IFTF's Future Now

links for 2008-06-28

• gladwell dot com - blowing up
  (tags: finance economics gladwell investing psychology trading markets taleb nassim)

links for 2008-06-27

• Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Top 10 Ways Web 2.0 Sites Are Changing Society
  (tags: Internet youth future web2.0 social_software)
• Considering connections
  Thoughts on connectivity and mobile devices
  (tags: mobile_Africa mobile mobiledevices connectivty)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles switch on with biofuels
  (tags: mobile_India mobile biofuels)
• MuniWireless - VoIP on CUWiN network in rural Ghana
  (tags: wireless_Africa)
• An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''
  (tags: philosophy hofstadter interview ai science books mind neuroscience futurism intelligence)

links for 2008-06-21

• China Lifts Fuel Prices, And Oil Falls in Response - WSJ.com
  The government, which controls domestic fuel prices, raised its base price for gasoline by 17% and diesel by 18%, a move that global oil traders quickly concluded could diminish the country's voracious appetite for fuel. Benchmark crude oil on the New Yor
  (tags: China energy oil automotive cars)

links for 2008-06-20

• Donald Braben
  Biography of UCL professor Donald Braben.
  (tags: sciencex2 science innovation)
• Times Higher Education - UK science must not roll over and play dead
  "It is essential that we create an environment that leads to a 21st-century Planck Club."
  (tags: sciencex2 innovation r&d)

links for 2008-06-19

• Chinese Internet Research Conference » ISP Liability and Cyberbullying
  "Myth and Reality: Too Little or Too Much Freedom for Mainland Netizens"
  (tags: China Internet harassment protest privacy)

links for 2008-06-13

• EastSouthWestNorth: Daily Brief Comments May 21-31, 2008
  “Not only were the Internet media pushed aside, but the civilian reporters that grew up with the Internet were also complaining that they could not tell whether the information that they were forwarding was true or false. At this stage, the Internet an
  (tags: China internet blog earthquake media)
• Some rabid Falun Gong followers show their ugly side in Flushing, NY | Blogging for China
  Chinese protests and political clashes on US soil. Influence of china outside of its own borders is changing.
  (tags: China protests media)

links for 2008-06-10

• GPS-Equipped iPhone Could Enable New Citizen Science | Wired Science from Wired.com
  "[T]he new [GPS] capability could be adapted by a different, unexpected crowd: citizen scientists taking the real-time environmental pulse of cities and suburb."
  (tags: science sciencex2 gps location sensors pro/am amateur)
• The Daily Transcript: The Future of Cell Biology - Part I - Organellar Shape
  "[T]he central questions of how and why organelles are shaped are relatively fertile ground within cell biology."
  (tags: cellular_biology biology sciencex2 organelle)

links for 2008-06-09

• Why Brazil Loves Linux : Gustavo Duarte
  "Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. It’s clear that Brazil is enamored with Linux, but why?"
  (tags: Brazil open_source computing software)