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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.