The project is one of several large-screen technologies under development by Microsoft which it believes will become more common both at work and home in the future.

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Perhaps to remind himself how tough the future world will be, Son practices his golf game at home, in an electronic range that reproduces the most difficult competitive conditions, including wind and rain.

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Even with the economy improving, considering the staggering number of people who are out of work and those whose retirement plans have been decimated, buying a home may no longer be a part of the American dream, at least not in the near future.

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And so, to all who have served us, then, now, and in the future, a word of somber thanks, from those of us here at home.

CNN: What Americans owe to those who serve

Perhaps it's better to recognize that most solutions to America's problems--now and in the future--will be concocted not in Brussels, Berlin or Paris, but at home.

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