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• Stanislaw Lems Summa Technologiae in English for the first time in 50 Years

  
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  I know there are some people from english speaking countries reading this thing here and this is a recommendation that really comes from my heart. Stanislaw Lems Summa Technologiae is available in English for the first time since (nearly) 50 Years! I read this monster more than twenty years ago, then again and then ...
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• The Onions Future News From The Year 2137

  
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• Shale Gas – Shall China?

  
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   We kept the April 12, 2013 New York Times article as a draft because we basically found it very one-sided and know very little about “Berkeley Earth” or Elizabeth Muller (*), but with information about the Koch Brothers professed skepticism of progressive ideas. Now we decided to post this because of ...
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• Who Wants To Live Forever?

  
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  Medical science has changed humanity. It changed what it means to be human, what it means to live a human life. So many of us reading this (and at least one person writing it) owe their lives to medical advances, without which we would have died. Live expectancy is now well over double what it was for the Medieval ...
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• Electronic Music as Emerging Tech. Embryo of Art’s Entire Future — Part One

  
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  Artifacts, Artifictions, Artifutures 0.5 It’s not a physical landscape. It’s a term reserved for the new technologies. It’s a landscape in the future. It’s as though you used technology to take you off the ground and go like Alice through the looking glass. John Cage , in reference to his 1939 Imagined ...
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• President Obama’s Words and Deeds: Is he actually the Environmental President? Senator Boxer pointed out that There is No Need for an Environmental Law – President Nixon did this for us already – What is Needed is Simple Exercise of Presidential Power.

  
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      Reader Supported News | 11 May 201 Jonathan Chait | Obama Might Actually Be the Environmental President. President Obama spoke during a tour of a solar energy firm in Acadia, Fla., last fall. He has focused on renewable power and energy security. (photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)   Jonathan ...
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• Brazil is the BRICS country destined to become the new leader of the World Outsiders by Heading the World Trade Organization.

  
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  Our website has proposed that geopolitics are headed to a new structure were it is needed to have a billion people in order to be considered a World Power. As such we proposed that besides China and India, the other World powers will be - - an Anglo-American Block led by the US and that will include also the UK, ...
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• Water Problems Given as Added Reason For The War In Syria. Will Egypt Be Next? Could there be a “PAX CLIMATICA” to Save The Middle East?

  
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      A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next. Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza are also in deep trouble, he warns. By Mitch Ginsburg May 9, 2013, The Times of Israel   ...
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• Keynes was, incredibly, right about the future. He was wrong about how we’d be spending it.

  
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  John Maynard Keynes was right about the future. But he was wrong about how we’d be spending it. “In the long run,” Keynes famously wrote, ”we are all dead.” I rate that claim true. But it actually has little to do with Keynes’s views on the subject. Lord John Maynard Keynes, head of the British ...
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• Mark Webster - Gray Matter #8 - Abstract Grayscale Oil Painting

  
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  Mark Webster - Gray Matter #8 - Abstract Grayscale Oil Painting. 10x8" Oil on Canvas. $150 Free US Shipping. Please contact me for details regarding international shipping. http://markadamwebster.com/ />
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• The Urgency of Purpose and the Forward Movement of Failure

  
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  As a futurist I spend much of my time tracking failure. Why failure? Because they are the unforgiving anchors around which society changes directions. In the U.S. we are now witnessing a record number of failures taking place. Just look around. Failed businesses, failed systems, failed jobs, and failed marriages. ...
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• The Music of 2071, As Imagined in 1964: Fischinger Lumigraph to Lumichord

  
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  Finishing research for a talk at Genève’s Mapping Festival , I came across this gem from comments on Create Digital Motion. It’s the innovative Lumigraph, an interactive light experiment by visionary film and animation pioneer Oskar Fischinger. The sci-fi film looked ahead to what the music of 2071 might be ...
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• Gun Owners Anonymous

  
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  Think of this as Volume 17, Number 19 of A-Clue.com , the online newsletter Ive written since 1997. Enjoy. The people who attended last weeks NRAconvention, and the people who support them politically, engender awide range of emotions in those of us who dont share their ideology. Fear. Loathing. Anger. In my ...
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• Mark Webster - Gray Matter #7 - Abstract Grayscale Oil Painting

  
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  Mark Webster - Gray Matter #7 - Abstract Grayscale Oil Painting. $150 Free US Shipping. Please contact me for details regarding international shipping. http://markadamwebster.com/ />
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• Practitioners teach at NYU the facts of UN life under the general umbrella of “Confrontation or Cooperation.

  
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    from NYU School of Continuing & Professinal Studies – Global Affairs Division: scps.global.affairs@nyu.edu that years ago made it possible for us to introduce Sustainable Development to the Achademe. LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS Our faculty are p ractitioners and experts in their field. The y ...
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• Creepy Portraits Made Using DNA from Gum & Smokes

  
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  [ By Steph in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology . ] The chewed gum, fingernail clippings and cigarette butts you leave behind in public places could say a lot more about you than you’d like to imagine. Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg makes this abundantly clear with her series, ‘Stranger ...
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• Glow Your Own Plants

  
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  Plants that gleam, alien-like, could be the next source of sustainable natural lighting–no electricity required. Bioluminescent tree via NextNature. Inspired by fireflies and aquatic bioluminescence, a team of Stanford University PhDs  are creating living, glowing plants inside a California lab. … ...
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• Mark Webster - Gray Matter #6 - Abstract Grayscale Oil Painting

  
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  Mark Webster - Gray Matter #6 - Abstract Grayscale Oil Painting. $150 Free US Shipping. Please contact me for details regarding international shipping. http://markadamwebster.com/
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• Future Past: 7 Weird Wonders Predicted 100+ Years Ago

  
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  [ By Steph in Technology & Vintage & Retro . ] “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible,” reads the intro to a 1900 article printed in the Ladies Home Journal entitled ‘ What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years. ‘ And over a century later, many of them do. The “wisest and ...
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• Cities Are the Future of Human Evolution

  
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  Humans began to live in urban settlements about 7 thousand years ago. As humans continued to evolve over the millennia, so too did our cities. Now, our cities are about to change again — and theyre going to look more like ancient Machu Picchu than the gleaming towers of glass and steel we have today. Read more... ...
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