Future – Page 11 – Amalgamated Contemplation

We’re Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions – Business Insider

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

Source: Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever by Jeremy Grantham, published 2011/04/25

Alternate PDF: http://www.theravinaproject.org/JGLetterALL_1Q11.pdf
Alternate web: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7853

Commented alternate: We’re Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions – Business Insider
Commented alternate: Jeremy Grantham must-read, “Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever” | ThinkProgress

United workers of the world | The Economist

Unbalanced skill levels could make the world more unequal

McKinsey estimates that over the next decade rich countries and China will need 40m more college-educated workers than they will be able to produce. At the same time, employers across the world may find themselves with 90m more low-skilled workers than they need.

Source: United workers of the world | The Economist

What do you do with 90M unemployed, working-age people possessing only a primary/elementary or sometimes secondary/high school education?

Forget About It: Making the Internet More Like Our Brains – The Atlantic

The next wave of digital products won’t just be about archiving the web; they’ll be about destroying that archive.

Source: Forget About It: Making the Internet More Like Our Brains – The Atlantic

How much should people be allowed to clean up the evidence of mistakes, real and perceived, in their past? If 2 people are involved in an event and one wants to memorialize it and the other to forget and erase it, whose will/choice will be/live on on the Internet?

America’s endless apocalypse – Salon.com

Over the last decade, we’ve become obsessed with the end of the world — and it’s hurting us all

When we free ourselves from the hypnotic spell of apocalypse, when we let go of our desire to see how things will turn out, we are free to answer a more important question. Not, are my beliefs correct ? But, how do I live in accord with my values right now ? Our insistence that a new world is coming later is a delusion; it is already here.

Source: America’s endless apocalypse – Salon.com

RE: “The Last Myth” by Mathew Barrett Gross, Mel Gilles

Abundance Authors Diamandis and Kotler Answer Your Questions – Freakonomics Freakonomics

We recently solicited your questions for Peter Diamandis, founder and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, and journalist Steven Kotler. They are co-authors of the new book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. Below are their answers about the need for jobs (it’s not what you may suspect), the distribution of wealth, and the technological breakthrough that led the price of aluminum to plummet.

Our problem is not that we don’t have enough stuff—it’s that we don’t have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

Source: Abundance Authors Diamandis and Kotler Answer Your Questions – Freakonomics Freakonomics