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Babies of 2014: Questions from crib to college

Here is a list of select questions that babies born in 2014 will ask their parents as they grow up, courtesy of the Beloit College Mindset Lists.

7. Passwords

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Automated recognition of individuals based on their unique behavioral and biological characteristics is going mainstream and being studied by Elliott. Stephen Elliott, Director Of International Biometric Research at Purdue University demonstrates a fingerprint recognition system one of his biometric labs inin West Lafayette, Ind. on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

  • By Lane Brown

"How did you remember what all those keys and passwords were for before the introduction of thought identification software?"

We aren't sure about thought identification software just yet, but technology like biometrics – the identification of humans through physiological characteristics – is a growing practice in the technology sector. The newest smart phones already employ fingerprint scanning technologies and hopefully by the time babies born in 2014 have their own computers, they won't have to maintain a little black book of passwords to access their files and accounts.

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