Perhaps to be joined by Buzz and Wave, in the not-so-distant future?
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Some day in the not-so-distant future, China will do the same thing.
In the not-so-distant future, Wright speculates, the cyberagent and the customized computer will merge to become a moderator between two real people collaborating with their imaginations.
But the savings rate in Japan, which was in the midteens in the 1990s, today is approaching zero and will likely go negative in the not-so-distant future.
"It's a revolution, " he says of private space industry, adding that in the not-so-distant future, space travel could allow for a trans-Atlantic flight in under 20 minutes.
On the other hand, the iSlate, a completely solar-powered solar-powered computer tablet targeting at rural communities without access to electricity, may move into markets in the not-so-distant future.
"Call of Duty: Black Ops II, " the first-person shooter game that hit stores Tuesday, transports players into two separate time periods: the 1980s and the not-so-distant future of 2025.
With both Apple and Google exploring these ideas, however, chances are one of these companies will try to sell us something we can strap onto our wrists in the not-so-distant future.
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"All the hospitals' CEOs with whom we speak understand this: There are going to be additional pressures in the not-so-distant future, " said Mark Pascaris, a Moody's Investors Service analyst who rates nonprofit hospitals.
Such poetry aside, there was still a sense of doom permeating the industry, even if it wasn't directly linked to the devices that would eclipse more traditional reading vectors in the not-so-distant future.
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All of this will be thrust on us by something that Kurzweil calls the Singularity, a theorized point in time in the not-so-distant future when machines become vastly superior to humans in every way, aka the emergence of true artificial intelligence.
We set out to change the set of firmed established rules that govern business and society today, and I hope in the not-so-distant future we will see more people taking risks to define smarter rules that can bring greater value to more people.
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There's nothing we enjoy more than not even leaving the comforts of our Aeron chair in order to catch a program in HD, and now we've got reason to believe that even more high-definition content could be coming down the internet pipeline in the not-so-distant future.
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While this means doing without some expensive toys and gadgets in the short run, your overall financial health will reward you in the not-so distant future.
But flash memory cards will get cheaper and more capacious, so we should in the not-distant future see sleek, reasonably priced, high-capacity MP3 players capable of storing 30 tunes or more.
This suggests that, in the not so distant future, people in the Ciclovia might sporting different T-Shirts - those of Colombia-Coldeportes.
If anyone's curious, DVD Jon points out that the root USB Node is still identified as "Pre, " so we very likely could see another round of these shenanigans in the not-too-distant future.
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