IFTF's Future Now

Future Now is moving!

Future Now is moving to a new location. We'll keep posting to this location for a while, but we're moving the archive, and new posts, to our new, unified IFTF site. The URL for the new site is http://www.iftf.org/futurenow; RSS feed is available here.

In the course of this transition, Future Now will turn from being a project involving a subset of IFTF researchers, into a more general site that will feature content from across the Institute. It'll give a fuller view of the Institute's work-- and a better view of the future.

links for 2008-09-25

• Welcome to the "Syndicated Video Economy"
  (tags: video business startup analysis)

links for 2008-09-24

• IEEE Spectrum: Singular Simplicity
  " Singular Simplicity By Alfred Nordmann First Published June 2008 The story of the Singularity is sweeping, dramatic, simple—and wrong"
  (tags: singularity future technology)

links for 2008-09-19

• In hard times, tent cities rise across the country - USNews.com: Nation and World: AP Article
  ", homeless advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation."
  (tags: US housing poverty urban_wilderness)
• There Is No China Market | The China Vortex
  characterizes differences btw shenzhen, shanghai, and beijing in terms of business/investment culture
  (tags: China Internet business e-commerce)

links for 2008-09-17

• In China: Why you can not blog about science as a scientist? - YeeYanTranslate
  on scientific blogs in China
  (tags: China blogging science)
• 译言诞生记 21世纪网
  story about Yeeyan, the social translation site
  (tags: China internet translation language collective_intelligence)

links for 2008-09-13

• IPv6's Long March - ICT\cn-c114 ¡ª C114 - China Communication Network
  (tags: IPv6 China)

links for 2008-09-12

• CHINA_论文:试论公共卫生信息发布与手机报优势的嫁接(2)
  paper discusses the various methods for sending and receiving public health and crime information via mobile, in China
  (tags: China mobile cellphones health crime violence information public government)
• 手机与健康-搜狐健康
  pop study on cellphones and their ill effects on the body and mind
  (tags: China mobile cellphones health)

links for 2008-09-11

• ARISE: Advancing Research in Science and Engineering
  (tags: university science research politics education)

links for 2008-09-01

• Preoccupations - Girl Power at School, but Not at the Office - NYTimes.com
  (tags: generations youth Millennials GenY work gender employment)
• Hurry up, grow up - The Boston Globe
  "career-specific high schools"
  (tags: education US youth careers learning)

links for 2008-08-29

• China Civil Society Report: Mass Incidents in China
  "Recently, a series of mass incidents took place in China. These incidents demonstrate some of the social conflicts within China. "
  (tags: China politics protest violence collective mobility)

links for 2008-08-27

• Deloitte Reviews - Glassdoor.com
  over 200 employee generated reviews of deloitte, from all over world
  (tags: Deloitte users employment transparency organization labor work)

links for 2008-08-20

• Dizzywood Tree-Hugs Community Conservation « Izzy Neis
  virtual actions with real world impacts
  (tags: blended_reality virtual environment games youth bay_area)

links for 2008-07-08

• Wind and Solar Powered Cellphone Networks (TreeHugger)
  (tags: mobile mobile_Africa solar)
• Mobile phones in Africa | Buy, cell, hold | Economist.com
  (tags: mobile mobile_Africa cellphones)
• Mobile telecoms | Out of Africa | Economist.com
  (tags: mobile_Africa mobile telecoms)
• WELCOME TO AFRIAFYA: African Health Knowledge and Communication Management
  (tags: mobile_Africa communication_management healthcare)
• ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA: TELEMEDICINE FOR AFRICA
  (tags: telemedicine_Africa)
• Telemedicine in Africa: potential, problems, priorities -- Einterz 165 (6): 780 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
  (tags: telemedicine_Africa health)
• Workshop On Telemedicine For Africa
  (tags: telemedicine_africa health telecommunications)
• http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:sIcGc-nqmcIJ:www.mbarika.com/TeleMed_Africa.doc+africa+telemedicine&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a
  (tags: telemedicine_africa)
• Telemedicine Initiative For Sub-Saharan Africa: Pilot Projects Proposed
  (tags: telemedicine_Africa)
• Tech2.com India > Rural India Benefits From Mobile Com. > News on General
  (tags: mobile_India)
• Nokia - Universal access - Society - Corporate responsibility
  (tags: mobile nokia CSR universal_access)
• The impact of GSM on Nigerians - Mobile Africa
  (tags: mobile_Africa)
• Easy To Use Emergency Mobile Device For People At Risk
  (tags: mobiledevices emergency)
• textually.org: 101 Things To Do With A Mobile Phone In Healthcare
  (tags: mobile mobile_health wireless)
• Wireless Healthcare - Reports
  (tags: mobile_health)
• SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Qualcomm plans move into health business
  (tags: mobile_health qualcomm mobiledevices health)
• How to get fit by using your mobile phone - Telegraph
  (tags: mobile_health fitness)
• Meet Squirrel, a Personal Pollution Monitor
  (tags: mobile_health eco-monitoring health)
• Body Fat Measuring Phone from BenQ » Unwired View
  (tags: mobile_health mobiledevices)
• textually.org: Cell phones mobilized to fight AIDS in Africa
  (tags: mobile_africa mobile_health health)
• Mobile phones and RIM BlackBerry PDA keep personal health records
  (tags: mobile_health mobiledevices)
• Online visits a boon for far-off patients / In growing trend, doctors consult through Internet
  (tags: telemedicine)
• Ca:sh Development Site
  (tags: telemedicine_india)

links for 2008-06-28

• gladwell dot com - blowing up
  (tags: finance economics gladwell investing psychology trading markets taleb nassim)

links for 2008-06-27

• Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Top 10 Ways Web 2.0 Sites Are Changing Society
  (tags: Internet youth future web2.0 social_software)
• Considering connections
  Thoughts on connectivity and mobile devices
  (tags: mobile_Africa mobile mobiledevices connectivty)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles switch on with biofuels
  (tags: mobile_India mobile biofuels)
• MuniWireless - VoIP on CUWiN network in rural Ghana
  (tags: wireless_Africa)
• An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''
  (tags: philosophy hofstadter interview ai science books mind neuroscience futurism intelligence)

links for 2008-06-21

• China Lifts Fuel Prices, And Oil Falls in Response - WSJ.com
  The government, which controls domestic fuel prices, raised its base price for gasoline by 17% and diesel by 18%, a move that global oil traders quickly concluded could diminish the country's voracious appetite for fuel. Benchmark crude oil on the New Yor
  (tags: China energy oil automotive cars)

links for 2008-06-20

• Donald Braben
  Biography of UCL professor Donald Braben.
  (tags: sciencex2 science innovation)
• Times Higher Education - UK science must not roll over and play dead
  "It is essential that we create an environment that leads to a 21st-century Planck Club."
  (tags: sciencex2 innovation r&d)

links for 2008-06-19

• Chinese Internet Research Conference » ISP Liability and Cyberbullying
  "Myth and Reality: Too Little or Too Much Freedom for Mainland Netizens"
  (tags: China Internet harassment protest privacy)

links for 2008-06-13

• EastSouthWestNorth: Daily Brief Comments May 21-31, 2008
  “Not only were the Internet media pushed aside, but the civilian reporters that grew up with the Internet were also complaining that they could not tell whether the information that they were forwarding was true or false. At this stage, the Internet an
  (tags: China internet blog earthquake media)
• Some rabid Falun Gong followers show their ugly side in Flushing, NY | Blogging for China
  Chinese protests and political clashes on US soil. Influence of china outside of its own borders is changing.
  (tags: China protests media)

links for 2008-06-10

• GPS-Equipped iPhone Could Enable New Citizen Science | Wired Science from Wired.com
  "[T]he new [GPS] capability could be adapted by a different, unexpected crowd: citizen scientists taking the real-time environmental pulse of cities and suburb."
  (tags: science sciencex2 gps location sensors pro/am amateur)
• The Daily Transcript: The Future of Cell Biology - Part I - Organellar Shape
  "[T]he central questions of how and why organelles are shaped are relatively fertile ground within cell biology."
  (tags: cellular_biology biology sciencex2 organelle)

links for 2008-06-09

• Why Brazil Loves Linux : Gustavo Duarte
  "Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. It’s clear that Brazil is enamored with Linux, but why?"
  (tags: Brazil open_source computing software)