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It's 8 a.m. Monday August 25, 2008, you are headed to your cubicle 30 miles away. You throw your briefcase into your Camry, throw yesterday's Starbucks cup beh

by pmsaue0 18y ago

It's 8 a.m. Monday August 25, 2008, you are headed to your cubicle 30 miles away. You throw your briefcase into your Camry, throw yesterday's Starbucks cup behind the driver's seat, turn on the radio to Bob and Tom in the morning. The car accelerates to 40 mph in the city's suburbs, then hits 45 mph in the less built-up areas. You lurch past endless strings of billboards and strip malls. Traffic is heavy, but there is no need worry -- it has been like this forever. Suddenly your cell-phone buzzes. A business associate wants a sketch of a new kind of impeller your firm is putting our for sports boats. You hit silent. You hate that he calls you before you get to work. Ninety minutes after leaving your home, you arrive at your office. You silently organize your desk and then watch 30 break.com videos. You think, it's so wonderful to be alive in 2008.

Agathos 18y ago
(that looks like fun...) Medical research has marginally improved the chance that babies born in the 21st century will live long and healthy lives, assuming their parents have health insurance. Heart disease has become an epidemic as people consume more high-calorie, processed foods and get much less exercise, thanks to the innovations described above. If hearts or other major organs do give trouble, the patient may be lucky enough to get a transplant, if he doesn't die waiting for a donor. Medical examinations are a matter of sitting in a waiting room for an hour or two, then receiving a five-minute examination that is similar to one performed in 1968, but much more hurried. Blood and urine samples will be analyzed in the lab later that day, but by that time the patient is back in his cubicle and the doctor, who regrets every day that he went into primary care, will not be paid to bring him back and discuss the results in person.

by pmsaue0 18y ago

Agathos 18y ago

(that looks like fun...) Medical research has marginally improved the chance that babies born in the 21st century will live long and healthy lives, assuming their parents have health insurance. Heart disease has become an epidemic as people consume more high-calorie, processed foods and get much less exercise, thanks to the innovations described above. If hearts or other major organs do give trouble, the patient may be lucky enough to get a transplant, if he doesn't die waiting for a donor. Medical examinations are a matter of sitting in a waiting room for an hour or two, then receiving a five-minute examination that is similar to one performed in 1968, but much more hurried. Blood and urine samples will be analyzed in the lab later that day, but by that time the patient is back in his cubicle and the doctor, who regrets every day that he went into primary care, will not be paid to bring him back and discuss the results in person.