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  Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: "The Future of Nanomaterials" 

  http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=27176

  Abstract: Trend four: Top 12 Areas for Innovation through 2025 The Future of Nanomaterials Washington, DC | Posted on December 29th, 2007 The DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies recently ... released a series of 12 briefs that shed light on the top areas for technology innovation through 2025. The brief on "nanomaterials," by futurist Peter von Stackelberg, is the fourth trend in the series. "In the next 10 to 20 years, we'll see major breakthroughs in nanomaterials and related processes used to produce many of our consumer and industrial products," von Stackelberg forecasts. Here's why. Technology overview Small is the key word that describes the world of nanotechnology. The concept centers on miniaturization, and involves the creation of particles, fibers, films, coatings, and other materials that are significantly smaller than the typical bacterium between one and 100 nanometers in size. Because these particles are so tiny, nano-objects can access previously impene   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 30 December 2007, by: Muhammad Taufiq Izan  [Report as spam]

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  Net Gains or Net Losses? Think tank raps ‘net neutrality’ [pdf]

  http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20070829_Net_Neutrality_07.pdf

  First added: 13 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  direction, future, internet, internet future, net neutrality , think tank   [More...] [Less...]

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  Scientists ponder next 50 years of space exploration - ZDNet 

  http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6209251.html

  Tags: Stefanie Olsen , Aerospace , Universe , , Scientist , Frontier , Computer , Productivity PASADENA, Calif.--In the next 50 years of space exploration, scientists are hopeful that we will find other ... life in the universe. Weeks away from the 50th anniversary of space flight, a group of aerospace engineers, space entrepreneurs and astronauts met here Thursday at the California Institute of Technology to reflect on the past and discuss the coming 50 years of space exploration. The two-day conference, called 50 Years in Space, is marked by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, astronaut and former U.S. senator, called that event an "intellectual earthquake" for science and the first trigger of interest in space. To be sure, the United States formed NASA in November of the following year; and in 1961, President John F. Kennedy promised that Americans would land on the moon by the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed the firs   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 21 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  A future for mainframes in SOA 

  http://www.it-analysis.com/content.php?cid=10009

  While it is far too early to get an answer it is now possible to ask, as a serious rather than trivial question, whether there is scope to see new sales of zSeries mainframes grow into the SOA and web ... services-based market sectors as a result of new developments in integration tools, such as the recent appearance of DataDirect Technologies' major upgrade of its Shadow integration platform, for the traditionally back-office machines. Will it be enough to prove to be a positive lever on green field zSeries sales? It might still be a brave person who answered ‘yes’ right now, the opportunity now exists where the mainframe can start to play a full part in a web-services/SOA environment, running applications that can proactively participate in that environment rather than just be a passive contributor to it. While it may not be natural to think of a mainframe as a core system in such an environment, Version 7 of Shadow does offer the potential to move IBM's zSeries systems well beyond the t   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 21 November 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  [Abstract] A Review of the Future for Wind and Tidal Power Generation in the UK 

  http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=20767

  A Review of the Future for Wind and Tidal Power Generation in the UK I.F. Bitterlin (UK) Keywords Wind Power, Tidal Power, Renewable, Intermittence, Integration, Hydrogen Economy Abstract Even against ... todays historically low energy prices the technical & commercial viability of both wind and tidal power is established. As reserves of (low extraction cost) fossil fuels dwindle in the future and costs rise the economic viability of all renewable sources will increase. The paper provides an overview of the resource capacity of renewable wind and tidal power generation in the UK, comparing it to the demand and considering the problem of integration. The options for matching the intermittence of these power sources using energy storage are considered, including using the energy to power the hydrogen economy. Important Links: DOI: From Proceeding Go Back   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 27 November 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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