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2020: Tracking Optimism – Page 2 – A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. How to avoid crime news in the UK – you can’t. July 12, 2016. July 26, 2016. Do online newspapers need a separate page and category for “crime”? That would enable people to browse the real news without being bombarded with lurid negativity, and thus reduce the overall level of pessimism. In the long-term it might even boost social cohesion. One category for UK, about half filled with crime reporting. BBC News regional website. 8216;s News UK cat...
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David Haden – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. 8220;Why the World Is Better Than Ever – and Will Get Better Still”. November 1, 2016. The Singularity Hub has an excellent new short article and professional infographic on “Why the World Is Better Than Ever and Will Get Better Still”. The history bits are a little lightweight, and including a picture of Napoleon III just screams “crank site! 8221; to the casual skimming reader, but otherwise it’s as good a one-page summary as any. Who becomes ...
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Some pointers on Luther Burbank – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. Some pointers on Luther Burbank. August 14, 2015. August 15, 2015. I recently became aware of the work of the amazing American plant breeder Luther Burbank. It strikes me that if any rational optimist were looking for a subject for a feature-length documentary film, in the Ken Burns style, then Luther Burbank. Here are links to what appear to be the only two screen documentaries on the man, both freely available online…. New creations in plant l...
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Useful Links – Unlocking Foresight
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Many web sites have foresight content useful to a wider public: some of these are from smaller consultancies, others are corporates who also have foresight activities which they are happy to share. 8211; what it says on the tin – latest outlook and an interesting read for those interested in energy. Arup – An Introduction to Corporate Foresight. 8211; excellent and concise guide on what it is and how you might use it. Forum for the Future, The Futures Centre. UN Development Program blog. IFTF, Future Now.
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The End of Doom – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. The End of Doom. August 4, 2015. November 13, 2015. Former Thatcher Chancellor Nigel Lawson has a short review of the new book. The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century. The Wall Street Journal. CATO has a free podcast. Of an 80-minute Book Forum talk by Ronald Bailey (plus a long and very tedious commentary from 29 mins to 54 mins, which some may want to skip), from July 2015…. Optimism in the press. January 1st, 2020.
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Beauty is not unaffordable – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. Beauty is not unaffordable. August 12, 2015. Harry Phibbs questions the widespread “pessimistic notion that beauty is unaffordable”. In terms of our everyday urban places and buildings. Pointing to a new think-tank research paper. He suggests that…. 8220;so far as architecture is concerned the ugly stuff costs just as much — even before the indirect costs [in crime, litter, depression etc] are taken into account.”. Optimism in the press. Create ...
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Creativity in 142 sq.ft. – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. Creativity in 142 sq.ft. August 4, 2015. August 4, 2015. John Boiler of 72andSunny on “How to Design A Modern Office Space for Optimism”. 8220;When you look around an office, nine times out of 10 you can tell if it was designed for fear. … We designed 72andSunny for the opposite of fear, for optimism.”. Well, as it turns out, there. A key portable metric, according to Boiler…. Optimism in the press. The End of Doom. Beauty is not unaffordable.
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Automation angst – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. August 14, 2015. September 2, 2015. 8220;Automation angst”. In the latest edition of. Discusses three new papers published together in the open access. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Including “The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? From this particular JoEP journal article…. The three major doom-isms that were promulgated are identified as:. Such angst historically viewed the world as ...
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Real-time maps of happy news – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. Real-time maps of happy news. July 31, 2015. Creating Real-time Maps of Global Information. 8230; For the past two years this has been the focus of the GDELT Project and through a new collaboration with online mapping platform CartoDB, we are making it possible to create rich interactive real-time maps of the world’s journalistic output across 65 languages.”. One of their maps tracks happy / sad news. Optimism in the press. The End of Doom.
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Saving the whale, nearly done – 2020: Tracking Optimism
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A blog that tracks rational optimism about the near-future. Saving the whale, nearly done. August 15, 2015. August 15, 2015. The humpback whale populations in Australian waters are growing, according the new. Paper “Embracing conservation success of recovering humpback whale populations”. The new paper, though focussed on Australia, also has a premable that surveys good data from other nations. Canada reports…. 8220;an annual rate of increase of 4.9 6.8% with no signs of declining”. 8220;discrete and sma...
