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State of the World 2012

• #182: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 16 Jan 12 07:03
  Re: that slide deck seems more of a review of recent-past trends, than a view of the future. [Read entire topic] […]
• #181: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 16 Jan 12 07:00
  found this bit of street art, a shot of an "Authorized Drone Strike Zone" in NYC: https://twitter.com/#!/BaLueBolivar/status/158728329225179137/photo/1/large [Read entire topic] […]
• #180: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Mon 16 Jan 12 06:46
  Here's a futurist outfit's Slideshare "trends for executive summary."http://www.slideshare.net/jwtintelligence/jwt-10-trends-for-2012-executive-summaryIf you've never seen how contemporary trendspotting gets packaged for the net these days, this is a nice cogent example. Note how the graphics make this look like a designer mood-board […]
• #179: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Mon 16 Jan 12 06:11
  Chemtrails have a soundtrack... odd sounds recorded and reported from various places around the world: http://strangesoundsinthesky.com/ [Read entire topic] […]
• #178: Email from George Mokray (jonl) Mon 16 Jan 12 05:52
  "Hezbollah is a terrorist group and a religious faction in virulent permanent opposition to a nation-state..."Hezbollah has built a telecom network, which they are trying to expand - by force if necessary. Does that make them a business as well? [Read entire topic] […]
• #177: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Mon 16 Jan 12 05:09
  DARPA continues to be busy bees...drones for clones, clones for drones?http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Programs/Hybrid_Insect_Micro_Electromechanical_Systems_%28HI-MEMS%29.aspx [Read entire topic] […]
• #176: Rob Myers (robmyers) Mon 16 Jan 12 04:37
  Oh I spoke to a guy last year who was convinced that NATO are dumping millions of tonnes of ALUMINUM OXIDE into the sky over the US.That was the saner part of the conversation. Weirdest thing is he was Canadian and I'm British so I don't really understand what was meant to be at issue.If he's the future it's not the sky I'm afraid of […]
• #175: From George Mokray (captward) Mon 16 Jan 12 02:06
  George Mokray via e-mail:"Hezbollah is a terrorist group and a religious faction in virulent permanent opposition to a nation-state..."Hezbollah has built a telecom network, which they are trying to expand - by force if necessary. Does that make them a business as well? [Read entire topic] […]
• #174: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Sun 15 Jan 12 21:52
  http://www.coalitionagainstgeoengineering.org/linksThe "Coalition Against GeoEngineering" and their chemtrail pals. A nice harbinger of tomorrow's "afraid of the sky" contingent.If carbon dioxide was a visible gas, these guys would be out of their minds with panic already. There must be somebody in the nexus of irrationality who thin […]
• #173: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sun 15 Jan 12 17:56
  Re the Arab Spring: it's not hard to believe that your social media conversations and your ability to instigate flash mobs the grow and become somewhat organized and persistent is meaningful, relevant, and somehow related to a concept called "democracy." Democracy may mean a governance that's more participatory or a broader distribution o […]