Infographic: the Future of Science
For the last year, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future have been researching the future of science to identify big areas of science we think will have a transformative impact over the next decade. We read a lot of papers, conducted interviews, hosted an Open Science unconference, held an expert workshop with researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, UC Davis, SETI, and private industry, and spent many weeks synthesizing what we learned. The result is this map…
The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade:
Those stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in scientific research. We are delighted to share the map with you, under a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
- Decrypting the Brain,
- Hacking Space,
- Massively Multiplayer Data,
- Sea the Future,
- Strange Matter, and
- Engineered Evolution.
(via The Future of Science 2021: A Multiverse of Exploration - Boing Boing, HT youngfuturist)
Sources of the Deficit
With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010. The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions.
Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non-defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was not a driving factor in creating the deficits. In fact, such spending, accounting for only 15 percent of the budget, has been basically flat as a share of the economy for decades. Cutting it simply will not fill the deficit hole.
(Source: The New York Times)
Infographic: The “Fundamentals of Experience Design”
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![Infographic: How Much Data is 1.8 Zettabytes/Year?
(via How Much Data Will Humans Create & Store This Year? [INFOGRAPHIC])](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lni5rrI4Zf1qgpcs1o1_500.png)
Infographic: How Much Data is 1.8 Zettabytes/Year?
(via How Much Data Will Humans Create & Store This Year? [INFOGRAPHIC])
Infographic shows changes in E-Mail usage on a 25th Anniversary of Listserv
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(Source: Fast Company)
Infographic: Social Location Apps Usage
