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Pushed into coastal waters in wartime during the Tang Dynasty, these boat dwellers weren't allowed to set foot on land until the second half of the 20th century.

More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum, new technologies as revolutionary as the printing press are changing the concept of a book and

that writing about conflict can unsettle his younger readers. oewhen two characters in my book have an argument,

so I use it only when there is a real need in the story for conflict. Now that anyone with an Internet connection or even a cellphone effectively owns a digital printing press,

what we in terms of technology and equipment to fight forest fires, he said. Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land.

And so, an army of engineers and entrepreneurs is rushing in, hoping to do to the payment world what has already been done to the music,

Mitchell Wolfe, an ecommerce veteran who ran Compaqs Canadian Internet sales team before moving on to a series of startups,

This is the kind of revolutionary fervor that Paypal was intended always to foment. Peter Thiel, Paypals cofounder and a die-hard libertarian, launched the company as a means of creating a stateless monetary system,

according to the book The Paypal Wars. oeit will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people.

there were some hints of Paypals revolutionary capabilities. Unlike credit card companies, Paypal had need no to build

Paypal moved even further away from its revolutionary roots in 2002, when it was purchased by ebay for $1. 5 billion.

In April 2008, Bedier led a meeting at ebays North First street headquarters, where he presented his idea to CEO John Donahoe and his lieutenants.

When Bedier was finished, he was stunned to get applause. oeit was like a lightbulb clicked on,

and his voice rises until its echoing off the stark white walls. oethis is the main battleground of capitalism!

Paypal has shied away from using revolutionary rhetoric. In discussing its role, company executives sound less like Thiel,

-and-mortar banks to make deposits, withdrawals, payments, etc. Smart cards: The general term for any card with a specialized computer chip embedded,

or professions ravaged by the same forces that have enriched the plutocratic elite. The result of these divergent trends is a jaw-dropping surge in U s. income inequality.

It s true that few of today s plutocrats were born into the sort of abject poverty that can close off opportunity altogether#a strong early education is pretty much a precondition#ut the bulk of their wealth is generally the fruit of hustle and intelligence (with, presumably,

and leading them in discussion of matters ranging from global financial imbalances to the war in Afghanistan.

In a study of British and American CEOS, for example, Elisabeth Marx, of the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles,

#or the insistence by several top bankers after the immediate threat of the financial crisis receded that their institutions could have survived without TARP funding

The drive to make all food supplies local has touched off a number of battles to rewrite municipal codes to accommodate everything from rooftop gardens, to backyard cows and chickens

Full-time aerial drone pilots needed to help manager our growing fleet of surveillance, delivery, and communication drones.

#In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.

But as a technology, future drones will go well beyond military uses. The stage is being set for thousands of everyday uses in business and industry all over the world.

The Coming Transparency Wars Can you feel the layers being lifted? Transparency is entering our lives in unusual ways

This will continue to be a volatile battleground for many years to come. More details here and here. 24.

and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.

but now other traditional entertainment providers are facing the same threat. Comcast, Time warner and others are responding by transforming themselves into software companies with efforts such as TV Everywhere,

The modern combat soldier is embedded in a web of software that provides intelligence, communications, logistics and weapons guidance.

Intelligence agencies do large-scale data mining with software to uncover and track potential terrorist plots. Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. Joseph Schumpeter, the economist who coined the term creative destruction,

#Adoption of Mobile Wallets Being slowed by Behind-the-Scenes Battle Among Corporate Giants Consumers would wave their phones instead of swiping credit cards at the checkout counter.

#and is used overseas#wide adoption of the so-called mobile wallets is being slowed by a major behind-the-scenes battle among corporate giants.

an artillery game, became a sensation. Can they start writing good apps? Not often, no.

So in late 2008 he wrote an artillery game that could be played on the iphone,

#So far, there has not been much risk of revolt. Developers have expressed flickers of grumpiness at Apple s 30 percent cut of each app sale.

the company said it struggles to find enough workers to make its new 787 aircraft. Rather, the machines offer significant increases in precision and are safer for workers.

#It still houses a dingy, unused Toyota corolla assembly line on which an army of workers once turned out half a million cars annually.

While consumers tend to think of Apple s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif, . as the company s heart and soul, a majority of its workers in the United states are not engineers or executives with hefty salaries and bonuses but rather hourly wage earners selling iphones and Macbooks.

