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Volvo Turns to Locust Swarms for Future Safety

Volvo are now using scientific findings about the African Locust to improve road safety for pedestrians. Volvos aim is to be able to transpose the locusts unique characteristics onto a computer chip and then install this into the cars safety system. Something that would radically improve todays techniques.

Last Updated on Friday, 09 November 2012 14:43

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Jeffrey Sachs - 2020 Shaping Ideas

Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University, is one of the world's foremost experts on poverty reduction. He explains how mobile phones are decreasing economic isolation in Africa, and why we could be halfway to achieving an important goal in 2020: the end of extreme poverty.

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Africa 2050: Will Africa claim the 21st century?

Leading global futurist Dr Ian Goldin visits the RSA to look at Africa's future prospects in this exclusive keynote lecture.

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The Future of communication

Video about the future of communications; Google, Microsoft,Yahoo!, Amazon...

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MOCOM 2020 - The Future of Mobile Media and Communication

SIMYO and Ahead of Time presents the future of mobile media and communication. This film is presenting a summary of key result of the open think tank MOCOM 2020.

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2020 Future seen from 2015: Futurist Mobile World

2020 Future seen from 2015: Futurist Mobile World. Consumer Trends:keynote conference speaker

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Earthland: Envisioning a Sustainable Civilization

In the inaugural lecture of the Visions of a Sustainable World Speaker Series, Dr. Raskin presents a history from the future which describes a sustainable planetary civilization and how we got there.

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Visions of a Sustainable World

This 10 minute video presents highlights of an interview with Dr. Paul Raskin about his views on the pathways necessary to achieve a sustainable planetary civilization in the near-term future.

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Ray Kurzweil - Futurist

Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist.

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Fate of the World Trailer 1

Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next 200 years.

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