BRITS are using smartphones more and more research shows they are replacing watches, address books, MP3 players and even TVs. And thats not the limit of their potential.

Here futurist BEN HAMMERSLEY, author of 64 Things You Need To Know Now For Then and editor-at-large of technology magazine Wired, tells us what we can expect in the future.

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YOU are a superhuman. Or if youre not, you at least know someone who is.

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Can you summon vast swathes of knowledge in just a few seconds? Can you tell how your friends are feeling, even if theyre miles away?

If you get lost, can you locate yourself to within three feet, in just seconds?

Can you remember whole novels, albums, calendars and to-do lists flawlessly?

Anyone with a smartphone can do all of these things.

The technology has made superheroes of us all.

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The visionary industrial designer, urban planner and futurist is the subject of an exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin this fall.

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"They've racked up that debt and they can't pay it because they can't get a job. That's a pretty good definition of getting screwed," Joel Kotin said in an interview on NPR's "Tell Me More."

Kotin is distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University, Orange, Calif. His newest book is The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.

No generation has suffered more from the Great Recession than millennials, typically defined as those born after 1980, Kotin wrote in a July 15 Newsweek article. Between 2005 and 2010, median net worth fell 37 percent for those under 35 but only 13 percent for those over 65, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Kotin also notes a Pew Research Center study showing that the median net worth of a baby boomer (65 and older) household is $170,494, 42 percent higher than it was in 1984, but the median net worth of a millennial household has declined 68 percent to $3,662.

Since millennials have less work experience than older generations, they have the highest unemployment rate, making wealth accumulation and debt repayment difficult.

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At the same time, older generations are saddling millennials with a tremendous amount of public debt. This week, the national debt alone is expected to surpass $16 trillion. Public debt from programs such as Social Security and Medicare at the national level and public employee pensions at the state and local level transfer wealth from the young to the old.

In addition to the public debt that will limit their government's abilities to deal with future crises, millennials are accumulating large amounts of personal debt, mostly in the form of student loans and credit card debt. Student loans now average $27,000 and the average college student has $12,700 in credit card debt, Kotin notes.

Additionally, while millennials are often encouraged to go to college, there are not enough jobs that require a college degree. Many college graduates of the millennial generation, therefore, end up working in a job that does not require a college degree. They have college loan debt, but they do not have a college graduate salary to help them pay off that debt. About 16 percent of bartenders and parking attendants have a college degree, Kotin pointed out.

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Automotive designer and futurist Daniel Simon has had his vehicle design from Captain America: The First Avenger' featured in a short animation.

This 10-wheeler 1942 supercharged V16 Coupe, the personal car of Marvel's villain Johann Schmidt (the Red Skull), is 7,620 mm long and was inspired by cars such as Mercedes' 540K and the G4. The director's instructions for the car's size led to a truck chassis having to be used for the practical film version.

Simon, previously Senior Car Designer at Bugatti and Volkswagen, has designed vehicles for many films, most famously Tron: Legacy'. His creations can also be seen in Tron Uprising', Captain America', Prometheus' and Oblivion'.

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Through the Internet, humans have connected the world. People are closer to each other than ever while still remaining apart. The next phase of the the Internet will be about connecting things. The Internet of Things will be central to the infrastructure that we build.(The "Futurist's Cheatsheet" series surveys technologies on the horizon: their promise, how likely they are, and when they might become part of our daily lives. This article is Part 5.)

Think of a thing. Really, it could be anything. A chair, a toaster, parts of a car, the lights in your house, the electricity meter, the security cameras in your offices, a fire hydrant, traffic lights really, anything or everything that can exist could be connected to the Internet. Another name for the Internet of Things is a network of things. The network can monitor your home, your car, infrastructure (utilities such as electricity or water), traffic patterns and a variety of other possibilities to create a more informed and responsive system through data analysis.

Do you really need an Internet-connected toaster? Probably not. But, the toaster is a good place to start when discussing the Internet of Things.

