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Risky Business report on climate change

The Southeast will likely be hit hardest by heat impacts. Over the past 30 years, the average resident of this region has experienced about 9 days per year at 95°F or above. Looking forward, if we continue on our current emissions path, the average Southeast resident will likely experience an additional 17 to 53 extremely hot days per year by mid-century and an additional 47 to 115 days per year by the end of the century. That's one and a half to four additional months of extreme heat each year.

http://riskybusiness.org/reports/national-report/regions/southeast

Oil Imports Seen Falling to Zero as Soon as 2037 by U.S.

Net oil imports to the U.S. could fall to zero by 2037 because of robust production in areas including North Dakota’s Bakken field and Texas’s Eagle Ford formation, according to a government projection released today.

This estimate is based on oil only and doesn't take electric cars into account. kr

"Truck Driver" becomes obosolete

Humans Fully Outsourced to Robots by 2045?

Discussion of the “Singularity” — the moment when computer intelligence surpasses that of humans to such an extent that humans become practically redundant — has been gaining steam across the media spectrum. Ray Kurzweil pointed to 2045 as the date of this tipping point, after which anyone unprepared for merging with machines would likely face a very unproductive personal future...

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/humans-fully-outsourced-to-robots-by.html

The far future: tech trends of 2025

'Robots will protect us, cultivate our raw food, and take care of our health -- and look after our parents.'

- Dmitry Grishin from Grishin Robotics

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/09/far-future-tech-trends-2025/#ixzz2UQ86Lfin

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/09/far-future-tech-trends-2025/

Gasoline cars mere 1/4 of total by 2050

3/4 of cars run on alternate tech by 2050. [the Economist]

Are the Increased Job Losses in Sept 09 an Anomaly or Trend?

Shadow Markets Trend Reversed in 2007

http://www.voxeu.org/article/shadow-economies-around-world-model-based-estimates
Shadow markets. What are the predictions since the sharp upturn in 2007?

For almost all country groups (except for the post-Socialist one), we observe a declining trend over time. However, the pace of the reduction seems to lose some momentum in the last decade. Somewhat more interestingly, we observe a spike staring in 2007. Considering the emergence of the global economic crisis, this could give further support for the hypothesis that the size of the shadow economy is countercyclical, as suggested by Roca et al (2001) and Elgin (2012).

China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation

 

U.S. exports and imports of goods last year totaled $3.82 trillion, the U.S. Commerce Department said last week. China’s customs administration reported last month that the country’s trade in goods in 2012 amounted to $3.87 trillion. Bloomberg Feb 2013

60 Minutes Robotics Segment Stirs Controversy

60 Minutes Robotics Segment Stirs Controversy

Our cars will be our power plants in the future

http://www.tnw.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/onze-auto-wordt-de-elektriciteitscentrale-van-de-toekomst/

https://www.wfs.org/content/futurist/march-april-2012-vol-46-no-2/tomorrow-brief

Next Generation Materials: mushrooms

http://www.ecovativedesign.com/applications/next-generation-materials/

Peak Oil Quells Economy

Economic activity stalls as per barrel costs of oil rise above 100$. BP

Population Peak in 30yrs

World population will continue to grow throughout the next 30 years, after which, numbers will begin to decline, falling below current 2012 numbers by 2060. (prediction by Kevin Kelley, chief editor at Wired magazine)