But Cory Moll, a salesman in the San francisco flagship store and a vocal labor activist, said that on Tuesday he was given a raise of $2. 82 an hour, to $17. 31,

It s interesting to ask why we find it offensive that Wal-mart pays a single mother $9 an hour,

but we don t find it offensive that Apple pays a young man $12 an hour,##Mr. Osterman said.

And a leap to the company headquarters is highly unusual. Apple prohibits its staff from talking to the media,

It s different from conventional weapons such as samurai swords,#Kurihara says. We hope it will build a more peaceful world.#

and assessing traumatic brain injury in soldiers. Currently, Low is working on a newer version of the device,

So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon has developed a hand-held wand that snuffs out fires, without chemicals.

now supplies food to grocery stores and the U s. military. Your local Costco or Wegmans may sell perfectly cooked sous vide lamb shanks, osso buco or turkey roulade.

but Sanjay Sarma, of the Field Intelligence Lab at M. I t.,is working to produce tiny,

And we won t find a solution for war. But there is great value in the struggle.

Our greatest achievements will come from these struggles. We can learn much about where we ve come from

and for this reason I d like to give you a quick overview of the top articles in 2011 on Futuristspeaker. com, based on popularity.

And though Congress had set a goal that a third of all ground combat vehicles be autonomous by 2015,

Every so often, Thrun recalls, military contractors, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would roll out their latest prototype.#

#oeput too much intelligence into a car and it becomes creative, #Sebastian Thrun told me. The second Grand Challenge put these two approaches to the test.

Whittaker approached the race as a military operation, best won by overwhelming force. His team spent twenty-eight days laser-scanning the Mojave to create a computer model of its topography;

then they combined those scans with satellite data to help identify obstacles.##oepeople don t count those who died trying,

Whittaker the blustering field marshal. Carnegie mellon with its two military vehicles, Sandstorm and Highlander; Stanford with its puny Volkswagen Touareg, nicknamed Stanley.

It was an even match. Both teams used similar sensors and software, but Thrun and Montemerlo concentrated more heavily on machine learning.#

It s part of a sprawling campus built by Silicon graphics in the early nineties and repurposed by Google, the conquering army, a decade later.

Smurfs,#oestar Wars#toys, Rube Goldberg devices. The next things you notice are the desks: row after row after row,

At the gourmet cafeterias that dot the campus, signs warn against#oetailgaters##orporate spies who might slink in behind an employee before the door swings shut.

#Levandowski works at Google s headquarters in Mountain view, California. He s the business lead of Google s self-driving-car project, an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year, where Governor Jerry brown signed California s self-driving-car bill into law, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said#oeyou

A self-driving car near Google s headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

The attack came from Chrysler, the smallest of Detroit s Big Three automakers, in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.

Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask whether he could make a next-generation lidar#ruggedized, standardized automotive component.

#The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#

Submissions ranged from self-filling water bottles, to extreme dehumidification, to a large-scale water sources for greenhouse drip irrigation, to emergency water for lifeboats, to self-filling canteens for the military,

and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm s reach at any given moment?

but it s close enough that the device has been under consideration for military use for several years now.

all while subjecting the passenger to G-forces comparable to that of a leisurely ride on the highway

self-made billionaire who has led the design of revolutionary cars and rockets and he needs no introduction.

so he worked for smaller firms#here an autonomous military land vehicle, there a mower for golf course greens.

working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,

Those details range from minimizing g-forces around curves (Hyperloop anticipates 0. 5gs of lateral force;

especially without a bathroom) to keeping terrorists and saboteurs from soft targets that, when breached, create onrushing air tantamount to an onrushing train.

Both believe evacuated-tube transport is a battle worth fighting. They told each other as much in a meeting three weeks before the Hyperloop announcement.

Calif. headquarters, the man from Mead walked among rockets in assembly, guys in Air Jordans working on cargo pods

Using a fleet of surveillance drones, equipped with special infrared cameras, fires can be spotted during the earliest moments of a containment window,

This contract was part of Reagan s#oestar Wars#missile defense system. Whenever a missile was launched, the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.

Thermal image of Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat Massachusetts State Police released video taken of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev s

Surveillance drones will likely be separate from fire-suppression drones. Extinguishing a fire under several layers of tree canopy will also be a challenge.

