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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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Quashing the Identit |
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| In the past five years, more than 27 million Americans have been victims of identify theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission. |
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