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Today’s Vision of Tomorrow: iPhones Accepting Credit CardsLast week we wrote about Twitter creator Jack Dorsey’s credit card-reading gizmo Square for the iPhone. It looks like it’s just the beginning, though: In the future you’re pretty likely to be paying for stuff at an iPhone cash register. And maybe with the iPhone itself. VeriFo... |
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On Washington: Obama Outlines a Vision of Might and RightPresident Obama’s evolving approach to national security as set out in his Nobel Prize speech lacks bumper-sticker simplicity. ... |
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Today’s Vision of Tomorrow: Web 3.0 in 3-DIf Web 1.0 was all about companies selling stuff to you, and Web 2.0 is about information sharing and user-participation, then what’s Web 3.0 going to be? It might be a whole new angle on browsing, for one: In three dimensions. You’re probably reading this Web page on a flat screen.... |
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Vision of the Automotive Future from 1958[YouTube - Link] This is a great little video, an excerpt from Disney’s "Magic Highway USA", showing what people from the late ’50s thought would be the future of transportation. It’s really neat to see how far we have come, and how far we haven’t. Some of the... |
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Weekend Reading: Dubai, Debt, Bernanke and BaseballA few links from my weekly weekend reading column: Banks face fresh Dubai debt fears (Times) Bernanke May Get Second Term at Fed Shorn of Bank Supervision (Bloomberg) Fair Game - Why Treasury Needs a Plan B on Mortgages (NYTimes) How Debt Markets have Malfunctioned in the Crisis (NBE ... |
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''Dubai model'' was the vision of one manThe ''Dubai vision,'' which has suffered a crushing blow from the freewheeling Gulf emirate's sudden debt crisis, is the creation of one man who failed to apply the rules of open governance. The city... ... |

