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Mattel Hot Wheels 1997 1:64 Scale Yellow & Blue Shock Factor Die Cast Car Collector #700 Sale Price: $0.01  |
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Shock Factor
 1998 HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR COLLECTOR 700 MINT ON CARD US $2.49 
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 2003 HOTWHEELS 154 SHOCK FACTOR US $1.25
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 HOT WHEELS 141 SHOCK FACTOR US $2.75
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 HOT WHEELS 700 SHOCK FACTOR CARS NEW ON CARD US $1.59
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 HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR COLLECTOR 141 US $6.24
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 HW 2003 154 ALT TERRAIN SHOCK FACTOR US $1.99
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 Shock Factor Off Road Racing Buggy LE Hot Wheels Car LOOSE Toy Vehicle Htf US $16.99
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 2003 HOT WHEELS ALT TERRAIN 4 OF 10 SHOCK FACTOR 154 RED MOC US $1.49
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 1997 HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR 1 64 US $6.99
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 HOT WHEELS 1998 SHOCK FACTOR 700 US $2.95
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 HOT WHEELS 121 Shock Factor 2001 Malaysia MIP US $3.99
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 2003 HW Alt Terrain Shock Factor 4 10 collector 154 US $1.35
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 2006 Hot Wheels Shock Factor Racer Copper 196 US $1.75
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 Hot wheels 2006 Collectors Shock Factor rust 196 US $1.00
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 Hot Wheels Connect Cars Shock Factor 36 Collect all 50 States MOMC US $4.99
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 1997 HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR 700 US $3.95
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 1997 HOTWHEELS 700 SHOCK FACTOR YELLOW BLUE US $1.99
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 HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR TYCO R C RARE LOW SH US $4.99
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 Hot Wheels Pink Black Shock Factor 3164 Collector 141 US $7.99
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 154 SHOCK FACTOR ALL TERRAIN HOTWHEELS 2 PK W FREE ATOMIX CAR B126 US $5.45
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 Hot Wheels Blue Card 141 SHOCK FACTOR US $3.89
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 Hot Wheels Blue Card Shock Factor 141 diecast 1 64 US $2.99
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 Hot Wheels TOY STORY SHOCK FACTOR Lapel Pin US $9.99
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 2002 Hot Wheels Shock Factor Col 121 Razor Wheels US $1.76
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 1998 Hot Wheels Collectors Series 700 SHOCK FACTOR US $1.49
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 Hot Wheels 2003 Alt Terrain Shock Factor Car 4 10 154 US $8.25
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 Hot Wheels KB Toys Red Baron and Shock Factor Set MOC 1990s US $11.99
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 06 Hot Wheels Shock Factor Racer Copper Loose 196 US $1.45
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 HW HOT WHEELS 196 SHOCK FACTOR ORANGE HOTWHEELS US $1.00
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 1997 HOT WHEELS 700 SHOCK FACTOR US $1.99
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 1997 HW 700 SHOCK FACTOR yellow blue large BW moc Hot Wheels Collector US $3.58
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 Hot Wheels Lot of 2 Off Roaders Da Kar Shock Factor US $6.00
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 Shock Factor Buggy Red Tampo 141 Hot Wheels BLUE Card Car Vtg Blister US $44.99
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 NEW HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR bin 8 US $3.99
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 HOT WHEELS CONNECT CARS 36 NEVADA SHOCK FACTOR LOW SH NO HANDLING FEES US $4.98
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 2002 Hot Wheels 121 SHOCK FACTOR 2 ATV UTV OR5S WHEEL VARIANT US $3.99
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 2002 Hot Wheels 121 SHOCK FACTOR 2 ATV UTV RAZOR WHEEL VARIANT US $3.99
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 HOT WHEELS SHOCK FACTOR BLACK PINK 1 64 US $5.00
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 Hot Wheels Shock Factor 700 US $2.00
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 HOT WHEELS 2002 SHOCK FACTOR COLLECTOR 121 GREEN US $2.49
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 HOTWHEELS SHOCK FACTOR 96 OFF ROAD RACER US $3.98
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 SHOCK FACTOR Toy Story Lapel Pin US $9.99
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 2002 121 SHOCK FACTOR yellow ORSB Factory Sealed Set HW Hot Wheels Collector US $8.88
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 Shock Factor Hot Wheels Collector 141 US $5.95
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 2002 HW 121 SHOCK FACTOR dune buggy racer yellow ORSB moc Hot Wheels Collector US $1.95
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 Shock factor 2002 collecter 121 US $4.00
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 Hot Wheels 2 Car Set Red Baron Shock Factor 1990 US $10.00
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 2003 Hot Wheels 154 ALT TERRAIN 4 10 SHOCK FACTOR US $3.58
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 MOC BLUE CAR COLLECTOR 141 SHOCK FACTOR W PINK INSERT US $10.00
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 HOT WHEELS COLLECTOR 154 2002 BLACK RED SHOCK FACTOR US $3.99
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X Factor contestant shock?
the finalists of this years x factor were unable to get into the studio for rehearsals today. Non of them could find the right key !
That's funny.
I bet half the fools on here don't know that songs have keys!
Is "Future Shock" Already Upon Us ?
In 1970, Alvin Toffler's book "Future Shock" predicted a world in which technology evolved so quickly society was stunned, unable to adjust, succumbing to "shattering stress and disorientation". A decade later, John Naisbitt took a less cataclysmic look, focused on the next decade, with "Megatrends - Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives"; he updated that in 1990 with "Megatrends 2000".
