James Wolfensohn’s Entire speech at Stanford Graduate business school.
Political Analyst, Futurist & Keynote Speaker, Daniel Silke, presents a dynamic and critical account of some of the key trend drivers facing the world over the next 50 years. See www.danielsilke.com for details.
Meet James D. Wolfensohn, the 9th president of the World Bank
China in 2009 and 2010 made new loans amounting to a total of 20 trillion yuan ($3.1 trillion), with estimates of how many would go bad in a range from 25% to 30%….the scale of such a rescue is staggering—at about 7% of gross domestic product making the China banking problem bigger than the U.S. TARP bailout. Source>>>WSJ
THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK, JAMES WOLFENSOHN, MAKES STUNNING CONFESSIONS AS HE ADDRESSES GRADUATE STUDENTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. HE REVEALS THE INSIDE HAND OF WORLD DOMINATION FROM PAST, TO THE PRESENT AND INTO THE FUTURE. THE SPEECH WAS MAS MADE JANUARY 11TH, 2010. THE NEXT 19 MINUTES MAY OPEN YOUR MIND TO A VERY DELIBERATE WORLD.
HE TELLS THE GRAD STUDENTS WHAT’S COMING, A “TECTONIC SHIFT” IN WEALTH FROM THE WEST TO THE EAST. BUT HE DOESN’T TELL THE STUDENTS THAT IT IS HIS INSTITUTION, THE WORLD BANK, THAT’S DIRECTING AND CHANNELING THESE CHANGES.
WOLFENSOHN’S OWN INVESTMENT FIRM IS IN CHINA, POISED TO PROFIT FROM THIS “IMMINENT SHIFT” IN GLOBAL WEALTH.
In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, UNSW physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.
Machines are evolving 10 million times faster than man. In 100 years time, robots will run our houses, drive our vehicles, patrol our streets, operate on our bodies, and fight…
With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions,…
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The New Digital Age is a book written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. Eric Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Google and Jared Cohen is…
In one fell swoop, Microsoft was praying that it could stitch up the mobile and desktop platforms into one neat little package; instead, I fear that Microsoft may have blown…
Le Deyrolle magazine présente, dans une ambiance de cabinet de curiosités, des articles sur les espèces rares, les artistes et les beautés de la nature. Deyrolle magazine presents articles on rare species, artists and the beauty of nature. […]
This house takes part of a program of the congregation Rotterdam who wanted to revitalize disadvantaged neighbourhoods by selling metier houses to private persons. These homes have in common that they are neglected the last few years and have to be refreshed. The buildings usually consist of several small apartments, one per layer. The purpose of the municip […]
Saturized had developed a complete product for ShippingEasy, from brand identity, the website, integrations with carriers, payment processing, applications and extensions for most prominent eCommerce platforms such as: eBay, Shopify, Magento, Drupal, Wordpress... to the powerful custom CMS which helps the ShippingEasy team to manage the system and provide gr […]
THE CONCEPT OF BUTTERFLY HOUSE When I was just a kid, I?ve been painting some things in a nice way, the method consist in draw with paint just in one side of the paper then close the both sides to have a mirrored image. The most common image was a butterfly. This thing keep in my mind until these days. I ever think about create some new architecture using th […]
I worked with Digital Agency of the Year, Work Club, to produce an illustrated animation and typeface celebrating the flavour characteristics of ?Ballantines 12 Year Old?, a premium blended Scotch whisky. My involvement was split into two parts. Firstly, I illustrated the seven main tasting notes as illuminated letters, with each letter telling the story of […]
The idea of the campaign was "Think Again". Try to change the point of view of the viewer when they see something, so the aim was to create metaphors out of usual objects as a gummy, a screw, a sponge or a dandelion. […]
PLAYGROUND DECONSTRUCTED is a site-specific installation that brings minimalist art to life as an immersive audio-visual world. Commissioned by Sonos Studio for Museum of Moving Image, NY […]
Yesterday, Amazon announced the launch of Kindle Worlds — a way for fanfic writers to publish. But does the fine print make it more trouble than its worth? […]
A prominent legislator thinks it's time for the broad post-9/11 law authorizing the war on terrorism to expire. And he's going to introduce a bill to repeal it. […]
Warner Bros. has tapped a new writer to pen a screenplay based on the book Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, which chronicles the Playtex designers behind the NASA program's spacesuits. […]
TiVo has become the Kleenex of the TV world -- a once dominant brand that's become a generic commodity. Yes, we still call recording a TV show "TiVoing." But as cable and satellite companies started offering their own DVRs and cheap streaming boxes from Roku, Apple and others flooded the market, TiVO has been increasingly marginalized and risk […]
Solar Impulse pilot Andr? Borschberg completed a record-setting flight in the wee hours this morning after flying more than 950 miles on solar power alone, even if he was, strictly speaking, going backward for part of the trip. His impressive flight from Phoenix to Dallas completed the second leg of the Solar Impulse team's "Across America" .. […]
Contrary to what many people believe, fluoride is not some evil scourge of industrial society. Wired Science blogger Deborah Blum debunks some anti-fluoride misinformation, and shares a natural history of the element. […]
The Swiss love adding functionality to existing products. But you can only tack on so many corkscrews and tweezers to a knife, so one company decided to make a twin-engine jet that can take off and land without the luxury of a runway. […]
The grudge match between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his former protege Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, has reached legendary proportions in recent years. Salesforce has now added more fuel to the fire, hiring Tom Lane, a core contributor to PostgreSQL, an open source database that provides an alternative to Oracle software. […]
Drone strikes will remain a fixture of U.S. counterterrorism. But President Obama, in a major speech, signaled that he's going to rein in their use. […]
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have slowed to a trickle. […]
A small percentage of the dark matter in our universe might be able to interact with itself through an as yet unknown dark force, forming dark atoms and possibly even emitting dark light. […]
Now they're just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or "state," of another particle?even if it's light years away. Now, experimenters in Israel h […]
I propose a new category of thinker in addition to the traditional visual and verbal: pattern thinkers. In society, three kinds of minds ? visual, verbal, pattern ? naturally complement one another. Yet society puts them together without anybody thinking about it. The notorious antenna problem on the iPhone 4? Too much art, not enough engineering. Contrast t […]
Everyone's talking about flat. Flat Windows 8, flat Apple iOS 7, flat Google+ and Google Now?flat is the design trend du jour, yet we're still waiting for its arrival. So what the heck is it? […]
If you're one of the dozen or so people who still haven't seen the show, never fear: Wired has prepared a handy guide to communicating with your friends and neighbors via Arrested Development catchphrases. Soon, you'll be yelling "No touching!" with the best of them. […]
The Syrian disaster is like a superstorm. It’s what happens when drought, a fast-growing population, a repressive and corrupt government, and sectarian and religious passions combine. […]
With the resignation of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, goes the progress made toward transparent governance and a two-state solution. […]