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How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love… “Robotic” Cars


[Update on 1/21/08 -  Since writing this post, General Motors declared  that commercial autonomous vehicles are ‘closer than most people assume’; India won cheers and jeers with its $2,500 Nano ‘people’s car‘, and the web has been active in software oriented transportation solutions that tap GPS devices jumping off the shelf at Best Buy;  Peer […]

Challenge your assumptions on globalization in 38 minutes


An Association of Professional Futurists colleague Kaipo Lum (CEO Vision Foresight Strategy) has turned me back onto presentations by Thomas Barnett - author of the Pentagon’s New Map and Blueprint for Action.
I remembered Barnett’s 2005 TED Conference presentation quite well - but it always struck me as a specific look at the Iraq war […]