I disagee. It's going to be software that replaces knowledge/information workers.

Software tools like NTT's new multi-lingual translator (real-time translation for phone conversations) are going to replace millions of jobs. Many financial newspaper articles are now entirely computer generated.

Software is very close to being able to understand, act on, and produce freeform language. Imagine a Wolfram Alpha that actually works (answers what you meant to ask) and has access to all of the data in your business empire.

Anybody that works at a desk pushing information around (accountants, lawyers, secretaries, call center, human resources, middle management, project management, reporters, ...) will want a new career in the next 30 years. The ones ones left will be the people asking the questions not the ones giving the answers.

This new train has an 8 to 10 hour scheduled travel time and covers 2100 km.

That means it averages 210km/h including stops along the way (it's not direct).

Yes.

It's still breaking and entering even if the door is wide open.

* SQL language extensions to integrate Facebook and Twitter.

This already exists as a plugin.

There is a Foreign Data Wrapper which allows you to make a twitter feed look like a local table.

FDW's exist for a large number of 3rd party data stores:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

Look at your phone, pause, look at the store thoughtfully, perhaps phone a friend and argue with them, then start heading for your car again.

The discount may get increased if cameras are watching closely enough.

I have an infinite number of email addresses (and blocking capabilities). I have a limited amount of real money.

For 10% off a fridge you could regiter a dozen domainnames.

The military has the engines.

Private companies (no direct access) may want to manufacture something similar.

I strongly prefer to have a different operating systems on my front-end (Apache) and database/storage (PostgreSQL) layers just to make it a touch more difficult to pull a copy of the DB.

Not me. I regret jumping to 4.1 from 4.0 on my Nexus S.

It went from running smoothly to being rather clunky. Haven't looked into the difficulties of downgrading yet though.

... goes to content producers.

Uploading is a different matter.

Canadians pay fees on blank media which goes straight to media producers.

Downloading has already been paid for.

but as an individual using a netbook

You might not be the big spender they're targetting. They maximize for revenue, not for # of shoppers.

America is the only country it would seem, still building clean nuclear plants

Canada (specifically Ontario) is too. Several reactors have recently been refurbished and more are underway. A tender to build 4 additional reactors is being prepared.

Canada has very high energy usage on a per-capita basis but a fairly small population.

I helped a couple of restaurant owners get through New Years day when their POS systems had stopped functioning as expected.

The work-around was straight forward; use an earlier year with matching days of the week.

This. 99.9% (at least) of the entire internet is junk that any one person doesn't care about.

I've done a crawl of a few billion pages.

No person at all cares about 99% of the content available on the interent. In fact, nearly that much is completely unreadable and was machine generated gibberish (real words, not sentences) in an attempt to fool Google and other search engines.

There are a few servers which host millions of subdomains with millions of manufactured pages under each subdomain.

In short, it's far worst than 99.9% of the entire internet being of little use.