IFTF's Future Now: links for 2007-03-27

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March 27, 2007

India Attracts Universities From the U.S. - New York Times

(tags: India education)
Media Machines - Virtual worlds, metaverse, Web 3D - tools and services, X3D

Developers of a browser plugin to view and interact with 3D content-- environments, buildings, etc..

(tags: web2.0 virtual open_source media)
Sweeping changes to global climate seen by 2100: study

Many of the world's climate zones will vanish entirely by 2100, or be replaced by new, previously unseen ones, if global warming continues as expected, a study released Monday said. Rising temperatures will force existing climate zones toward higher latit

(tags: sustainability climate_change)
China's competitiveness "on the decline

?China?s costs are all going up,? Mr Fung said. ?It is no longer the most cost-effective country in the region...Anything [sourced] from China has a higher inflation component than from other places around the world.?

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