What would you expect from a smart toaster? Perhaps a touch screen on which to schedule cooking. It could be connected to the coffee pot, enabling the perfect breakfast for you as soon as you wake. Your toaster could be programmed from your computer or a mobile app. Say you are laying in bed and know you are going to sleep in the next day, pull out your smartphone and reprogram the toaster to start an hour later.

A toaster could have its own IP address on the Internet. In theory, you could visit your toasters site. Giving things a full IP address is one way to tie a thing to the Internet. Another way, and the way in which many things will be tied to the Internet, is for a thing to just have the ability to connect to the Internet, without and IP address.

Now, imagine that there is no digital interface on your toaster. In this case it is just a toaster that happens to have cellular or Wi-Fi capabilities and sensors to monitor how well it performs. It sends sensor data back to the manufacturer through Internet nodes and portals without an individual IP address. The manufacturer uses this data to know how its product is working in the wild, how often it is used, and use this data to make a better toaster.

Go back and replace the word toaster with anything, say, a power meter. The same concepts apply. An Internet of Things can use the Web as an interface, or just use the Internet to move data. That data can be used to interact with the network of things or just as a pipeline where data moves two ways, analyzed and used to make objects smarter and more responsive to peoples needs.

There are so many ways that an Internet of Things could impact peoples lives that it is hard to describe everything. Distilling it to a few key areas helps define what the scope of an Internet of Things could be: infrastructure (buildings and utilities), consumer (cars and homes), health care and businesses (consumer products and retail locations).

Weather-related sensors could help agriculture by monitoring the moisture in the air or ground and give farmers warning about droughts. Smart buildings can provide enhanced security for the people that enter them or warning on disasters such as earthquakes. Connected cars can improve traffic flows or allow functions to be controlled remotely. Items within the home (such as the toaster) can be controlled and monitored and even connected to each other.

Health care is an interesting avenue for the Internet of Things. Certain aspects of the body could be connected to the Internet. Heart sensors could give patients and doctors data to prevent disease. Sensors that monitor white blood cells could give cancer or AIDS patients warning of a relapse.

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by Gary Nelson - Aug. 28, 2012 10:32 PM The Republic | azcentral.com

The last time Mesa embarked on a large-scale civic-planning effort, light rail was just a glimmer in some futurist's eye. The Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport was a struggling former air base. And the city's northwest corner was a vast swath of farm fields.

Now it's time to make another run at a long-term plan for the state's third-largest city, and Mesa wants to give every resident a chance to buy into the vision.

City officials hope that much of the input will happen via the online infrastructure the city already established for its iMesa community-visioning program, which helped shape the $70 million park bond issue that city voters will consider in November.

John Wesley, Mesa's planning director, told the City Council this week that state law requires a General Plan update every 10 years. That was pushed back a couple of years when the Legislature, in a bow to the financial problems that cities faced during the recession, extended the deadline.

So Mesa is just cranking up a process that in normal times would be nearly finished. The upside is that the ideas for what Mesa will look like in the future will extend to 2040.

That quarter-century-plus is likely to bring vast changes, just as in 2002 when few could foresee the transformation that light rail would bring to Mesa's downtown or the emergence of Gateway as a booming passenger hub or the ongoing makeover of Mesa's northwest corner into a shopping and sports mecca.

Those occurrences have required some legal tweaking of what Mesa laid out in its 2002 General Plan, and whatever is crafted in the next go-around also will have to change over time.

But the goal is for the citizens of 2012 to lay out some ideas that today's newborns will inherit by the time they're starting families of their own.

Wesley said the idea this time is to update what was done in 2002, rather than write a whole new plan from scratch.

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Noted keynote speaker, global futurist and best-selling author, Jack Uldrich, has been selected to deliver keynote addresses on future trends in agriculture to the following organizations in the coming months: Land O'Lakes Cooperatives, The Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, Ag Spectrum and Mushroom Canada.Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) August 29, 2012 Noted keynote speaker, global futurist and ...

