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What will happen in 2012? In the spirit of the aphorism "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved," let me suggest 20 transformations (which Reuters will publish in four groups of five). We need to make progress on these issues now to prevent next year from being a complete disaster.

" a rigorously researched, beautifully designed, thoughtfully curated anthology of the world's most compelling work at the intersection of these two relatively nascent yet increasingly powerful techno-cultural phenomena, network science and information visualization."

Crowd Science provides audience measurement, segmentation and monetization opportunities for the world's largest premium publishers, advertising networks, and brands.

"Proposes a framework to explain a collaborative learning process in a community of practice as it interacts with social networking tools. The framework begins with tools and continues through five phases of a learning process and ends with socially-mediated meta-cognition."

"Social web platforms don't thrive by magic. They can succeed only if they attract the right individuals, motivate them to act in the right ways and empower them to know and trust others in the network. That's where online reputation systems come in."

A not-for-profit social network of entrepreneurs providing financing for early stage companies through debt guaranteed by a mutual guarantee fund.

With the world networked on an unprecedented scale, and the global population hitting 7 billion only weeks ago, we are living in a uniquely interconnected era, creating new opportunites and dependencies. It's the result of millenia of exploration, travel, exploitation, and innovation, and the Anthropocene, meaning "the new human-dominated period of the Earth's history," is a term coined in 2000 to describe this epoch. A Cartography of the Anthropocene is an effort by global education organization Globaïa to map this epoch, illustrating the various ways that global humanity connects and is interdependent.