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Dreaming the Possible Dream

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USA-centric but world important
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The thing I love most about America is that there’s always somebody who doesn’t get the word — somebody who doesn’t understand that in a Great Recession you’re supposed to hunker down, downsize and just hold on for dear life. I have a couple of [...]

Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’

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Wikileaks has provoked the dream of Iceland becoming a haven for whistle-blowing
Iceland could become a “journalism haven” if a proposal put forward by some Icelandic MPs aided by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks succeeds.
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), calls on the country’s government to adopt laws protecting journalists and [...]

Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays

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Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist.
These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, are no more than a collection of pixels on a Web page.
But [...]

Electric vehicles aren’t the solution – yet

But electric vehicles will not provide an easy or quick answer to environmental and economic woes.

Why China Isn’t “The Next Silicon Valley”

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Since I got home from China last week, I’ve found myself in a lot of conversations where phrases like “the next Silicon Valley,” or “just like Silicon Valley used to be,” keep coming up. But while China is swimming in capital and littered with start-ups, I’m going to argue it’s not [...]