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My Invention Room
I came across the Ars Electronica t+25 timeline which is part of the Ars Electronica Festival. This a forum where people can make predictions about the next 25 years. I particularily liked how this forum allowed people to easily contribute a prediction, vote for or against predictions, and add comments.
I contibuted the following two predictions. I signed my name ken1706 (showing my admiration for Ben Franklin.) These two predictions are part invention and part societal trends:
Prediction For 2007: New Hybrid Online Grocery Shopping Becomes Popular
Although pure electric cars never became popular, the hybrids did. Like electric cars, online grocery shops didn't do well with many going out of business during the dot-com bust of 2000.
But like hybrid cars, hybrid online grocery stores do become successful, and by 2007, 20% of people do some shopping at these stores.
In the new hybrid online grocery stores, you place your order online and then pick up the order at the store's drive-thru. Unlike the traditional online grocery store, there's no costly delivery.
The online ordering and drive-thru make it much quicker and more convenient for the shopper especially for picking up items like milk. Also, it allows the stores to have a much lower overhead. They don't need cash registers or cashiers (all orders are taken online). The stores can operate at a much higher volume in much smaller buildings and parking lots since customers don't go into the store, but merely pick their online orders up from the drive-thru.
Prediction For 2009: Popularity of Physical Video Games (PVGs) Reducing Childhood Obesity
The rise of Phyical Video Games (PVGs) has dramatically reduced childhood obesity. These new PVGs require the players to perform physical activity such as pedaling while they play the video game. Certain games reward players extra for the most pedaling. Other games just require pedaling to keep the game going.
World-wide competitions take place on the web where video gamers/atheletes compete in virtual race tracks. The games require both physical endurance and video game skill to make it through the virtual course. These competitions and their support by famous atheletes have helped to make PVGs a hit with kids in the last year.
Parents are pleased to see the connection of physical activity with video games. Doctors credit this fad to a significant reduction in childhood obesity and diabetes.
