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South Korea's Home of the Future
An anonymous reader writes to mention a BBC article, looking at South Korea's vision of the home of the future. Their vision includes the use of many recent advances in interface technology, networking, and wireless communication. The difference? Unlike the high-tech demo homes we've discussed in the past, 100 of these units have already been built. Another 30,000 high-tech flats are in the planning stages, to be completed by 2008. From the article: "Here, everything is voice activated, and the fridge can provide you with recipes which use the ingredients inside, and let you know if your food is out of date. It relies on the food packaging containing radio tags, or RFID labels, which can be read by the fridge each time it passes through the door. In the bedroom your wardrobe mirror can tell you your schedule for the day, help you select your clothes — if all your clothes have washable radio tags compatible with the system — and keep you up to date with the weather and traffic."
>One that doesn't require two people working 60 hours per week to purchase. One that has a
>yard wider than 10ft. Really, does anybody other the wealthy even care about a high tech house?
Sounds like you're living in an urban area. House prices are finally dropping but still entirely too high. We have a 100+ year old farm house on 10 acres in rural Maine we bought for 60K, when we cashed out of the inflated urban real estate market. Move to the country.
I'm a mechanical engineer with a degree from a very prestigious US ABET accredited university. I blew away my EIT (FE) exam and scored in the upper 80th percentile. My degree also included a minor in Mathematics in addition to mechanical engineering.
So why? Why have me and my family been on food stamps in the US for the last 3 years? I have applied for thousands of jobs during this period, and continue to do so. I spent a DECADE in engineering school to actually learn the content material rather than cheat my way past it.
Now in the "real business world" I find that no other engineers seem to have a freaking clue about any of that stuff that I labored to impress upon my brain, rather, they seem like a bunch of test cheating frat boys, and when they find I do know how to solve differential equations and understand and remember all of that diff-eq math and its applications, I'm suddenly on the short list for layoff.
Where is the payoff? I should have gone directly from high school into the trade industry. Now I'm a 40 year old US Army veteran mechanical engineer who is so hopelessly overqualified for anything that I am essentially unemployable. I'm going to die as a penniless forgotten wretch, a fool who went to school and actually learned something, instead of going to prison like everybody else who went to high school with me.
Yeah, Go USA, wooo hooo. Mother Fletcher forking representive republic democracy for the slavemasters. Fork you! I wish I could leave this stinking rat hole country of evil MBA arshole duckheads and jurk off farg management society. This country is a rotting zombie of a corpse. Fly high free birds and get away from the death lands if you can, this carrion pile of rotten liar bosses and corporate cuckolds is the death of everything you ever hoped and dreamed of. These are the words of infamy and the future was yesterday.
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