The future comes to you

The future comes to you in the way we’ve never imagined. It’s all about the way we talk, walk, live, and etc., those data spread in the corner we neglected. Then the technology takes in, suddenly we all entered into the era of massive passive data collection.

Nicholas Christakis- a Harvard professor, in his speech of TED showed how the social networks could be utilized to early warn the epidemic, to notify the traffic jam, to immunize in an efficient way and the like. Social network technique is a powerful weapon to make a world a better place, and vice versa.

To view the ingenious and fascinating speech, just a click to the hyperlink below：

http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_how_social_networks_predict_epidemics.html

Something you don’t know about the tide

There’s another alternative fuel that we never see it seriously- the tidal wave.

I get to know about it from the GARP News of yesterday. It said the seawater is 832 times as dense as air, providing a six mile-per-hour ocean current with more kinetic energy than a 217 mile per hour wind.
Unlike hydropower, tidal energy doesn’t require the permanent impediment of water flow and the subsequent harm to aquatic life.
But tidal power plants can impede sea life migration and can affect local ecosystems. To work it environmentally, carefully select sites for the plants that preserve the shorelines.

Hope to see the workable future and the reasonable price for the electricity from tidal wave.


reference：www.garp.com/resources/newsfeed.asp?Category=6&MyFile=2007-06-25-14934.html

Talking about Peace Index

What you can’s measure, you can’t understand. So The EIU complied the first “Global Peace Index”

In accordance with the Taiwan’s Business Weekly, Most of the happiness nations came to the top of index. Those northern Europe countries were not surprised me but the America. America listed 96th, ironically, just above Iran. Maybe the index was comprised of relations with neighbors, arms dales, foreign troop deployments, crime rates, prison population, etc., and America came with huge military expense annually. So the index might have your comprehension to understand it.

If the peace is like a mantra always in your mind, the article is worth your reading.

I just try to keep the introduction simple and concise, and wish you would like what I recommended.

You may hyperlink the column to http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9266967.

Second Life

There’s a wonderful place for schizoid.

A kingdom called “Second Life”. Its GDP estimates to come to USD 60 million this year. There are 835,345 registered residents a minute ago. It’s a cyber space locates on http://secondlife.com/.

Last week the Economist had a special report talked about this metaverse. Where you could duplicate yourself or create an avatar then live with others.

We will have a five-day holiday. Maybe we could register as a resident of Second Life and have a cyber me instead to lavish our vacation. It might be a good place to find out if we have entrepreneur intent without real world risk but the time endeavor. According to Economist, the top 10 business of Second Life had profits around USD 200,000 a year. Have a try. The entrepreneurs in we may find the way to peak in another world.

reference：http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=7963538

Biofuels Effects

The newly report regarding Biofuel was released by Soyatech LLC has a say.
It estimated the biofuel production would grow over 16 billion gallons per year by 2015.

Especially the ethanol it goes from 4.5 billion gallons in 2006 to 14.2 billion gallons by 2015. The forecast didn’t go with the proceeding of E85. If the E10 will replace by the more environment friendly E85, then the ethanol consumption would outweigh 14.2 billion gallons by 2015.

When it goes then the butterfly effect would come to the escalation of corn price. Cause most of the ethanol is made from corn nowadays. Finally the price of meats and dairy products would drive up.

But the picture would be changed if ethanol could economically produce via cellulose. So be ware of the technology progression regarding cellulose based ethanol. The fortune lies in.


Reference：
http://www.garp.com/risknews/newsfeed.asp?Category=6&MyFile=2006-09-12-13483.html
http://www.garp.com/risknews/newsfeed.asp?Category=6&MyFile=2006-07-14-13172.html