another self-promotion this one totally tangential.... some of you may be interested in my new blog dealing with the ocean economy
http://urban.blogs.com/blue/ The Blue Economy Blog I've been working on this at a very low level for almost a year now, but after a weekend in Mendocino - a good part of which I spent watching tourists from mainland China dive for abalone - I finally decided to make blogging about the economic and technological future of the oceans a regular part of my research. Simply put, with urban sprawl and the growth of megacities in the third world using up the last of our easily settled lands, space colonization a forgotten boondoggle, and the atmosphere pretty much a wash, I think that increasingly we're going to be looking to the oceans as the future avenue for growth in the 21st and 22nd centuries. Right now we're seeing oceans emerge as places for farming, but in the coming years and decades the 7/10 of the world's surface covered by water will also become a potent source of energy (both tidal and fossil fuels), an even more important avenue of trade and transportation, and a wellspring of new genetic discoveries. Taming the ocean wilderness is a monumental project for humanity, and one fraught with many social, economic and business risks. Read all about it over at The Blue Economy Blog. I hope you join the conversation. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/telecom-cities@forums.nyu.edu/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/telecom-cities@googlegroups.com/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
