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August 11, 2007
The Future Of Work
The U.S. and the global economies are coming to a crossroads that no one could have anticipated just a few years ago. Globalization and technology together are creating the potential for startling changes in how we do our jobs and the offices we do them in. Offshoring, for one, means work can be broken into smaller tasks and redistributed around the world. And the rapid growth of broader, richer channels of communication—including virtual worlds—is transforming what it means to be "at work."
August 10, 2007
Pumping Money As Markets Slide
Central banks worldwide have injected at least $326.3 billion in the past 48 hours to prevent markets from spinning into a global liquidity squeeze.
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Paul Krugman concedes at the moment "Very Scary Things" are happening.
July 27, 2007
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".
July 21, 2007
July 15, 2007
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.
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.
July 07, 2007
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!
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!
June 24, 2007
OECD:
Offshoring and Cheap Imports May Hurt
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Globalization may be hurting low-skilled workers in the U.S. and Europe enough that politicians in both places may find it increasingly hard to sell voters on the benefits of free trade and open markets, says one of the world's leading economic institutes.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based institute backed by the governments of 30 leading industrialized countries, is a staunch believer in free trade, which most economists believe makes all countries richer overall, including those with high wages.
But in its annual labor study, the OECD acknowledges growing popular unease about globalization.
At virtually the same time Der Spiegel addresses the German 'labor paradox' and wonders where all the skilled workers have gone.
'Workers', George Grosz
Globalization may be hurting low-skilled workers in the U.S. and Europe enough that politicians in both places may find it increasingly hard to sell voters on the benefits of free trade and open markets, says one of the world's leading economic institutes.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based institute backed by the governments of 30 leading industrialized countries, is a staunch believer in free trade, which most economists believe makes all countries richer overall, including those with high wages.
But in its annual labor study, the OECD acknowledges growing popular unease about globalization.
At virtually the same time Der Spiegel addresses the German 'labor paradox' and wonders where all the skilled workers have gone.
'Workers', George Grosz
June 14, 2007
Web Inventor Gets Queen's Honour
The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the first website in 1991, joins an elite group who have received the honour from the Queen for exceptional contributions in arts, sciences and other areas.
The British academic invented the web's address system and layout in Switzerland in 1991, ultimately revolutionising global communication.
Previously, he was named Greatest Briton at a ceremony in 2004.
Get the whole story here.
The British academic invented the web's address system and layout in Switzerland in 1991, ultimately revolutionising global communication.
Previously, he was named Greatest Briton at a ceremony in 2004.
Get the whole story here.
June 08, 2007
June 04, 2007
China Puts Economy First!
China promises to better control emissions of greenhouse gases, unveiling its first national program to combat global warming, but rejects mandatory caps on emissions as unfair to countries still trying to catch up with the developed West. So to the Chinese, climate targets should in no way spoil their economic growth.
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