Archive for April, 2009

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Latest Essays: Use Case Study House #1 - A house designed like a web application | Internet Pawn | Tech Crunch | The Big Apple | Demystifying-Demistifying | Tim Berners-Lee. Confirming The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented | Ten things that defined the noughties | Social networks and creativity | Imagining the iPad | Susan Boyle and the second Great Depression (on smashingtelly.com) | Information and Evolution | What Comes After Lofts and the Suburbs | The Joe Ades Myth Deconstructed | Goodbye Dubai (on smashingtelly.com)

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A New Iceland Every Other Day

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Dr Fedoroff science and technology advisor to the US secretary of state since 2007 says that humans have exceeded the Earth’s “limits of sustainability.

The Current world population is 6.8bn. In Roman times, it was less than the population of the US. It is growing by 218,030 people per day.

To put this is perspective, this is the entire population of Iceland every day and a half.

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The Storming of the Bestial

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

The FT has an embedded Twittering reporter at the G20 protests, here: a few broken windows at RBS just now.

My favorite tweet: “#G20 Best banner so far - Make love, not leverage”.