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Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future | Video on TED.com
Nandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
Technological progress is usually considered a given. Think of the titters when you see Michael Douglas in Wall Street walking on the beach with a bricklike mobile phone. Then, it was thrilling, almost illicit—Gekko can call Bud Fox from the beach. Now, the average 12-year-old has a far superior phone: smaller, camera-equipped, location-aware, filled with games and a library of music, and so on. We've seen vast improvements in just a few decades, which means the gulf between now and, say, the 1920s seems almost unimaginable.
There is at least one technology in America, however, that is worse now than it was in the early 20th century: the train.
Quote Details: Robert Heinlein: Progress isn't made by... - The Quotations Page
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Warren Buffett's Chinese Electric Car Company | Marc Gunther on GreenBiz.com
If you think the American auto industry is in trouble now, just wait until the Chinese learn how to make great cars. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.
MicroPlace and How Micro Loans Make a Big Difference (Video) : TreeHugger
Micro loans might be a great way for people to get back into the investing game. By giving microloans, you grow your money in small amounts, but help people in big ways. We're big fans of micro financing around here, and this heartwarming clip from CBS calls out MicroPlace, and outlines how microlending works and what kind of a difference it can make for a struggling entrepreneur.
12 Elegant Examples of Evolution | Wired Science from Wired.com
In preparation for Charles Darwin's upcoming 200th birthday, the editors of Nature compiled a selection of especially elegant and enlightening examples of evolution.
They describe it as a resource "for those wishing to spread awareness of evidence for evolution by natural selection." Given the continuing battles over evolution in America's public schools — and, for that matter, the Islamic world — such a resource is most welcome.
However, I'd like to suggest another way of looking at the findings below, which range from the moray eel's remarkable second jaw to the unexpected plumage of dinosaurs. They are, quite simply, wondrous — glimpses through an evolutionary frame of life's incredible narrative, expanding to fill every possible nook and cranny of Earth's biosphere.
Remember 'go outside and play?' - Los Angeles Times
Reader, if you're much over 30, you probably remember what it used to be like for the typical American kid. Remember how there used to be this thing called "going out to play"?
For younger readers, I'll explain this archaic concept. It worked like this: The child or children in the house -- as long as they were over age 4 or so -- went to the door, opened it, and ... went outside.
globeandmail.com: Out of Africa
As award-winning Globe and Mail Africa correspondent Stephanie
Nolen bids farewell to a place she's come to love, she reflects on how it has changed, and how it changed her
Dubai and the UAE - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The rapid development in Dubai and across the UAE hasn't all been easy lately, as infrastructure problems (handling rising levels of waste to match massive development), and world financial struggles have slowed progress. Wealthy Dubai continues to grow though, in both land area as new islands are built, and in height as new, taller skyscrapers are planned to best the Burj Dubai, already the tallest in the world. (28 photos total)
John Carlin on why Iceland has the happiest people on earth | World news | The Observer
Icelanders have had the wisdom to take, or accidentally to replicate, the best of what's there, too. Without any hang-ups at all.
Sydney in 2030: 3-D vision of future - National - smh.com.au
The City of Sydney Council has released a 3-D animation of what the CBD could look like by 2030 if its ambitious plan to transform some of our most significant landmarks comes to fruition.
TED | Talks | Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote (video)
Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
TED | Talks | Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones, ourselves (video)
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he's made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people in
Extreme makeover for Quay, Darling Harbour and beyond - National - smh.com.au
TEARING down the Cahill Expressway, moving Circular Quay railway station, remaking Darling Harbour and building a huge convention centre over the tracks at Central are part of the City of Sydney's grand vision for 2030, to be made public today.
Sydney makeover vision wins widespread support - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A draft plan for a massive overhaul of Sydney by 2030 has received widespread support.
Under the City of Sydney's plan, the Cahill Expressway and monorail would be demolished and a new convention centre would be built over the rail tracks at Central Stat
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City of Sydney presents 2030 vision for a green, global and connected Sydney :: Sydney Media :: City of Sydney
What if Sydney had a light rail loop in the city centre, an Indigenous Cultural Centre, a major new park at Darling Harbour, George Street reclaimed for people, and sustainable development over Central Railway Station's rail tracks?
New Sydney 'all about sustainability' - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
George Street would become a pedestrian mall and the Western Distributor would be buried beneath... Darling Harbour. A light rail loop... between Central and Circular Quay, and retail and business development... over... rail lines... Central Station.
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