future

The future: what will it bring? That's a concern that's been obsessing scientists, sociologists and the specialists, futurologists, for a very long time.

Bloggers are no exception to that concern: they can be writing about the future of almost anything imaginable, from technology to geographical locations, from endangered animals to financial planning.

But one thing's for sure, whoever's doing the writing: "the future's not ours to see" - all we can offer is a best guess. At least until someone invents a time machine.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “future”

• in Business
  The Future of Retail Is Now
  A look back at Nicholas Negroponte's 1998 predictions for the future of retail and the realities of today's markets.
  by Retailprophet / on Nov 7, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “future”

• iPhone could get RFID – Radio Frequency Identification

  
  Talk iPhone - iPhone News Blog and Forums — Authority: 423
  RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)- Enabled iPhone Could Offer Object & Facial Recognition, Messaging, and Voice Modulation. Back in July, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published several dozen Apple patent applications related to Apple software. What does this mean for the future of the iPhone? How ...
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• The Rich Fool

  
  Live to Worship — Authority: 99
  The Rich Fool I was reading my daughter a bedtime story a few nights ago.  She loves to hear stories from her “God book” ( Stories Jesus Told by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen).  We flipped through and stopped to read the Parable of the Rich Farmer which is based on Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool ...
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• Virtual Co-Drivers Will Make Trucks Of The Future Safer

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 131
  Trucks of the future could be equipped with an on-board digital co-driver to assist the human behind the wheel, or even take over if the driver loses control. The HAVEit project (short for Highly Automated Vehicles for Intelligent Transport) has 28 million euros (USD$40 million) at its disposal and is aiming to ...
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• A.W.E. – the Animated Workplace Environment that’s almost, but not quite, a cubicle…

  
  The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia — Authority: 144
  As if cubicles weren’t enough, the boffins at Clemson University have come up with a computer controlled robotic wall called the [...] 194 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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• OC&C Media Top 100 Index 2009

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
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• Wrap 2: Nicolas Wright/Andrea Abbate AND Leyna Weber/Hal B. Klein

  
  the stream of consciousness network blogs — Authority: 113
  Election day last Tuesday and we voted in a DOUBLE SHOW !The 1st show was @8PM, and featured 2 guests: A) sitcom writer Andrea Abbate and B) actor Nicolas Wright, both from CBS’s hit comedy “Accidentally on Purpose” - (Mondays at 8:30 on CBS).Watch Nicolas Wright and Andrea Abbate on www.theStream.tvAnd our 2nd ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Read About Several Free TV Shows

  
  Watch Movie Online — Authority: 132
  The history of free TV shows is actually the history of television itself in perspective. For the last seventy five years or so, television became something not foreseen by its supporters during its formative years before. For one, the business of making people watch free TV shows had transformed into a multi-billion ...
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• The Five Greatest Threats to Financial Markets in the Next Decade

  
  Yes and Not Yes — Authority: 120
  After a bit of reflection and quiet contemplation yesterday on the what might be the greatest threat to financial markets in the coming decade, I came up with a list of about five potential threats. I did my best to synthesize everything that I have read or listened to in the past year. I also tried to imagine the ...
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• TMG-135 Gamer Husbandry

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 444
  We are joined this week by Alfred, Scott, and Sam from GamerHusbands Radio. We discuss Star Wars video games, past favorites and what we’d want from a future game. In addition, we answer listener mail, talk about GamerHusbands Radio and pay homage to GHR with a special 4×4 segment. Click on the Married ...
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• ARPA E Waste Heat Projects

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  2 of the 37 first round ARPA E projects were categorized as waste heat capture and one of the vehicle technologies was GMs lightweight car exhaust heat recovery Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery (LighTER) System General Motors R&D; received a $2.7 million federal award Monday that will help build a ...
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• Open narratives for preparing the future

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 128
  Another one about the future and disruptive technology. Bruce Sterling on Beyond the Beyond refers to the When Everything is Programmable Digital Stories of the Institute for the Future. It’s a nice example of the use of vernacular video (video by Howard Rheingold) for telling provocative but plausible stories ...
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• Future models of assessment…

  
  Mimanifesto - Jaye's weblog — Authority: 99
  We had the second meeting of the SQA Future models of assessment working group last week. This gave the seven classroom practitioner members an opportunity to report back to the group (and several interested folk from within the SQA management teams) on how their individual assessment projects were taking shape. Very ...
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• Engineer Builds $10 DIY Cellphone Microscope [Microscopes]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
      Cellphones are handy in a pinch. They make emergency calls, serve as a late night texting platform, and now in developing areas where money is tight and malaria runs rampant, they can serve as a microscope Read more here: Engineer Builds $10 DIY Cellphone Microscope [Microscopes]
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• Victory!!!!

  
  Eclecticity — Authority: 512
  "To the moon Alice, to the moon!" "A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi compared the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later." Story here. How shall I put this, so as to not to piss on anyones parade? "Great" legislation is one thing. ...
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• Information You’ll Find Really Interesting

  
  Earn Extra Money — Authority: 148
  Robert Allen, Internet Marketing Specialist has teamed up with Home Wealth University.com (Publisher’s note: This article originally published on GoArticles.com and republished here with permission.) Home Wealth University.com is the World’s First and Only Double Acceleration Matrix. This new Internet stay at home ...
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• Disruptive technology adoption is a uphill battle

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 128
  I have my doubts about virtual worlds becoming mainstream anytime soon – mainstream as in being used on an almost daily basis by a majority of internet users. There are of course very neat demonstrations of how virtual environments can be used for demonstration and communication purposes. On SecondLifeUpdate.com I ...
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• Engadget Podcast 170 – 11.08.2009

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  A bit of a wild podcast this week, as we recorded live on DROID launch day — and not just Motorola’s handset, but also the HTC DROID Eris. Read more: Engadget Podcast 170 – 11.08.2009
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• “Better Screwed Than Rude”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 149
  Mark Steyn connects some of the dots regarding Nidal Hasan’s transformation into a radical jihadist : Step One : Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September ...
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• The coming natural gas boom is not all its fracced up to be

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Energy Please pardon my poor punning, and let me explain: "Fraccing" (rhymes with "cracking") is the oil and natural gas industrys an informal contraction for the technology called hydraulic fracturing , in which water (and in some cases, a chemical mixture) is pumped deep underground to fracture ...
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