Entries tagged with: China
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Digital Diplomacy, of a Sort
Headline topic mashup day: Japan and China are currently facing off over a set of tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea: the Senkaku Islands (according to the Japanese)/the Diaoyu Islands (according to the Chinese). The current issue of...
On My Mind
A few of the things that have popped up on my radar of late: EFF: "Zero-day" exploit sales should be key point in cybersecurity debate It turns out that in the last year or so a new market has sprung...
New Fast Company: Innovation as Resource
I'm back to blogging at Fast Company, and my latest piece is now up: Innovation as Resource and China's New Magnetism. The U.K.'s Independent reports that China has been gradually cutting the amount of rare-earth elements it exports, now down...
Cold War Over Warming Already Underway?
Seems like it. Mark Lynas, who worked with the Maldives group at COP15, was literally in the room when the final negotiations took place, and wrote about it for The Guardian. The key section: To those who would blame Obama...
Hurt Feelings and China
Even if China isn't likely to be a drop-in replacement for US hegemony in the 21st century, it will certainly be a key player on the international stage. It's useful, then, for futurists to pay attention to the interesting details...
Tuesday Topsight, July 29, 2008
(Especially terse edition) • Feel the Power of the Dark Side: New term of the week: "Dark Liquidity." This is the practice of trading large quantities of stocks with as little public notice as possible, in order to avoid having...
Wednesday Topsight, April 23, 2008
• Early Bright Green: "It is when man shall have discovered the means of restocking the sea and of controlling its supplies that his "dominion over the fish" will be perfect. The power to deplete, which so far marks the...
Wednesday Topsight, November 8, 2006
Okay, giddiness over, back to business. • Super Elastic Solar Plastic: Say "solar power" and what normally comes to mind are those hard, dark slabs of silicon solar cells. But if folks at companies like Nanosolar and Konarka have anything...
Tuesday Topsight, July 11, 2006
I had the somewhat surreal experience last night of participating in a focus group on the California energy industry. My experience was odd because, about a quarter of the way through, the moderator was called out by the faceless folks...
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