Tax reform efforts, heavily backed by the state’s Baptists, will take a step forward in Alabama during 2001, but the effort will not be completed next year, predicts a University of Alabama political scientist.
If you can’t fight ’em, join ’em. Bertelmann Music Group’s recent absorption of Napster won’t rein in file sharing, or ‘piracy,’ among Internet users, says a University of Alabama economist.
Jobs requiring college degrees will become increasingly common in 2001 making for a brighter employment market for college graduates, predicts University of Alabama career center director Patricia Bergmaier.
In the year 2001, people will see widespread deployment of new technology that will promote the use of wireless computing and also significantly increase Internet connection speed, says a University of Alabama computer science expert.
The cost of gasoline for motorists will slowly decrease and stabilize in the coming year, showing less volatility, so that we’ll no longer have to wonder how much the price will change from morning to evening, says a University of Alabama petroleum engineering authority.
Have you ever thought about having a jacket with speakers built into the hood, a microphone integrated into the collar, a keyboard consolidated into the sleeve with all the connections between them concealed within the jacket’s fabric?
Electronic-commerce – the nation’s electronic retailers – are facing the final moments of the critical introductory phase of their new industry, and the great shakeout is about to begin, says a University of Alabama retail marketing expert.
During the last 50 years, improved access and rapidly expanding technology have improved American health care, with many of these advantages extending to rural communities where sound public health measures have slashed death and suffering from infection and nutritional deficiencies.
If the sluggish economy takes a downturn, 2001 could mark the beginning of a shift in the decade-long trend of dropping crime rates, says a University of Alabama criminal justice professor.
A couple of seemingly innocuous changes promise to markedly and permanently alter the face of television, says a University of Alabama mass communications expert.