00100		Here is a list of topics for essays on technology.
00200	
00300		1. Communications.  In which we give our expectations of  the
00400	Picturephone network and its applications, discuss the personal phone
00500	and its application to the freedom of  children,  introduce  earlids,
00600	tie  the  topic to the home console and its commercial use. Could the
00700	telephone operators live in India?
00800	
00900		2. Business.  What are all the  people  in  those  high  rise
01000	buildings  doing  and  can  they  be replaced by computer?  How about
01100	replacing them by  Indians  working  remotely?   Standardizing  order
01200	forms etc. and standardizing the electronic transfer of money.
01300	
01400		3. Automatic delivery.
01500	
01600		4.  Full  employment.  Can we have a system in which there is
01700	no fear of unemployment?  It probably requires the universal pension,
01800	buying up of obsolete jobs.
01900	
02000		5.  Bribery.   People should be paid to get out of the way of
02100	good new things even if they don't have a property right in  the  old
02200	way of doing things.
02300	
02400		6. Conflicts of interest.  A catalog of some of the conflicts
02500	of interest in American society.  professors vs. students,  different
02600	groups of workers.
02700	
02800		7.  Rackets.   Law  -  probate  and  personal  injury  -  the
02900	initiative  intended  to  regulate  lawyers.   Real  estate  and  tax
03000	brokers.   Legislators.   The  professor racket and the pure research
03100	racket.
03200	
03300		8. Flying in the upturned wind tunnel.
03400	
03500		9. The lack of new luxuries.
03600	
03700		10. What have we done for them lately?
03800		11. The digitally tuned stereo.
03900	
04000		12. Air traffic control based on telemetering.
04100	
04200		13.  The  dependence  of our society on the extreme rarity of
04300	certain kinds of crime.
04400	
04500		14. The party.
04600	
04700		15. Companies that  provide  city  and  corporate  management
04800	services.
04900	
05000		16. The theory of contracts.
05100	
05200		17. The theory of investments.
05300	
05400		18.  Facts that are needed to determine policy and how to get
05500	them.  Survey of resources.  What  will  be  the  actual  demand  for
05600	power?   What  is  the actual interchangability of labor? What is the
05700	elasticity of demand for low cost labor?  Thus,  how  many  and  what
05800	kind of jobs would be lost by an increase in the minimum wage?
05900	
06000		19. America is an underdeveloped country.