FUTURISM UPDATE (November 23, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

THE ECONOMIST: Quantum biology. How quantum theory is helping to explain the mysteries of life science http://lnkd.in/ePv-wAq

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Genetics Epidemic. The Revolution in DNA Science — And What To Do About It http://lnkd.in/diHn3YP

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Neuronal “Superhub” Might Generate Consciousness. Could a thin, enigmatic layer of nerve cells be a key component of the networks generating conscious experience? http://lnkd.in/dPmnSHz

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Amazon and Google Change Places on Going Green. Google recently explained its pullback on sustainability while Amazon has just announced a “long-term commitment” to achieve 100 percent renewable energy use http://lnkd.in/eDw32U6

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Oxford University researchers trial drugs against Ebola http://lnkd.in/eKp-nnX

FORBES: Cloud Computing Adoption Continues Accelerating In The Enterprise http://lnkd.in/eshAW45

THE REGISTER: Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers. Windmills, solar, tidal — all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs http://lnkd.in/eaHnCHZ

IBM: Does ubiquitous connectivity mean less security? Take a closer look at today’s security risks—from new threats arising on the Internet of Things, to the sources of malware and botnet infections http://lnkd.in/eYpuTJZ

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Drones Sighted by Pilots Landing at JFK Airport in New York City Show New Risks. One Drone Came Within 5 to 10 Feet of a Jetliner’s Wing http://lnkd.in/eR6Capx

TECH CRUNCH: Makerclub Helps You Learn 3D-Printed Robotics http://lnkd.in/eRuiRc8

IEEE Spectrum: DARPA Wants to Turn Military Planes Into Flying Drone Aircraft Carriers http://lnkd.in/eZpr62Z

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: China unveils first amphibious UAV http://lnkd.in/e29xXbD

THE ECONOMIST: If Obama’s actions really do defy the people’s will, Republicans will soon be in a great place to undo them http://econ.st/1xZZv9B

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Banking Culture Primes People to Cheat http://lnkd.in/ejFV7Ad

NEW YORK TIMES: In Change of Strategy, China Cuts Interest Rate http://lnkd.in/eZTGPT8

WASHINGTON POST: How the United States can counter the ambitions of Russia and China http://lnkd.in/eDGpm8K

BLOOMBERG: Printable Rockets, Brought to You by Geeks With Deep Pockets http://lnkd.in/eJCJ-e7

FCW.com : IARPA unveils work on predictive intelligence http://lnkd.in/e2Wzb2q

GIZMODO: These Tiny Robots Are Designed To 3D Print Whole Buildings http://lnkd.in/e3sFxZD

Archinect: Mini-robots may outcompete 3D printing in the evolution of construction http://lnkd.in/e6TvJPk

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 22, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

BBC NEWS: Robots face new test of creative abilities. A US professor is proposing a new way to test whether artificial intelligence (AI) is on a par with that of humans. http://lnkd.in/eq8HWGx

FINANCIAL TIMES: Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels. The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google, in one of the most brazen assaults so far on the technology group’s power. http://lnkd.in/eBaysU3

THE ECONOMIST: Is Germany’s economy getting too weak to pull Europe out of its crisis? http://lnkd.in/e6vF9kU

WALL STREET JOURNAL: When Can We Expect Truly Autonomous Vehicles? http://lnkd.in/d5CDhAG

FINANCIAL TIMES: Surgeons embrace 3D printed implants to save NHS time and cash. From complex reconstructive facial surgery to dentures and hip implants, surgeons across the UK are using 3D printing to improve treatments and save time and money for the National Health Service. http://lnkd.in/eRMeidS

FORBES: Is the US Stock Market Unhealthy? http://lnkd.in/e76xbGc

FORBES: Businesses Don’t Move To The Cloud: DATA Does http://lnkd.in/e2CFAz3

GIGAOM: The Future of Artificial Intelligence http://lnkd.in/eWHe_8n

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Amazon and Google Change Places on Going Green. Google recently explained its pullback on sustainability while Amazon has just announced a “long-term commitment” to achieve 100 percent renewable energy use. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amazon-and-google-…ing-green/

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How brain cells persuade other cells to do ‘the wave’ http://lnkd.in/eKpvg9R

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How neurons multitask http://lnkd.in/e3pPfXG

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Georgia Tech professor proposes another alternative to the Turing test. The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence assesses a computer’s capacity for human-level intelligence by its ability to create, rather than to converse or deceive http://lnkd.in/e6e4eet

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: China and ‘one or two others’ can shut US electric grids and other critical infrastructure, says NSA director http://lnkd.in/e2ZExYZ

THE ECONOMIST: VLADIMIR PUTIN is not short of problems, many of his own creation. There is the carnage in eastern Ukraine, where he is continuing to stir things up. There are his fraught relations with the West, with even Germany turning against him now. There is an Islamist insurgency on his borders and at home there is grumbling among the growing numbers who doubt the wisdom of his Ukraine policy. But one problem could yet eclipse all these: Russia’s wounded economy could fall into a crisis. http://lnkd.in/e_EXuhK

THE WIRE: It’s Totally Normal That Joe Biden’s Son (Hunter Biden) Works for a Ukrainian Energy Company http://lnkd.in/ewFHCty

BBC NEWS: Ukraine crisis: Joe Biden warns Russia faces ‘isolation’ http://lnkd.in/eA-eZbd

Phys.Org: Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors http://lnkd.in/ewPhhdG

