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Simmons on oil in current environment
Matt Simmons, oracle of oil, on CNBC last Friday, July 12, 2008, in the midst of the banking melt down. The most interesting thing in this video is not what Simmons says, though he is more alarmed than usual, but rather how stunned the MSNBC crew appear to be. Most alarming though is the in-house [...]
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What Digby Said
Smart bloggers often just write, “what Digby said.” This time, July 15, 2008 he says it about the famous Jimmy Carter speech on energy given in 1979. If only….but a year later it was morning in America, time to live it up for 30 years. And now here we are. Glen Hiemstra is a futurist [...]
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Yankee Stadium and learning from yesterday
This evening the Major League held its all-star baseball game, in New York in Yankee Stadium. It is the final season for that storied place, as it is being torn down and replaced. What caught my attention is this: The orginal Yankee Stadium was built 85 years ago — for $2.5 million, and it was [...]
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Ice continues to diminish
Afer a long and icy winter in many parts of the world, especially in the U.S., and now that we are in mid-summer, what is happening with ice caps? Both the north and south poles are considered important as indicators of the future direction of the planet as related to global warming, since heat accumulates [...]
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This is not a drill
Everyone has seen on film or TV, and a few have personally experienced the following: an emergency begins – a fire, an air raid, a ship collision. For a while there is confusion, and people mill around, not sure what is happening. Then, a voice comes over a PA system: “THIS IS NOT A DRILL, [...]
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I called it in December 2007 – Oil hit $140 by mid-year
On December 21, 2007 the price of oil was in the $90 range. As we recorded “Outlook 2008” on that day I predicted a price of $140-150 by mid-year. And, yesterday on June 26, 2008 I was proven right, as oil climbed above $140 for the first time. Looking ahead, let’s put to rest one [...]
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Book now in Brazil, Portuguese Translation
My book, Turning the Future Into Revenue, still generally available but most easily obtained via Amazon, is now available in a Portuguese translation, published in Brazil. My publisher, Wiley & Sons, just sent some copies, which look nice. img id=”image478″ height=96 alt=”Book Portuguese Translation” src=”http://www.futurist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/BookPortTrans.thumbnail.jpg” /> Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet [...]
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The Long Tail
In the digital ecosystem, it’s the head that gets the hits: the most popular and visible players garner the most attention, and therefore revenue. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, has drawn attention to the rest of the animal in his book, The Long Tail. Anderson proposes that the smaller entities—likened to a long tail streaming [...]
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World Made by Hand
He is, quite simply, one of the most provocative American thinkers and writers alive today. He is James Howard Kunstler, author most recently of the novel, World Made by Hand. In recent years, Mr. Kunstler has become best known for making the case that “peak oil” is here, now, the moment when we begin the [...]
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Peak Oil and Global Warming – the Cross Matrix
There are three convergent items that all raise the question of the link between global warming and future fossil fuel use. Recent testimony to Congress from oil executives once again included assurances that there is sufficient oil to last for decades, and that no matter what, oil, coal and gas will still comprise the vast [...]
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