Is Sky Falling on America?
Real Clear Politics - By Victor Davis Hanson - May. 24 (Opinion) - our rivals are weaker and America is far stronger than many think. Take oil. With oil prices at nearly $70 a barrel, Vladimir Putin,...
View ArticleThe New Paradigm of Advantage
Harvard Business Review - By Umair Haque - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - the past of advantage was extractive and protective. the future of advantage, on the other hand, is allocative and creative.....an economy...
View ArticleThe Long News
TED - By Kirk Citron - Mar. 31 (Speech) - We are drowning in news. Reuters alone puts out 3.5 million news stories a year -- that's just one source. My question is: how many of theses stories will...
View ArticleWhat is IPv6 and Why Should We Care?
The Next Web - Feb. 13 (Advocacy) - The IP [Internet Protocol] is a communication protocol used to relay data across a network. This is the primary protocol that establishes the Internet. The version...
View ArticleEU to ban cars from cities by 2050
Daily Telegraph - By Bruno Waterfield - Mar. 29 (News) - Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the...
View ArticleIPv6 Day: Kicking the tires of a next-gen Net today
CNET News - Jun. 09 (News) - The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings.NewsTrust...
View ArticleAlmost everything is getting better
Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting...
View ArticleThe World Is Ending, Please Update the Home Page
New York Times - By David Carr - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - Let’s say, just for giggles, that the word was ending. Could be an alien invasion, a pandemic or nuclear annihilation. If one of those scenarios...
View ArticleThe State of Obama’s Facts
FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson, D’Angelo Gore, Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Ben Finley, Lori Robertson - Jan. 25 (Fact Check) - The president’s State of the Union address got the facts right — mostly....
View ArticleWinds of change brewing
Sydney Morning Herald - By Jo Chandler - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Beddington argues, pragmatically, that while much is uncertain about the longer-term, the challenges of the next 20 years are clear:...
View ArticleWhy Bob Woodward is wrong about the internet and journalism
GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward said this week the internet would not be of much use in a case like Watergate, the story he helped break in...
View ArticleHow to Spot the Future
Wired - By Thomas Goetz - Apr. 25 (Opinion) - Thirty years ago, when John Naisbitt was writing Megatrends, his prescient vision of America’s future, he used a simple yet powerful tool to spot new ideas...
View ArticleHow the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills
Nieman Journalism Lab - By Justin Ellis - May. 13 (News Report) - Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of...
View ArticleJournalism: The best of times, and the worst of times
GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - Jun. 03 (Interview) - Journalism professor Tim McGuire, a long-time newspaper editor and Pulitzer Prize judge, says there is much upheaval in the media industry but a lot of...
View ArticleComplex Networks Make Up U.S. Power Grid
All Things Considered - By David Greene - Aug. 14 (Interview) - As Morning Edition looks back on the blackout of 2003, David Greene talks to Steven Weissman, the director of the Energy Program at the...
View ArticleThe End of the Age Pyramid
Atlantic Monthly - By Uri Friedman - Jun. 28 (News) - Throughout human history, plotting populations by age group has yielded a pyramid. Across societies, the young (the base) exceeded the old (the...
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