Phys.Org: Multiphysics invisibility cloak manipulates both electric current and heat http://lnkd.in/eaqM4qe

The Week Magazine: How quantum computing could change everything. It could revolutionize encryption — and help us peer even deeper into the underlying fabric of reality http://theweek.com/article/index/269850/how-quantum-computin…everything

WIRED: New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time http://lnkd.in/d2Td34p

NEW SCIENTIST: What’s behind snowmageddon that hit the US this week? http://lnkd.in/esH7zr4

BLOOMBERG: Top U.S. diplomat under FBI investigation after conversation involving Pakistani official: http://bloom.bg/1tb2WWs

CHINA, NOT THE WEST, IS BUILDING ITS OWN(ATLANTIC-PACIFIC) NICARAGUA CHANNEL TO OUT-COMPETE THE PANAMA CANAL. BBC NEWS: Nicaragua canal: Construction to begin in December http://lnkd.in/eqMJCAC

TIME: Hong Kong Protest Sites Slammed By ‘Largest Cyberattack Ever’ http://lnkd.in/e5nQpqY

COMPUTERWORLD: Google to build quantum-computing processors. Google has partnered with scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara to build new processors for use in quantum computing systems. http://lnkd.in/e_xBjaJ

CIO MAGAZINE: Intel planning thumb-sized PCs for next year http://lnkd.in/en47Afu

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: 3D Printed Human Liver Tissue Now Commercially Available by Organovo http://lnkd.in/edtB-Mv

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 21, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

CleanTechnica: Biomimicry Run Amok: New Micro Air Vehicles Can Swarm Like Bees http://lnkd.in/dMpRCPB

FINANCIAL TIMES: Space junk or Russian satellite killer? It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990…z3JdykV8Dw

TECH CRUNCH: Eric Schmidt’s Farm2050 Collective Will Back Agriculture Tech To Feed Earth’s Growing Population http://lnkd.in/eBAaTfe

CIO MAGAZINE: Brace yourselves, Singularity is inevitable: Andrew McAfee. Medium-skilled wages are slipping, says MIT research scientist. It’s not too hard to see a world where humans struggle to stay relevant as machines far outpace their intelligence and capabilities. This is what Andrew McAfee, research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Second Machine Age, discussed at the Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast. http://lnkd.in/eNdCKXM

TECH CRUNCH: Eric Schmidt’s Farm2050 Collective Will Back Agriculture Tech To Feed Earth’s Growing Population http://lnkd.in/eBAaTfe

Washington Post: HP’s bold plan to become the first mainstream 3D printing company http://lnkd.in/e5eYrJV

Reuters: Russia warned the United States on Thursday against supplying arms to Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, hours before U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden was due to arrive in Kiev. http://lnkd.in/eWz5mvP

Engadget: JFK Airport has a drone problem http://lnkd.in/eVizey3

MAGNIFICENT UNETHICAL AND UNIVERSALLY CARELESS KAIZEN. FORBES: U.S. Calls For Nationwide Recall of Takata Airbags http://lnkd.in/exCNSPH

Manufacturing Business Technology: Will Robots Replace Humans? American manufacturing has had great success in automating factories with robots and computers in the last 50 years, and computers are now eliminating many service jobs. This has caused a lot of speculation about how far artificial intelligence can be developed. Universities and scientists also add to the excitement by promoting artificial intelligence with futuristic potentials as they try to get their share of federal grant money. The big question that often arises is, when will computers be able to emulate humans and become self aware and intelligent?

CBC.ca: Facial recognition software to aid Calgary police in future investigations. 1st police agency in Canada to use the software, say Calgary officials http://lnkd.in/ekReTAd

NEW YORK TIMES: In Argentina’s Debt Case, No Winners, but a Lot of Losers. http://lnkd.in/eYFSxsX

FORTUNE: Google’s Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe http://lnkd.in/ejXFKqB

ENGINEERING: 3D Printed Micro-Actuators Could Delever the Medicine of the Future http://lnkd.in/eYxnFTQ

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 20, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: The Cognitive Usefulness of the Internet of Things http://lnkd.in/dqVF9PX

ZDNet: Internet of things: Poised to be a security headache? Nearly 95 percent of enterprises are at least concerned about the security of the Internet of things. Here’s a look at a potential security model. http://lnkd.in/dBvktGj

CNNMoney: FAA can regulate drones http://lnkd.in/dX2iKEH

CBS News: NTSB ruling rattles America’s fledgling drone industry http://lnkd.in/dc-RY2K

Wall Street Journal: GE Ventures Flies Into the Drone Business With Airware Investment http://lnkd.in/dFZNDbQ

The Guardian: Putin gives envoy cool welcome after declaring US ‘wants to subjugate’ Russia. The Russian president says little to John Tefft but declares the country ‘ready for practical cooperation with our American partners’ http://lnkd.in/dDZees9

The Independent: Is Russia flying a satellite killer around space? Unidentified Russian satellite prompts space weapon worries http://lnkd.in/dJ75RYp

Yahoo! Maktoob News: Oil falls below $86 as oversupply, global economy worries weigh http://lnkd.in/deba4Xb

Washington Post: Japan recession, Europe stagnation cast pall over global economic outlook http://lnkd.in/ddRbk6k

FINANCIAL TIMES: France warns EU investment fund will flop without ‘real money http://lnkd.in/dirafvH

THE ECONOMIST: A bid to put encrypted data into a kind of time capsule gets a kick-start http://lnkd.in/dm85T5D

