The Next 20 Years project
What's coming in the next 20 years
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- January 28, 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
Capitalism vs. the Climate
November 25, 2011 By TNTYadmin Leave a Comment
Naomi Klein | November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the … [Read More...]
TECHNOLOGY
Spray-on Solar Goes Double-decker. By Tyler Hamilton
July 21, 2011 By TNTYadmin Leave a Comment
Quantum-dot cells designed with two layers open potential for higher efficiencies. A research team at the University of Toronto has created the first two-layer solar cell made up of light-absorbing nanoparticles called quantum dots. Quantum dots, which can be tuned to absorb different parts of the solar spectrum by varying their size, have been seen as a promising route to low-cost solar cells … [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
Neurosurgeons use adult stem cells to grow neck vertebrae
September 19, 2011 By TNTYadmin Leave a Comment
Neurosurgery researchers at UC Davis Health System have used a new, leading-edge stem cell therapy to promote the growth of bone tissue following the removal of cervical discs -- the cushions between the bones in the neck -- to relieve chronic, debilitating pain. The procedure was performed by associate professors of neurosurgery Kee Kim and Rudolph Schrot. It used bone marrow-derived adult … [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...]