Technologies for the future

For a slide show, this Kiplinger list of "8 technologies to change your future" is interesting. The Budget Electric car, priced at $25K, looks space-age like. In item 2, auto traffic and pedestrians may convert motion to electricity.

Later, they claim the energy storage business will grow 10-fold over the next 20 years. That estimate seems low in my opinion. They mention Thorium power as an alternative to uranium, oil in North Dakota, power from space, and 'power spray'.

Hmm, there seems to be one and only one theme here ... I'm all for focusing on energy, but there's a whole bio-engineering field out there with some huge potential.