Fall 1999
Intelligent Broker
Nasdaq adopts OptiMark, an electronic trading system backed by Goldman Sachs and Dow Jones. OptiMark builds investor profiles and automatically executes the best possible trades within user-defined parameters (price range, number of shares, et cetera). With supercomputers optimizing matches, brokers are forced to ask themselves: Buy in or get out?
2000
Nerdvana
The UFO-shaped Science Fiction Hall of Fame opens its hatches in Long Beach, California. Leave it to the sci-fi set to pay tribute to their idols with a 100,000-square-foot saucer. Donning multimedia goggles, visitors follow the virtual tour guide, interact with holograms of the genre's masters, view special-effects demos, direct a short, and brush up on their Klingon.
2002
Friendlier Skies
Airliners use turbulence detectors developed by NASA and Coherent Technologies to spot upcoming rough patches. The system's laser, mounted near the plane's nose, scans the skies ahead. A sensor then measures the changing velocity of air particles and alerts pilots, giving passengers about three minutes to sit down and buckle up.
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