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10 Tech Concepts You Should Know for 2007
mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has a new list of wide-ranging technology terms it claims will be big in 2007. From PRAM to BAN and SmartPills to data clouds, it's a pretty nice summary of upcoming and in-the-works trends across the board (with a podcast embedded). Though these aren't technologies they expect to be in everyone's homes next year, they're sure this tech will be in the headlines. How do their predictions from a year ago stack up now?" From the article: "Printed Solar Panels - Tomorrow's solar panels may not need to be produced in high-vacuum conditions in billion-dollar fabrication facilities. If California-based Nanosolar has its way, plants will use a nanostructured "ink" to form semiconductors, which would be printed on flexible sheets. Nanosolar is currently building a plant that will print 430 megawatts' worth of solar cells annually--more than triple the current solar output of the entire country."
Not everyone wants to pay interest, smartass, and not everyone has equity to do so.
So what happened to always be prohibitively expensive now? Make up your mind. Either it is an absolute, or it is not.
Some want to pay as they go, as they can afford, for things that are not 100% necessity. I think those people are called "responsible".
If you have the equity then by definition you can afford it. Possessing poor home-ec skills does not make someone responsible, not by a long-shot.