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Life in the Grid.(what the world will look like in 2012)(communications)
Tokyo at rush hour, circa 2012: your automated car whisks you off to Narita airport, steering itself through traffic. You're free to work. Push a button on your watch, and an image of your firm's mining operation in Indonesia springs to life in 3-D. You ask the digital assistant in your watch how currency fluctuations might affect the mining investment, and a female voice reads the results out loud. Then you ask her to book an eye exam (your glasses recently told your doctor you need a new prescription). As you near Narita, your car announces that the flight is delayed. Care to rebook? You decide to continue on to the terminal, where baggage handlers await, alerted to ...
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