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		<title>How do we clean up our power?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of us are by now across the problems humanity faces around global warming and its most probable cause &#8211; humans burning &#8216;fossil&#8217; fuels. basically we have been returning carbon to the atmosphere that had been sequestered deep in the crust during massive die backs in the late Permian at the end of the Paleozoic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The case for space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not long ago someone dear to me who is not particularly future orientated (she is more concerned with animals and environment) turned to me and said &#8220;Why should we spend all that money trying to get into space?&#8221;. I was momentarily stunned that I had failed so miserably to make the case with her in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The reality and components of the *Spike*/*Singularity*/Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a general expectation among people who think about the future that we are heading into a critical period in human history. A significant number of factors seem to be heading away from what we might consider &#8216;norms&#8217; we know how to manage and into areas we have trouble predicting and in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Could our future be that of&#8230; slaves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Universal surveillance? Smart dust, constantly collecting information on us &#38; reporting back or even selling it to the highest or nearest bidder? Bentham&#8217;s nightmare Panopticon made an unstoppable social reality by technology? &#8230;Sounds far fetched to some, but as we envisage what the future could be like we inevitably look at current trends and extrapolate. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reports of my death&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well I am happy to say that Liftport are, in the words of the (almost) immortal python character &#8216;not dead yet&#8217; . Michael Lane was kind enough to confirm to me in email that they are still there and actively pursuing revenue from some of their spin off technologies,especially high altitude balloons. Here is part [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A very sad day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well it looks like Liftport Group, the company dedicated to building a Space Elevator has succumbed to the difficulties of long term finance of a high risk venture. The CEO Michael Laine announced not so long ago that he was stepping down when they could find a suitable replacement but it does not seem to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why the next 50-100 years are the most critical in history</title>
		<link>https://futurespaces.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First published at my old blog http://clauswitz.multiply.com/ 07/03/07 I think, read and write about the future so much that I tend to forget that it is not obvious why it is this historical &#8216;moment&#8217; that is so critical. Many of the ideas on which I and other futurists build are summed up in this short [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do we save the world from its environmental and resource crisis when even rocketry is too expensive and dirty to get us what we need?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First published at my old blog http://clauswitz.multiply.com/ 17/01/07 As I&#8217;ve argued before, the solutions to most of the worlds problems including the climate crisis and the eventually inevitable shortages of finite resources such as minerals, lie in gaining access to both &#8216;clean&#8217; energy and more resources. &#8220;Well obviously&#8221; you might say. With enough energy and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Growing pressure toward collapse of civilisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Below is an excerpt from The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin. It eloquently describes the way I see our point in history. We face the kind of threat the Romans did right before they collapsed. I say this because we, like they, are moving into the ending of the energy regime which made our society [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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