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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The future : six drivers of global change.by Al Gore.INTRODUCTION.LIKE MANY FULFILLING J
The future : six drivers of global change.by Al Gore.INTRODUCTION.LIKE MANY FULFILLING JOURNEYS, THIS BOOK BEGAN NOT WITH ANSWERS but with a question. Eight years ago, when I was on the road, someone asked me: "What are the drivers of global change?" I
- 50 39 high levels of corruption throughout China Feldstein, "Chinas Biggest Problems Are Political, Not Economic." 40 an estimated 64 million empty apartments in China "Crisis in China: 64 Million Empty Apartments," Asia News, September 15, 2010, http://
- 49 22 carried a picture of George Was.h.i.+ngton in his breast pocket John F. Kennedy, "Remarks at an Independence Day Celebration with the American Community in Mexico City," June 30, 1962, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?p
- 48 CIA, The World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html.6 some have already preemptively labeled it the "G2"C. Fred Bergsten, "Two's Company," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2009.7 there were e
- 47 257 other confidential information as it is typed Nicole Perlroth, "Malicious Software Attacks Security Cards Used by Pentagon," New York Times, Bits blog, January 12, 2012, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/malicious-software-attacks-security-ca
- 46 James Bradford, "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)," Wired, March 15, 2012.241 "began to rapidly turn the United States of America"Jason Reed, "NSA Whistleblowers: Government Spying on Every Single American,"
- 45 224 which information can be delivered with relevance to the user's location "Privacy Please! U.S. Smartphone App Users Concerned with Privacy When It Comes to Location," Nielsen, April 21, 2011, http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/privac
- 44 207 their Facebook accounts so that private sites can also be accessed Mich.e.l.le Singletary, "Would You Give Potential Employers Your Facebook Pa.s.sword?," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, March 29, 2012.208 policy is to never give out such pa.s.swords Joanna St
- 43 William J. Broad, John Markoff, and David E. Sanger, "Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay," New York Times, January 15, 2011.191 began infecting computers in Iran and several other nations " 'Flame' Computer Virus Strikes Middle
- 42 174 corporations, government agencies, and organizations Gross, "Enter the Cyber-Dragon." 175 "We dont do that" Rosenbaum, "Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack." 176 373,000 jobs each year-and $16 billion in lost earnings-from the th
- 41 157 "Faustian bargains"Herman Kahn, "Technology and the Faustian Bargain," January 1, 1976, http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=2218; Lance Morrow, "The Faustian Bargain of Stem Cell Research," Time, July 12, 2001.158 r
- 40 Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S. Ct. 876 (2010); Adam Liptak, "Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit," New York Times, January 22, 2010. 141 television is much more tightly controlled than the Internet Charles Clover, "Internet Subverts Russian
- 39 124 actually represented a tiny fraction of Egypt's huge population Noah Shachtman, "How Many People Are in Tahrir Square? Here's How to Tell," Wired Danger Room blog, February 1, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/how-many-people-are-in-ta
- 38 107 more than 500 million people, 40 percent of its total population Matt Silverman, "China: The World's Largest Online Population," Mashable, April 10, 2012; Jon Russell, "Internet Usage in China Surges 11%," USA Today, July 19, 2012.108 to take to
- 37 Tom Coghlan, "Google and a Notebook: The Weapons Helping to Beat Gaddafi in Libya," Times (London), June 16, 2011. 91 across the border to collaborators in the diaspora living in Thailand Mridul Chowdhury, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, "The Ro
- 36 74 "Internet of Everything." Dave Evans, "How the Internet of Everything Will Change the World ... for the Better," Cis...o...b..og, November 7, 2012, http://blogs.cisco.com/news/how-the-internet-of-everything-will-change-the-worldfor-the-better-infog
- 35 57 double between 2005 and 2010 International Telecommunications Union, "The World in 2010: ICT Facts and Figures," http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/FactsFigures2010.pdf.58 in 2012 reached 2.4 billion users globally Mary Meeker and Liang Wu, "2012
- 34 "The Diffusion of Columbuss Letter through Europe, 14931497," University of Southern Maine, Osher Map Library, http://usm.maine.edu/maps/web-doc.u.ment/1/5/sub-/5-the-diffusion-of-columbuss-letter-through-europe-1493-1497. 41 bringing artifacts and know
- 33 24 "Never memorize what you can look up in books"Library of Congress, World Treasures of the Library of Congress, July 29, 2010, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/world-record.html.25 the disuse of neuron "trees" leads to their shrinkage Walter J. Fre
- 32 7 "The round globe is a vast brain, instinct with intelligence" Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1851), p. 283. 8 "where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted" H. G. Wells, World Brain (London: Ay
- 31 158 took less than eight millennia Graeme Barker, The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why Did Foragers Become Farmers? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. v ("Ten thousand years ago there were few if any societies which can properly be d
- 30 141 United States, China, and Europe are working hard to exploit its potential "The Printed World," Economist.142 printing prosthetics and other devices with medical applications Vance, "3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution"; "Transplant Jaw
- 29 "The Third Industrial Revolution," Economist, April 21, 2012; Peter Day, "Will 3D Printing Revolutionise Manufacturing?," BBC, July 27, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14282091. 125 manufacturing as profoundly as ma.s.s production did "The T
- 28 108 harder and stronger than bronze Ibid. 109 not made until the middle of the nineteenth century Ibid. 110 create an entirely new category of products, including Jeremy Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, th
- 27 91 New sources of copper were developed in other countries Matthijs Randsdorp, "A Closer Look at Copper," November 3, 2011, TCW, https://www.tcw.com/News_and_Commentary/Market_Commentary/Insights/11-03-11_A_Closer_Look_at_Copper.aspx. 92 by 500 first-ye
