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Driving in the Networked Age | Reid Hoffman | LinkedIn - 0 views

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how soon will it be illegal to operate human-driven cars on public streets?
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autonomous vehicles will also be able to share information with each other better than human drivers can, in both real-time situations and over time. Every car on the road will benefit from what every other car has learned. Driving will be a networked activity, with tighter feedback loops and a much greater ability to aggregate, analyze, and redistribute knowledge.
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when thousands and then even millions of cars are connected in this way, new capabilities are going to emerge.
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But the benefits of self-driving cars are so significant that in time the public will demand prohibitions against old-fashioned legacy driving in most public spaces
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there are more than 2 billion legacy cars on the road, globally. Currently, the car industry can only produce around 100 million new vehicles a year. Just from a manufacturing perspective, it could take 20 years to build a new fleet that approximates the one we have now.
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China to launch home-grown OS in October as Windows replacement - Computerworld - 0 views

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The operating system, which Xinhua did not name, will be initially offered on desktop PCs, with the plan to later extend it to smartphones
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We hope to launch a Chinese-made desktop operating system by October supporting app stores
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Earlier this year, China officials banned the use of Windows 8 on government computers
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Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 25 Aug 14

China to launch home-grown OS in October as Windows replacement

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These Are The Surprising Jobs You'll Be Doing By The 2030s - 2 views

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Here are some completely unexpected jobs you've almost certainly never heard of—but likely will soon
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10 jobs that are likely to appear within the next 15 years or so, along with the skills and education required
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Out in the Open: The Tiny Box That Lets You Take Your Data Back From Google | Enterpris... - 0 views

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The National Security Agency is scanning your email. Google and Facebook are hoarding your personal data. And online advertisers are selling your shopping habits to the highest bidder. Today, more than ever, people are thinking about how to opt out of this madness without quitting the internet entirely.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The National Security Agency is scanning your email. Google and Facebook are hoarding your personal data. And online advertisers are selling your shopping habits to the highest bidder. Today, more than ever, people are thinking about how to opt out of this madness without quitting the internet entirely.</div>

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Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains? | Transcript | TED.com - 0 views

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We have little option but to open this door. Regardless, pick a year -- will it happen in five years or 15 years? It's hard to imagine it taking much longer.
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Could future devices read images from our brains? As an expert on cutting-edge digital displays, Mary Lou Jepsen studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens. And as a brain surgery patient herself, she is driven to know more about the neural activity that underlies invention, creativity, thought.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Could future devices read images from our brains? As an expert on cutting-edge digital displays, Mary Lou Jepsen studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens. And as a brain surgery patient herself, she is driven to know more about the neural activity that underlies invention, creativity, thought.</div>

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It's no joke - the robots will really take over this time | Technology | The Observer - 1 views

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Do we seriously believe that an economic system that supports the massive outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries would not jump at the opportunity of replacing expensive white-collar employees with robots that cost about $4 an hour to run, never answer back, don't have unions and are never sick or depressed?
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Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 12 May 14

If capitalism can outsource low-paid jobs, why can't it replace the middle classes with automatons

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Rising Seas Threaten Low-Lying Coastlines | Ecology Global Network - 0 views

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The inexorable rise of the waters of the earth’s oceans since 1880 has already contributed almost 20 cm (nearly a foot) since 1880, and more recently the rise continues at an accelerating pace . The IPCC (2007) predicts an increase of sea level of between 0.5 to 1.5 m by the year 2100
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Island nations under threat include Bermuda and the Bahamas in the Atlantic, the Pacific Islands of Palmerston, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands, and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean
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in terms of numbers of persons impacted, the oceanic islands pale in comparison with the slow-motion disasters that will occur in densely populated, low-lying coastal cities like New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Jakarta and Dhaka.
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The extraordinary warming of 2.5°C (4.5°F) over the past 50 years on the Antarctic Peninsula is both the world’s greatest temperature change and least opportune venue for warming on the planet. Warmer air and currents penetrating deep into West Antarctica could initiate collapse of the marine based West Antarctic Ice Sheet ice sheet (Joughin and Alley, 2011), rapidly elevating global seas by as much as 3-6 meters.
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Europe's Cities Resilient to Climate Change | Ecology Global Network - 0 views

