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Innovation Watch Newsletter - Issue 8.25 - December 5, 2009
ISSN: 1712-9834
In the news this week...
David Forrest advises on emerging trends, and helps to develop strategies for a radically different future
genes and the mind... cotton could become an engineered food... Intel rethinks computer design... ten Web trends for 2010... Google unsettles the UK housing market... the newspaper industry contemplates its future... hacker arrested for theft in a virtual world... experts consider robot law... countries to watch in Copenhagen... Dubai struggles with financial crisis... Australia trucks water to drought-stricken towns... Paul McCartney proposes a meat-free day to address climate change... Singapore creates high-tech classrooms of the future... nanotech machines could build everything... We also feature... a new book by Tom Haines and Michael Malone, No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling... a link to Social Earth, a weblog that seeks, promotes and supports social entrepreneurs... a videoclip of Don Tapscott's presentation on the future of education at TEDxToronto... a blog post by Humberto Moreira and Whitney Petersmeyer on Harvard's MBA Oath... David Forrest
Coming in the New Year - Rethinking the Future Radio - An Innovation Watch podcast that takes an inside look at the people and stories that are shaping the future.
Top Stories: Mutations Link Autism, Schizophrenia: Study - [CBC] Autism
and schizophrenia may be genetic opposites, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia says. Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University and his colleagues analyzed data on all known genetic variants linked to both conditions. Scientists Engineer Safe Edible Cotton that Could Feed Millions of People - [Daily Mail] Cotton seeds are packed with protein but regular plants produce a toxic chemical called gossypol. Now scientists have worked out a way to reduce the toxin.
Top Stories: Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built - [PhysOrg] Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. 10 Web Trends to Watch in 2010 - [CNN] While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Expect the following 10 themes to define the Web next year...
Top Stories: Google Property Portal Threatens Online Housing Market [Daily Mail] Homebuyers looking to buy a property may be able to use Google under radical plans being considered by the world's most popular website. If the plan goes ahead, anybody looking to buy a property will be able to use Google to search for properties for sale in any part of the UK. World Newspaper Congress Opens in India - [Boston Globe] Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry's sharply falling advertising revenues.
Top Stories: Computer Hacker Arrested (in Real Life) for Theft in Online Medieval Fantasy Game RuneScape - [Daily Mail] A hacker
has been arrested for stealing players' identities, skills, weapons and virtual money in an online computer game. In the first case of its kind, the 23-year-old man was held for hijacking hundreds of teenage boys' accounts to gain access to their hard-won virtual abilities. As Robots Become More Common, Stanford Experts Consider the Legal Challenges - [PhysOrg] They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores. And scientists predict that pretty soon, robots will be using artificial intelligence to play a larger role on the battlefield, operate our vehicles and take care of us in old age.
Top Stories: Copenhagen Conference: The Countries to Watch [Guardian] America and China are the big hitters, but other nations also punch above their weight. Dubai's Economy: No Oasis - [Brisbane Times] Dubai's financial woes have tamed the once-independent emirate and forced it closer to Abu Dhabi, which holds 90 per cent of the U.A.E.'s oil.
Top Stories: Water Trucked into Drought-Hit Australian Towns - [Space Daily] Authorities were trucking water into drought-hit Australian towns, with supply in some places trickling to as little as eight hours, officials said. Sir Paul McCartney Urges Meat-Free Day to Cut CO2 - [BBC] Cutting out meat consumption on one day a week can have a major impact on reducing CO2 emissions, Sir Paul McCartney has said.
Top Stories: Schools of the Future - [AsiaOne] A technology sea change is afoot at Crescent Girls' School (CGS). Last year, the school became one of the select few Singapore schools to embark on FutureSchool@Singapore, an initiative by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Ministry of Education
(MOE) to incubate novel education ideas that harness ICT (infocomm technology). Building the "Everything Machine" - [GOOD] Nanotechnology and exponential manufacturing could help us make whatever humanity needs, atom by atom.
No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling by Tom Hayes and Michael S. Malone Read more...
Featured Link: Social Earth - SocialEarth is a socially mindful weblog focusing on businesses that are doing good through their work. It seeks, promotes and supports social entrepreneurs, young and old, domestic and international, established and new, who have the audacity to create mindful businesses where profitability is a necessary objective and solving a 'social ill' is an imperative.
Video Clip - Don Tapscott at TEDxToronto - Don Tapscott discusses the future of education at TEDxToronto. (20m 56s)
Blog - The MBA Oath: Toward a More Perfect World - [Business Week] Humberto Moreira and Whitney Petersmeyer - Creators of Harvard's MBA Oath argue it's an important first step toward a better, more ethical, business world.
ActiveEarth 3.0 is a world time clock and global weather tool with up-todate time zone information for every country, and current conditions and forecasts for the entire United States and more than 40,000 international locations. Find out more - Try it FREE - Receive a Special Discount when purchased through Innovation Watch
Email: [email protected]
ISSN: 1712-9834
In the news this week...