- 26 Malcolm Gladwell, "The Tweaker," New Yorker, November 14, 2011.75 "conflict between that interest and any other, that other should yield"Wayne D. Rasmussen, U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library, "Lincoln's Agricultural Legacy
- 25 58 all in the time span of sixteen minutes-for no apparent reason "Dow Falls 1,000, Then Rebounds, Shaking Market," New York Times, May 7, 2010. 59 "P&G plunged to $39.37 from more than $60 within minutes" Ibid. 60 "it was almost like the Twilight Zo
- 24 41 ability to complete a transaction in 124 microseconds Donald MacKenzie, "How to Make Money in Microseconds," London Review of Books, May 19, 2011.42 according to some experts will further increase Ibid.43 "financial market of which we have virtually
- 23 Ibid.25 China of processed polysilicon and advanced manufacturing equipment Steven Mufson, "China's Growing Share of Solar Market Comes at a Price," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, December 16, 2011.26 largest economy in the world within this decade Brett Arends,
- 22 8 China from 30 to the low 40s Data Set, University of Texas Inequality Project, Estimated Household Income Inequality Data Set (EHII). This is a global data set, derived from the econometric relations.h.i.+p between UTIP-UNIDO, other conditioning variabl
- 21 Scott Horton, "The Sorcerers Apprentice," Harpers, December 2007; Cyrus Hamlin, "Faust in Performance: Peter Steins Production of Goethes Faust, Parts 1 & 2," Theatre 32 (2002). 32 emergent wisdom and creativity that is on a completely different plane
- 20 15 astrologers of ancient Babylon used a double clock Fred Polak, The Image of the Future (Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific, 1973), p. 5.16 will still linger there-still trapping heat Daniel Schrag, personal interview.17 "need to enlarge knowledge, through
- 19 Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%." Vanity Fair, May 2011.Trenberth, Kevin. "Changes in Precipitation with Climate Change." Climate Research 47 (2010).Trivett, Vincent. "25 US Mega Corporations: Where They Rank If They Were Countr
- 18 Weart, Spencer. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.Wells, H. G. World Brain. London: Ayer, 1938.Wilson, E. O. The Social Conquest of Earth. New York: Liveright, 2012.Wolfe, Nathan. The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a
- 17 In addition, numerous experts generously spent time in lengthy conversations during the research process, including Ragui a.s.saad, Judy Baker, Thomas Buettner, Andrew Cherlin, Katherine Curtis, Richard Hodes, Paul Kaplowitz, David Owen, Hans Rosling, Sas
- 16 On the other hand, the increasing interconnections among businesses and industries all over the world has generated powerful commercial momentum that is highly resistant to any effort by governments to rein in its more destructive tendencies. Earth Inc. i
- 15 In mountainous areas, the earlier melting of snowpacks is depriving trees of needed water supplies during the hot summer months, which further increases their vulnerability to drought. One expert studying these issues, Robert L. Crabtree, told The New Yor
- 14 With the future of human civilization hanging in the balance, both democracy and capitalism are badly failing to serve the deepest interests of humankind. Both are unwieldy and both are in a state of disrepair. But if the flaws in our current version of d
- 13 According to a study in Science by Princeton University researcher Andrew Dobson and others, global warming is causing the spread of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cause human diseases into areas that were formerly hostile to them. "Climate change is
- 12 The neonicotinoids, which are neurotoxins similar in their makeup to nicotine, are widely used on corn seed, and the chemicals are then pulled from the seed into the corn plants as they grow. Commercial beekeepers, in turn, have long fed corn syrup to the
- 11 "MODIFY THE KID"As implants, prosthetics, neuroprosthetics, and other applications in cybernetics continue to improve, the discussion about their implications has broadened from their use as therapeutic, remedial, and reparative devices to include the i
- 10 Their fearful speculation was dismissed by physicists who were confident that such an event was absurdly implausible. And of course it was. But other questions focused on deeper and more relevant concerns were not adequately dealt with at all. Would this
- 9 After examining more than thirty studies of this issue, the International Inst.i.tute for Environment and Development concluded that many of the large-scale foreign investments have already failed because of miscalculations concerning difficulties in fina
- 8 j.a.pan had a remarkable economic boom when its workforce was predominantly young, but its slowdown over the last two decades has coincided with the aging of its population. In 2012, the j.a.panese bought more adult diapers than baby diapers. By midcentur
- 7 The majority of those moving to cities-especially in developing countries-do so to earn higher incomes. Even though income inequalities have been increasing within most countries, on a global basis, there has simultaneously been a historic movement of peo
- 6 And of course, the number of texts translated by computers is increasing exponentially. Seventy-five percent of the web pages translated are from English to other languages. It is often, and inaccurately, said that English is the language of the Internet.
- 5 Some scholars have cautioned against a Western bias in prematurely predicting instability in countries whose governments do not gain democratic legitimacy. In China, according to some experts, legitimacy can be and is derived from other sources besides th
- 4 PRIVACY.Other companies are routinely collecting information about their own customers and users-often without permission. Social media sites like Facebook and search engines like Google are among the many companies whose business models are based on adve
- 3 Improvements to the printing press led to lower costs and the proliferation of printers looking for material to publish. Entry barriers were very low, both for obtaining the printed works of others and for contributing one's own thoughts. Soon the demand
- 2 The new field of advanced materials science involves the study, manipulation, and fabrication of solid matter with highly sophisticated tools, almost on an atom-by-atom basis. It involves many interdisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, chem
- 1 The future : six drivers of global change.by Al Gore.INTRODUCTION.LIKE MANY FULFILLING JOURNEYS, THIS BOOK BEGAN NOT WITH ANSWERS but with a question. Eight years ago, when I was on the road, someone asked me: "What are the drivers of global change?" I