IFTF's Future Now: links for 2008-02-15

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February 15, 2008

Scientists: Human Activities Affecting World's Oceans - washingtonpost.com

"Human activities are affecting every square mile of the world's oceans, according to a study by a team of American, British and Canadian researchers who mapped the severity of the effects from pole to pole."

(tags: climate_change oceans blue_economy X2)
The Californian Ideology

1995 article arguing, "At this crucial juncture, a loose alliance of writers, hackers, capitalists and artists from the West Coast of the USA have succeeded in defining a heterogeneous orthodoxy for the coming information age: the Californian Ideology."

(tags: activism business california culture history politics counterculture silicon_valley)

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