New York Times: French Nuclear Giant Areva Says Future Is Uncertain, Prompting a Sell-Off http://lnkd.in/dJ3fq6Z

Forbes: Here’s The Future Of Podcasting http://lnkd.in/dKzBaFK

THE DIPLOMAT: India Needs to Join Asia’s Emerging ‘Chinese Order’ http://bit.ly/1uxV2cL

MIT Technology Review: An Artificial Adhesive Outgrips the Gecko. Gecko-inspired adhesives can help humans climb and may provide a better grip for robotic arms in factories and in space. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532626/an-artificial-ad…the-gecko/

GIZMAG: Mobile phones could be charged using sound. Four years ago, we first heard about how Korean scientists had proposed using sound to charge mobile phones. They explained that it could be done via a piezoelectric effect, in which zinc oxide nanowires converted sound-caused vibrations into…more http://lnkd.in/dcJEajd

THE DAILY SIGNAL: Why Does Washington Want to Hide Science Data From the Public? http://lnkd.in/d9nCUKR

Reuters: Ukraine rules out direct talks with separatists http://lnkd.in/dkNCqZc

The Guardian: Bird flu: Ukraine bans poultry imports from UK, Germany and Netherlands. Ukraine’s state veterinary inspectorate says ban will be valid until international watchdog says countries are free from virus http://lnkd.in/dhb8WkK

FORBES: What Does Genworth’s Bad News Mean for the Future of Long-Term Care Insurance? http://lnkd.in/d7su8YW

Huffington Post: Three Causes Behind Mexico’s Crisis of Corruption and Impunity http://lnkd.in/d7fF9hG

Wall Street Journal: Bank of Mexico Lowers Growth Estimates http://lnkd.in/dTdD8kn

Al Jazeera America: Mexico is teetering on the edge of the abyss. Peña Nieto’s government deflects attention as corruption and rampant violence threaten to destabilize the country http://lnkd.in/dbrHUVj

SPACE NEWS: British Company Announces Crowdfunded Lunar Mission http://lnkd.in/dY9R5Gc

SPACE NEWS: China’s Deceptively Weak Anti-Satellite Capabilities http://lnkd.in/dxNShEi

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: The Future of the Cities? Underground cities are the future of business http://lnkd.in/d-XAved

CNBC: The future of energy: You may be walking on it. Energy “harvesting”—where incidental energy like radio waves, heat and vibrations are harnessed for power—is not a new concept, but the technology to support the idea is getting better. Just as today the kinetic force of a swinging arm can power a wristwatch, some technologists are betting that in the future pedestrians’ footsteps can light a city. http://lnkd.in/dAghQ-5

POPULAR SCIENCE: The Future Of Antibiotics May Come From A Horse’s Behind http://lnkd.in/dh6EHqS

Financial Times: Atul Gawande’s Reith lectures on the future of medicine. “Why Do Doctors Fail” http://lnkd.in/d_XThUp

Russia and India Report: The future of aerospace technology is now. Federated Satellite Systems, a radical breakthrough developed by researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and partner institutions abroad, is a revolution equal to what Uber/ Yandex Taxi and Zipcar have done for the taxi and personal transportation industries. http://lnkd.in/d4tdJHX

Voice of America: Mysterious Russian Space Object May Be Anti-Satellite Warfare Technology http://lnkd.in/d3EUz75

Russia Beyond the Headline: Laser warfare: Sci-fi fantasy or future reality? http://lnkd.in/dauEeqB

“…The key message is that the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing … Technology is transforming every single industry …”

BBC News: Mexico crime and violence in numbers http://lnkd.in/dUcRrEH

New York Times: Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software. Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs and videos with far greater accuracy than ever before, sometimes even mimicking human levels of understanding http://lnkd.in/ddVyczN

Tech Times: Google Photo Recognition Goes Beyond Objects http://lnkd.in/dkjzxYF

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 19, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

FINANCIAL TIMES: Object 2014-28E – Space junk or Russian satellite killer? It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy .… http://lnkd.in/d-YWkfx

ZDNET: Data science: ‘Machines do analytics. Humans do analysis’ http://lnkd.in/dzfvjdp

TIME: New York Is Transforming Its Old Payphones into Wi-Fi Hotspots http://lnkd.in/dqHpQUW

Forbes: Databox Launches Enterprise Mobile Insight Solution. But Is It Analytics? http://lnkd.in/dbVMBUM

Hospitality Net: Big data and big analytics are a big opportunity for hotels — Part 2 http://lnkd.in/d4SNrPi

Financial Times: The nuclear gun is back on the table. Both in private and in public, Russia is making explicit references to its nuclear arsenal http://lnkd.in/d3ycdFG

Financial Times: Bonds: Anatomy of a market meltdown. Fall in Treasury bond yields left investors asking if world’s safe haven needs shoring up http://lnkd.in/dqCR5pQ

Financial Times: Nokia partners with Foxconn to take on Apple with tablet device http://lnkd.in/dT8dTae

The Financial Times observes that President Putin and President Obama are threatening each other with their respective nuclear arsenal. We are getting closer to M.A.D. WWIII.

