IFTF's Future Now - Archive (pre-2009)

links for 2008-05-31

• China’s Silver Lining
  Jim Fallows piece on environmental responses in China: "They built 1,000-foot-high towers in and around the city to measure pollutants at different altitudes and predict how the wind would spread them. They shot laser beams at reflectors on distant buildi
  (tags: China science pollution environment politics government)

links for 2008-05-30

• Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube
  "Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to their videos. The analysis reveals how circulating and sharing videos re
  (tags: video YouTube youth)

links for 2008-05-29

• AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2003
  (tags: sciencex2 policy science science_policy)
• SSRN-Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer: Market Approaches to Research Bottlenecks by Robin Cooper Feldman, Kristopher Nelson
  "[T]he piece describes three approaches appearing in modern patent markets that are directed at mitigating the effects of patent thickets. These approaches can be described as Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer."
  (tags: patents patent_markets sciencex2 intellectual_property)
• Irving Wladawsky-Berger
  "A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation and the future of information technology."
  (tags: architecture blogging business collaboration internet management technology innovation web2.0)
• Patent Prospector: Hockey Helmets and Patent Markets
  "What do patent owners have in common with hockey players?"
  (tags: patents patent_markets sciencex2)

links for 2008-05-28

• World failing to monitor biotech trade: U.N. | Top News | Reuters
  "Lack of training and knowledge is "so pervasive and broad that there is no effective international system of biosafety at the moment," according to the 238-page report by the Japan-based U.N. University Institute of Advanced Studies."
  (tags: biotechnology regulation terrorism)

links for 2008-05-18

• CBS - Copenhagen Business School | Anthony D’Costa
  "Using industry cases I research the dynamics of global and national economies, especially India."
  (tags: denmark innovation globalization india people)

links for 2008-05-16

• Berkeley China Scholars Society - Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley
  lists current grad students across all disciplines working on china
  (tags: China research speakers)

links for 2008-05-14

• X2 Project: Now YOU can help forecast the future of science | Science Cheerleader
  Interview with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, information ecologist of the X2 project.
  (tags: sciencex2 IFTF future pro/am)

links for 2008-05-09

• Report Shows Stunning Failures in High-School Graduation Rates - Chronicle.com
  "In 17 of the nation’s 50 largest cities, less than half of the students who entered high school in 2003 ended up graduating. In Detroit, which has the lowest graduation rate of the top 50 cities, not even one in four students finished high school."
  (tags: education US data)

links for 2008-05-07

• Not Much Life in China's Virtual Worlds
  "The big multinationals tend to take a page from their Second Life playbook and use the Chinese versions of virtual world to build their brands. However, Chinese companies are coming up with more innovative applications, such as training factory workers,
  (tags: China Second_Life Internet virtuality virtual_economy)

links for 2008-05-02

• Grand Challenges for Engineering
  "[A]n international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century."
  (tags: grand_challenge technology future sciencex2)
• "Is Multiple-Column Online Text Better? It Depends!" Usability News 72
  "This study investigated the effects of multi-column displays and justification on reading performance and satisfaction of an online narrative passage."
  (tags: usability HCI reading interface)