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China"s Filtere |
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| While Web 2.0 is already transforming the way people live and work in the U.S., China is still struggling to absorb the impact of the most basic form of the Internet. E-mail, chat rooms, message boards, and Web sites all provide ways for people to communicate instantly and openly. As a result, the Internet represents both an opportunity for its growing economy, and a threat to its political stability. |
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Mending a Broken Hea |
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| Worldwide, about 23 million people have heart attacks each year. Half of them die within five years. In the United States alone, heart failure costs $40 billion a year. |
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Video Gaming Becomes |
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| The market for home video games is only 30 years old. It began in 1975, when Atari released a home version of Pong. Global industry sales of home video games totaled $28 billion in 2002, the last year for which reliable worldwide industry figures are available. In the same year, U.S. sales of computer and video game hardware and software exceeded $11 billion and probably surpassed $13 billion in 2003. |
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The Hyper-Human Econ |
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| As machines and software take over more and more of the work that people once performed, we will see profound changes in the labor market. |
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Space: The Final Eco |
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| Forty to fifty years ago, space stations and commercial space travel were part and parcel of nearly everyone��셲 vision of the 21st century. We all remember the ��쏱an Am space-plane��� arriving at the enormous rotating space station in the early moments of Stanley Kubrick��셲 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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