In the future, according to some scientists, robots will turn up as nannies, teachers and as dogs that keep track of your health. Researchers have also invented a robot juror that can help decide whether or not an offender should be given the death penalty.
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?And if it was, what does that portend for both sides?right and left?in future elections? how can we ever again be sure that right person takes office? In the wake of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war, which is shaping up to be another Vietnam-style debacle, many more voters are asking themselves whether Bush was ever really elected president.
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Newswise – When you read your initials from left to right, do they form a word? If they do, is it a unattractive word like PIG or ZIT? Or is it an attractive word, like ACE, WOW or JOY? Scientists have seriously researched nominative determinism (and discovered that, for instance, people with the last name of “Doctor” actually DO tend to take up medical careers), so they wanted to know if having a bad “monogram” is detrimental to our health.
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Flying cars are everywhere?large regions of the Earth are under transparent domes with controlled weather…elsewhere, single buildings rise miles into the sky…huge areas of the ocean are covered with solar cells…tiny cameras watch everyone everywhere all the time, making sure crime does not pay (these are already in place in London). We’ve heard all this before, but in many ways, it sometimes seems as if not all that much has changed in the last 50 or 100 years. But futurists say there is one crucial difference between now and then: the range of what is possible.
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