Life in the Future From 2200
Land Owners Lose Money, and Labor Wants More Pay….
Optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now — when declining populations and growing opportunity prove Malthus was wrong.
Future World
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a MIT study concludes that:
“Even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050″.
and a video provided by UC Berkeley Energy Symposium:
Leadership at the Nexus of Science
Apple tablet (see story by Gizmodo<=) brings us closer to ubiquity as stated by the key technology blog players (see story by Mashable<=).
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has lost weight since his liver transplant operation. (Paul Sakuma/Associated Press)
SUMMARY OF COMMENTARY ON CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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August 2009
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Click the picture to access a short video on Game Theory
(named after John Forbes Nash, who proposed it) is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only his or her own strategy unilaterally. If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium.
The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, “how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom.”
PART 1 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=404227395387111085#
PART 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=404227395387111085#docid=-1087742888040457650
PART 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8389886774314947871&ei=jTKlSqK6PJv-qAPv4JDCBA&q=THE+TRAP+3#
Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director and narrator. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and he narrates the programmes himself.
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