A government’s advertisement billboard in support of baby girls in Morena, India.
The practice of aborting female fetuses if they don’t yet have a male child is becoming more common and widespread among couples in India, according to a new study.
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A new breed of worker, equipped with uber-geek data-capturing tools,
are about to usher in a whole new information era
Futurist Thomas Frey: Recently I was preparing for a talk on the future of money, a talk I have given many times in the past, and I became absorbed with one singular thought – the relationship between information and money.
People in their 20’s have 50 times more friends on Facebook than people over 50 years old.
The ‘Facebook generation gap’ has been highlighted in a new piece of research which shows that the average 22 year-old claims to have 1,000 or more friends on sites like Facebook compared to those in their fifties who have fewer than 20.
Some of our Biggest Time Consumers and Family Feuds of the Century Have Stemmed From Simple Decisions at Home Like:
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told attendees at a recent summit on innovation in education that, “My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age.” A really, really good way to do that, Zuckerberg said, is to let kids ages 13 and under join Facebook.
Twitter has become an important forum for teachers.
Teachers are bringing the real-time communication power of Twitter into the classroom to help students learn. It’s great for helping teachers learn as well. Twitter has simply become one of the best places for teachers to collaborate, share solutions to common classroom problems, and discuss education policy. In fact, it might just be the best forum teachers have ever had.
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Samsung’s new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Orange’s ‘Quick Tap’ payment technology.
Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new “Quick Tap” payment technology.
Movies and TV shows online takes up a lot of bandwidth compared with Web surfing.
Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes than web surfing.
Continue reading… “Netflix Accounts for 30% of Internet Traffic Overtaking Web Surfing”
Libraries in the future will come in many different forms
NOTE: The following is a reprint of an interview that recently appeared in American Libraries Magazine
Without consulting a crystal ball, Thomas Frey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute, writes and speaks about a promising future for those libraries strongly connected to their communities and quickly adaptable to the changing world around them. Tom Sloan, executive director of the DuPage Library System in Geneva, Illinois, asked Frey to discuss the future of libraries.
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Crossing your arms confuses the brain and reduces pain.
According to new research published on Friday, crossing your arms across the middle of your body confuses the brain and helps reduce the intensity of pain.
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Eurocopter X3
How could you make a helicopter go faster? You could probably add another engine. The answer is so simple and dead right. The engineers at Eurocopter also seem to have that same mentality and it worked.
Continue reading… “Eurocopter X3 is the World’s Fastest Helicopter”
Futurist Thomas Frey: In March of 2007 I posted my original paper on the Future of Education where I talked about a system based on an iTunes-like approach where experts around the world could use a “rapid courseware-builder” to produce bite-sized courses, send them to a global distribution center, and students from around world could plug-in and learn whatever class matched their interests.