IFTF's Future Now: links for 2008-02-09

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.

The Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine

(tags: nyc nyu biomedical R&D developmental_genetics molecular_neurobiology molecular_pathogenesis structural_biology)
The Relationship Between Hizbullah & the United States In Light of the Current Situation in the Middle East

Master's thesis by Nick Noe, founder of http://www.mideastwire.com/

(tags: lebanon israel politics war diplomacy middle_east cambridge thesis)
Getting Hezbollah to Behave - New York Times

Op ed by Nick Noe founder of http://www.mideastwire.com/

(tags: middle_east Israel lebanon war diplomacy politics)
Mideastwire.com

Translation and filtering service for Middle East and Arabic news services.

(tags: intel media middle_east news translation)
National Academy of Engineering: Grand Challenges for Engineering

With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century. Return here on February 15, 2007 at 2PM EST

(tags: engineering science technology)
Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat - New York Times

Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded.

(tags: sustainability biofuel energy climate_change ecology economics ecological_economics)

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