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Preview What an exciting time to be alive! A new century lies before us like an artist’s sketch book with hardly a mark in it. What will we do with these blank Looking to the 21st Century 1. Your Future The future does not determine itself. The actions of the present determine the future. Edward Cornish, editor of? The Futurist magazine published by the World Future Society, says: The responsibility we have for the future begins when we recognise that we ourselves create the future -- that the future is not something imposed upon us by fate or other forces beyond our control. We ourselves build the future both through what we do and what we do not do. 2. Your Brain Your brainwaves may be checked to see whether you are busy, tired or doing your work properly. Psychologist Arthur F. Kramer tested volunteers working on arithmetic problems. He could predict their performance from the strength of the brains electrical activity measured through the head. The future? Bosses could measure brain activity to learn worker quality. Frequent computer analyses could tell whether workers, like air traffic controllers, are seeing all activity clearly enough to monitor it properly. 3. Your Doctor More and more, doctors will use visual information about your condition from computers, instead of textbooks, for diagnosis and treatment. Home computers will enable you to answer interactive questions about your health and show the alternative results should you act in a certain way. 4. Your Car Cars will be almost entirely controlled by computers. To pay for costs, cars will be billed for using high-speed toll roads. Computers will record the passage of the car and automatically take the money from the owners computer bank account. Computers will show drivers maps of districts the car is crossing on a small screen in the car. Computers will diagnose any problems with the engine. Computer connections will list the nearest places of repair, tell the cost of new parts and the place where