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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>A busy sky</b></font><br>While there have been remarkable innovations in mass transit, lighter-than-air vehicles were not among them.";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Action heroes in the future</b></font><br>British comic book hero Dan Dare made his debut in the 1950s. He was the chief pilot of the Interplanet Space Fleet, zooming from planet to planet fighting robots and the like with ray guns. The original stories were set in the 1990s.";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Jet packs</b></font><br>Jet packs were one of the quintessential promises of the future. While they do exist today, jet packs are bulky, dangerous and can keep users aloft for just 30 seconds. ";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Super-fast atomic aircraft</b></font><br>Futurists predicted the atomic airplane &#151; an airborne nuclear reactor with a cruising speed of 10,000 miles an hour &#151; that would get you to Los Angeles earlier than when you left New York.";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Killer suppositories</b></font><br>Probably the scariest parts of \"Follies of Science\" involve glowing testimonials for materials that have turned out to be public health disasters. An advertisement sells Vita Radium Suppositories, a radioactive suppositories intended for daily use that &#147;are absorbed by the walls of the colon&#148; so that &#147;every tissue, every organ of the body is bombarded by its health-giving electric atoms.&#148;<br>";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Robots as friends and foes</b></font><br>Both good and bad robots are in evidence in &#147;Follies of Science.&#148; The bad robots seem to be intent on stealing human women, while friendly robots usually are seen as gentle butlers or pets. Virtually all of the robots, good and bad, are essentially humanoid and bipedal, with no foreshadowing of the Roomba.";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Ultrasonic personal hygiene</b></font><br>While you can brush your teeth using an ultrasonic tooth brush, no one rushed out to invent an ultrasonic bath. ";

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tech_future_061010[i-1].body = "<b><font color=#CC0000>Video phones</b></font><br>It seemed a forgone conclusion that telephony would evolve from regular telephones to video phones. While the technology for video phones exists today, it&#146;s not widely used outside of the workplace and has failed to take the place of non-video phones.";

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