Fall 1999 Fox Files Fox premières the newest sci-fi TV drama from X-Files creator Chris Carter. A live-action adaptation of James Hudnall's 1991 comic Harsh Realm, the series follows the escapades of private eye Dexter Green as he searches for a boy lost in a CG universe far in the future. Fox execs hope Carter will strike black gold once again.
Winter 1999 Needle-less Doc Blood tests become a pain-free one-stop procedure courtesy Cytometrics's Hemoscan, a thermometer-like device that analyzes blood without so much as a prick. Anemia, infections, and even the possibility of tumors are detected via a video image of blood flow captured by a camera-equipped probe placed under the tongue. Anomalies in red blood cell count are displayed within seconds - sans microscope or lab.
2004 .mars The Internet invades Mars. Net surfers can visit sites with domains like .mars for panoramic views of the Fourth Rock, weather reports (today's forecast: dry and -23 degrees Celsius), and eventually connections to the planet's first human visitors. Making this possible is a new Internet-based protocol - crafted by Vint Cerf & Co. - that supports extraterrestrial communication. According to the visionaries at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, this is merely the first link in an interplanetary network.
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