have Roombas that can vacuum our floors and Boston Dynamics robots that are doing backflips. But when it comes to the dream of our own personal robot servant, we’re still in the Dark Ages. You can’t go down to Costco and pick…