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The problem is not new. One way or another, people have to validate their identities. I am trying to enter a building or a Web service that only Joe Smith should have access to, I need to offer evidence that I am, indeed, Joe Smith. For decades, authentication has required cards and passwords. In the near future, you might just use a part of your body. (The"Futurist's Cheatsheet" series surveystechnologies on the horizon: their promise, how likely they are, and when they might become part of our daily lives. This article is Part 2.)

Use a thumb-print to unlock a door, an iris scan to unlock a smartphone. Maybe use your voice to interact with your mobile device, PC or television. Biometric data can be used for verification (say, allowing access to a personal bank account) or identification (say, identifying you to law enforcement agencies).

Pick a body part, any body part. There is a good chance that it has a unique identifier that can be used authenticate an individual human. Of course, not all body parts have practical applications in all situations. For instance, hormone analysis would be an awkward choice of authentication for entry to a building.

Criminal forensics provided an early proving ground: Identification based on fingerprints became a viable form of authentication in the late 1800s. DNA performs much the same function today.

Cloud technology is giving rise to new, ubiquitous forms of biometric authentication. Physical identifiers for large groups of people can be uploaded to a server and used for purposes such as accessing data on a company computer, gaining access to secure buildings or unlocking smartphones. Storing biometric keys in the cloud makes it much easier for devices to recognize and recover the data and for users to put it to work.

The rise of a digitally connected society has led technologists to propose the notion of one true login. Today, you may have one password for Facebook, another for Gmail and so on. At the same time, you may have an ID card such as a drivers license. Depending on where you work, you may have an ID badge that you have to scan to get into your office.What if all of these functions could be replaced with one biometric identifier unique to you?

Such an innovation could improve personal and data security an dalso improve user experiences across a variety of devices. Much of modern computing has been built around the standard user interface: keyboard and screen. That is starting to change as computers,smartphones, tablets, and televisionsincorporate cameras that recognize your face, touchscreens that know your fingerprint and microphones that recognize your voice. Quick, convenient biometric authentication would tie these devices more seamlessly into daily life.

The technology for biometric authentication is already widely available. The true challenge comes in building an acceptable infrastructure where the technologies can be easily implemented. Part of the challenge is cost in replacing or augmenting legacy authentication methods such as the magnetic keycard system in a hotel or an enterprise. Another challenge is legal. Many states and countries have privacy laws on how certain types of biometric identifiers can be used, inhibiting how enterprises and commercial ventures can deploy these authentication methods. These privacy laws are important as people are extremely sensitive in how their biomedical is stored and used.

Research firm Gartner focuses on the future business aspects of biometric authentication in its most recent Hype Cycle report, but the consumer realm poised to see practical applications. Smartphones can be unlocked through a variety of biometric keys such as voice, facial recognition or a fingerprint. Apple, Samsung and Microsoft will likely lead the way.Companies like Nuance are tuning mobile devices to the user's voice. And enterprises won't be far behind.Before long, companies will implement biometric authentication for onsite building access and smartphone security.

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In the last few decades, women?s labor force participation and educational attainment have skyrocketed. Women now hold over half of managerial and professional roles in the US and are the majority of college graduates in most countries around the world. According to British futurist Ian Pearson, founder of consultancy Futurizon and author of You Tomorrow, women are also well positioned for the ...

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Footage of a hover bike test flight surfaced on the Internet this week and quickly sent sci-fi nerds and techies on a heavy Star Wars nostalgia trip. The video is enthralling not only because it's a futurists wet dream. The vehicle's user-friendly design could usher in an era of low-altitude flight as a form of daily, personal transportation.

