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Curbing Illegal Organ Trafficking Means Protecting the Most Vulnerable
Rising demand for medical services worldwide means, among other things, more patients in need of organs for transplant. Supply of organ donors in many countries has unfortunately not kept up. Growing networks of “organ traffickers” are entering the void and inducing impoverished adults in some developing nations to sell them their kidneys and other organs.
Twenty Years of Radical Innovation Ahead
Drought-resistant agriculture, medical scanning machines that diagnose patients with human-like expertise, microscopic factories that construct products nanometer by nanometer—these and other innovations will markedly raise the quality of human life in the next two decades, according to the three authors of 2030: Technology That Will Change the World.
Rethinking Food-Delivery Systems
David Spielman, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) resident fellow, spoke to me and THE FUTURIST following a six-year stay in Ethiopia, where he researched agricultural development and farming-related science and technology topics.
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Of All Things at CES This Year, It's LEGO That Has Me Pumped
I've been following the coverage of new product announcements and sneak peeks at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
THE FUTURIST Magazine Releases Its Top 10 Forecasts for 2013 and Beyond (With Video)
Each year since 1985, the editors of THE FUTURIST have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into our annual Outlook report. The forecasts are meant as conversation starters, not absolute predictions about the future. We hope that this report--covering developments in business and economics, demography, energy, the environment, health and medicine, resources, society and values, and technology--inspires you to tackle the challenges, and seize the opportunities, of the coming decade. Here are our top ten.
Why the Future Will Almost Certainly Be Better than the Present
Five hundred years ago there was no telephone. No telegraph, for that matter. There was only a postal system that took weeks to deliver a letter. Communication was only possible in any fluent manner between people living in the same neighborhood. And neighborhoods were smaller, too. There were no cars allowing us to travel great distances in the blink of an eye. So the world was a bunch of disjointed groups of individuals who evolved pretty much oblivious to what happened around them.
Headlines at 21st Century Tech for January 11, 2013
Welcome to our second weekly headlines for 2013. This week's stories include:
- A Science Rendezvous to Inspire the Next Generation
- Next Steps for the Mars One Project
- Feeding the Planet Would Be Easier if We Didn't Waste Half of What We Produce
Where is the Future?
Like the road you can see ahead of you as you drive on a journey, I suggest the future is embedded in emerging, continuous space-time. Although you’re not there yet, you can see the road in front of you. In the rear-view mirror stretches the landscape of the past, the world you have been through and still remember.
Transparency 2013: Good and bad news about banking, guns, freedom and all that
“Bank secrecy is essentially eroding before our eyes,” says a recent NPR article. ”I think the combination of the fear factor that has kicked in for not only Americans with money offshore, countries that don’t want to be on the wrong side of this issue and the legislative weight of FATCA means that within three to five years it will be exceptionally difficult for any American to hide money in any financial institution.”
The Internet of Things and Smartphones are Breaking the Internet
I have written several articles on network communications on this blog site as well as on other sites, describing its e