Financial Post: Who will blink first as global oil prices collapse? http://lnkd.in/dP7EcuU

Christian Science Monitor: Halliburton, Baker Hughes merge as oil prices plummet http://lnkd.in/dcrZGF4

COMPUTER WORLD: Yahoo’s Genome highlights hosted big data analytics trend. Several companies have begun offering big data analytics as a service http://lnkd.in/dFbMtr2

BLOOMBERG: Nigeria Budget-Cut Pledge Falls Short as Oil Prices Drop http://lnkd.in/dnRiJXH

Bloomberg: Oil Slide Prompts Iran’s Oil Minister to Visit U.A.E. http://lnkd.in/dAujidM

WIRED: Leading the Way for Big Data Startups, Yahoo Spin-Off Files for IPO http://lnkd.in/dvXidUy

MIT Technology Review: Driving Marketing Results with Big Data http://lnkd.in/dWhvszA

MIT Technology Review: Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World’s Most Notable Authors. Deciding which books to digitise when they enter the public domain is tricky; unless you have an independent ranking of the most notable authors. http://lnkd.in/dCwMJwW

MIT Technology Review: Nanoparticle Detects the Deadliest Cancer Cells in Blood. A novel kind of nanoparticle could lead to more effective cancer treatments. http://lnkd.in/dbRzqQH

MIT Technology Review: When AI Experts Have “It’s Alive!” Moments. Occasionally virtual assistants like Siri show flashes of humanity that suggest they could one day act like more than just software. http://lnkd.in/dKXXEhF

Moneycontrol.com: Expect Gold, Silver prices to trade on lower note: Angel http://lnkd.in/dYq_KNt

The Market Oracle: Gold, Silver, Crude and S&P Ending Wedge Patterns http://lnkd.in/d-D3WSW

Center for Research on Globalization: Gold and Silver Price Manipulation: The “Golden” Cat is Out of The Bag! http://lnkd.in/dWpyJja

Telegraph.co.uk: Vladimir Putin vows that United States ‘will never subjugate Russia’ Russian president echoes Al Capone as he says ‘weapons and politeness’ are better than ‘politeness alone’ http://lnkd.in/dxJhDR4

New York Times: Who Won in Putin’s Feud With West? Organic Farms http://lnkd.in/dmfpf-e

Reuters: Isolated at G20, Putin shows he will do it his way in Ukraine http://lnkd.in/dkiZPa2

The Guardian: Finland back on red alert over expansionist Russia. Almost a century after breaking free from its giant neighbour Helsinki still follows Moscow’s every move http://lnkd.in/dHUpfJA

BBC News: Russia tests ‘satellite catcher’. Russia may be testing a satellite capable of chasing down other orbiting spacecraft, observers say. Such technology could be used for a wide variety of uses, including to repair malfunctioning spacecraft, but also to destroy or disable them. http://lnkd.in/duYz6MH

Washington Post: A mysterious Russian space object could be the return of the ‘satellite killer’ http://lnkd.in/dexVMeV

New York Times: Merkel Issues Rebuke to Russia, Setting Caution Aside http://lnkd.in/dhWejmi

Bloomberg: Russia Sees Recession Next Year If Oil Price Falls to $60 http://lnkd.in/dYDyW3C

National Post: Vladimir Putin’s plan: He took Crimea. He’s taunting NATO. What will Russia’s president do next? http://lnkd.in/d-fypU5

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia’s Isn’t the Only ‘Satellite Killer’ in Space. A previously unknown Russian spacecraft conducting maneuvers characteristic of a satellite killer has sparked concerns that Russia’s military provocations may soon extend to space, but experts say Russia is not the only major space power developing agile — and potentially deadly — capabilities in Earth’s orbit. Western space agencies, militaries and amateur observers are tracking a mysterious Russian satellite that could be a satellite hunter — a spacecraft that trails enemy satellites and then destroys or disables them, The Financial Times reported on Monday. Amid Russia’s showdown with the West over Ukraine the discovery looks ominous, but all the big space-faring nations — Russia, China and the U.S. — are developing similar capabilities, Robert Christy, a veteran amateur satellite tracker, told The Moscow Times by phone. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-s-isn-…11403.html

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Readies for Showdown Over Taxing Offshore Companies http://lnkd.in/dqdi6CJ

Deutsche Welle: Sticking points remain in Iran nuclear dispute http://lnkd.in/dn-xMuG

Deutsche Welle: ‘No reason for optimism’ over Ukraine. With tensions high between Russia and the West over Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in Moscow for high-level talks. He is the first senior European minister to visit the Kremlin since July. http://lnkd.in/df2YdA3

CIO: How to Be the CIO of Tomorrow http://lnkd.in/dmsvcGT

Wall Street Journal: Japan to Name Hiromichi Mizuno CIO of Public Pension Fund. Mizuno Currently a Partner at Private-Equity Firm Coller Capital http://lnkd.in/db7-W8M

Computerworld: 10 hottest IT skills for 2015 http://lnkd.in/dt3BiQh

PCWorld: Google program mimics human brains and vision to automatically caption photos http://lnkd.in/dCByHMh

PCWorld: Intel turns to light beams to speed up supercomputers http://lnkd.in/dZnAeJt

PCWorld: China disrupts some websites linked to US content delivery network http://lnkd.in/d-Ae9dc

SWISS INFO: Jail time demanded for bad bankers http://lnkd.in/dUQghHh

New York Times: What Does the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Entail? The Keystone oil pipeline system is designed to carry up to 830,000 barrels of petroleum per day from the oil sands of boreal forests in Alberta, Canada to oil refineries and ports on the Gulf Coast. http://lnkd.in/dkex5dq

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Dragon Net. China’s Next Economic Miracle. With 632 million Internet users, China has already become the world’s largest e-tailing market, with almost $300 billion in sales posted in 2013. http://lnkd.in/dQCmQeD

