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GLOBAL SOLUTION? WIRELESS BROADBAND
Australia’s incumbent telco Telstra has already gone live with a 21Mbps mobile network while Vodafone in Europe is testing a 28.8Mbps equivalent…then we’re looking at networks that promise roughly 10Mbps. That’s almost double the UK fixed broadband average speed… Source
Quantitative easing
Now the Federal Reserve has effectively cut the target lending rate to zero, it only has one more weapon in its arsenal. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains what this nuclear option it is, and what the Fed hopes to do.
The Economist Prediction for 2009: Bad to Dreadful
PREDICTIONS 2009 Art Laffer
PART II
Androids will walk the earth to be our elderly care takers. 1/3 of the real estate downturn is over with 2/3 of the foreclosures yet to come… A solar cell paint will become available at Home Depot. Kaiser will be adopted as the Heath Care model by Obama. Hamas will be hunted and destroyed to then be replaced by another group even worse. The international economies will peg their currencies on the Yen and the Chinese Yaun as the dollar in inflated by our run away helicopter Ben at the Fed who is leaving the printing presses on 24/7 in 2009. Silicon Valley will be replaced by Solar New Mexico where an extensive Algae farm will be started to eventually grow on 10% of the entire land mass of the State by 2020 and will produce lipid oil as a by product and provide gasoline for our transportation. Cyberskin robots will look, feel, and access the global network of computing power to simulate humans. You will take a pill to monitor your body by radio frequency transmitter linked to you doctors computerized diagnostics lab. The economic credit crises will continue as 2/3 of the problem loans will force 50% of those ALT-A and Option Arm loans to default along with a downturn in commercial real estate still to come by the end of 2009. Insured investments will be the norm. NASA and the Air force will drop into the clouds successfully, metallic chemical particles proving that humans can block out the sun to cool the earth reversing the climate warming trend. Implanted cellular RFID devices will become a trend allowing the youth to stay connected. Cell phones will replace the home computer with projection screen and voice activated date input. 3D IMAX will become the movie goers norm. Common will be movies that will replace actors with nearly human like CGI replacements even in epic films. Youtube will gain a slot on prime time. My loving wife will have a healthy and happy baby late in July. A software program will link most of the worlds home computers into the ONE MACHINE allowing the total connections to be as complex as the human brain and giving a stepping stone towards true artificial intelligence.
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