In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'.The Edge Kevin Kelly. The world is hitting its stride in technological advances, and futurists have been making wild-sounding bets on what we'll accomplish in the not-so-distant future.n 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'.
Average Nursing Pay in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, registered nurses earned an average of $33.23 per hour across all specialties as of May 2011, and a mean annual income of about $69,110. However, the practice area of a nurse can have a large impact on expected salary. A salary survey conducted by RN Magazine in April 2009 found that pediatric nurses earned an average of $31 per hour, similar to the average hourly pay earned by RNs specializing in oncology and ambulatory surgery.
In 2010, registered nurses reported earning between $22 and $30 an hour, according to PayScale, an online compensation database. Hourly overtime pay increased these amounts to between $30 and $46 an hour.