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Massive summer floods have killed four people and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across two Australian states on Tuesday, disrupting air and rail travel and coal production.
A deluge fed by the ex-tropical cyclone Oswald dumped more than 200 millimetres (8 inches) of rain in some areas of the Queensland and New South Wales states over the past three days, swelling rivers and swamping towns.
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is out with its annual forecast of what the world will look like in 2050.
The report focuses on six "gamechanging" trends and events that will shape the world in the coming years. Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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October 1, 2012 9:02 PM
We like to think that many of our fantastic dreams of the future — from space colonization to artificial intelligence and human enhancement — are fairly recent conceptions. But nothing could be further from the truth. Futurist visionaries have been speculating about these possibilities for centuries. And now, as we head into an era of accelerating change, some of these longstanding predictions may actually come true. Here are nine futurists of the past 400 years whose predictions were ahead of their times. Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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Futurist Thomas Frey shares some of his predictions for what may lie ahead for humankind. Via Szabolcs Kósa Delete the scoop?
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