REUTERS: Lufthansa signs $1.25 billion outsourcing deal with IBM http://lnkd.in/d_uKHpB

Broadway World: Capgemini Announces Cloud-Based SAP Software Implementation Project with Excelerate Energy http://lnkd.in/dpqm4Pi

ZME Science: Robot Underwater Gliders show How Antarctic Ice is Melting http://lnkd.in/dS6Pfeu

ABC News: A physics professor at the California Institute of Technology sued the school Thursday, claiming she faced a “merciless campaign” of retaliation for telling the FBI that she suspected illegal activities at the university-managed NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://lnkd.in/dTyJCdu

Salt Lake Tribune: Google buys Dutch wind energy for data center http://lnkd.in/dczc85c

New Zealand Herald: Why Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are buying up wind energy http://lnkd.in/d7KDxbu

New Scientist: Is mystery Russian spacecraft a satellite-killer? Is it watching the watchers? Russia has launched a spacecraft that is whizzing around low Earth orbit visiting satellites, it emerged this week. The mystery craft has renewed fears that Russia has revived its interest in developing anti-satellite weapons, a programme thought to have been abandoned in the 1980s. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26586-is-mystery-russi…GvuB8n5N30

SLATE: Why Putin may be more dangerous than ever: http://slate.me/1vnaegf

FORBES: Lighter Than Air? Toyota’s Quixotic Plan To Sell Hydrogen Cars Feels Almost Real http://lnkd.in/dnDSrmz

BLOOMBERG: Catalonia’s Independence Push Puts Real Estate Revival at Risk http://lnkd.in/dCea8ct

IrishCentral: If Spain breaks up, what are the implications for Northern Ireland? http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/If-Spain-breaks-u…eland.html

BUSINESSWEEK: Quebec and Scotland Said No to Secession, but Catalonia Is Still Going to Try http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-13/cata…dence-vote

BBC News: Ukraine crisis: Russia demands guarantees from Nato http://lnkd.in/dx9fHMn

Recruiter: One third of jobs in the UK are at risk from automation within 20 years, according to a joint report from Deloitte and Oxford University. http://lnkd.in/dB9B47u

Smithsonian: Look How 30 Years of Automation Changed How Crayons Are Made http://lnkd.in/daXaT3N

Daily Mail: Will YOUR job still exist in 2025? New report warns 50 per cent of occupations will be redundant in 11 years time http://lnkd.in/dWYbqcy

Wall Street Journal: The Problem With Blind Faith in Technology and Job Creation http://lnkd.in/dExayQE

WealthManagement.com: The Headwinds That Could Lead to a Global Depression http://lnkd.in/dgP38UB

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 18, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

The Economist: Genetically modified crops. The biggest study so far finds that GM crops have large, widespread benefits The biggest study so far finds that GM crops have large, widespread benefits http://lnkd.in/diqjQp4

The Economist: What next for retail banks? http://lnkd.in/dahXnmU

Bank of Canada: Money in a Digital World http://lnkd.in/dnwMD4p

KAI: How to increase (or decrease) brain activity and memory http://lnkd.in/dZSvCYD

KAI: Magic tricks using artificial intelligence http://lnkd.in/daXfEUz

CNN: U.S. weather system hacked, affecting satellites http://lnkd.in/dpv8UjP

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia May Be Planning National Space Station to Replace ISS. Russia may be planning to build a new, independent national space station rather than prolong its participation in the $150 billion International Space Station (ISS) program beyond its current 2020 end date, the Kommersant… http://lnkd.in/dG-ehUX

The Economist: A phoneful of dollars. The world’s poor need the stability and security that banks have traditionally offered, but increasingly they do not need banks to provide it http://lnkd.in/dhTWCDd

Financial Times: Airbus patents flying doughnuts http://lnkd.in/dVGHcK7

Financial Times: The European Commission is considering the creation of investment funds seeded with cash from either the EU budget or the European Investment Bank, as the centrepiece of a new growth plan. http://lnkd.in/d8qFjuj

Financial Times: China opens markets in Hong Kong-Shanghai deal http://lnkd.in/dKb9Vpv

Yahoo Canada Finance: Markets hit by Japan recession; One mega-merger on, another off; Facebook looks to expand into your workplace http://lnkd.in/d5DfeX9

Newsweek: Designers Building Roadways That Generate Solar Power http://lnkd.in/dY6nBMq

Forbes: Where Image Recognition Technology Is Headed For Retailers: Cortexica Interview http://lnkd.in/djgyEx6

THE GUARDIAN: Putin claims west is provoking Russia into new cold war as ‘spies’ deported. Russian president denies fanning tensions and says Nato ‘expansion’ in Europe had been ‘geopolitical game changer’ http://lnkd.in/dkTV9SG

THE GUARDIAN: David Cameron warns of looming second global crash. PM says ‘red warning lights are flashing’ against a backdrop of instability and uncertainty, as G20 summit draws to a close http://lnkd.in/d5-G44n

THE GUARDIAN: State Department email attack ‘fits pattern’ of Russian hackers, says expert http://lnkd.in/dxPXWct

THE GUARDIAN: Anonymous takes over Ku Klux Klan’s Twitter account. Internet activists respond to KKK taunts in row over Ferguson protests by taking over group’s official account on Twitter http://lnkd.in/dQ5hs67

THE GUARDIAN: Sir Tim Berners-Lee: we need more MPs who know how to code. The inventor of the World Wide Web issues a plea for more politicians who understand how computers work http://lnkd.in/dWtYKP2

