Sub-Topics Doomsday Also Try Ecology Future in Evolution Sustainable Living Sustainable Planet Development World Peace World Population News -04-26-09 Future Internet Trends (SciTech.com) "ere are a few fun/interesting tech trends of the day." 04-09 -12-07-08 Cars of the Near Future (CNN News) "For a century the gasoline engine has remained largely unchallenged, seeing off all pretenders to its crown. But with concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and a host of new contenders looming large in the rear view mirror, is the gasoline-fueled automobile due to be overtaken by a fleet of cleaner, leaner rivals?" 12-08 Papers Census - 1950 to 2050 (InfoPlease.com) Provides historical and projected population of the world, as well as growth rates for each ten year period. 2-01 Census - The Past 100 Years (U.S. Census Bureau) Provides a summary of the past 100 years in terms of pollution, income, population patterns, and more. Clinton's Global Summit (Wire Service) "Former President Bill Clinton wheeled and dealed on Friday at his Clinton Global Initiative summit, yielding promises from global leaders to do things to make the world a better place and bringing the value of aid commitments over two days to nearly $500 million." 9-05 Future - Our Future (Awesome Library) Awesome Library's challenge to collaboratively develop a future that focuses on our children as our foundation. Provides a forum for discussing our next 50 years. Future - Time Travel (Live Science) " 'If you want to know what the Earth is like one million years from now, I’ll tell you how to do that,' said Greene, a consultant for 'Déjà Vu,' a recent movie that dealt with time travel. 'Build a spaceship. Go near the speed of light for a length of time—that I could calculate. Come back to Earth, and when you step out of your ship you will have aged perhaps one year while the Earth would have aged one million years. You would have traveled to Earth’s future.' ” 1-04 Future - Top Ten Forecasts (World Future Society) Provides the forecasts of the editors of The Futurist, such as "Two-thirds of the world's population will be chronically short of water by 2050." Future Distribution of Audio and Video on the Net (PBC.org - Cringely) "The way to kick broadband growth back into top gear is to change the nature of the network and its interfaces, adding phones, television, and home automation to the mix. And that's why we see huge efforts in all these areas. But the point I made last week that inspires this week's column is the idea that only through peer-to-peer data distribution can this new network operate efficiently." "It is very hard to get your mind around the enormity not of the Internet, but of the Internet-on-steroids we'd need to absorb most other forms of communication and media distribution, but let's try anyway." 03-06 Future of Humans (MSNBC News) "Where are humans headed? Here's an imprudent assessment of five possible paths, ranging from homogenized humans to alien-looking hybrids bred for interstellar travel.” "When it comes to intelligence, some scientists say, the most likely route to our future enhancement — and perhaps our future competition as well — just might come from our own machines." On the other hand, "Two intelligent species, human and machine, just might work together to spread life through the universe." 9-05 Future of Humans - Distant Future (MSNBC News) Projects up to 4 million years into the future. 9-05 Futuristic Home (MSN Technology) "MSN Tech & Gadgets takes you on an exclusive tour of the Microsoft Home. Is this what your home could be like in 2015?" 10-06 Gandhi's Grandson - An Interview (Adams) Provides an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, on how to achieve world peace. Key Innovations (Ted.com) Provides "innovations worth sharing." 06-08 Last Days on Earth (ABC News) "The world's top scientists, including Stephen Hawking, considered the foremost living theoretical physicist, describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity." 02-06 New Ways to Grow the Internet (PBC.org - Cringely) "Internet use in American homes is still growing, but the pace of that growth is slowing according to a study released this week by Parks Associates, a market research firm from Dallas, Texas. Based on a sample of 1,000 U.S, households, the survey concluded that 42 percent of U.S. homes have broadband, 22 percent use dial-up, but that 29 percent have no computers at all, thus placing a firm upper limit on potential Internet penetration." "This is a stretch, but it makes sense to me: If the prime directive here is simply to grow the Net as big and as fast as possible, then the best way to do that is through the balancing of data loads as much as possible across the Net. This is contrary to the client-server model that has dominated the Internet for most of its existence. Put differently, the major impediment to eventual Internet hegemony is the problem of scaling client-server applications. How big a data center do you need before you realize that no data center is big enough for some applications? Only a server-server or peer-to-peer architecture makes sense in the long run." "Grid's system, on the other hand, accomplishes two things from the end-user perspective: it is point, click and watch; and it is very very high quality. Using p2p, they can afford to send 1.5Mbps - 2Mbps video over their network because it costs the same as sending 150Kbps-200Kbps video. I was shocked by the video quality, watching a DVD-quality movie at Starbucks on my notebook computer with virtually no waiting." 03-06 Next 20 Years (ThomasLFriedman.com) "History of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?" "In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists." 9-05 Our Lives as a Simulation (New York Times) "Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims." "But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation." 03-07 Predictions for 2050 (Time.com) "Imagine a world where pirates run amok, blowing themselves up in European city centers; where wars are ignited over lack of drinking water; where a global face-off between Islam and Christianity makes World War II look like a water-balloon fight. According to economist and political scientist Jacques Attali, that is what the future has in store for us by 2025. In the belief that past experiences are indicative future events, Attali combs through the history of human kind, all the way back to Homo Habilis, separating the past into nine distinct periods to isolate 'what is possible, what changes and what is unvarying' and applies those trends to the coming century. Attali's predictions range from the future of journalism (completely paperless) to the end of the economic crisis (around 2011), offering a glimpse into the future that is both provocative and petrifying." 12-08 Report: Population in 2300 Expected To Be 9 Billion (CBS News) "Three hundred years from now, the world's population will have stabilized at about 9 billion and we will look forward to living until age 95. In Japan, that bastion of longevity, people will be hanging around until they're 106." "Still, the global population will swell in the decades to come, when there will be 57 million more people every year from now to 2050, fueled by growth in less developed regions, the report projects." 11-04 Rubber Sidewalks in Our Future? (USA Today) "The streets of America were never paved with gold, but now some of its sidewalks are made of rubber." 09-06 Space Tourism (CBS News) "If floating weightless and peering down on a shimmering-blue Earth sounds appealing, you might consider being a space tourist." 03-06 Where Humans Are Headed Genetically (U.S. News) "Hawks is among a growing number of scientists who are using whole-genome sequencing and other modern technologies to zero in on just how we've changed. Their research is helping illuminate not only how humans became what we are but also where we might be headed." 07-08

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