David Forrest advises on emerging trends, and helps to develop strategies for a radically different future
genes and the mind... cotton could become an engineered food... Intel rethinks computer design... ten Web trends for 2010... Google unsettles the UK housing market... the newspaper industry contemplates its future... hacker arrested for theft in a virtual world... experts consider robot law... countries to watch in Copenhagen... Dubai struggles with financial crisis... Australia trucks water to drought-stricken towns... Paul McCartney proposes a meat-free day to address climate change... Singapore creates high-tech classrooms of the future... nanotech machines could build everything... We also feature... a new book by Tom Haines and Michael Malone, No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling... a link to Social Earth, a weblog that seeks, promotes and supports social entrepreneurs... a videoclip of Don Tapscott's presentation on the future of education at TEDxToronto... a blog post by Humberto Moreira and Whitney Petersmeyer on Harvard's MBA Oath... David Forrest
Coming in the New Year - Rethinking the Future Radio - An Innovation Watch podcast that takes an inside look at the people and stories that are shaping the future.
Top Stories: Mutations Link Autism, Schizophrenia: Study - [CBC] Autism
and schizophrenia may be genetic opposites, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia says. Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University and his colleagues analyzed data on all known genetic variants linked to both conditions. Scientists Engineer Safe Edible Cotton that Could Feed Millions of People - [Daily Mail] Cotton seeds are packed with protein but regular plants produce a toxic chemical called gossypol. Now scientists have worked out a way to reduce the toxin.
Top Stories: Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built - [PhysOrg] Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. 10 Web Trends to Watch in 2010 - [CNN] While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Expect the following 10 themes to define the Web next year...
Top Stories: Google Property Portal Threatens Online Housing Market [Daily Mail] Homebuyers looking to buy a property may be able to use Google under radical plans being considered by the world's most popular website. If the plan goes ahead, anybody looking to buy a property will be able to use Google to search for properties for sale in any part of the UK. World Newspaper Congress Opens in India - [Boston Globe] Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry's sharply falling advertising revenues.
Top Stories: Computer Hacker Arrested (in Real Life) for Theft in Online Medieval Fantasy Game RuneScape - [Daily Mail] A hacker
has been arrested for stealing players' identities, skills, weapons and virtual money in an online computer game. In the first case of its kind, the 23-year-old man was held for hijacking hundreds of teenage boys' accounts to gain access to their hard-won virtual abilities. As Robots Become More Common, Stanford Experts Consider the Legal Challenges - [PhysOrg] They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores. And scientists predict that pretty soon, robots will be using artificial intelligence to play a larger role on the battlefield, operate our vehicles and take care of us in old age.
Top Stories: Copenhagen Conference: The Countries to Watch [Guardian] America and China are the big hitters, but other nations also punch above their weight. Dubai's Economy: No Oasis - [Brisbane Times] Dubai's financial woes have tamed the once-independent emirate and forced it closer to Abu Dhabi, which holds 90 per cent of the U.A.E.'s oil.
Top Stories: Water Trucked into Drought-Hit Australian Towns - [Space Daily] Authorities were trucking water into drought-hit Australian towns, with supply in some places trickling to as little as eight hours, officials said. Sir Paul McCartney Urges Meat-Free Day to Cut CO2 - [BBC] Cutting out meat consumption on one day a week can have a major impact on reducing CO2 emissions, Sir Paul McCartney has said.
Top Stories: Schools of the Future - [AsiaOne] A technology sea change is afoot at Crescent Girls' School (CGS). Last year, the school became one of the select few Singapore schools to embark on FutureSchool@Singapore, an initiative by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Ministry of Education
(MOE) to incubate novel education ideas that harness ICT (infocomm technology). Building the "Everything Machine" - [GOOD] Nanotechnology and exponential manufacturing could help us make whatever humanity needs, atom by atom.
No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling by Tom Hayes and Michael S. Malone Read more...
Featured Link: Social Earth - SocialEarth is a socially mindful weblog focusing on businesses that are doing good through their work. It seeks, promotes and supports social entrepreneurs, young and old, domestic and international, established and new, who have the audacity to create mindful businesses where profitability is a necessary objective and solving a 'social ill' is an imperative.
Video Clip - Don Tapscott at TEDxToronto - Don Tapscott discusses the future of education at TEDxToronto. (20m 56s)
Blog - The MBA Oath: Toward a More Perfect World - [Business Week] Humberto Moreira and Whitney Petersmeyer - Creators of Harvard's MBA Oath argue it's an important first step toward a better, more ethical, business world.
ActiveEarth 3.0 is a world time clock and global weather tool with up-todate time zone information for every country, and current conditions and forecasts for the entire United States and more than 40,000 international locations. Find out more - Try it FREE - Receive a Special Discount when purchased through Innovation Watch
Email: [email protected]
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