‘Learn how to drive!’
The cars of tomorrow will be able to communicate with each other and automatically take evasive action to avoid collisions, all in less than the time it takes for their human drivers to look up from their smartphone screens.
After a close call, the robot-ca
rs will flip each other off and holler, “Moron!”
The little trolley that could: In Lynnwood, the city offers tours of a restored trolley that ran between Seattle and Everett from 1910 until 1939, when it was decided that light-rail transit was obsolete.
The folks who rode the trolley way back then would be amazed by today’s Lynnwood, but they’d be even more amazed by the fact that the humble trolley will at long last be replaced by something that will cost as much as $1.4 billion, take more than a decade to build and won’t even reach Everett.
Vanity domain: Beginning in 2012, you can obtain your very own website suffix, if you can pay the $185,000 application fee.
It’s said to be the biggest change for the Internet in 26 years, because we’ll get to enter www.donaldtrump.trump in our browser address bars.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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