(Besides The Venus Project and The Zeigeist Movement) Crisis of Capitalism, RSA Animate by David Harvey, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&feature=player_embedded The Global Technology Revolution 2020, (Information tech, bio, nano, materials, etc.), RAND (National Security Research Division), www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports A New Manifesto, Innovation, Sustainability, Dévelopment, STEPS Centre Working Papers, www.steps-centre.org

(Beside The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Manifesto) The Evolutionary Manifesto, Our Role in the Future Evolution of Life, By John Stewart (The Free University of Brussels), www.evolutionarymanifesto.com Science and Technology outlook : 2005-2055, Institute for the Future, www.iftf.org/node/757 The Ten-Year Forecast Program, Kathi Viau, Institute for the Future, www.iftf.org/tyf UN Millenium Project, States of the Future (Feasibility Report), www.millenium-project.org

The online encyclopedia is suddenly adding fewer articles and has fewer editors. Has all knowledge been summarized, or does Wiki have a problem ? Up until about two years ago, Wikipedians were adding, on average, some 2,200 new articles to the project every day. The English version hit the 3 million mark in August 2009. But early in 2007, something strange happened : Wikipedia's growth line flattened. It remains a precious resource - a completly free journal available to anyone and the model for a mode of line collaboration one hailed as revelutionary.

U.S. kids ages 8 to 18 are consuming more media than before. They are now using their phones, computers, TVs and video-games systems for a total of 7.5 hours a day (or 52.5 hours a week). Multitasking and dual use devices - like cell phone that play video - push those figures even hiregher. • Watching tv : 270 min. • Listenig to music : 151 min. • Talking on cell phones : 33 min. • Playing video-games : 73 min. • Text messaging 90 min. • Nonschool comouter use : 89 min. A Kaiser Family Foundation Study, Feb 2010.

It's great to have a dedicated group of followers online - until the audience gets so big that the conversation stops. When it comes to your social network, bigger is better. Or so we're told. The more followers and friends you have, the more awsome and important you are. When you go from having a few hundred Twitter followers to ten thousand, something unexpected happens : Social nerworking starts to break down. Why ? Because socializing doesn't scale. At a few hundred or few thousands followers, they're having fun - but any bigger and it falls apart. Social media stops being social.

Today, it is impossible to separate social media from the online world. Facebook reached 350 million userd last month - 70 % of whom are outside the US - and it accounts for 25 % of the Web's traffic. From feeling excitement, novelty, bewilderment and overwhelmed, a growing number of peole now speak of social media as simply another channel or tactic. Here are 10 ways what we've called social media wil evolve in 2010. Social media will become a single, cohesive experience embedded in our activities and technologies. Social media innovation will no longer be limited by technology.

The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicates but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains. When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amount of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain. People who read linear text comprehended more, remember more, and learned more than those who read texts peppered with links.

Television is still the most influential medium around indeed. for many of the poorest regions of the world, it remains the next big thing - poised, finally, to attain truly global ubiquity. And that is a good thing, because the TV revolution is changing lives for the better. Across the developping world, around 60 % of the households have a TV, it dwarfs worldwide Internet access. TV Will Save the World (IN a lot of places, it's the next big thing) Charles Kenny, Time, March 22, 2010.

The emerging world, long a source of cheap labour, now rivals the rich countries for business innovation (Adrian Wooldridge). The United Nations World Investment Report calculates that there are now around 21,000 multinationals based in the emerging world. Multinationals expect about 70 % of the world's growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 % coming from India and China. People who use to think of the emerging world as a source of cheap labor must now recognise that it can be a source of disruptive innovation as well.

Facebook and Google face a backlash in United-State, Canada, France, Great Britain and Germany, from users and regulators alike, over the way they have handled sensitive data. The cases highlight rising tension between guardian of privacy and internet firms. And they reflect concern among web users about how private data are made public. Tussles over privacy issues will persit. Nobody has a clear view of where to draw the line on privacy matters online. Lives of Others, in The Economist, May 22nd, 2010, (p. 67-68)