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Many cities are now facing impacts such as water scarcity, flooding and heatwaves, which are expected to become more frequent and intense than they are used to. Cities need to start investing in adaptation measures using ideas and best practice from around the world.
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Climate change adaptation should be flexible to accommodate uncertainty
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Adaptation should work with nature, not against it.
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Many adaptation measures can make cities more pleasant places to live. Malmö in Sweden manages rainwater flows with a new open storm-water-system. Here, green roofs and open water channels lead rainwater into collection points that form a temporary reservoir.
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People also need to change behaviour in order to adapt.
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Cities of the Future | INSEAD Knowledge - 0 views

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  You think about the middle class in China, the middle class in India and you think about their consumption power, it is explosive," says Van Wassenhove. "It's good that these people get out of poverty but the constraints they're going to put on resources are just enormous. Sustainability is no longer a luxury; it is something that business will have to deal with
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">You think about the middle class in China, the middle class in India and you think about their consumption power, it is explosive," says Van Wassenhove. "It's good that these people get out of poverty but the constraints they're going to put on resources are just enormous. Sustainability is no longer a luxury; it is something that business will have to deal with </div>
  
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Singapore had the foresight to realise very early that they didn’t have resources. They didn’t have water, they didn’t have energy. So they were forced from the start to include sustainability in their thinking. They understood that economic sustainability for them was tightly linked to environmental sustainability
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The infamous traffic in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, led to the first phase of a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) rail system to alleviate the strain on roads, to be announced this year
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Mumbai built the now-famous “Sealink” bridge to divert traffic away from the gridlock of the city and along its coast
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There’s still the issue to develop a longer-term plan rather than chaotic management of cities. There may still be the issue of resources, where are the resources going to come from? Maybe companies can help by helping to create business which would generate economic resources.”
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Globalisation has meant urbanisation, and by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. What should we do to survive and thrive in this brave new world?
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You cannot attract highly educated people and become a knowledge centre if you have a lousy environment
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In Future, Let's Build Cities Around Water | Ecology Global Network - 0 views

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Water-sensitive urban design is slowly seeping into our cities. The City of Mandurah in Western Australia, for example, has adopted a stormwater management plan
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Experts predict that the world’s cities combined will gain almost one million extra people a week leading up to 2050.
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The Cities of the Future program is about recognizing the issues that cities are facing, and looking for the new models that are doing a better job at building resilience
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The most critical challenges for existing cities are the institutional arrangements, regulations and underlying culture of water management agencies
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desalination plant to treat seawater and brackish water, and pipe drinkable water 84 kilometers to the city.
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Overconsumption? Our use of the world's natural resources | Christine Polzin - Academia... - 0 views

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Calculations using “Ecological Footprint” illustrate that theworld is already using around 30% more biocapacity than theglobal ecosystems can provide in a sustainable manner.
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above a certainthreshold an increase in material wealth does not improvelife satisfaction any further
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stra-tegies based on more non-materialistic approaches couldachieve higher life satisfaction.
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What is the future for Russia's economy? | Forum:Blog Forum:Blog | The World Economic F... - 0 views

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Russia’s economy is at a turning point. Following a decade of spectacular growth fueled by high energy prices, the country could either use its newfound riches to finance much-needed modernization and become a driver of innovation and growth, or muddle through by continuing to rely on its large yet maturing hydrocarbon base.
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Ranking the importance of different drivers for Russia’s economic development in terms of impact and uncertainty over the way in which they may evolve over time, the group highlighted oil and gas prices as well as economic diversification and competition as critical uncertainties (see exhibit).
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