I could understand from the ground up the new forces at work in rural Africa and in farming and agribusiness in the region.

attempting to foment rebellion: Almost every African family he met owned a plot of farmland#radically different situation than in Latin america,

At urban markets, legions of#oemarket women#buy food wholesale and then peddle it retail, some amassing tidy fortunes through their efforts.

which were accomplished using simple technologies to combat desertification. He describes such efforts by farmers in parched Niger as#oethe biggest environmental transformation in Africa.#

and can do it again After WORLD WAR II, a starving Europe, its farms ruined by the most destructive conflict in human history,

leaned heavily on growers south of the Sahara. Wheat from Kenya, maize from Zimbabwe, and fruits and vegetables from western and southern Africa adorned European tables.

yet parts of western and northern Kenya face a chronic struggle for food. What Africa needs most#nd is increasingly getting,

in the central part of the country, their struggle to provide enough food was heart-wrenching.

So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America s beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.

LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,

Ultimately, teasing out the technical problems may be only half the battle. This is the eternal question of the speciality materials industry,

Currently we have a very active program here on the Jornada Experimental Rangein landscape ecology using unmanned aerial vehicle reconnaissance.

Manatee County Public library, Bradenton, FL) Teen Battle of the Bands-The winning band will receive 10 hours of recording time at Clear Track and $1, 000 cash.

and shipped hats to soldiers overseas.##Boyle County Public library Laurel County Public library: Vintage dancers Trapping and hunting Mah-jongg#oewhisk Me Away#cooking series Creepy Foods for Halloween World Religion Discussion Series Holocaust Discussion Series Adult Pottery Class

photographing dioramas, antique dollhouse furniture displays, historic doll history/display, miniature war machines, trains, etc.

Seed lending library Reading camp for struggling first grade readers ipad and e-Reader/Kindle classes Civil war re-enactment bivouac on back lawn, Dessert contest, scarecrow

A booming tech start-up economy and a thriving arts and restaurant scene have helped this old Civil war tourist magnet do something that places across the USA have been trying to do for decades:

Two miles north on Meeting Street, workers are putting the finishing touches on a 13,000-square-foot renovation of the long-vacant 1926 Standard oil regional headquarters building that soon will be home to about a dozen small creative businesses.

They re now in the midst of an huge expansion at their headquarters east of downtown, which will add 1, 200 more employees by 2015.

The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom. Early buyers were not price-sensitive and placed a premium on service and design.

Drones are moving quickly from the battlefield to the farmer s field. They are on the verge of helping growers oversee millions of acres throughout rural America and saving them big money in the process.

000 for a military-style device are equipped with infrared cameras, sensors and other technology controlled by a pilot on the ground.

drone use has been relegated largely to the military, but law enforcement and other government agencies can apply to the FAA for special permission to use them in civil airspace.

Gilbert Landolt, president of the Des moines Veterans for Peace chapter said while he and others have protested the way the U s. military uses drones for operations overseas,

they concede the technology could be beneficial for some with the proper oversight. There are good uses for drones,

Philosophers With companies in a constant battle overmy-brain-is-bigger-that-your-brain, it becomes the overarching philosophy that wins the day. 13.

for the first time ever, begin to control nature s greatest forces. Details here. 16. Global System Architect 17.

As with all industries, there are many micro-forces driving the changes in future agriculture. But there are three dominant trend lines precision, relevance,

and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. Final Thoughts In much the same way that the 1985 Apple Laserwriter gave birth to desktop publishing,

War Zone Sad experience is teaching that some old tornado safety tricks aren't as effective as hoped particularly

#Cold war Nuclear Radiation Creates Anti-Poaching Tool (ISNS)--Radioactive carbon atoms created during 20th-century nuclear bomb tests could help save elephants

President Barack Obama announced today (July 1) a major initiative to fight illegal wildlife trafficking. While on a visit to Tanzania he will sign an executive order to convene a task force to address the issue focusing in part on poaching in Africa according to the White house.

and ips stem cells provide promising alternative ways to heal illnesses without raising people s temptations to engage in such attacks he said referring to the destruction of human embryos.

And NASA sees 3d printed food as a revolutionary way to make personalised meals for astronauts.

and sustainability and is part of the series The War for Wildlife: Dispatches from the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Poachers are escalating the global war on wildlife through advanced technologies and techniques. In Asia they are hacking into the signals from tigers'satellite collars to find

Yet with perennially limited funds government park rangers community eco-guards and conservation groups struggle to keep up.

