I am not so sure that we are going to have the infrastructure to support automobiles about the time when the control tech is good enough for widespread deployment.
Only recently, peak oil came and went and worldwide economic growth has plateaued. Even if we cut emissions of greenhouse gases completely right now, there is still enough of it in the atmosphere to cause climate change that is going to manifest itself in famine, "act of god" disasters, economic turmoil, civil unrest and wars across the world.

It was a beautiful dream. That is what it was.

Some foods that are often toted as being "healthy" and "full of fibre" are known to linger in the colon longer.
A prime example of this is linen seeds - which can be quite common in wholegrain bread.
Another culprit is nuts. Raspberry and tomato seeds also.

I know this because I had a colonoscopy where I could see these seeds up close in my colon.
I had eaten bread with "yellow linen seeds" a few days before, not knowing about the seeds in the bread - because they were yellow I could not see them.
I had also eaten several slices of mazarin cake for and after my birthday a week before, and there were quantities of almond fibres that lingered.

The dangers of cell phones are not entirely known. There are some signs that they are not good in the long run - and especially not for kids.

There are animal studies that have shown that radiation from cell phones have killed brain cells and suppressed cognitive abilities.
There are doctors and scientists within radio-medicine that are dead-sure that we are going to see an epidemic of primary brain tumours in cell phone users in ten to fifteen years.
There are studies that hint (but yet none that prove, that I know of) that cell phone radiation could even be addictive.
A four year-old's brain is smaller, which means that there is less tissue between the phone's antenna and the areas in the brain that are responsible for higher brain functions. A kid's brain is also developing at a fast rate than an adult brain, which means that any change would have a greater impact later in life.

I say, let your child choose to use a cell phone or not when he is old enough to make an informed decision. In ten years time, we should know a whole lot more about the matter and your child should be a bit wiser as well.
I also don't think that you should let him use a digital cordless phone either (because they radiate more than cell phones do).
Whenever he borrows someone else's cell phone, he should preferably use a handsfree instead of holding the phone directly to the skull. Even a Bluetooth headset is better: it radiates a thousandth of what a typical cell phone does.

It is not that easy as "Oil will run out, problem solved".

Peak oil implies that it is harder than before and becomes progressively harder to extract the oil that is left. You need to spend energy to extract oil, and as it becomes harder to extract oil, you need to spend more and more energy.
And where do you think this energy is coming from? Are oil companies using renewable energy? Get Real!
No, what we see already is that emissions of green-house gases per unit of oil is increasing, and that it will continue to increase until the demand for oil is gone.

I was going to write this if you hadn't already.

I wouldn't want to live in a climate where the seasons do not change.
I want the spring flowers and the autumn leaves. I want to swim in the lake in summer and skate on it in the winter. I want white Christmases!

You don't have a 3 button mouse because of Microsoft.
Before Microsoft introduced the scroll wheel, the most popular mice on the market had three (proper) buttons.

You must have misunderstood how it works in classic X apps. You read as if you have never used it in X.

Paste-on-middle-click pastes into the text area that you middle-click on, and nowhere else.

The mechanism is also separate from the usual Cut/Copy/Paste functionality. Middle-click is used to paste the selected text, not what is on the clipboard. It is very fast and convenient, done completely with the mouse. The modality is not broken.

I bet that most people type with both thumbs in landscape mode.

Ars Technica made a video comparing animated transitions in iOS 6 and iOS 7 side by side. The animations in iOS 7 do take longer than those in iOS 6, making the user experience more sluggish.

Direct link to video.
Link to article with the video in it

There has previously been a theory that these mass reoccurring extinctions would have been created by the near passing of a hypothetical star that we would have been unable to detect because it would be on the other side of the Oort cloud.
I suppose that this new finding will debunk that theory for good.

The hypothetical star had been named Nemesis. I know of it only because I ready about it in a novel by Asimov recently.

I would not be surprised if someone would have broken it within mere hours after they have become available.

How long does it take to etch a PCB (mould) and how long does it take for gelatine to cool down (finger cast)? (The method that Mythbusters used)

There is already a classic vintage game called Parallax.
It has lasting fame for having given name to the video game technique Parallax scrolling.

The game's soundtrack by Martin Galway is also a classic, with many covers/remixes made by video game music enthusiasts.

Mammoth-type animals have actually appeared and gone extinct not once, but at about once every ice-age cycle.
That blew my mind when I heard it the first time.

That the last type the mammoths would have gone extinct because of climate change does not seem very far-fetched then, now does it.

The codec directory was an idea that I think they got from AmigaOS' "Datatypes" mechanism.
I remember that Amiga was the first platform where all* web browsers would support PNG, because someone had written a PNG datatype and released it as free software.

*: Yeah, yeah, Lynx did not technically view images, but it could download an image and launch an external image viewer ... which would usually support datatypes.

I think that what a smartwatch needs to be is as a "companion device" to a phone, and nothing more.
It needs a screen, two buttons (or areas to tap) for "Yes" and "No" and low-bandwidth communication with the phone. The phone tells the watch what to display and what the buttons mean. The watch then needs only to reply with "Message understood, displaying screen", "Yes" and "No". That's it.
All the "killer apps" that a smartwatch could be used for require those things and nothing more.

The Samsung watch and many stand-alone smartwatches are too powerful, too feature-rich and already too bloated. The Samsung watch is already too large to wear comfortably on the wrist. Has anyone mentioned battery life yet? My Casio has a battery life measured in years.