In 2000 Paul Crutzen, an eminent atmospheric chemist, realised he no longer believed he was living in the Holocene. He was living in some other age, one shaped primarily by people. From their trawlers scraping the floors of the seas to their dams impounding sediment by the gigatonne, from their stripping of forests to their irrigation of farms, from their mile-deep mines to their melting of glaciers, humans were bringing about an age of planetary change. With a colleague, Eugene Stoermer, Dr Crutzen suggested this age be called the Anthropocene—“the recent age of man”. 
How can we enable students to embrace positive financial behaviours? This spring, organizers of the Rotman Design Challenge asked teams of North American graduate students to approach this question as a business and design problem. 
The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. Via Howard Rheingold 
One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it’s possible to imagine a machine making the grade. Via Szabolcs Kósa 
"We're building a studio of the future that has the pieces in place to pick up where Hollywood is dropping the ball," said Lee. "We're saying this is what the future of storytelling looks like. This is how you engage with audiences on not just one platform, but across multiple platforms."
Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
MIT researchers used an Android app to catch thieves in a challenge that aims to help US federal agencies track real criminals... 
We recently introduced the concept of ‘Open Foresight’ as a process we’re developing to analyze complex issues in an open and collaborative way, and to raise the bar on public discourse and f... 
FERN is a global community of foresight students, alumni, faculty, employers, and advocates of graduate foresight education, employment, and research." 
... “waste makers” with artists, teachers etc. via project called “Zero Landfill” in 25 US cities. Biomimicry is an organizing principle as a design strategy – they looked at honeybees in order to learn how waste can be better managed/repurposed. Via Rowan Edwards 
The futurist Ray Kurzweil has famously predicted that humanity is approaching a “singularity,” a fateful moment when our technology becomes smarter than us and able to learn faster than we can, when it becomes the principal creator of new technologies and machines race far ahead of us. Humans may effectively fall out of the loop -- a species demoted, if not eliminated. Via Szabolcs Kósa Swiss scientists have designed a special plastic that houses the kind of fungus you eat in blue cheese, so you have less to clean up. 
A meeting explores ways to reduce the environmental impacts of humanity's growth spurt. 
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As with gold or oil, data has no intrinsic value, writes Webtrends CEO Alex Yoder. Big science, which bridges the gap between knowledge and insight, is where the real value is. Read this blog post by Alex Yoder on Business Tech. 
A futuristic farm with robot operators is to open in Japan on land swamped by the March 11 tsunami as part of an experimental government project. Via Alan Yoshioka 
Biomimicry—from the Greek, bios, meaning “life”, and mimesis, meaning “to imitate”, is an emerging discipline with an ancient practice. Patrick Govang, a green-tech innovator, shares his disruptive model to enable local economic & resource sustainability in manufacturing. As the founder and C... Via Rowan Edwards 
Two longtime climatologists explore ways to describe the impact of accumulating greenhouse gases on extreme weather events. 
I think the fact that Shakespeare lived in London, which was the densest city of the time and a very successful metropolis — that was not an accident. Cities really are an engine of innovation. They are where so many of our good ideas originate. Ten years ago and people were saying, now that we’ve got Skype, email and video chat cities will wither. Of course that hasn’t happened because cities are more valuable than ever before. Being around all these other smart people makes us smarter.
Via axelletess Your global directory of foresight communities, programs, courses, professionals, orgs, and resources. 
Before it was slathered in concrete, South Los Angeles was densely forested with oak trees interrupted only by a series of streams that fed the Los Angeles... Via Rowan Edwards 3D printing will soon allow digital object storage and transportation, as well as personal manufacturing and very high levels of product customization. This video by Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingTheFuture.com illustrates 3D printing today and in the future. Via Szabolcs Kósa 
Engineering firm Arup pays people to see and shape the future. In a global workforce of 10,000 how does it make sure their voices are heard? 
Where did the country go wrong, and how can we reclaim the things we love about America? Part one of two. 
Saudi Arabians are buzzing about an anonymous Twitter user who claims to be exposing the corruption in the Saudi government. |
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