Commonly called drones UAVS were once the domain of the military; now these devices show great promise in strengthening wildlife law enforcement.

As a result bottom up studies struggle to attain large sample sizes that would give confidence that they are broadly representative of the whole industry.

and once it reaches FAS headquarters in Manaus Brazil can be grouped and analyzed using Google Fusion Tables Ribenboimsaid referring to Google's Web application for gathering visualizing and sharing data tables.

and the forests and take photos documenting the most important threats Pintea explained. The villagers also document the presence of more than 20 species with a focus on chimpanzees for instance

Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees. Even in the first few weeks of a forest villager getting his smartphone he reported this trap designed to capture a live primate we think either a baboon

To raise awareness of these threats WWF along with a coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Eyes on the Forest worked with Google to build a catalog of maps detailing the changes in the region over time including shifts in the forest cover;

Although the long time between satellite images makes it difficult to actively search for threats to tigers he said Google technology has been helpful in illustrating the pace of deforestation in the region and its effects on tiger and elephant habitat.

since the 1980s when an estimated 100000 African elephants were killed each year by poachers these massive mammals face additional threats posed by human activities such as commercial logging

and armed conflict WWF says. Save the Elephants a Kenya-based organization dedicated to elephant protection

if a threat is detected Douglas-Hamilton said. 12 Strangest Sights on Google earth When an elephant stops moving we can then send a Google earth file indicating the place where the elephant is stopped he said.

and even in 2100 long-lived CFCS will remain the dominant ozone destroyers. But schedules are in place to phase out most of the remaining chemicals of concern.

Fotis Kafatos, president of the ERC, said that the commission's response was welcome but not particularly revolutionary.

Research Scientific espionage: A former Los alamos nuclear-weapons physicist says that he is under investigation for espionage.

The researcher, P. Leonardo Mascheroni, spoke to the Associated press on 22 october, two days after he says FBI AGENTS raided his home.

The bureau confirmed an ongoing investigation into his activities. Mascheroni, who worked in the lab's X Division in the 1980s,

US producers of corn ethanol are encountering increasing scepticism from the legislators on Capitol hill even as producers of the'greener'cellulose-derived ethanol struggle to move beyond basic research and development.

to avoid a similar battle next year, and industry officials say the government still is not giving advanced ethanol companies the kind of support they need to scale up their technologies

Anthrax report The US National Academy of Sciences has delayed releasing a long-awaited report on the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, after a request by the Federal bureau of investigation (FBI.

The report examines the scientific evidence used by the FBI to accuse microbiologist Bruce Ivins of the attacks,

the FBI said hundreds more pages of previously undisclosed documents should be considered by the investigation,

In 2005, Fenn lost a legal battle over the patent rights to Yale university in New haven, Connecticut,

and his wife injured in a bomb attack on 29 november in Tehran. Another nuclear scientist, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani,

and his wife, survived an identical simultaneous attack. See page 607 for more. Scientist threatened Animal-rights activists mailed razor blades and a'threatening note'to neuroscientist David Jentsch at the University of California, Los angeles, in November, the university said last week.

and particle bombardment is less predictable, often yielding multiple, fragmented insertions of the new gene.

and scientists monitoring its impacts are on the front lines of a battle between miners, environ  mental campaigners and the authorities.

2012) to show the scale of the health threat from mercury in Madre de dios. She found that in mining zones,

global pandemics and/or deliberate biological attacks? To further improve preparedness, we must continue to invest in the best public health monitoring systems that can be built.

To the contrary, teachers unions are consistently on the front lines fighting against initiatives to attract and retain the best teachers,

bolstered surveillance used to detect contamination problems earlier, and responded to illness outbreaks faster. I am also working to bolster the use of organic farming methods

and Republican senator Roger Wicker (Mississippi) was charged with threatening injury and death by the Federal bureau of investigation on 18 april.

In 2012, APHIS regulators invited Mackenzie to the organization s headquarters in Riverdale, Maryland, and questioned her about this hypothesis. APHIS eventually notified her that it would not regulate her plants a decision that Mackenzie says has accelerated her research

and prohibits military activity or mining; 28 countries maintain research stations subject to review by the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs which oversees best practices of scientific research on the continent.

I am not combatant to you or anyone else. I encourage you and others to make comments often.

