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This is a video on an experiment done years ago and recreated now. You might be wondering how this can relate to what we are doing, but that is where the experiment comes in. James Burke is a man who works at BBC. In 1973, Mr. Burke was asked to predict the future. He did this, and some of his predictions came true. Recently, they asked him to do it again, but predict what life will be like in 2100. James Burke's predictions for 2100 are very interesting and eye-opening. This is reliable because he has done it before and those predictions were true. This video shows as "He paints a world 80 to 100 years from now".

Alan Turing drew much between 1928 and 1933 from the work of the mathematical physicist and populariser A. S. Eddington, from J. von Neumann's account of the foundations of quantum mechanics, and then from Bertrand Russell's mathematical logic. Meanwhile, his lasting fascination with the problems of mind and matter was heightened by emotional elements in his own life (Hodges 1983, p. 63). In 1934 he graduated with an outstanding degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, followed by a successful dissertation in probability theory which won him a Fellowship of King's College, Cambridge, in 1935. This was the background to his learning, also in 1935, of the problem which was to make his name. As far as history goes, Alan Turing was basically the father of AI. He was the one of the first to even work with computers, as he was a computer scientist during WWII. He worked on cracking German codes with advanced (for the time) computers.

"Is it time to push the "up" button on the space elevator?" This article is from www.space.com. This website is reliable and is used by many people who want to stay up to date on what is going on in the world of space. I think that we could very well use this resource to make predictions with. This website does very well in creating an idea of how space travel will fit into everyday life in 2100.This website does show how space will be the new Florida. I say that because everyone vacations in Florida. I really like this website and how it can make us do very well in prediction making.

"The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) uses a small collection of high sensitivity telescopes (probably 4 large 3.5-meter telescopes) with revolutionary imaging technologies. It will measure the temperature, size, and the orbital parameters of planets as small as our Earth in the habitable zones of distant solar systems. Also, TPF's spectroscopy will allow atmospheric chemists and biologists to use the relative amounts of gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane and ozone to find whether a planet might support life. The launch was to be anticipated between 2012-2015 until NASA's budget cuts." The Terrestrial Planet Finder was discussed in the book Physics of the Future. This object will have better optics and will be approximately 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope. Its infrared sensors will be able to nullify the intense radiation from a star by a million times, revealing planets that have been undiscoverable otherwise. This radiation will even have the power to completely remove a star from the universe, if one ever so desires. The Terrestrial Planet Finder is predicted to be an extremely valuable tool to astronauts and scientists within the next century.

"It is a real possibility -- a "space elevator" -- that researchers are considering today as a far-out space transportation system for the next century." Spacec travel is becoming a more realistic idea. This form of transportation may become widespread in the near future.

"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard NASA's Millennium-Two Space Elevator. Your first stop will be the Lunar-level platform before we continue on to the New Frontier Space Colony development. The entire ride will take about 5 hours, so sit back and enjoy the trip. As we rise, be sure to watch outside the window as the curvature of the Earth becomes visible and the sky changes from deep blue to black, truly one of the most breathtaking views you will ever see!" The concept of an elevator, designed to take one beyond the atmosphere of the Earth and into space, has been tossed around a while. The elevator, which is predicted to be 35,786 km in height, may be able to become a reality.

"The space elevator may be the answer." This is a quote from this article. This article is from the NASA website. It is reliable because it is from a very reliable company, NASA. This article is explaining what a space elevator is, how it works, and and what it's place will be in 2100, or sometime in the future. We can definitely use this information for making predictions about space travel in our project. I like this source because it was not just a website talking about small details in space elevator construction. This website was very detailed in explaining the science of space elevators. This shows how space elevators will become popular and normal by 2100.

I feel that this article gives good insight into ubiquitous computing which would go along well with our topic on wearable technology. Ubiquitous computing for those of you who do not know is basicly that in the future that everything will be computerized and we will be surrounded by computers everywhere in our everyday life.

"In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and ubiquity of computers and the Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology's rate of advancement and usefulness in everyday life. Alert pundits now foresee a world saturated with powerful computer chips, which will increasingly insinuate themselves into our gadgets, dwellings, apparel and even our bodies."

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