For example, a luxury Bugatti valued at between 350,000 and 3 million euros -- about $500,000 to $4.2 million -- will be parked next to a more common Renault 4CV (value: 3,000 to 9,000 euros), with their owners sharing nostalgic memories of buying, restoring and driving the cars.
Forbes's story isn't unusual these days and it is likely such frequent movement from one job to the next will become more common, said Rick Guzzo, a Washington DC-based partner with Mercer LLC's Workforce Sciences Institute.
If the traditional parlor game ahead of Apple events is to try to predict the specifications of the next cool product, a more common preoccupation at Microsoft events is to muse about whether people even want what the company is selling.
This study showed that TTO scores are associated with considerations of future life events and beliefs about future health and death, next to the more common demographic variables observed in the literature like age and SLE.
But if the American Chestnut Foundation succeeds in breeding blight-resistant trees, native nuts will be much more common -- not next year, but maybe next decade.
The new, improved type of organism will, therefore, be more common in the next generation.
Solid-state recorders are still in the minority, but they are likely to become much more common in the next few years.
"For any service that interoperates with content on the open web, yes, we think this is going to get more common, for the next little while anyway.
These devices are expected to become far more common over the next few years, of course -- Forrester expects more than 55 million phones and personal digital assistants to be in use by 2005.
Torrential rainstorms and long droughts are both predicted to become more common in the next century as the planet warms, particularly in the south-eastern US. "It's speculation right now," says Means.