Built by Aerofex, a California company, the hover bikefinally perfects a design that was scrapped in the 1960s due stability issues. Like earlier versions, it achieves flight through the rotation of very large fan blades, like a helicopter. The difference is in control bars near the knees that react when the driver leans on them,allowing the vehicle responds like a horse or surfboard. (Aviators call this systemkinesthetic control, a tem coined by Charles H. Zimmerman, who in the 1950s created flying shoes and a flying pancake for the US military.) Aerofex's hover bike has been testedat 30 miles an hour and a height of 15 feet, and it has flown under bridges, in trees, and around buildings.

"Think of it as lowering the threshold of flight, down to the domain of ATV's (all-terrain vehicles)," said Mark De Roche, an aerospace engineer and the founder of Aerofex in an interview with InnovationNewsDaily.

Aerofex's goal to break the barriers that limit access to the benefits of flight, according to the company's website. "Imagine personal flight as intuitive as riding a bike," reads another passage on the site.

So when can we expect these flying contraptions to hit the market, and how much will they cost? According to De Roche, the answer is... No. Aerofex has no intention of offering these bikes to the public. De Roche sees them being used by search-and-rescue teams in difficult terrain, by farmers, and by the military in the form of an autonomous supply carrier.

Aerofexs hover bike isnt the only small flying machine trying to get off the ground, although it has racked up the most successful test flights. An Australian competitor has yet to complete a successful untethered test flight despite a similar design and ambitions to reach the mass market.

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At the dawn of the 20th century, Nicola Tesla wanted to save the world from fuel dependency. Now, an Internet cartoonist wants to save Tesla's last remaining laboratory as a tribute to the futurist inventor.

The structure, a 94-by-94-foot building, was the location where Tesla hoped to develop wireless communications and clean, free energy for everyone in the early 1900s. He moved his operation to the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, in 1902 -- so named because of a 187-foot tower rising from the ground (as well as being sunk 120 feet below it) that was to be one of the great transmitters for his wireless energy dream.

The facility was lost a few years later due to debts Tesla racked up, and the huge tower was demolished in 1917. The site would ultimately become a Superfund location because of silver and cadmium toxicity in the ground after a photographic film company used it for nearly 48 years. It has now been cleaned up and is no longer harmful.

Tesla died penniless and in debt in 1943.

Currently, the building and surrounding land sit idle and are up for sale. Matthew Inman, the creator of Web cartoon "The Oatmeal," is joining forces with a nonprofit group, The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, to help preserve the facility as a science center and museum honoring "the father of the electric age."

"Tesla is an unsung hero, and there are very few monuments to him in the United States. I feel like that's something we need to fix," Inman said. "I made a comic about Tesla on my site. It got the most 'likes' on Facebook that I've ever seen in my career. Combine (the fact) that I've got this army of Tesla fans and the experience and success with my other fund-raiser, I felt like I was the ideal person to step in to control."

Inman's previous experience with the IndieGoGo crowdfunding site stemmed from a potential lawsuit and his subsequent campaign to raise money for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society. This current effort, bluntly titled "Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum," exploded after it was launched, raising more than $750,000 within five days.

It had topped $792,000 as of Tuesday morning.

The goal was to raise enough money to buy the property and begin efforts to restore the facility. The asking price is $1.6 million, and Inman's goal of $850,000 would be matched by a New York state grant for the same amount, raising a total of $1.7 million. Inman said he was shocked by how much, and how quickly, people have donated to save Tesla's lab.

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(CNN) -- At the dawn of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla wanted to save the world from fuel dependency. Now, an Internet cartoonist wants to save Tesla's last remaining laboratory as a tribute to the futurist inventor.

The structure, a 94-by-94-foot building, was the location where Tesla hoped to develop wireless communications and clean, free energy for everyone in the early 1900s. He moved his operation to the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, in 1902 -- so named because of a 187-foot tower rising from the ground (as well as being sunk 120 feet below it) that was to be one of the great transmitters for his wireless energy dream.

