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\u2022Advances in miniaturization and wireless communication mean technology will be almost invisible but threaded throughout bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms and workplaces, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies predicts. \u201cAll family members will be occupied with different activities, from playing piano to making cheese, brewing beer and designing clothes, to painting, backyard golf and fitness,\u201d it says.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022When everything is connected like this, the details of your life will be flying around the air. In that world, security becomes paramount. Forget face-recognition software; in 2017, it will be all about the eyes. \u201cI think it\u2019s possible to free us completely from our wallets and keys using biometric technology if that\u2019s what people want in 10 years\u2019 time,\u201d said Don Monro, a professor at the University of Bath in England.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022In 2017, more of us will be living with cancer, but the good news is that a cancer diagnosis will be quicker and easier \u2014 as simple as taking a breath. And when a frightening diagnosis comes in, effective treatments will be at hand. \u201cWe will start to see successful treatments for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease that actually treat the disease process, not just the symptoms, like current drugs do,\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In short, it will be a world run by technology, and that means finding the people to oversee all that technology is the most critical task facing educators in the next decade. Shifting demographics mean many children will not be going to school but learning at home, instead, at a cyberschool.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018A whole new range of talents\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Halfway around the world, they have a different philosophy. In China, more and more parents are stretching their thin budgets to find intensive personal tutoring for children as young as 3 years old.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Water, water anywhere?
\n<\/strong>All that change points to what some analysts fear could is the triumph of the consumer society.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Looking ahead, the Copenhagen Institute projects that \u201cconsumption is found everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce, we were people. In 2017, we are primarily consumers,\u201d it warns. \u201c The modern person \u2014 and not least the modern family \u2014 consumes constantly,\u201d particularly natural resources.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is in the midst of another searing summer drought. Without significant rain, the government will turn off irrigation lines to farmers in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia\u2019s food bowl, in July to keep water flowing to cities and towns.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In Sydney, water police are already enforcing restrictions, NBC News\u2019 Anne Thompson reported, looking for signs of forbidden car washing and collecting evidence of gardens\u2019 being watered on Monday, when it\u2019s allowed only on Wednesdays and Sundays after 10 a.m.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The drought has been a wakeup call for Australian leader, making them do that they already knew they had to do, but with a greater sense of urgency. And It could be a glimpse of what is coming in other parts of the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The 2006 U.N. Human Development Report found that more than a sixth of the world\u2019s population has inadequate access to water. Access to piped water in the home averages about 85 percent for the wealthiest fifth of the population, it found, compared with 25 percent for the poorest fifth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The world population tripled in the 20th century, but its use of renewable water resources grew six-fold, the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development reported in 2002. In 2006, the United Nations reported that more than a sixth of the world\u2019s population had inadequate access to water.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOvercoming the world water crisis \u2014 achieving water, food and environmental security simultaneously \u2014 is one of the most formidable challenges to achieve sustainable development,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is so acute in the rural Australian city of Goulburn that water is strictly rationed. Steve and Belinda Baxter and their three daughters are limited to 40 gallons a person a day, enough for little more than a five-minute shower.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n