Earth will reportedly have trillionaires soon, as many as 11 of them in the next couple of generations. That would be roughly $140 for each human being on earth. Or enough to pay Atlas to stop shrugging and just flip off the rest of the world's population.

At long last, advertisers are ready to "solve" the "problem" of you rudely ignoring the television ads that they spent so much effort crafting, by looking at your cell phone when the commercials come on.

This new RoboCop movie does not care that anyone might compare it unfavorably to the original 1987 RoboCop movie. It has been programmed not to care about these things. The most readily available metaphor, which is also true, is that the new movie has killed the human mind and guts of its predecessor and kept the cold mechanical body. The whole thing is flat and obvious; even its musical cues land with the clanking unsubtlety of its protagonist's metallic footsteps.

Good news, slack-jawed internet sheeple: researchers now believe that no matter how many unskippable 30-second advertisements they lard onto online videos, you'll continue to watch them, like the passive, yielding consumers you are. Your cat video addiction knows no bounds.

Ohmigawd, the "Starbucks of the Future" is here! What distinguishes this futuristic utopian Starbucks from the hobo-sheltering Starbucks of today? More booze.

In a warm dystopia many years from now, New York City will be underwater and ginormous mutant crustaceans will roam the globe, mouth-wateringly. Here's hoping the cows don't die, because we're going to need butter. [NatlGeo]

[A vision of a Utopian future in which commuting through Times Square involves more charm, less elbowing of Wicked and Toys R Us-destined tourists in the face. Images by Studio Lindfors via BLDGBLOG. More here. ]

They successfully did it on a rabbit, and should be able to work their way up to humans in two years. The wombs will come from dead people.

Ignoring Google's seeming endorsement of IM speak, or tweener, invading the English language by titling the company's logo art contest "Doodle 4 Google," the entries present a striking glimpse into the fears of typical American children — from deforestation to global war. Finalist Mariam Hovhannisyan, a high schooler at the International Community School in Kirkland, Washington, laments an irreversible slide into the mechanization of humanity:

"You know that Newsweek feature MY TURN?," a tipster writes. "So about two years ago (maybe 3?) there was an essay from a former private tutor. She complains that so many spoiled terrible kids just expected her to do their work for them. She then goes into a sort of lengthy description of one particular disciple, who hung around his Downtown LA apartment all day, took tons of pills, and kept his girlfriend too high to leave the apartment. well guess who?! It was our Spencer [Pratt]. No one who knew him doubted it for a second. She actually painted a very accurate picture." And look: Here is that 'My Turn' essay from April, 2005! It's entitled "How Tutoring Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams."