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"the Chinese government, which now regards open source communities as a key to its software industry and will put more resources toward them in its eleventh Five-Year-Plan period (2006-2010). "
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Elina Hiltunen's blog about weak signals and futures work. Mainly in Finnish, with some English translation.
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Will January 2007 prove to be a tipping point for U.S. climate-change policy?
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[VC Vinod] "Khosla's massive bet on renewable energy... may not even be his most ambitious scheme to remake the world." He wants to "upgrade the living standards of some 700 million people" who live in rural India-- 10% of the world's population.
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"We do not live in the age of technological revolution. We live in the age of technological stasis, but do not realise it. We watch the future and have stopped watching the present."
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"As it turns out, the real denial isn’t that there will be a system requiring online gamers to submit their real names and identity numbers — that’s definitely going through — it’s that it won’t be called a “real name system” (实名制)."
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Engineers in several countries are working on "killer Micro Air Vehicles, or MAVs," UAVs the size of paper airplanes.
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Online version of Martin Libicki's "Defending Cyberspace and Other Metaphors" (Washington: National Defense University, 1997). The second essay is an "examination of the metaphor that information warfare is indeed warfare."
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Mainly articles by Alexander Laszlo and/or Kathia Castro Laszlo, cofounders of Syntony Quest.
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Michael Crichton's essay on environmentalism as religion: "it’s time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism."
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Farson and Keyes' 2002 HRB article on "failure-tolerant executives who, through their words and actions, help people overcome their fear of failure and, in the process, create a culture of intelligent risk taking that leads to sustained innovation."
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"They say there are only two kinds of predictions: wrong and lucky. Mine was lucky, and so I thought I might tempt fate once more." A sequel to his 1995 "The Internet & the Future of Organized Knowledge."
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