@Wollf Laacrenbut in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war! I think an avatar scenario would be (a little?

while 8 foot tall super soldiers use rocket powered grenade firing rifles to carry out the will of their emperor who is in reality pretty much dead.

Levandowski works at Google's headquarters in Mountain view California. He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.

At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand

A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward

The attack came from Chrysler the smallest of Detroit's Big Three automakers in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.

Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask whether he could make a next-generation lidar a ruggedized standardized automotive component.

'âÂ# The other fight is the legal one. It too is filled with catch-22's. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker's analysis of self-driving-car technology.

The first wave of the attack of the machines will be these autonomous cars running people down(:

It is a form of duel mode transportation which is powered by electricity from the road bed in 2 protected automated lanes and an access and exit lane

43 colonel mustard is talking about lens flares1: 44 when will they talk about whether the thing will shatter

if the NSA demands it apple will turn over your fingerprint which will then be connected to your entire online identity and location.

Cool because its not like it was revealed just last week that the NSA has been working for decades to break just that kind of encryption oh wait2:

#Irradiated Seeds Combat World's Most Serious Wheat Diseasekenyan farmers last week got a first look at two new varieties of wheat that are resistant to the number-one threat to worldwide wheat production.

The story of how that wheat got made is a peek into the constant worldwide fight against crop diseases.

but there are forces out there that won't allow that. So good luck with that. The way I see it Amazon is practically throwing in the electronic edition

a virus that attacks the female reproductive system. It shuts it down. Why female? Because the female could artificially inseminate

#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau

He has spent the past 20 years making annual wreck-hunting trips to Palau about 500 miles from the Philippines to find aircraft that had been shot down during one of WORLD WAR II's fiercest battles planes that may still be holding their pilots His organization Bentprop Project

works to repatriate their remains to the U s. To guide the search Scannon ordinarily relies on interviews with Palauan elders military records

and maps hand-drawn after the war. But on this trip he has a new tool at his disposal.

while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover. The lead scientist is Eric Terrill director of the Scripps Coastal Observing Research and development Center.

and after WORLD WAR II broke out it began to shore up its defenses building hundreds of bunkers

and caves to defend the islands from an American attack. General Macarthur who wanted to secure islands to the east as he prepared to invade the Philippines ordered that attack in 1944.

The U s. began with a furious air campaign that was designed to knock out Japanese vessels clustered in Palau's western lagoon

and adjacent harbors and clear the way for an amphibious assault. These people died defending usthat September the U s. Marines landed on the island of Peleliu.

Although they ultimately won that battle it came at a terrible cost: 10000 Japanese and 1700 Americans were killed in action the highest casualty rate of WORLD WAR II's Pacific Theater.

And between the beginning of the air campaign and the end of the war Bentprop estimates 200 U s. aircraft were shot down inside Palau's barrier reef.

Some 40 to 50 planes and 70 to 80 airmen have never been recovered. Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.

He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George h w bush who flew torpedo bombers during the war.

After the group found it Scannon hired a local guide to take him to other wreck sites where he eventually discovered the wing of A b-24.

and active-duty military members to help him search. Combing the jungle and surrounding waters they located debris from more than five dozen aircraft.

It carried 10 to 11 men including a pilot and copilot gunners bombers a radioman and a navigator.

Of the four B-24s Bentprop suspects were shot down near Palau two were found after the war.

the organization notified the Department of defense's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the remains of the eight men onboard (three had parachuted out only to be apprehended

Mission photographs from WORLD WAR II show the fourth a Consolidated B-24 Liberator on a path toward the western lagoon.

what heading they were on during the bombing mission and we have very good information about

but their unofficial headquarters is an open-air bar called the Drop off originally built for the production crew of CBS's Survivor:

WORLD WAR II wrecks attract dive tourists and salvagers. The next morning at the coral-reef lab Terrill debriefs Scannon and the Bentprop group.

Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action

There weren't antiaircraft along the ridge. But existing ships that were moored still had antiaircraft.

During WORLD WAR II floatplanes in Palau often flew rescue operations. As they scooped airmen from the water another plane provided cover overhead.

Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.

It held a 7. 7mm machine gun Scannon later explains to me developed by the Japanese navy.

The high-speed reconnaissance floatplane had a single engine contra-rotating propellers and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack.

It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.

six were brought to Palau for combat testing and all were shot down by U s. forces. Though it isn't an American plane Scannon is pleased with the discovery.

It's a very unusual aircraft one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find he says.

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