Imagine this: A gun is fired on a city street, and a digital camera automaticaly zooms in on the shooter. A majority of city council members would like to spend about $6 million on such a system. Police already are using other high-tech tools.
College students are more wired than ever, and their computers are placing new stresses on university tech support systems. Here's a look at personal technology among Stanford undergraduates in 2006:
HUME – The classroom of the future is available now in four Shiloh Elementary School classrooms. Shiloh was one of only 25 school districts in Illinois to receive an Enhancing Education Through Technology Grant.
A few short decades ago, the "store of the future" was a catalog showroom where customers filled out paper forms on clipboards and waited while their products were rolled down the line to the checkout.