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00100 Here is a list
00200 of topics for essays on technology.
00300
00400 1. Communications. In which we give our expectations of the
00500 Picturephone network and its applications, discuss the personal phone
00600 and its application to the freedom of children, introduce earlids,
00700 tie the topic to the home console and its commercial use.
00800 Could the telephone operators live in India?
00900
01000 2. Business. What are all the people in those high rise
01100 buildings doing and can they be replaced by computer? How about
01200 replacing them by Indians working remotely? Standardizing order
01300 forms etc. and standardizing the electronic transfer of money.
01400
01500 3. Automatic delivery.
01600
01700 4. Full employment. Can we have a system in which there is
01800 no fear of unemployment? It probably requires the universal pension,
01900 buying up of obsolete jobs.
02000
02100 5. Bribery. People should be paid to get out of the
02200 way of good new things even if they don't have a property right in
02300 the old way of doing things.
02400
02500 6. Conflicts of interest. A catalog of some of the conflicts
02600 of interest in American society. professors vs. students, different
02700 groups of workers.
02800
02900 7. Rackets. Law - probate and personal injury - the initiative
03000 intended to regulate lawyers. Real estate and tax brokers.
03100 Legislators. The professor racket and the pure research 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
05500 get them. Survey of resources. What will be the actual demand
05600 for power? What is the actual interchangability of labor?
05700
05800 19. America is and underdeveloped country.