The facility was lost a few years later due to debts Tesla racked up, and the huge tower was demolished in 1917. The site would ultimately become a Superfund location because of silver and cadmium toxicity in the ground after a photographic film company used it for nearly 48 years. It has now been cleaned up and is no longer harmful.

Tesla died penniless and in debt in 1943.

Inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943) foresaw wireless communications and wanted to develop clean fuel.

Currently, the building and surrounding land sit idle and are up for sale. Matthew Inman, the creator of Web cartoon "The Oatmeal," is joining forces with a nonprofit group, The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, to help preserve the facility as a science center and museum honoring "the father of the electric age."

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"Tesla is an unsung hero, and there are very few monuments to him in the United States. I feel like that's something we need to fix," Inman said. "I made a comic about Tesla on my site. It got the most 'likes' on Facebook that I've ever seen in my career. Combine (the fact) that I've got this army of Tesla fans and the experience and success with my other fund-raiser, I felt like I was the ideal person to step in to control."

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The site of inventor Nikola Tesla's former laboratory sits idle and boarded up in Shoreham, New York.

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(CNN) -- At the dawn of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla wanted to save the world from fuel dependency. Now, an Internet cartoonist wants to save Tesla's last remaining laboratory as a tribute to the futurist inventor.

The structure, a 94-by-94-foot building, was the location where Tesla hoped to develop wireless communications and clean, free energy for everyone in the early 1900s. He moved his operation to the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, in 1902 -- so named because of a 187-foot tower rising from the ground (as well as being sunk 120 feet below it) that was to be one of the great transmitters for his wireless energy dream.

The facility was lost a few years later due to debts Tesla racked up, and the huge tower was demolished in 1917. The site would ultimately become a Superfund location because of silver and cadmium toxicity in the ground after a photographic film company used it for nearly 48 years. It has now been cleaned up and is no longer harmful.

Tesla died penniless and in debt in 1943.

Inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943) foresaw wireless communications and wanted to develop clean fuel.

Currently, the building and surrounding land sit idle and are up for sale. Matthew Inman, the creator of Web cartoon "The Oatmeal," is joining forces with a nonprofit group, The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, to help preserve the facility as a science center and museum honoring "the father of the electric age."

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"Tesla is an unsung hero, and there are very few monuments to him in the United States. I feel like that's something we need to fix," Inman said. "I made a comic about Tesla on my site. It got the most 'likes' on Facebook that I've ever seen in my career. Combine (the fact) that I've got this army of Tesla fans and the experience and success with my other fund-raiser, I felt like I was the ideal person to step in to control."

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Motor industry futurist Sheryl Connelly looks forward to the rise of megacities and self-driving cars

Why do businesses need futurists? If you came up with an absolutely genius idea for a car right now it would take three years for the rubber to hit the road, so to speak - and by then it might not seem so brilliant, so relevant. So we have to be really careful about what we place our bets on. It is daunting. To help do that I look at social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends to try to understand the global forces that shape our values, attitudes and beliefs as consumers.

Does that mean you have to be a car nut? Not at all. I'm not a car person. I never look at the car industry. Ford has plenty of experts that can do that. My job is to look outside the automotive industry and to bring to light things outside their areas of analysis, beyond their scope. My key role is to spot trends that build a business case for the technologies our engineers invent.

And how do you present this "future" to them? It is simple scenario planning, which is basically telling plausible, provocative, fictional stories about the future - but which are based on facts, on current trends.

What kind of scenarios will influence what future cars are like? Earth's population has hit 7 billion and will grow by 2050 to 9 billion. That means megacities of more than 10 million people will proliferate, and that raises questions about how people will live, work and - for Ford - move about. In Beijing today, they have 5-hour commutes. During the 2008 Olympics, they had 12 days of traffic gridlock. Our Traffic Jam Assist technology will drive your car for you in a jam while you relax. Later, cars will talk to each other to route around traffic. In 10 years they'll even talk to road infrastructure and drive in follow-the-leader style, jam-free platoons.

