The Last Oil Shock

David Strahan's provocative book "The Last Oil Shock" is meant to be "A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man". Homo Petrolicus is finished an we have no alternative. Even Shell's Jeroen van der Veer agrees: "the age of easy oil is over".

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Charles Stross: Crystals Will Keep Our Memories

UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is recorded on devices the size of a grain of sand.

Consider a carbon crystal, created (and edited) one atom at a time by nanomachinery; there are two stable isotopes of carbon, and we can use a Carbon-12 atom to represent a binary 0 and a Carbon-13 atom to represent a binary 1.

One gram of this substance could store 10 to the power 21 bytes (887,808 petabytes) - the equivalent storage of more than 11 billion typical PCs.

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FROM CNN Al Gore @ Larry King Live

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LIVE EARTH May Set New Stage for Web Viewing

The Live Earth event this Saturday is set to reach millions more people than previous global productions with its reach boosted by the fast-growing power of Web video sharing and social networks.

Organizers estimate television broadcasts of the live concerts staged to raise awareness about climate change will be available to up to 2 billion people although there is no estimate of how many people will actually watch the shows.

Madonna's 'HEY YOU' is here. Enjoy!