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The Google Goggle Future
A little too boy-in-a-bubble claustrophobic for me, but I suppose one would get used to it. I didn’t look at this video and say, “Wow!” (as I expected to). Instead, I felt oddly vacant afterwards, as if Google Goggle Life would … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, goggles, Google, google goggles, internet, Nietzsche, technology, the future
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Islamic Herderianism is Coming to Egypt
As a result of recent Egyptian elections, the (so-called moderate) Islamic Brotherhood and (all agree fanatic) Salafists will represent two-thirds of the seats in the new parliament. Erik Trager of the New Republic interviewed seven of these election winners, all … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 21st century, coptic christians, Egypt, fundamentalism, Islam, islamic brotherhood, muhammad, salafists, theocracy
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Jiaozhou Bay Bridge: China’s 26 Mile Sea Bridge is the Largest Ever Built
This is not an artist’s simulation of a 26 mile sea bridge that the Chinese would like to build someday. It’s a 26 mile sea bridge that the Chinese actually opened recently. They are starting to run circles around the … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, America, architecture, beauty, bridges, China, economics, economy, the future is now, wake up
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The Decline and Fall of the Male Empire
Hanna Rosin charts it:
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Tagged 2011, 21st century, America, education, feminism, hanna rosin, men, the world, women, women's equality, women's rights
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Thanks, Steve Jobs! If the Global Cellular Network Collapses This Decade It May Not Be Because of Osama bin Laden
The Washington Post reports, via Jim Giles of New Scientist, that a catastrophic collapse of the globe’s cellular networks is a real possibility over the next decade: [S]ome kind of collapse in cellular networks in the near future is a real … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 2013, 21st century, apocalypse, femtocells, globalism, osama bin laden, science, steve jobs, technology
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2014: The Nine Sky Gardens of Shanghai Tower are Coming
When Shanghai Tower opens in 2014 it will be a building that you’ll likely want to put on your “architecture to see before you die” list. Nebuchadnezzar’s famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon (circa the 7th century BCE) are going to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, architecture, China, gardens, gensler, hanging gardens of babylon, parks, penis envy, shanghai tower, skyscrapers, trends
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Yet Another Reason to Enroll Your Children in Mandarin Language Courses
A little quote from an Associated Press report this week on China’s role in the global skyscraper market: The U.S. high-rise market is “pretty much dead,” said Dan Winey, a managing director for Gensler, the Shanghai Tower’s San Francisco-based architects. … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, America, China, compact flourescent lightbulbs, economy, lightbulbs, skyscrapers, zeitgeist
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Frontline’s “Top Secret America” Extended Trailer
And here’s the Washington Post page devoted to the subject: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
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Tagged 2010, 21st century, 9-11, America, civil liberties, frontline, government, national security state, privacy, secrecy, top secret, top secret america
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A Moses for the 21st Century: Ed Moses
Ed Moses of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California may be leading the world—through nuclear fusion—into a real Promised Land—the Promised Land of an abundant energy future. If you are not already up to speed on what Ed Moses and his team of scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, America, California, ed moses, energy, fusion, humanity, Moses, physics, Prometheus, promised land
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Angry at his bank and the IRS, Terry Hoskins smashes a bulldozer into his own $350,000 home!
Talk about an ironic reversal on the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes: you don’t win a big home, you bulldoze it! Terry Hoskins says he’d had enough. This today at AP: Terry Hoskins says he has struggled with the RiverHills Bank over … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, banks, humanity, IRS, labor, metropolis, moloch, recession, terry hoskins, weimar germany
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