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• Foresight 2010: register now for discounts!

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 564
  Our conference is coming up January 16-17.  Conference page and registration info here . Time is running out for registration and lodging discounts! I put together the slate of speakers for this conference by inviting the speakers I personally wanted to hear, talking about AI and nanotech and how they will change ...
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• Alvin Weinberg, Prophet of CO2 Driven Global Warming

  
  The Nuclear Green Revolution — Authority: 127
  Alvin Weinberg greets President Kennedy during a visit by the President to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Weinberg was one of Kennedys science advisors. Update Note: This post was one of the first I wrote for Nuclear Green in December 2007. Because it deals with the early history of studies of carbon mitigation and ...
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• What Should We Call the (Nano)technology in Your Stain-resistant Pants? (IEEE Spectrum)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  My first blog entry for Spectrum two-and-a-half years ago was on the struggle not only between wet and dry approaches to molecular nanotechnology (MNT) but also the competition for ownership of the term “nanotechnology” that seems to persist between the adherents to MNT, as exemplified by the Foresight Institute , ...
  3 days ago

• Multi-Textured Futures in KedgeForward’s Toolkit

  
  KedgeForward! — Authority: 92
  This is probably review for most readers of this blog, but today a write a little bit of an introduction to CLA (or causal layered analysis) over on my personal blog. Come on over and take a look, if you’re so inclined…
  5 days ago

• Multitextured Future: Introduction to Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 560
  In my MSF program , we review all sorts of different theories of society & societal. These theories have direct implication on our theories and visions of the future. There are many different approaches in the futurist discipline; there are basic/gestalt theories, systems thinking theories, and more semiotic ...
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• Umar Akmal ‘too flashy’ to bat at no.3 : Basit Ali

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Islamabad, Dec.5 (ANI): Former Pakistan batsman Basit Ali believes that young batting sensation Umar Akmal is not the right man to bat at the number three position.In an interview to PakPassion.net, Ali said that although Akmal has been successful batting at number three and scored some vital runs for his team, he is ...
  6 days ago

• Do you have a freshwater or saltwater view of the future?

  
  Future Savvy: Turning Foresight Into Value — Authority: 106
  Economists make a handy, if mildly irreverent, distinction between “freshwater” and “saltwater” economics. Freshwater refers to economic theory that rests on the efficient markets hypothesis — a belief in the efficiency and rationality of free markets. It is associated with Milton Friedman and the ...
  6 days ago

• Mark Russinovich on MinWin, the new core of Windows

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Since the first public news of Windows 7’s development back on October 2007, we’ve heard about a component of the operating system called MinWin — a tantalizingly titled element that sounds like some kind of portable Windows kernel. Now Windows 7 is actually residing on ...
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• Supernova 2009 – What’s Next in the Network Age? – begins tomorrow in SF. CU there #sn09

  
  stuart henshall — Authority: 118
  Supernova starts tomorrow and I’m planning to attend and do a little blogging while there A few examples of the topics to be covered below.  I know many of the speakers, have done for years and that scares me. On the plus side many of those presenting/talking etc remain on the leading edge (that’s their job!) and ...
  1 week ago

• Futures Thinking – @cascio Writes Three Short Articles on How to Think Futures

  
  stuart henshall — Authority: 461
  Jamais Cascio ( @cascio )a dedicated futurist has written three short articles on Futures Thinking that have appeared in Fast Company. He writes “It’s quite an enjoyable job , as it allows me to indulge my easily-distracted curiosity about the world. If you have read any of my previous posts on scenarios you ...
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• Look, Look Before You Leap! (Plutonic Sonnets 64)

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 166
  Look, look before you leap! Let us not doubt That this is splendid counsel, and that we Too seldom heed it, only to find out That impulse yet again brings misery. read more
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• Identifying emerging trends at Nokia

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 132
  Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Google Android. Identifying emerging trends and building new technologies could be key to cementing its future, reports Claudine Beaumont, technology editor of the Daily Telegraph. “Oskar Korkman, the man in ...
  1 week ago

• Healing People & Honoring Creation: Joel Salatin on Sustainable Agriculture

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 560
  I was pleased to open up my copy of Sojourners this month and see an interview with one of my heroes, Joel Salain , founder of Polyface Farms .  Some sweet excerpts:   Jeannie Choi: What’s the vision behind Polyface farm? Joel Salatin: Healing—healing in all dimensions. We want to develop emotionally, ...
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• U.S. foreclosure threatens-world market

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  Before we get into the critical invisible analysis of foreclosure we need to understand clearly what it means by Foreclosure.This articles brings out the trend and analysis of the climbing high Foreclosure rates andits effect on the US economy as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Nokia on life among the clouds

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 132
  Nafid Imran Ahmed of the Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star was just at “The Way We Live Next 3.0″ event in Helsinki and reports on the company’s vision of the future: “Nokia, the world leader in mobility, gave me an opportunity to look into its crystal ball how mobile devices and services will evolve in ...
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• Conservative Americans have much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  As dark and hopeless as our world looked last Thanksgiving Day things have turned around and there is much to be optimistic about and thankful for this year. Counting our blessings is still easier here in America than in any other country. Even the poorest Americans eat meals many of the world’s citizens only dream ...
  2 weeks ago

• The turkey problem in trend work: is your prediction robust to Thanksgiving?

  
  Future Savvy: Turning Foresight Into Value — Authority: 106
  We owe a debt to Nassim Taleb for memorably encapsulating the demerits of predicting by extrapolating trends as “The Turkey Problem,” and now seems the moment to reiterate it: Imagine you are a turkey. Every day someone comes to feed you. Every day you get bigger. Your portion sizes get bigger too, brought by a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where I’ve Been Online Post-Facebook…and Why

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 560
  Soo…9 days without Facebook . What have I been doing with myself? Mowing the lawn, taking long walks outside, working on projects for work and school; I’ve also been revisiting the various social networks and micro-networks I’ve joined over the last several years…and I’ve joined a coupla more. Presented ...
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• Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 564
  This year is the 20th anniversary of the original Foresight Conference on Nanotechnology . The neat, clear vision of nanotechnology we had in 1989 rested on two key aspects that would make it a transformative, rather than merely an evolutionary, technology: The ability to construct and observe at the atomic ...
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• Foresight Commission Meeting to be Held

  
  Greater Greensboro Open Blog — Authority: 119
  The Greens Coat Clubs Foresight Commission is hosting an Open Forum to allow its members to meet with any Green Coat Club member who wishes to provide input into the future of the club. This input was mandated when the Commission was announced in August. The Commission will make its final report to the Green Coat ...
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