Masdar City will use solar energy and other renewables , and will be car-free.
Mankind is rethinking how we build the structures we live and work in which is changing the way our cities look and feel. According to architect Philip Beesley, our cities of smooth stone and steel may become more like floating forests – with buildings that can think and breathe and cool themselves.
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The project involves putting two power lines directly into the road.
The recent innovations in wireless charging for electric vehicles could mean losing the need for batteries altogether. A Swedish project being tested is a system designed to power EVs along the highway.
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Apple’s WWDC 2013
The conference that Apple hosted in San Francisco last week for 6,000 developers was a face-off between CEO Tim Cook and Jony Ive, his Senior VP for design. (Infographic)
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Labor’s share of the world’s income is plunging, and the technology boom is to blame.
For the past thirty years, wages have evaporated as a share of the economy. Meanwhile, the proportion of national income consumed by profits, dividends, and capital gains has steadily grown. Capital 1, Labor 0.
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AmazonFresh
Webvan, the online grocery start-up, may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001.
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Flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.
Investors and entrepreneurs are betting on a future full of flying robots that can be programmed to do anything from survey crops or wildlife to delivering vaccines to remote villages in Africa.
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Google is working on fighting child porn on the web with new technology.
Google, the search and mobile superpower, is working on new technology that would effectively purge all images of child pornography and abuse from most of the Web.
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China’s stock market
In China, the shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned.
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Dave Engledow is a great photographer, and a pretty awesome Dad. After his daughter Alice Bee was born he wanted to document her childhood in the most creative way he could. Dave is not a professional photographer (he works in progressive politics and worker’s rights), but the photos are well shot and thought out. (Photos and video)
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Vision of Transformation
Francis Fukuyama published his book, The End of History in 1992. He argued that, with the cold war over and liberal democracy triumphant, the major historical narrative dialectic of history was over.
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