The Next 20 Years project
What's coming in the next 20 years
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- May 18, 2012
The Next 20 Years project
Welcome to The Next 20 Years project. Since 1997, the project has always been about engaging and more importantly connecting, industry leaders, visionaries, press, policy makers, VCs, analysts, local entrepreneur’s and start-ups in a long-range exploration of what lies ahead. Connecting interesting with the interested, has always been ground … [Read More...]
NATURE
Colorado River: Running Near Empty by : Yale Environment 360
March 6, 2012 By TNTYadmin
Photographer Peter McBride traveled along the Colorado River from its source high in the Rocky Mountains to its historic mouth at the Sea of Cortez. In this Yale Environment 360 video, he follows the natural course of the Colorado by raft, on foot, and overhead in a small plane, telling the story of a river whose water is siphoned off at every turn, leaving it high and dry 80 miles from the … [Read More...]
TECHNOLOGY
The Machines Are Talking a Lot – Technology Review
March 6, 2012 By TNTYadmin
By Brian Bergstein. The rise of sensors, surveillance cameras, and other automated devices can be seen in a new analysis of Internet traffic. As one of the leading manufacturers of the equipment that routes data around the Internet, Cisco Systems is in good position to know just how many 0s and 1s go zipping around all day, every day. Today it released an annual analysis of how much Internet … [Read More...]
BUSINESS
The Future of Food, Sprouting Under LED Lights – Food – GOOD
August 18, 2011 By TNTYadmin Leave a Comment
A warehouse full of LED lights and Dutch dudes may sound like the setting for a 1990s rave, but it may well be a prototype of the future of horticulture. The Netherlands-based company PlantLab is pushing the "vertical agriculture" movement to new heights by rethinking the fundamental ways that plants interact with essential ingredients like sunlight and using data to optimize growing … [Read More...]
MIND
RSA Animate – The Divided Brain –
November 2, 2011 By TNTYadmin Leave a Comment
an amazing talk from TED … [Read More...]
MEDICINE
A Doctor on How Physicians Face the End of Life – WSJ.com
March 6, 2012 By TNTYadmin
Careers in medicine have taught them the limits of treatment and the need to plan for the end By KEN MURRAY Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. It was diagnosed as pancreatic cancer by one of the best surgeons in the country, who had developed a procedure that could triple a patient's five-year-survival odds—from 5% to … [Read More...]
SCIENCE
Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now
January 16, 2012 By TNTYadmin Leave a Comment
Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in 2112. From BBC News Many of the "strange, almost impossible" predictions made by Watkins came true. Here is what futurologists Ian Pearson (IP) and Patrick … [Read More...]