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Interestiing prediction with lots of links.

Makes key points. Links to NY Times article.

"Charity backs dementia taggings. The number of dementia sufferers is predicted to soar Proposed nelectronic tagging of people with dementia, with their agreement, has been backed by a charity."

Also good for Paper 2 [6.0_paper_2]

The Australian Age related to eBooks taking over bookstore sales, threatening business of book shops

A hospital in Boston is using artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way care is provided in its emergency department.

Game addiction and - perhaps predictably - one person's plan to sue a game company because he didn't get "enough warning" about the "addictiveness" of the game he was playing. *Requires subscription*

"With oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig continuing to spew into the Gulf of Mexico researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have produced an animated computer simulation that shows the potential spread of the oil over a period of 360 days from when the spill started. To calculate the particle dispersal the researchers used ocean flow data from simulations conducted with the high-resolution Ocean General Circulation Model for the Earth Simulator (OFES)."

The history of weather forecasting and early satellite programmes is told using archive film, highlighting the difficulties associated with a lack of weather data. 200 dedicated weather satellites have been launched since the 1960's. Together, these satellites enable us to monitor every weather system around the world and to see the weather as it approaches. Interview with meteorologist Ewen McCallam who is using a sequence of satellite images to identify a warm front, he goes on to describe how geostationary and polar orbiting satellites are used. Weather prediction can save lives, especially in tropical regions as information from satellites is used to track hurricanes as they develop. Computer models are shown following a storm over Africa developing into a hurricane over the Caribbean.

http://www.gartner.com/it/content/1260200/1260215/january_14_top_predictions_2010dplummer.pdf.