By 2050 Virtual Assistants Will Have Largely Replaced Search Engines Well before 2050, most people on earth have access to a pervasive virtual assistant. The same virtual assistant can be available as an augmented reality hologram, virtual reality character, and household robot. And the same virtual assistant can be available as a voice in a smart home, inside a vehicle, from a smartwatch, and from a smartphone. Hyperloop Tunnels Will Enable Faster International Travel The hyperloop concept usually involves passenger pods traveling through pressurized tubes using electric propulsion and magnetic levitation. Cargo is also transported considerably faster than before with this method. Hyperloop pods travel at speeds between 600 and 700 miles per hour. They also reduce transit-related greenhouse gas emissions by 90%. y 90%.And due to the time they save, they provide economic benefits totaling over a trillion dollars every year when compared to previous transportation methods. Does some of this seem hard to imagine, progress happens all the time and life gets better and better. Fact is that the pace is accelerating. For example, my i-phone gives me access to all of the encyclopedias in the world. Instant contact with the news, weather, a GPS instead of an old paper map. Movies, music, my pictures, my banking, the list goes on and on. Interesting perspective, look at the picture below of an invention that came about in 1972 when I was a Freshman in college at the age of 18, it was called a calculator and it could add, subtract, divide and multiply - wow!
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