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China revealed its version of the “digital soldier” concept at its annual North Sword 0709 live-fire exercise

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China military future

Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members plays pre-recorded msgs from troops when prompted by phrases like "I love you"

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future AI military robot tech psychology

In China, as in other developing countries, the question is never whether the state should play a role in technological development, but how

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China tech history innovation politics future economics

Will grad students a thousand years from now be digging through old blog entries in the Wayback Machine of Google’s backup tapes?

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future libraries history digitalHumanities datamining privacy

it seems ominously likely that we are headed for a government-sponsored news service. Maybe we will like it. China is already expanding Xinhua to go worldwide, so we can call ours Xinhua East.

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media journalism economics business future china U.S.

“How did we get from the world before the printing press to the world after it? What was the revolution itself like?”

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writing internet future media journalism surveillance

Norsam promised to micro-etch 350,000 pages of information onto a 3-inch nickel disk with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years.

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digitalHumanities libraries future

a fake epidemic that could overwhelm hospitals attempting to treat real victims.

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terrorism future psychology

Given the number of people involved, Chinglish is destined to take on a life of its own.

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china linguistics 中文 future

Next time you order a new pair of skinny jeans from Gap.com, you should know that you are helping welcome in the hive-mind robot overlords of retail.

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robot business consumers future apocalypse

Open Security Foundation have been scouring press reports, bank websites and other sources for information on consumer data spills, tallying more than 394 million records lost or compromised in 1,700 incidents since 2000.

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datamining dataspills future

people here want to start a nonmetaphorical revolution by creating their own independent nations. In the middle of the ocean. On prefab floating platforms.

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future scifi ocean nationalism

a universal digital library as an extention of the work Josiah Quincy Jr. and others took up when they formed the American public library movement - the availability of knowledge that would be “free to all”.

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libraries internet future classification informationseeking

Rob Spence has got his eye on you. And it's recording.

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surveillance cyborg future

wow

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video future

*ZA kiad w'-exùn ya tijuh, da ya-gAr'-eduketan zA da wa-tAgan lidla, kaz 'ban iagnaran an wa-tAg kurrap...

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linguistics future

We could have created a National Digital Library—the twenty-first-century equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. It is too late now. Not only have we failed to realize that possibility, but, even worse, we are allowing a question of public policy—the control of access to information—to be determined by private lawsuit.

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google libraries future books informationseeking

Over the next 17 years, 350 million rural residents will move to China's cities... bring the Chinese urban population from just under 600 million today to close to 1 billion, changing China into a country where more than two-thirds of its people are city dwellers

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China future agriculture UrbanPlanning population

Each year some 4.5 billion tonnes of soil are lost, threatening the country's ability to feed itself. If erosion continues at this rate, harvests in China's north-eastern breadbasket could fall by 40% in 50 years.

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china agriculture UrbanPlanning future

track your daily data. Future historians will note your Big Mac intake.

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datamining future history