Toffler proved to be both right and wrong. "Future Shock" did attack millions of people, but primarily those in the newly freed nations of the former Soviet Bloc, especially Russia itself. Hundreds of immigrants pouring out of those nations to the United States in the 1990s reportedly returned complaining about "too much choice".
Even a worldly British author and high tech consultant who spent the 1990s living and working in Southern California and Washington, DC, will soon publish a book about his American experience that includes a chapter on how even Western Europeans can be overwhelmed by American-style consumerism. The working title? "A Cornucopia of Confusing Consumer Choices: Forty-Five Types of Shredded Wheat?"
What Toffler failed to foresee was the ease with which Americans, Canadians and, within the dominion of their own societies, the rest of the "developed" world not only would accept but often demand faster implementation of new technologies. Generations raised on Star Trek and Star Wars did not merely anticipate desktop computers, instant global information access, hand-held global "communicators" and robots, they built them.
Some of Naisbitt's predictions, such as a rise in home-based "networking", were amazingly on target, especially considering he never used the words Internet, e-mail, global positioning system (GPS) - none of which as yet existed - nor terrorism, arguably four of the most important factors driving late 20th and early 21st Century society.
Perhaps the most astounding - and controversial - look at our technology-based future came in 2001, when Ray Kurzweil, one of the world's most honored inventors, authors and futurists, published his "Law of Accelerating Returns".
"An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense 'intuitive linear' view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st Century - it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate). The 'returns', such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There's even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity - technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and non-biological intelligence, immortal software-based humans and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light."
And that is only the opening paragraph! (The entire piece is available at http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1).
Kurzweil's "law" helps explain what Toffler feared and Naisbitt sought to analyze. As to whether Kurzweil is qualified to make such bold statements, consider his remarkable biography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil. Or simply Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' 2005 description of him as "the best at predicting the future of artificial intelligence".
Given Kurzweil's Law, Naisbitt's "Megatrends" and Toffler's "Future Shock" already are being dwarfed by the speed of technological advance. Any new version of either book would have to be electronically published to avoid being comically out-of-date before ever reaching a bookstore.
Consider a few examples of where we are headed in the next 20 years or so:
Military doctors already are looking to field, within a decade, an early version of Star Trek's medical tricorder - not hoping, not expecting, but planning.
The US Army's Future Warrior, the combat infantry ensemble circa 2020, has been called everything from a futuristic medieval knight's suit of armor to a Star Wars' Imperial Trooper. But Future Warrior is an evolutionary process, with the first elements now on their way to US troops in Southwest Asia, for whom small robots that perform dangerous tasks such as checking for explosives at roadblocks already are considered honored and invaluable teammates.
Hydrogen fuel cells the size of soda cans have been powering TV field cameras for the past two years; people all over the globe can flip open their own "communicators" and not only talk to anyone anywhere, but take and send photos and movies, listen to music, download information, send and receive text messages, obtain precise GPS locations - even Mr. Spock would be likely to raise an eyebrow and mutter, "Fascinating".
Kurzweil's Singularity foresees a time - perhaps within the next two decades - when it will be possible to download a human being's memories and personality into a computer. Add an advanced and highly realistic avatar based on that individual's actual appearance (at any age) and an equally accurate voice synthesizer and it will be possible to have a real-time, original conversation with a dead relative or teacher. Imagine Einstein or Mozart or da Vinci preserved for all time.
The religious implications, of course, are obvious, as are the legal and societal: With AI Grandpa still own his house? Will flesh-and-blood Grandma be able to remarry? Is erasing an AI personality disk murder? And for writers and publishers, if copyrights continue for 70 years after the author's death, is an AI author dead - or immortal?
Nanotechnology - microscopic machines - and microbiology are expected to combine to enable the repair of almost anything that goes wrong with any part of the body. No chemotherapy, no contact lenses, no open heart surgery, just an injection of thousands of tiny robotic surgeons programmed to deal with the problem.
Experiments already have been performed to enable two people to share sensory perceptions. In others, robotic limbs have been activated by subjects thinking about moving their own arms or legs. Such bioelectronic advances are expected to enable quadriplegics to walk away from their wheelchairs, possibly within a generation.
Consider:
- In 1906 we had just witnessed the first flight of a heavier-than-air manned aircraft, a flight that lasted less than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. Six decades later, we were walking on the Moon.
- In 1906, few people had access to a very cumbersome, expensive and unreliable telephone system and radio was still an experiment; today, you can watch television on your cellphone.
- In 1906, the average life expectancy in the US was 46.9 for men, 50.8 for women; today, it is 74.5 for men and 79.9 for women, according to US government tables. But many futurists say for those of us now living, the trick will simply be to live long enough . . to live forever - which they believe the merger of biology and technology will make possible, in one form or another, within a generation.
"Future Shock" and "Megatrends" were products of the late 20th Century, when Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns was just beginning to reach the Tipping Point -- "that dramatic moment when something unique becomes common". In contrast, the 21st Century will require entirely new legal, sociological, philosophical, religious, political, moral and personal concepts.
Perhaps it is - 250 years earlier than claimed by the 1990s TV show "Babylon 5" - truly the "dawn of the Third Age of Mankind".
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