28 — Sunday, December 7, 1997 —- North Shore News A week or so ago I received several pages of information about housing and so on, in which I was not inter- ested, we having agreed we are content to live in this apartment until someone carries us out. We feel comfortable here, and safe. But there was another sheet with it that seemed to have an altogether _ difference focus. It was head- . ed “Your Place in the Third ~ Millennium.” Hmmm. » . For one thing, how can I ‘Sscertain the arrival of this here millennium thing and - how am I going to deal with it when it shows up? Or do I have to? There was a note at the top that I could get more information about this from a chap who calls himself Dr. Tomorrow. That requires another hmmm. It’s only one sheet, dou- _» ble-spaced, but there’s an -awful lot to contemplate in the four paragraphs, all of ’ which have to do with the future. An extraoidinary future. -Early on, it makes the " statement that “Vancouver is "no longer a place. It is a : process,” and this is somehow connected to another state- ment about the obvious pro- “<> liferation of the Asian popula- tions. Those people are not, - the man says, going to stay in Asia; any more than _ Europeans stayed in Europe.. o” Now we get into the parts ~ about what he calls “band- width” and which I translate to myself as having to do with the advancing computer age. “Peould, mind you, be way "_ off. Anyway, he says better * bandwidth in the home or in . the office will mean more north shore news ENIORS Futurist prophesies world of t vintage yeaNs money in the bank both for homeowners and real-estate developers. He points our that where- as in the past people looked for homes to buy near schools, from now on they will be looking for wider bandwidth so that learning can be done when and where desired. Anytime. Nor just when school’s open. He must again have the computer in mind. For the new-age entrepre- neur, an office with a bed- room will be more desirable than to have a home with an office in it, and he says that nobody will be upset should your office also sport a wash- room and a kitchen. Boy, _ life’s going to be pared down to the essentials, ch? Darn little housework in that little nest..He figures 200 square feet for living pur- poses, 600 for office and facil- ities. Now he gets into some- thing else [have never heard of which he calls the “car condo.” This is already a big deal in Hong Kong, Dr. Tomorrow says, and f have to think it’s because they are very compact and this is because Hong Kong is also compact. Would they likewise have to be that size in a place like Canada, which still has a lot of territory it isn’t using? On the other hand, it may be planned like chat even for the wide open spaces because * it makes less housework and “Only. 25‘Days Left -,.for everyone born in 1926, 1927 and 1928. 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Dr. ‘Tomorrow concluded our exchange with an ijnvita- tion to join him in his space any time, and pointed out that though I had no tamiliar- iey with the computer ar this point that it is now projected brain can be tained in virtual reality in six months as opposed to the accepted 16 years. By this time I was going “Blub, blub, blub” and reach- ing for ray aspirin bottle. fm afraid I’m a cyber failure without ever getting started. John Nicholson Financtar PLANNER Investors Group Financial Service Inc. 113-1433 Lonspate Ave, N. Van Apret Wc eA: Got a compiaint about the press? oo» fed the Press Council know Formed at the initiative of the fewspaper publishers in British Columbia, we are a non-judicial teview heard which hears untesalved complaisis about the press. fairness and accuracy and promotes quality journalism while protecing the free flow of , information. B.C. Press Caxncil Box 5424 Victoria, B.C. 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