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Visions for Tomorrow: How You Can Save The World, presented by SCI FI


	Economics Not only America wants America to be great Conventional wisdom says that foreign policy does not determine the winner in US Presidential elections. Particularly not when domestic economic anxieties are high — and that kind of anxiety has probably never been higher in several generations. Still —... POSTED Monday, October 27, 2008 Not everyone can have a car if we still want a planet — unless we change Much has been made of rising aspirations of the middle class in developing countries, with the implication that this must mean literally hundreds of millions of cars — and hundreds of millions of tonnes of oil use and a... POSTED Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Food deserts, and how individuals can fight scarcity For many of us, the gateway drug toward a lifetime of experimentation with world-saving endeavors was food. With so many points of personal relevance — from health concerns to the pleasures of taste to the simple fact of its... POSTED Wednesday, October 15, 2008 It's time to vote It’s time to vote. Yes — in the elections in November — but not only that. I’m talking about the voting you do every day. Every time you drop a dollar, yen, mark, yuan, frank, rial or pound on... POSTED Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Tomorrow matters, as much as today When the world seems to be falling down all around us, can we afford to spend our time thinking about the future? In the midst of ongoing wars, accelerating economic collapse, and cascading environmental ruin, it’s easy to dismiss... POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008 Where will the average stand in a world filled with genetically enhanced beauty and ability? In Grover Beach, California, nineteen-year-old Cameron Clapp trains for his next track meet — on battery-powered, robotic metal legs. Meanwhile, in Framingham, Mass. a pharmaceutical company is splicing human genes into cow and goat embryos, enabling the animals to... POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008 Why what you think you know puts you (and me) at risk Consider this scenario. Your doctor feels a small lump in your gut. You ask her what to do next. And this is what she says: “There is a test we can order to determine if this lump is an... POSTED Wednesday, August 13, 2008 The trouble with transparency (and how to make it work) I love transparency, and I wish I believed it could save the world all by itself. Transparency, of course, is the opposite of opacity, secrets, anonymity… all those affordances that can hide bad behavior, foster bribery and corruption, and... POSTED Monday, August 11, 2008