Frequently, counting the local farmer's market: dozens of times per year. Most Saturdays except during winter and early spring. Otherwise, rarely.

[We] will provide look-alike actors, scene reproduction with suggested "improvements", and plausibly-authentic time stamped footage for a "small" government-only-affordable fee.

... be forced to impregnate the multitude of daughters as part of the diabolical plan to produce an evil army. Is that still sci-fi?

They have the indirect-direct correlation backwards. I would describe those 2 million as indirect jobs of other economic forces. I.e., ad supported internet jobs are there because others do things that want/need advertising.

I use roughly a dozen different peppers throughout the year, but rarely chilis. Fresh while the farmers' market carries them. And a final load-up-the-freezer as the season ends so I can enjoy them over the winter.

Call it playing Sims (or some facebook game they may know about), just face-to-face using physical items like pencil, paper, and dice. It allows for more creativity & imagination.
Akin to playing Kick-the-Can became Golf when we grew up or Toss-the-Ball became Tennis, playing Cops & Robbers didn't become terrorism, it became Rollplaying.

-- Wagr

is this is overkill. The gut speakers are hard to swallow and technicians say the kidneys speakers are particularly difficult to install.
What I really want is a system that prevents me from hearing other folks cough, laugh at the wrong moment, or left their cell phone on ring.
And some will be listening to their ipod or speaking on their iphone during the movie anyway.

My job description covers developing software for a company, but reality involves rather little development.

Most of my time is spent on investigations (but not real systems analysis), documentation (sometimes contracts, sometimes draft or pre-politicized end-user instructions), internal support, and elevated customer support.

What did I say?

I'm not up to 512 kb, but I get significantly faster latency than Pony Express. Think of the amount of information that can be stored in one Pony Express "packet": a saddlebag of backup tape can deliver the entire Library of Congress - assuming the catalog of the LoC circa 1985!

At any given time, I may have up to six books to read - not that six is a limit. I just don't seem to gather more than that, even when I visit the local library's big book sale. I get through them, return/donate/pass them along, and find more. When I reach zero, I just pick up a book from those I liked enough to keep. I'm 2/3 through the Discworld series again.

To parse the words carefully:
4) Within 5 years, it will become popular within the US to say there is no digital divide - there is no such thing a class divide in the first place.
I think reality will look more service caps that limit the average user to software updates, streaming a movie per week, and playing a few hours of a browser game per month.

I am actually surprised this is newsworthy. This one is not a change at all.
We've been dealing with changes in taxation since we designed our first retail product in 1986. When we added employee time tracking and more tax reports, the number of tax rules multiplied by about 3. If congress doesn't pass an extension, then we post a small update notice and all our sites (in the US) will have it within a minute, or the next time they launch our software.
You want to talk newsworthy, convince all local governments to use the same tax rules, preferably the same tax rate. Then I wouldn't be spending my Decembers and Januaries rooting around bulletins, making tiny rate changes to our tables.
My family has learned to not bother inviting me home for the holidays.

I personally would love it. I hate arranging conference calls only to have one person miss, no matter how I phrase the invites. "That's 9 am Mountain time, which is 11 am for you, Steve." Means Steve will call me at 7:10 Mountain time and say, "Where is everyone?"

But why not: Inertia. TV producers will bandy about some straw man like, "Shows are used to delaying by an hour for Central, two for Mountain, and the odd hour out for the West. The common announcement that "x will be shown at y:00, z:00 West Coast" will have to be changed to "x will be shown at y:00, y-1:00 Central, y-2:00 Western, and some other time West Coast." The additional seconds it takes to say that will result in less advertising which will destroy our economy." That cable, satellite, DVR, and streaming have already made that argument pointless will not be understood by said producers or the politicians who listen to them.

Besides, enough voters don't understand. Remember, we're smart and in the minority.

I'd support option like "People nominated for serious offices."