Survey: Teens Predict Gasoline-Powered Cars Obsolete by 2015

Lemelson-MIT Invention Index Raises Questions
about Teens’ Perceptions of Their Preparedness to
Tackle Future Societal Problems

Gasoline-powered automobiles, compact discs and desktop computers are headed toward the technology scrap heap, according to a recent survey of American teenagers.

The 2006 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, which gauges Americans’ attitudes toward invention and innovation, found that a third of teens (33 percent) predict the demise of gasoline-powered cars by the year 2015. One in four teens (26 percent) expects compact discs to be obsolete within the next decade, and roughly another one in five (22 percent) predicts desktop computers will be a thing of the past.

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