BBS world business review, Sat, January 12, 2008
Listened on NPR to these interesting interviews about future technologies: "As we grapple with the consequences of $100 a barrel oil, will the world be saved by new technology; we revert to environmentally positive hydrogen in our cars and even power stations, while living longer thanks to advances in medicine, and organ repair and replacement. Impossible? Not so, think the scientists. In fact the planners and inventors of the future are likely to be much more concerned about environmental issues than their predecessors ever were.
Catch up with Rodney Smith and his guests; theoretical physicist Dr Michio Kaku in New York, whose book, the Physics of the Impossible, is published in March; Professor Peter Cochrane who says he looks for laterally, to discontinuity, for new ideas and points out that machines now develop just about every electronic invention made by man; and Emily Cummins, 20-year old winner of the Technology Woman of the Future award, and who has designed among other things an energy neutral refrigerator for use in hot, poor countries. She is the consumer of the future. That's in World Business Review. "
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