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• Have you seen Flickr’s new avatars?

  
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  As well as the new layout and the new business model that it rolled out this week, Flickr also introduced 12 new default avatars for anyone who chooses not to upload her or his own identifying image to attach to their homepage and comments. Designed by Charis Tsevis, they’re bright, blocky, and I have to say I ...
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• Annalee Newitz - What Will Human Cultures Be Like in 100 Years?

  
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  From io9 , futurist  Jamais Cascio  offers some ideas on what human culture might look like in 100 years. Interesting stuff . . . and some of the other futurists in this article also have intriguing notions of the future. What Will Human Cultures Be Like in 100 Years? Get ready for etiquette books on ...
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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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• A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture IX

  
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  1. Snap! World Power, 1990 2. Snap! Mary Had A Little Boy, 1990 3. Snap! The Power, 1990 4. Snap! Oops Up, 1990 5. Snap! Mega Mix, 1991 6. Snap! Cult Of Snap, 2003 7. Salt N Pepa Lets Talk About Sex, 1991 The constituting archive to this chapter can be found in my vinyl record collection. As someone ...
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• About Reliance on Fossil Fuel – You can’t hit 400 ppm CO2 and still think “all of the above” is a rational energy strategy. Where is the leadership? It is feared that Climate Inaction could be a real Obama Administration Scandal.

  
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  Really – You can’t hit 400 ppm CO2 and still think “all of the above” is a rationale for energy strategy.   A lot has happened in the last week. The Earth hit the 400 parts per million CO2 threshold for the first time in human history. Scientists tell us this is bad news if we want to prevent ...
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• Kevin Drum wants to welcome our new robot overlords

  
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  Kevin Drum is playing with futurism and science fiction here in Mother Jones: “THIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE FUTURE. Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy version. It’s the one where computers keep getting smarter ...
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• Colorado’s Opportunity to Take the Lead in the Alternative Transportation Marketplace

  
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  The first time I rode on a Segway, I was confused. Even though I loved the experience, I couldn’t quite figure out how it would fit into my life. It wasn’t going to replace my car and it certainly wasn’t a substitute for my bicycle, so what exactly was it?   When it came down to pulling out my checkbook, I ...
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• Mind Power: The Employee Skill of the Future

  
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    Promotional art for The Invincible Iron Man vol. 5, #25 (second printing) (June 2010) by Salvador Larroca. With the change in the nature of the economy “thinking” has become a much bigger issue. Rote, mindless work is now being taken over by robots and that will do nothing but increase. In this post I ...
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• Quantum Computers Are Here!

  
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  New York Times - 5.16.13 by Quentin Hardy Google said it had already devised machine-learning algorithms that work inside the quantum computer, which is made by D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia. Kim Stallknecht for The New York Times Google and NASA are forming a laboratory to study ...
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• Mark Webster - Abstract Orange Sunset Cityscape Acrylic Painting

  
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  Mark Webster - Abstract Orange Sunset Cityscape Acrylic Painting. 8x10" Oil on Canvas. $125 - Free US Shipping. Please feel free to contact me regarding international shipping. Click Here to Purchase. http://markadamwebster.com/
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• New innovations in the 3D printing industry

  
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  3D printing is becoming one of the most talked about technologies; some might even say it is a bit controversial. Regardless, the new technology offers some very interesting and fascinating possibilities. Follow The American Genius on Facebook for exclusive & breaking business stories Get more Business News at ...
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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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