Audacity

From http://www.iftf.org/features/map_of_the_decade.html:

Want a quick tour of the future? Each year, the Institute for the Future plots the big trends that will define the coming decade on an AT-A-GLANCE graphic map. Scanning the Map is a little like swallowing a time capsule from the future--and getting very smart very fast!

More cool words:

• The Group Economy: Organizing for sociability
• Lightweight Infrastructures: Rethinking the movement of goods and services
• Sensemaking: The new science and technology of meaning
• Farming the Planet: Ground zero for global turbulence
• Transformational Geography: The new role of the global south
• X-People: The intentional evolution of human being

Wow, this site really reminds me of http://huhcorp.com.

Who funds these guys? Looks like it is a membership driven privately funded organization.

Who are these guys? The roots were engineers from RAND corporation. Now? A group of researchers with technical degrees, and some technical experience.

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What's the difference?

From http://www.iftf.org/:

We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action.

From http://huhcorp.com/:

We provide distinct clients with groundbreaking business strategies and cutting-edge designs to aggressively and creatively compete in a changing economy.

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Vote for me, get a TV

December 29, 2006: Declaring color television a basic necessity, an Indian political party promised free sets to the poor and swept to power in May in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. So far, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, or DMK, has handed out 60,000 sets and plans to give away 30,000 more in coming months....As far as political platforms go, this one clearly has been a winner. "I will always vote for DMK," said Parimala, a 51-year-old widow who like many in these parts uses only one name....An electoral stunt for sure, but one that illustrates how populism has emerged as the default position of parties across India's political spectrum as they contend with the fading of once-dominant ideologies....But no one has gone as far as Tamil Nadu's DMK. Part of the reason is money: Tamil Nadu is one of India's wealthiest states, giving its government full tax coffers.

From free rice to free televisions. Obviously Tamil Nadu has been progressing a lot.

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