Future large scale commercial activities in space will require raw materials obtained from in-space sources rather than from Earth‚ to overcome the high cost of Earth launch. This paper reviews the prospectiveness of non-terrestrial resources and notes the competitiveness of Near-Earth-Asteroids c.f. the Moon and Phobos or Deimos in terms of accessibility and likely resources. Astronomical work over the last fifteen years has increased the number of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) from about 30
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Many believe the future is far brighter and more promising than ever imagined as a result of change over time. Although this stands true‚ there is no method enabling us to accurately predict the future in terms of greatness or prosperity. Even so‚ it is essential to realize how brilliant the earth has become. As a result of the passing of time‚ lives have improved thanks to technology and medicine‚ which have helped create a brighter world. For example‚ years ago‚ a person risked death by being
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The Future of Books 17 November 2011 The Future of Books 1. Introduction Books have evolved greatly since the first writings in clay tablets a thousand years B.C. to nowadays with the digital versions of most books that were‚ not long ago‚ only available in paper. Even though stories have been carried and passed from generation to generation since the emergence of language‚ only until around the fifth century has it been heard about books and their use. In the antiquity‚ primitive materials
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FUTURE SHOCK Chapters 1-3 INTRODUCTION This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt—or fail to adapt—to the future. Much has been written about the future. Yet‚ for the most part‚ books about the world to come sound a harsh metallic note. These pages‚ by contrast‚ concern themselves with the "soft" or human side of tomorrow. Moreover‚ they concern themselves with the steps by which we are likely to reach tomorrow
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THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN The exercise of pondering over the future of Pakistan essentially boils down to suggesting that several things might happen over the next few years in Pakistan-or that‚ just possibly‚ none of them will. A rather foggy crystal ball‚ for Pakistan’s future is as ambiguous and confusing as its past. The existential dilemma appears to be that while Pakistan is not a “failed state”‚ if an ill-governed one‚ it has since its birth been a “failing nation”. Pakistan is emphatically
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There are a million different ways that the world could be worse in the future‚ but to me‚ people of Earth will find peace through interactions with aliens. In the future‚ humans will learn to live along with aliens. Jupiter will turn into a space station where species from all around the galaxy gather. Instead of travelling from country to country‚ people and foreign species will travel from planet to planet and galaxy to galaxy. As a result the population of Earth will decrease and reduce the
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Future of Policing CJS 210 “The only thing constant is change” (Heraclitus). With technology on a continuous rise and the increasing demographic changes in contemporary America‚ saying that the future of law enforcement is unpredictable is being very modest. Through the use of computer-aided dispatch (CAD)‚ mobile computing‚ records management systems and database and information technology police and other law enforcement agencies have become much more efficient. Many other tools have help
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2023- Every year‚ every month and every day new technology is invented as we speak it is in the making‚ here are some concepts that may overtake technology in the future of 2023 and reshape our lives forever. Have you ever wanted to be smarter and less forgetful about things well in 2023‚ Mind controlled wearable and implanted technology will be at your service…By now‚ it’s becoming possible to replicate small areas of the brain‚ in order to repair damage from Alzheimer’s‚ stroke and lost memories
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A futures contract is a commitment to make or take delivery of a specific quantity of a commodity or other financial obligation at a predetermined place and time in the future. All terms of the contract are standardized and established beforehand‚ except for the price‚ which is determined by open outcry in a pit or ring on the exchange trading floor of a commodity exchange. All contracts ultimately are settled either through liquidation (by offsetting purchases or sales) or by the delivery of the
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The Future of Management Management in the future will tend to be more innovative‚ optimistic‚ positive imagination and use of latest techniques that can make workplaces much better. Management of the future will help organizations to change the mission and vision of the organization. Future management will invite you to the dead and constant of world of objectivity and predictability and welcomes you to enter in the world of subjectivity. It will help you to get a relief from the world of
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