Archive for March, 2011


Future News: Star Wars 3D Official Release Date Announced February 10, 2012 is More Expensive then the Original Release

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March 31, 2011

MOMENTUM SURGES FOR STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Critics and Fans Worldwide Heap Praise upon the Year’s Highest Rated MMO from BioWare and LucasArts

REDWOOD CITY, Calif – December 26, 2011 – Over a million gamers worldwide celebrated the holidays in front of their PCs with lightsabers, Sith lords and Jedi knights as BioWare™, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), continued to see an unprecedented amount of player engagement for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. Over this past weekend, players continued to flood the servers of the fastest-growing subscription MMO in history, immersing themselves in the game for over 5.5 million hours. Star Wars: The Old Republic is also proving to be a critical smash hit, with an average review score of 88*, making it the highest rated MMO of 2011, while also winning over 105 industry awards, including “Best Multiplayer Game of 2011” from MSNBC. Enthusiasm for The Old Republic has also gone viral, as over 1.6 million fans have viewed the Jedi vs. Sith Freeze Mob in Times Square on launch day, making it one of the most viewed videos on YouTube during this past weekend.

The Old Republic has been lauded for bringing innovation to the MMO genre by adding fully voiced characters and placing a true emphasis on story and player choice. These new innovations, combined with highly polished gameplay and a smooth service, have led to a number of incredible gameplay achievements from the rabid community, including:

Over 60 million in-game hours – roughly equivalent to watching all six Star Wars movies over 4 million times
Over 850,000 Sith Warriors and over 810,000 Jedi Knights created
Over 260 million quests completed
Over 44 million PvP battles
Over 9 million space combat missions completed
Over 3 billion NPCs killed

Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox announced today that the 3D theatrical launch of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace now has an official release date — February 10, 2012! Set against the thrilling and exotic backdrop of a “galaxy far, far away,” Star Wars is perfectly suited to the immersive 3D theatrical experience, and Episode I delivers some of the Saga’s most stunning and spectacular sequences — from the Naboo invasion to the Tatooine Podraces to the climactic lightsaber battle between Darth Maul and the Jedi. Supervised by Industrial Light & Magic, the meticulous conversion is being done with utmost respect for the source material, and with a keen eye for both technological considerations and artistic intentions.

George Lucas discusses how STAR WARS got made

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Future Predictions: Universal Load Carrier From Wheel Chair to Full Mobility Human Exoskeletons Allow Millions to Walk

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March 31, 2011

Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS — robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair user to stand and walk. It’s a powerful onstage demo, with implications for human potential of all kinds.


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Future Predictions: Stretchable Display Technology Over the Expecting Mothers Abdominal Region Empowers Fetal Maternal Bonding While Supporting a Mothers Optimistic State of Mind, WOW!

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March 30, 2011

Melody Shiue, an industrial designer of the University of New South Wales created, PreVue.


PreVue gives a mother of family the opportunity to interact and watch the baby’s grow inside, it as open a window to understand the personality of the baby. You can observe the baby rolling, wiggling, playing, snoozing, yawning and smiling, bringing you and your family a closeness and warmth as you welcome a new child.

Inventor and Industrial Designer
Melody Shiue, of the University of New South Wales!

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Future Predictions: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Political Forecaster Has Critics

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March 29, 2011


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Criticism of Bueno de Mesquita:
Where is the beef? Asks Moshe Sniedovich who reviews Bueno De Mesquita’s work.

He points out that Bruce Bueno de Mesquita does not provide the details of the models he uses for the predictions. Moshe produced the presentation: Black Swans, Modern Nostradamuses, Voodoo Decision Theories, and the Science of Decision-Making in the Face of Severe Uncertainty (PDF), with a detailed review of his objections and arguments in a examination of the body of work.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita recent prediction:

“Some other Middle East countries won’t see riots in the streets or experience governments under siege, says Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who has a track record of accurate predictions. And Iran is unlikely to go nuclear, he tells Newsmax.TV.”

