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Investing in the Fountain of Youth

Posted by N4CM Features 12 Feb 2012

Source: CNBC.com. There’s no denying it: America is getting old. By 2030, the number of Americans older than 65 will have grown by 75 percent to 69 million, and 20 percent of the population will be older than 65 – compared with only 13 percent today. But what if “getting old” wasn’t really “getting old?” What if aging – at least the physical deteriorations that accompany it – was something that could be prevented?

The Awesome Meaning of This Century

Posted by N4CM Futurism 14 Dec 2011

The following is an excerpt from “The Meaning Of The 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint For Ensuring Our Future”, by James Martin (Copyright © 2006 by James Martin). Published by Eden Project Books. Reprinted here with permission. So, what is the meaning of the 21st century? Evolution on Earth has been in nature’s hands. Now, suddenly, it is largely in human hands. The extreme slowness of nature-based [...]

6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012

Posted by N4CM Futurism, News, Top Stories 3 Jan 2012

Source: TechCrunch. “In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps.” Singularity University‘s executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends in HealthTech. Here we’ll look at how A.I, big data, 3D printing, social health networks and other new technologies will help you get better medical care. Kraft believes that by analyzing where the field is going, [...]

God vs Mammon: Britain takes sides

Posted by N4CM News, Top Stories 29 Oct 2011

Source: The Independent. The decision by St Paul’s Cathedral to drive protesters from its steps using force threatens to further divide the Church of England – and has prompted the Prime Minister to look at measures to curb protest camps. The cathedral will go to the High Court next week seeking to evict the demonstrators.

Global: Are Workers Too Productive?

Posted by N4CM Opinion 27 Oct 2011

Source: The Atlantic. We all know about Moore’s Law; Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction that the number of components making up an integrated circuit would double every two years for at least ten years. Indeed, semiconductor industry output grew at approximately that exponential rate for the next 45 years, and semiconductor manufacturers flooded the market with transistors and memory bits.

Faster, Deadlier And Harder To Predict: Professor Ian Goldin On The Future In 2011

Posted by N4CM Features, Futurism 22 Oct 2011

Source: The Huffington Post UK. The future, almost by definition, is a scary and uncertain place – and these days there is no shortage of pundits who are willing to go on television and predict the various ways it may end in financial, political or climactic disaster. But for some academics, pretty much the only thing you can predict about the future is that prediction is going to get more difficult.

Life in the Age of Extremes

Posted by N4CM Futurism 1 Oct 2011

Source: The Atlantic. Optimists have long dominated the cyber-landscape, firm and vocal in their belief that the Internet creates a more transparent world, and that the quick and easy access to information it provides is bringing the global population together into one enlightened chorus of harmony. My perspective is different, and my goal in this, the first in a series of posts for The Atlantic, is to lay out the implications of an Internet-driven world.

Reproductive health’s connection to global problems

Posted by N4CM Reproductive health 24 Sep 2011

Source: GlobalPost. At a forum at the Rubin Art Museum earlier this week, a group of global leaders, including two top US officials, talked about how reproductive health issues for women were wrongly cast as only a women’s issue. Instead, they said reproductive health was intimately connected to the world’s population boom, climate change, water and sanitation crises, economic downturns, educational rates, and development overall.

The dead end of globalisation looms before our youth

Posted by N4CM Opinion 27 Aug 2011

Source: The Guardian. In India, tens of thousands of middle-class people respond to a quasi-Gandhian activist’s call for a second freedom struggle – this time, against the country’s venal “brown masters”, as one protester told the Wall Street Journal. Middle-class Israelis demanding “social justice” turn out for their country’s first major demonstrations in years.

Prescription for Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Madness

Posted by N4CM Books, Editor's Choice 18 Aug 2011

Excerpt from Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown’s book, “Prescription for Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Madness”. The book chronicles Lown’s memoirs through the Cold War years and culminates with the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the group he co-founded, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. It tells the story of Lown’s fight against the nuclear symptom of what he calls “the disease of militarism”.