What other factors do you consider? Well, populations are ageing. And that has an effect on the community and on transport. One thing we're working on is engineering cars that are easy to drive at ever older ages. We do that using special suits that are designed to constrain our testers' dexterity to that of elderly people with restricted mobility.

What about the "connected" car, how do you see that developing so it is safe? Ford's Sync system, which links smartphone music playlists, texts and calls to the console using Bluetooth, was not designed for safety, it was designed for connectivity. But if customers are going to bring all their devices into the car anyway this is the safest way to do it. We use Nuance's voice-recognition technology, as used by Apple's Siri assistant, to minimise distraction: in simulators we found people glance at their phone eight to nine times when making a call in the car - but that drops to three with voice-activated calls. There is also a "do not disturb" button that shuts off incoming calls and sends a text saying "I'm driving and can't answer" to people who call or text.

Sheryl Connelly is corporate futurist at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. After working as a customer adviser at Ford, she turned seven years ago to predicting social changes that affect the motor markets

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Popular Internet cartoonistMatthew "The Oatmeal" Inman wants your help in raising money for a Nikola Tesla museum on the site of the revolutionary futurist's lab.

The feds want a law thatwould force companiessuch as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter to build "backdoors" into their software.But privacy advocates say that may make the United Statesmore vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Speaking of security,AT&Tsays unknown attackers hit its network this week, causing loss of service forsomebusiness customers.

Yoinks! This programmer says there's a hole in iPhone iOS that invites phishing attacks!

At least Photobucket put the ban hammer on Reddit's nude photo thieves!

Instagramupdated with a new location-centric feature that puts each and every one of your photos on a map. As long as you don't mind people knowing where you are as soon as you post a picture, it's a fun addition to the service.

The days of Twitter welcoming outside devlopers with open arms are long over --Twitter announced new restrictions thatsternly discouraged independent software developers from creating Twitter apps.

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Directed by Chris Marker. Screens Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

I think I was already suspicious when I was born. I must have travelled a lot before then! So said Chris Marker in a rare interview in 2003, and by that ethereal logic, the great French filmmaker is probably somewhere very interesting right now. At the risk of getting mystical about an artist whose work was so peerlessly clear-eyed, its arguable that Marker, who died on July 29 at the age of 91, transcended the physical boundaries and entrenched expectations of his chosen media. Whether you ultimately classify him as a journalist, a polemicist, or a futurist, his was the cinema of out-of-body experiences.

Its bittersweet timing that TIFFs Summer in France program gets around to Marker so quickly after his passing, and frankly its hard to think of another film as disturbingly death-tinged as his 1962 short La jete, a pocket-sized existentialist fable that quotes from Hitchcock and anticipates The Terminator (and, most famously, inspired 12 Monkeys). Told via a series of still photographs (with one unforgettable, near-subliminal flicker of movement inserted at a key juncture), La jete uses a pulpy post-apocalyptic time-travel conceit to plumb big questions about mortality and memorythe latter being one of Markers favourite subjects, which is appropriate given the indelible quality of his image-making.

Sans soleil (1983) is not the only example of Markers work as a cine-essayist but it has endured as arguably the keynote work in the format. Framed as a series of letters and sent from a (fictional) globe-trotting cameraman to his friend, its a film of geographical, historical, and intellectual sweep that finds time for grace notes involving Japanese whack-a-mole games, gently pecking emus, and cats (Markers other favourite subject). There are a few fleeting shots that feel like epic films in and of themselves, but Marker knew better than to linger, because, in the words of Sans soleils globe-hopping narrator, a moment stopped would burn like a frame of film blocked before the furnace of the projector. Markers films are the light that will never go out.

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Opening in theaters on September 28, the film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo and Jeff Daniels.

In Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a looper a hired gun, like Joe (Gordon-Levitt) is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joes future self (Willis) for assassination.

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Young people have an essential role to play in the development of regional town centres, according to leading Australian futurist Peter Ellyard.

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