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Is Bruce Bueno de Mesquita the next Nostradamus?


Timeline For Nostradamus Predictions

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“—December 14, 1503: Michel de Nostredame is born in St. Remy-de-Provence.

—1522-25: Nostradamus studies medicine at the university in Montpellier.

—1529: Nostradamus begins doctoral studies in medicine at Montpellier Medical School.

—Early 1530s: Nostradamus is invited to the home of philosopher Julius-Cesar Scaliger in Agen and works as a healer there.

—Circa 1534: Nostradamus marries and has two children.

—Circa 1537: Nostradamus’s wife and children are infected with the plague and die. His wife’s family subsequently sues him for the return of her dowry and his friendship with Scaliger sours.

—Circa 1538: After being charged with heresy for an inadvertent remark he made about a church statue, Nostradamus leaves the region rather than stand trial before the Inquisition at Toulouse. He reportedly travels around Italy and other parts of France for a number of years.

—1544: Nostradamus studies plague treatments with physician Louis Serre in Marseilles. Around this time, major flooding in southern France leads to another serious plague outbreak in the following years.

—1546: Nostradamus treats plague victims in Aix and then goes to Salon to battle another outbreak.

—1547: Nostradamus marries Anne Ponsarde and settles in Salon, where the couple go on to have six children.

—1550: Nostradamus publishes his first almanac, which contains a general prediction for each month of the year. The almanac is a success and new versions appear annually until Nostradamus’ death.

—1552: Nostradamus finishes a book about cosmetics and fruit preservatives that is popular when it’s published three years later.

—1555: The first installment (centuries 1 through 3 and part of 4) of Nostradamus’ most ambitious project, “Les Propheties,” is published. The remainder of Century 4 along with centuries 5, 6 and 7 are published later that year.

—1556: Nostradamus is called to Paris for a consultation with the French queen Catherine de Medici.

—1558: Centuries 8, 9 and 10 are published in limited release. It’s possible Nostradamus wanted this work more widely distributed only after his death.

—1559: King Henry II killed in a jousting accident. Nostradamus’ supporters believe the monarch’s death was predicted in Century 1, Quatrain 35.

—1560s: Nostradamus is named royal physician to French monarchy.

—1564: Catherine de Medici visits Nostradamus in Salon. She remains a loyal supporter despite criticism heaped upon Nostradamus by his detractors.

—July 1, 1566: Nostradamus is given last rites by Catholic priest. The prophet correctly predicts he’ll be dead by the following day.

—July 2, 1566: Nostradamus dies at home in Salon at age 62.”

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Future Predictions: China to Over Take U.S. in Two Years as World’s Leading Producer of Research in Number and Quality Claims UK Royal Society

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March 29, 2011

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

– Peter F. Drucker


“In 1996, the first year of the analysis, the US published 292,513 papers – more than 10 times China’s 25,474.

By 2008, the US total had increased very slightly to 316,317 while China’s had surged more than seven-fold to 184,080.

Previous estimates for the rate of expansion of Chinese science had suggested that China might overtake the US sometime after 2020.

But this study shows that China, after displacing the UK as the world’s second leading producer of research, could go on to overtake America in as little as two years’ time.”

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September 15, 2010
Shaping the Future

Join a conversation about new ideas, principles and technologies at the cusp of reshaping businesses and industries and meet this year’s class of Technology Pioneers.

Speakers
· Lee Kai-Fu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Works, People’s Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Innovation
· Richard T. Pascale, Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
· C. Otto Scharmer, , Senior Lecturer, Organization Studies, MIT – Sloan School of Management, USA
· Dov Seidman, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, LRN, USA

Chaired by
· Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, USA

Closing Remarks
Closing remarks from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions
Speakers
· Huang Xingguo, Mayor of Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
· André Schneider, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Economic Forum

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