THE GUARDIAN: Harvard University admits to secretly photographing students. Photos of 2,000 students across 10 lecture halls were taken as part of an experiment to measure classroom attendance http://lnkd.in/dh_bD6P

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Google’s Project Loon Woos Telecom Giants http://lnkd.in/dtmzGNR

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Intel Reveals Details of MICA Smart Bracelet http://lnkd.in/d_NVkkv

BLOOMBERG: 5 Numbers That Illustrate the Mind-Bending Size of Amazon’s Cloud http://lnkd.in/dwAXXXs

FORBES: China Once Again Boasts The World’s Fastest Supercomputer http://lnkd.in/dunUBQf

DER SPIEGEL: Putin’s Reach: Merkel Concerned about Russian Influence in the Balkans. Berlin has begun to see Moscow as an adversary rather than as a potential partner. The German government is concerned about efforts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase his influence in the Balkans. Stopping him, however, could prove difficult. http://lnkd.in/dhTPtBe

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Envy. Washington Should Help Riyadh Keep Up With Tehran http://lnkd.in/duKcavD

Forbes: CIO Innovation Budgets Are Increasing http://lnkd.in/dvWwHgg

BBC: Amazon seeks UK drone experts for delivery service http://lnkd.in/dGfgCkR

INDIA TODAY: Saudi Crown Prince to Modi: Ready to cooperate in all sectors http://lnkd.in/dp2jmaR

Times of India‎: Global survey: Brand India ranks a poor 31st out of 50 nations, Germany is No. 1 http://lnkd.in/dRYZqQV

OECD: China headed to overtake EU, US in science & technology spending, OECD says http://lnkd.in/dUNqhBC

THE BULLETIN: Internet-trading platforms: Making it easier to get around sanctions? http://lnkd.in/dDD8nXT

RAND CORPORATION: France’s War in Mali. Lessons for an Expeditionary Army http://lnkd.in/dxcRMEf

Wired: Facebook’s New Data Center Is Bad News for Cisco http://lnkd.in/dNHCvPY

RAND CORPORATION: Addressing SSDI’s Looming Insolvency http://lnkd.in/d4kAjx2

UC Berkeley: Synthetic biology could be big boost to interplanetary space travel http://lnkd.in/d3e_XBc

Science Careers Blog: Genomically encoded analog memory with precise in vivo DNA writing in living cell populations http://lnkd.in/dpJJW24

Hyperallergic: Will Our Future Be Biologically Designed? http://lnkd.in/dm2ZDTP

MIT News: Solar cells made from coal, smart nanoparticles that work with bacteria to fight cancer, and an effort to enhance human cognition by stimulating brain waves are just a few examples of the high-risk, high-impact projects funded by the first round of Prof. Amar G. Bose Research Grants. http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mit-faculty-bose-grants-1117

New York Times: The A.M. Turing Award is often called the Nobel Prize of computer science. Now, thanks to Google’s largess, it will be a Nobel-level prize financially: $1 million. http://lnkd.in/dDZdNSF

FORBES: Why We Must Have Computer Science In More Schools And Classrooms http://lnkd.in/d-S2CEa

Scientific American: Next Wave of U.S. Supercomputers Could Break Up Race for Fastest. National Labs are now collaborating, not competing, to make the fastest supercomputers, which should enable new types of science to model everything from climate change to materials science to nuclear-weapons performance http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/next-wave-of-u-s-s…r-fastest/

Nature.com: Novel and enhanced anti-melanoma DNA vaccine targeting the tyrosinase protein inhibits myeloid-derived suppressor cells and tumor growth in a syngeneic prophylactic and therapeutic murine model http://www.nature.com/cgt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/cgt201456a.html

BUSINESS INSIDER: In China, High Demand For Robots But Too Many Robot Manufacturers http://lnkd.in/dbRTj2Z

The New Yorker: Print Thyself. How 3-D printing is revolutionizing medicine. http://lnkd.in/d8D5u_F

BBC: US government planes collecting phone data, report claims. Devices that gather data from millions of mobile phones are being flown over the US by the government, according to the Wall Street Journal. http://lnkd.in/dgvDz56

BBC: China’s Alibaba eyes first bond sale after record listing http://lnkd.in/dGwsMt9

THE ATLANTIC: A Drone for the Environment http://lnkd.in/dkGha73

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Why Poland and Russia are expelling each other’s diplomats. Poland expelled Russian diplomats for spying. Russia retaliated by sending four Polish diplomats home. http://lnkd.in/dkejF5g

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 17, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

Huffington Post UK: The Technological Revolution Is All Well and Good — But We Must Ensure That the Digital Skills Gap Is Bridged http://lnkd.in/dPN_AyC

Alberta Express: The next farm technology revolution. Rob Saik says big data will soon be a fact of life on farms, and producers will have to find ways to deal with it all http://lnkd.in/dNxbkBt

WALL STREET JOURNAL: How Is Our Digital Revolution Doing? http://lnkd.in/dn2-p4q

CNBC: Forget currency, bitcoin’s tech is the revolution http://lnkd.in/dg-n5cE

New Scientist: Europe’s new scientific revolution http://lnkd.in/dgWrVNm

Nextgov: Former Microsoft CEO Invests Big In Harvard’s Computer Science Faculty http://lnkd.in/d_jehaG

Boston Globe: ‘Father of molecular gastronomy’ explores solution to world hunger http://lnkd.in/dh5V3xR

