Archive for March, 2011

Nearly 40 years after Americans last set foot on the moon, a determined band of NASA engineers, undeterred by massive budget cuts and red tape, may have paved the way for a long awaited return to the lunar surface…

Click here to view the entire report.

Click here to learn about the possibility of A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet

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China’s surge in progress could soon overwhelm the US, say experts…

Click here to access the complete BBC News report.

Click here to learn more about China.

Click here to learn about “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria.

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I’ve been hearing “post-PC era” so much now that I wince when I hear the term. Clearly it must be time for me to get something off my chest…

Click here to read this CNet News article written by Stephen Shankland.

Click here to learn more about tablet PCs.

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What will the economy of the future look like?

Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead?

Click here to learn more about The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future, a book by Martin Ford that discusses these questions.

I just completed reading it. You should too.

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When I started my programming career, apps ran on multi-million dollar mainframes and required learning pre-COBOL languages to write them. Now this….

Click here for some basics from wikipidia.

Click here for a Los Angeles Times article titled “Amazon launches ‘Appstore’ despite Apple suit over name”.

Click here for access to the new Amazon Appstore for Android.

Just an old mainframer caught in the web.

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The Engineering and Physical Research Sciences Center in the UK is working on a new type of fabric that uses solar photovoltaic cells, thermoelectric devices and advanced lightweight batteries…

Click here to view the entire Popular Science report.

Click here for more information on the use of solar power.

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Click here for a new report on solar power trends.

Click here for more on the future of solar power.

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Salman Khan talks at TED about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

Click here for more about the future of education.

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Google will test electronic payments using near field communication technology in New York and San Francisco within four months…

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Click here for more information on mobile-payments.

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The team’s discovery, revealed on the National Geographic Special “Finding Atlantis” Sunday night, has been in the works since 2009, when the researchers began investigating a satellite image that seemed to show a city buried beneath a marshland in southern Spain…

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Click here for more about Atlantis.

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Click here to read an excellent article titled “The New Overlords” found in the Economist.

Click here to learn more about the Transcendent Man movie.

Click here to learn more about Homo Evolutis

If you agree that more people need to be aware of where humanity is headed, pass this information on to them. Thanks.

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NASA’s prolific Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is five Earth years old.
Since settling into orbit around the Red Planet on March 10, 2006, MRO has transmitted more data to Earth — 131 trillion bits and more than 70,000 images so far — than all other interplanetary missions combined…

Click here to view the images.

Click here for more information on colonizing space.

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MasterCard recently announced plans to help banks issue cards with embedded computer screens to U.S. consumers this year…

Click here to learn more about it from MSNBC.

Click here for more information about future credit cards.

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I’ve read the book. I’ve seen the movie. Now I can strongly recommend that you watch the movie. Yes, you can. It’s much easier than reading the book.

To find out how, click here or on the movie name itself – “Transcendent Man”.

Still not convinced – click here.

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We are not alone in the universe — and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought…

Click here to link to the Fox News report.

Click here for more information on alien life.

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