Begin forwarded message: > > Future Now and Virtual China got written up in the latest issue of > Rolling Stone, David Kushner does a regular column on interesting > Web sites, and this week he profiled several futures-related sites > > The piece doesn't seem to be online, so I've retyped it. From p. 36: > >> FUTURE NOW: future.iftf.org >> LAUNCHED: 2003 >> WHO IT'S FOR: Techies >> WHAT IT IS: Thirty-nine years ago, maverick researchers at the >> RAND Corporation broke off to found an independent, nonprofit >> group called the Institute for the Future. Today, the Silicon >> Valley-based think tank studies the impact of emerging >> technologies and chronicles its findings on the Future Now >> blog.... The stuff they're thinking about and linking to is wild-- >> a smog-eating building in Rome, retinal-cell replacement to cure >> blindness. Plus, you get insider analysis on key events, like the >> recent University of Michigan conference on how cities can survive >> a global warming crisis. >> HIGHLIGHTS: The "Virtual China" section unearths amazing stories >> from the region, including the rise of citizen journalism about >> the country's poor. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