CNN: Commercialization of the cosmos: Why space exploration is a joint venture http://lnkd.in/dnSH2_3

Fast Company: What Do Recent Disasters Mean For The Future Of Space Exploration? http://lnkd.in/dbTBhhV

The Straits Times: China’s success in learning from Japan’s missteps http://lnkd.in/dg6n_F6

Firstpost: China plans to land a rover on Mars by 2020 after India’s Mangalyaan success http://lnkd.in/dXRtGz6

BBC News: Local workers have removed crucial debris and human remains from the crash site of the MH17 jet in rebel-held eastern Ukraine after months of delays. http://lnkd.in/dhqYpF7

Business Insider: Europe’s Economy Is Going Nowhere http://lnkd.in/dU-7NV6

Business Insider: Welcome To The NEW Era Of Cheap Oil http://lnkd.in/dzzePJr

Toronto Star: Bill Gates and the business approach to saving the world http://lnkd.in/dnCf394

Huffington Post: Fusion Energy: Hope or Hype? http://lnkd.in/dJdr9J3

AOPA Pilot: Lockheed envisions nuclear aircraft http://lnkd.in/dEcGTCR

Fortune: 5 Fortune 500 companies transforming the job market for veterans http://lnkd.in/daektaW

Forbes: Why 3D Will Dominate Cinema In The Future http://lnkd.in/d3kVCVg

Forbes: Will IBM Rise Again? http://lnkd.in/dY_jnbE

REUTERS: Russian TV channel says photos show MH17 shot down by fighter jet http://lnkd.in/dTnb_eE

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Threatened by Oil Price Slump Till 2015 http://lnkd.in/dx8Ab9p

THE ECONOMIST: The future of the Pacific Ocean: Merchants or missionaries? http://econ.st/1v8NsrJ

GIGAOM: How enterprises will use the cloud for big data analytics http://lnkd.in/b7BX-7C

Forbes: 84% Of Enterprises See Big Data Analytics Changing Their Industries’ Competitive Landscapes In The Next Year http://lnkd.in/dqZBU-6

ComputerworldUK: Chemical companies rushing to big data analytics and the cloud says Accenture. Digital agenda is increasingly driving business strategy — like the internet did in the 90s http://lnkd.in/dS5y8Tz

RCR Wireless News: Big Data and Analytics: Platfora launches IoT analytics platform http://lnkd.in/dCFENRm

FINANCIAL TIMES: Demand for big data and skills shortages drives wages boom http://lnkd.in/d7fTMM9

Huffington Post: Business Success Depends On Smart (Not Just Big) Data http://lnkd.in/dp9FFQD

Fortune: A way to help HR professionals predict the future http://lnkd.in/dKEiahE

H POST: Five Keys to Entrepreneurial Success http://lnkd.in/dpmXk-E

Computerworld: Ballmer says machine learning will be the next era of computer science http://lnkd.in/dzjNV3w

New York Times: Gift From Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard http://lnkd.in/dznzCnX

CBC.ca: Google develops neural Turing machine learning computer http://lnkd.in/dusN4Yi

Uloop News: Machine Learning Is Everywhere http://lnkd.in/diacm5j

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 16, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

REUTERS: Western leaders confront Putin at G20 with threat of more sanctions. Western leaders warned Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit on Saturday that he risked more economic sanctions if he failed to end Russian backing for separatist rebels in Ukraine. Russia denied any involvement in an escalation of the separatist war in eastern Ukraine, where more than 4,000 people have been killed since April, but faced strong rebukes from leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “I guess I’ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine,” Harper told Putin at the summit in Brisbane, Australia, according to his spokesman Jason MacDonald. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/15/us-g20-summit-idUSKCN0IZ03C20141115

FORBES: IBM Signs $325 Million Supercomputing Deal With Dept. Of Energy http://lnkd.in/drkeJ8E

MIT Technology Review: How Entanglement-Generating Satellites Will Make the Quantum Internet Global http://lnkd.in/d-GM7Ht

Telegraph.co.uk: China builds computer network impenetrable to hackers. China is building the world’s first long-distance quantum encryption network, a 1,200-mile line between Beijing and Shanghai that will be theoretically unhackable http://lnkd.in/dGYZSRe

Los Angeles Times: Scientists use Wikipedia search data to forecast spread of flu http://lnkd.in/dRinDmi

The New Yorker: Living on Internet Time http://lnkd.in/drdhjDK

InformationWeek: Salvation Army Finds Refuge, Recovery In The Cloud. Nonprofit agency finds cloud-based backup and disaster recovery system is best and most cost-effective way to protect critical data. http://lnkd.in/dAzmhu3

BBC News: Has quantitative easing worked in the US? http://lnkd.in/d6t5p2n

Wall Street Journal: Who’s Afraid of a Little Deflation? http://lnkd.in/dnFnKjB

Bloomberg: World Economy Worst in Two Years, Europe Darkening, Deflation Lurking: Global Investor Poll. The world economy is in its worst shape in two years, with the euro area and emerging markets deteriorating and the danger of deflation rising, according to a Bloomberg Global Poll of…more http://lnkd.in/dMEzt5m

Business Standard: World outlook darkening as 89% in poll see Europe deflation risk. The euro-zone economy has deteriorated and will get worse if there are no fiscal policy actions from core European countries, mainly Germany http://lnkd.in/dEJ_TX3

