IFTF's Future Now: links for 2008-02-02

About the Institute for the Future

The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as technology and society, health and health care, and global business trends.

Who is Future Now?

IFTF's Future Now is a group weblog, founded by Institute research director Alex Soojung-Kim Pang in September 2003. Its contributors include IFTF researchers interested in emerging technologies, the future of Asia, and the social and economic impacts on new technologies; IFTF corporate affiliates; academic partners; and members of the Innovation Lab, a Danish futures group with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen. A complete list of contributors is available here.

EastSouthWestNorth: The Secret of the Southern Metropolis Exclusive Reports

The arrest of Red Diamond Empire has made it impossible for people to figure out the red line of Internet speech to the point where they didn't know whether they can discuss the weather anymore.

(tags: China internet media)
Sea captains' logbooks reveal secrets of New England's fishing culture | csmonitor.com

(tags: history blue_economy aquaculture fisheries new_england)
Blackwell Synergy - Rev Policy Res, Volume 24 Issue 6 Page 541-565, November 2007

"This paper examines factors that contribute to a well-performing tradable permit market." There are many "empirical analyses of individual tradable permit markets;" this paper "develops and employs an analytical framework for comparing across markets."

(tags: carbon_trading environmental_services environment economics trading)
QS Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007

(tags: university education THES rankings)

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