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Old 18-April-2009, 08:57 PM
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Your car can (not mine, but still) tell you how to get somewhere, and which roads are busy.

Kids get toy computers and robots to play with that are more powerful than what was bleeding-edge ten years ago.

There are portable phones that also play music without tapes or albums, takes pictures and "films" movies while also acting as an alarm clock, reminder of appointments or medication, allows you to look up vast amounts of information, act as a secretary and answering machine and send written messages and play videogames.
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