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Future Robotic Wheelchairs ... Let's start with the RoboChair. The RoboChair will have a user-friendly man-machine interface and the ability of navigation, avoiding collision and planning a path...

Is Rotundus Your Future Rolling Robotic Inspector? ... Here is the introduction from New Scientist. The design was first developed with planetary exploration in mind, at the Ångström Space Technology Center, part of Uppsala University, Sweden...

Robotic Space Workers Of The Future ... Here is an illustration showing the concept of self-assemblying structures in space by using free-flying intelligent rope robots (Credit: PRL). As these robots will work in teams, the Nature article looks at the concept of group intelligence....

Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Future Utility Of IT ... In case you don't know, Irving Wladawsky-Berger is VP of technology and strategy at IBM's Server Group. But he's also the guy who will lead the $10 billion on-demand computing initiative unveiled last week...

Robots Will Continue To Be The Focus Of British Space Effort For Foreseeable Future ... Future hopes include establishing remote laboratories that will be controlled and operated around the clock from the safety of Earth...

But Irish had an old soul, you might say. He was a man with a great future behind him, already.
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future—with a shopping center for twice the population, with a school building already built, with churches constructed, with parks and playgrounds and swimming pools. These were as essential to building a suburb as the prematurely grand hotel had been to building a city in the wilderness. In large developments where the developer had a plan, and even in the smaller developments, there was a new kind of paternalism: not the quasi-feudal paternalism of the company town, nor the paternalism of the utopian ideologue. This new kind of paternalism was fostered by the American talent for organization, by the rising twentieth century American standard of living, and by the American genius for mass production. It was the paternalism of the market place. The suburban developer, unlike the small-town booster, seldom intended to live in the community he was building. For him community was a commodity, a product to be sold at a profit.
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)