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State of the World 2012

• #218: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 14:47
  *Here's a nice big piping heap of RAND futurist demographics. The takeaway: America has kids, China doesn't. Nah nah nah.*Even the poor, who used to have tons of kids, don't, unless they're Moslem or Subsaharan.http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/2011/winter/dusk-dawn.html"In this article, we turn our focus to the demo […]
• #217: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Thu 19 Jan 12 14:01
  Interesting piece on future scenarios for India; nice example of the process:http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Inayatullah20120114 [Read entire topic] […]
• #216: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 12:59
  *Yves Behar geezer chic. "Old people in big cities who are afraid of the sky." But with awesome design for their medications!http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665857/5-innovation-lessons-from-a-breakthrough-brand-aimed-at-aging-americans#1 [Read entire topic] […]
• #215: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 19 Jan 12 12:06
  And hello from me, as well!Speaking of the future, here's an io9 piece that says big data manipulation is "creating the science fiction future." Their #2, "social networks already know who you know," made me wonder of the author's jumping to conclusions. The idea that LinkedIn can tell who I know is laughable to me - their […]
• #214: Paulina Borsook (loris) Thu 19 Jan 12 10:36
  howdy back, bruce [Read entire topic] […]
• #213: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 09:36
  How are you, @loris Paulina? Long time no see. [Read entire topic] […]
• #212: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 09:35
  "Gothic High-Tech" and "Favela Chic." The squalor of this transition is gonna play out for quite a while -- at least a decade, I think. It's not just a one-year state-of-the-world thing."Gothic High-Tech" and "Favela Chic" have their virtues and their upsides, but when they crash directly, like they just did in th […]
• #211: Paulina Borsook (loris) Thu 19 Jan 12 09:33
  wrt to social-cultural forces: this, from an egyptian journo who was there --- social capital, culture, boots on the ground mattered far more than FB in the egyptian arab springhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/15/INKR1MKGSI.DTL [Read entire topic] […]
• #210: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 09:26
  You know, it was sadder than that. Kodak was a pioneer of digital photography, but Kodak didn't want to lower itself to make crappy digital cameras that took lousy, grainy pictures. It was Kodak's dedication to quality that really did 'em in. As engineers, having reached a high-tech peak of performance, they couldn't cheapen themselves an […]
• #209: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 19 Jan 12 06:54
  Kodak files for chapter 11: http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/former-trailblazer-kodak-files-for-chapter-11/?iid=tl-article-latestThe company didn't think to lobby to have digital photography outlawed. [Read entire topic] […]