"In due course," says Stone, "it will be as commonplace to install solar panels on a new house as it is to install central air conditioning".
It will be a long time before 3D printers become commonplace but it will be printers like this one that will soon find places of honor in our classrooms and workshops and the software alone is the gold standard by which all other 3D printers must be judged.
And, in a country where huge building projects are commonplace, it will all be ready, you can be assured, on time - though it is doubtful whether anybody outside the upper echelons of government will know for certain what the final budget will be.
"Within five years, it will be commonplace in most pro sports," he said.
If invention capital companies are successful in creating such a market, 10 or 20 years from now it will be commonplace for CFOs to ask their R&D people, "Are we spending enough on inventions?
And soon it will be commonplace to match ads to viewers based on social graph interests, location, device type, and viewing history.
For instance, it will be commonplace for customers to shop at bricks and mortar retailers with digital tools that allow them to compare prices with the retailer's digital competitors, even buying things from one place while shopping at another.
Under the Common Core approach to teaching and learning, it will be commonplace.
Holland noted that recent Alaskan village resettlements cost some US $10 million per village, and that international migration will soon be commonplace in the Pacific, although it will be challenging, time-consuming, and expensive.
In just 25 years, he imagines that it will be commonplace for an "algorithmic DJ [to open] a blended set of songs, incorporating information about your location, your recent activities and your historical preferences," updating in real time with biofeedback.