Telegraph.co.uk: Spreading deflation across East Asia threatens fresh debt crisis. Asia’s currency skirmishes are happening in a region of festering grievances and territorial disputes, with no Nato-style security structure to dampen down fires http://lnkd.in/dnv6PAs

The Economist: WHEN people think of a large Asian country on the brink of deflation, they probably have Japan in mind. But China, the biggest of them all, is now skirting close to outright falls in prices across a wide swathe of the economy. Producer prices have been declining for nearly three years…more http://lnkd.in/dvxaajy

This is Money: Eurozone staggers to frail growth amid deflation fears ahead of G20 summit http://lnkd.in/dYRu2zM

Business Insider: Why Europe Might Have Already Spiraled Into Deflation http://www.businessinsider.com/why-europe-might-have-already…014-11

BUSINESS INSIDER: Russia Just Gave France A Final Deadline To Hand Over The Mistral Warship http://lnkd.in/d6-9Rxj

Reuters: France hits back after Russia warns of Mistral compensation. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday that France would not be dictated to after an unidentified Russian official was quoted as giving Paris two weeks to deliver the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers or face possible…more http://lnkd.in/ddF4wHp

Economic Times: Vladimir Putin urges Hollande to ‘minimise risks’ between Russia, France http://lnkd.in/dWqqh_2

THERE WILL NOT BE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY, BUT DISRUPTIONAL SINGULARITY FIRST. BUSINESS INSIDER: Russia Is Threatening France With ‘Grave Consequences’ If It Does Not Deliver War Ships http://lnkd.in/dgE8c-z

FRANCE 24: Europe blast Russia over Ukraine at G20 summit. U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was “appalling” and a threat to the world, while European nations threatened further sanctions against Moscow if it did not end the flow of weapons and troops. http://lnkd.in/dZdyATm

FOREIGN POLICY: Congress to France: Sell Your Warships to NATO, Not Russia http://lnkd.in/dDMycF7

Deutsche Welle: Kiev orders pullout of state services from eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko has decreed an end to the provision of all state services in rebel-held territories of eastern Ukraine. His order covers schools, hospitals, courts, prisons and benefits payments. http://lnkd.in/dqmGe6d

ARS TECHNICA: Google to deploy 180 low-orbit satellites that provide Internet access. Billion-dollar project will complement Google’s balloons and drones. http://lnkd.in/dqm8dYm

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access Company Projects Spending More Than $1 Billion to Connect Unwired Reaches of the Globe http://lnkd.in/d7mZtAV

Telegraph.co.uk: Elon Musk ‘to launch fleet of internet satellites’. Billionaire entrepreneur is reportedly working on an ambitious project to launch around 700 internet satellites into low-Earth orbit and bring internet connections to the developing world http://lnkd.in/dpuiBNY

Globalnews.ca: Our influence on Earth may lead to naming era after humans: Anthropocene http://lnkd.in/dFDJKg4

Space News: NOAA Admits to Cyberattack on Satellite Data Networks. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has acknowledged that the “unscheduled maintenance” that temporarily disrupted the flow of certain satellite data to the National Weather Service in October was prompted by “an…more http://lnkd.in/djxXgcg

CIO Today: China Accused of Hacking Weather Agency NOAA http://lnkd.in/dfsTRjW

USA TODAY: Experts: Major cyberattack will hit in next 11 years. Almost two-third of technology experts expect a “major” cyber attack somewhere in the world that will cause significant loss of life or property losses in the tens of billions of dollars by 2025. http://lnkd.in/dkC79GX

MarketWatch: Gorbachev says don’t pick on Putin http://lnkd.in/dWSK9xS

The Guardian: Mikhail Gorbachev: world on brink of new cold war over Ukraine. Former Soviet Union leader says tensions between US and Russia should be kept under control http://lnkd.in/dcmbs2G

EurActiv: Europe under massive virtual cyber attack. More than 200 organisations from 25 EU member states are under virtual cyber-attack today (30 October), as part of the continent’s largest and most complex ever cyber security exercise. http://lnkd.in/dzsZXby

The Hill: US not prepared for cyberattacks, ex-NSA chief warns http://lnkd.in/dgYfxdE

Washington Times: U.S. tweaks China: Pentagon sends plane targeted in cyberattack to air show http://lnkd.in/dGjVvSm

Telegraph.co.uk: Could your bank be the next victim of a cyber attack? Cybercrime risks becoming the next big banking scandal. What can be done to stop it? http://lnkd.in/dXJCBPz

BBC News: ‘Ambulance drone’ takes to the skies of Belgium http://lnkd.in/dE8GXmW

THE ECONOMIST: The Pacific Age. Under American leadership the Pacific has become the engine room of world trade. But the balance of power is shifting, writes Henry Tricks http://lnkd.in/dxGtiUZ

THE ECONOMIST: Britain is running out of friends in Europe just when it needs them most http://lnkd.in/d66EpfU

THE ECONOMIST: Russia makes a big move in the endgame of negotiations with Iran. Will it help or hinder an accord? http://lnkd.in/dSXiJWW

THE ECONOMIST: Benefits tourism not OK. The European Court of Justice lets governments restrict migrant benefits http://lnkd.in/dcuFWhV

THE ECONOMIST: Mexico’s leadership crisis. From bad to worse. Questions about the financing of President Peña’s house add to his woes http://lnkd.in/dFqFwJV

THE ECONOMIST: Can Detroit recover? Chapter 9 draws to an end. A new plan cheers up the city, but plenty of hard work remains http://lnkd.in/d-DEZNi

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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