Futurism

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• Man’s Attempt To Fly On Jet-Powered Wings Fails

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 593
  From NPR : A Swiss pilot ditched safely into the chilly waters between Morocco and Spain on Wednesday after a technical malfunction ended the first attempted intercontinental crossing on jet-powered wings. A rescuer helicopter winched Yves Rossy to safety from the wind-swept Atlantic. Rossy, a 50-year-old former ...
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• $7 spent on family planning can reduce CO2 emissions by one ton that values $32 in carbon trade. So, the cheapest way to control emissions is to control population explosion. The Condom is a tool to be discussed seriously in Copenhagen, and also as part o

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Looking through clippings from 2009: Can Condoms help fight climate change?  Yes, and they should, wrote an editorial  of  medical journal Lancet! In addition to boosting the health, standard of living and human rights of women, encouraging the use of contraception also will help save the planet. The ...
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• Other Side of The Singularity

  
  Brent Kearney — Authority: 93
  I’ve read a lot about the idea of a technological singularity: a point in time when a self-aware artificial intelligence (AI) recursively increases its own intelligence, leading to an “intelligence explosion” of unimaginable power. Some people consider this situation to be the fastest way, perhaps even the ...
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• The Future Of a White Christmas is Hidden in White Wine.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Thinking of Climate Change, and Copenhagen, I found this week-end Financial Times (November 28-29, 2009) quite amazing: page 3 of Life & Arts section (- why that section? -) had the “Waving and Drowning” article about the very active President of the Maldives, who won elections last year replacing the longest ...
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• China Leads in Geothermal Development In Africa. Developing projects in Kenya they are effectively opening the way also for other companies. Greenchipstock mentions Ormat.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Geothermal Power: Chinese Lead African Geothermal Exploration. By Sam Hopkins Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 China built its Great Wall to keep foreigners out… But Chinese company Great Wall Drilling is now making itself a foreign force in Africa, where a dire need to develop domestic energy resources means ...
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• The Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a new report “Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant,” that says that out of China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States – the US is by far last in funding research i

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  New Report Reveals Asian Nations to Dominate Clean Energy Race. By Brigid Darragh | Friday, November 27th, 2009 The Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a new report that details energy competitiveness and government investments in four nations: China, Japan, South ...
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• A High-Level Two-Days Conference on the 2009 Potential of Kazakhstan – US Investments. “Kazakhstan, is the Center of Eurasia,” Rich in Resources and in direct contacts with West Europe, Moscow, Beijing, Istanbul, and Washington – its importance is growin

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world – equal in size to all of Western Europe, four times the size of Texas, five times the size of France, and has 16.5 million people. Its present GNP per capita is $6,140. It passed  a Sovereignty Declaration October 25, 1990 and became an Independent State ...
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• Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers’ Heads by 2020

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 593
  Jeremy Hsu writes on Popular Science : If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don’t tell Intel researchers. Intel’s Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020. The scientists anticipate that consumers will ...
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• China on the road to Copenhagen – still old POSITION 1: Why Should We Have to reduce our Carbon Footprint? Per capita, China produces only 20 percent of America’s carbon emissions.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  China on Reducing Its Carbon Footprint: Why Should We Have to? They’ve got a point. Per capita, China only produces 20 percent of America’s carbon emissions. Post Tools. Posted by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation at 3:29 PM on November 24, 2009. BEIJING — Ambassador Yu Qingtai is China’s point man on global ...
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• World Map of Population Density

  
  Accelerating Future — Authority: 538
  Mountains, underground, skies, oceans, deserts. Room for many .
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• All-terrain sport coupe by Batyr Ospanov

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 141
  The new sports coupe by UK-based designer Batyr Ospanov is an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) that alters shape to provide commutation on both smooth and rough terrains. Powered by electric generators located at rear wheels, the two-seater has two driving modes, the road mode and the off-road mode. In the road mode, all the ...
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• 15 Fantastic New Futuristic Tech & Gadget Designs

  
  WebUrbanist — Authority: 653
  Invisible speakers, wireless electricity and games you can control with your brain: all of these things may sound like science fiction, but thanks to recent technological innovation, they’re officially within the realm of possibility – or even already available. Some improve quality of life while others are just ...
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• Rushkoff on radical abundance and the economics of Web Cubed

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 615
  I’ve mentioned Douglas Rushkoff here a few times before (both as a thinker and a writer of comics and fiction), and I’m also deeply interested in alternative economic structures, so the following video of Rushkoff’s swift fifteen-minute keynote speech to the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference was like internet ...
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• Systems Evolution & Bio Feminism: Move Over Darwin by Rachel Armstrong (C Theory)

  
  Science, Culture and Integral Yoga — Authority: 410
  Synthetic form, possesses some but not all of the properties of living systems, are not alive and can be regarded as Living Technology. This particular species (designed by the author -- unpublished) is able to construct magnetite tubes that resemble worm casts. ....... Biology is the study of the laws of the ...
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• Technologies, as in Australia’s EnviroMission Solar Tower, Finances as in Islamic Finances and the exchanges in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai, and people of goodwill as in Friendship Ambassadors – all in half a day’s work – there is indeed unconventional ho

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  The title may look strange, and indeed nobody put the three meetings I attended Friday, November 20, 2009, in direct contact with each other – but then my imagination was busy telling me – what if those people would indeed sit in the same room and plan together for a better functioning world? First – the Solar ...
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• IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat’s Entire Brain

  
  r-echos — Authority: 139
  Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat’s cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of ...
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• IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat’s Entire Brain

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Using 144 terabytes of RAM, scientists simulate a cat’s cerebral cortex based on 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of ...
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• Can We Really Control the Weather?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  From The Independent : Recently both Russia and China have claimed to be able to use cloud seeding to increase rainfall and snowfall, or change the location of where it falls. In the past, snow-making experiments have been carried out in North American ski resorts in the past with little evidence of ...
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• The EU Chooses not to enter the big league on the side of China and the US: on Foreign Policy it wants rather to see Brussels be led by the European Commission in a way similar to how the US is led by the Senate – and as such also elected a President that

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  The European dis-Union did not chose an Obama, but someone whose only managerial success was the creation of a Belgian government after a long time they had none. His departure from the job – will throw perhaps into a relapse his country divided into Flanders and Wallonia. The Foreign Policy at the EU will be headed ...
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• Indonesia has learned a chapter from the UN book – it expelled 15 journalists that scratched environment cover-ups. The Italian Government made official protests to Indonesia and AP made the information public.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 484
  Indonesia deports journalists covering Greenpeace.   http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/breakin… Nov. 19 2009 – AP Indonesia has deported two foreign journalists covering a Greenpeace demonstration against forest destruction on the western island of Sumatra  bringing to 15 the number of people kicked out of ...
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