car use is declining throughout the developed world, even in countries where there is no modern rail. Experts dispute the causes, citing everything from a reaction against urban sprawl to a new generation’s “love affair with the phone,” not the car. (via The electric car is not the future; it’s rail - The Globe and Mail)
Data from the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index fit rather closely with the 1981 projection
The 1981 paper forecast a broad range of outcomes, but neglected uncertainty ranges (via 30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on • The Register)
The Future of Money (by theRSAorg) where Dave Birch argues that the mobile phone and community based currencies are the future of money.
our post-industrial money future won’t be golden
(via thenextweb)
