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		<title>Vision &#8211; iJourno, the Killer App</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/vision-ijourno-the-killer-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bride wore white silk taffeta, which was a lie. Faz knew for a fact that the colour should have been a deep pink but that presumably would have required a change to the entire colour scheme for the wedding. He had to admit she looked lovely, in a Barbie kind of way. The groom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=228&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision: A day out from convergence</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/vision-a-day-out-from-convergence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gurgling sound eventually penetrated Harry&#8217;s slumber. Surfacing slowly, Harry become conscious of the warm weight of Hector, the Russian Blue curled up on the duvet. His foot had gone to sleep and as he moved it, the unwelcome sensation of pins and needles flowed from his toes to his ankle. The gurgling sound again. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=217&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: The Trouble with Prediction Markets</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/opinion-the-trouble-with-prediction-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prediction markets are, according to Wikipedia, speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. A prediction typically has a value that is tied to a particular event or parameter (e.g. the identity of the next US president or the score in a soccer game). The price (the dynamic value associated with the prediction) is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=197&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision: Digital Immortality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One box. One life. Everything of note. Otto stroked the small metal rectangle, a brushed stainless steel object reminiscent of an old fashioned Zippo lighter. Pleasingly solid, with no apparent flaws or openings, Otto wondered at the wealth of information that the device contained. Otto&#8217;s grandson had bought the &#8216;life&#8217; chip for him on Otto&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=192&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: Google buys Apple</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/prediction-google-buys-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or is it the other way around. Following the recent move by Oracle to buy Sun, I suspect we are seeing the early start of some industry consolidation. In the case of apple I think that &#8216;his Steveness&#8217; cannot continue to drive the company indefinitely, especially given his bouts of illness. At some point he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=184&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: The death of the satellite broadcaster</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/prediction-the-death-of-the-satellite-broadcaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fairly easy one, I guess. Perhaps &#8216;death&#8217; is too strong a word, certainly the terminal demise. First, the obvious cause, the fact that benadwidth to the home is increasing and that potential solutions like WiMax offer very high bandwidths with terrestrial distribution mechanisms. Consumer adoption of &#8216;on demand&#8217; access to video, coupled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=179&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: Mobile technologies will drive Cloud adoption</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/mobile-technologies-drive-cloud-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m firmly convinced that the future for business systems lies with the powerful combination of mobile and cloud technologies. However, I think the mass adoption of cloud technologies will be driven by consumers and by the increasing dependency on mobile technologies. As a mobile device user, accessing your email, your photos or your Facebook profile, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=171&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: WW III is a Debt War</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/prediction-ww-iii-is-a-debt-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the financial crises deepens across a number of major economies, it will become clear that a number of countries are opportunistically strengthening their position on the world stage as a result. It is starting to become clear that the worse is not yet upon us, at least in some western economies. This is most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=108&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: Democratization of Software</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/prediction-democratization-of-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by Apple&#8217;s App store. Having made an earlier prediction that the first &#8216;App Store millionaire&#8217; would be found within a year of its launch, it seems that this was a wildly pessimistic view (on timescale) as individuals, companies and venture capitalists pile in to the App Store business, with millionaires aplenty being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=123&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: UK walks back from emissions targets</title>
		<link>http://democraticfuturist.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/uk-walks-back-from-emissions-targets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government will suspend (or drastically modify) its climate change targets towards the end of 2013 in order to allow ageing fossil-fuel burning power stations to be kept open. There has been insufficient political resolve and investment over the last 10 years to drive through the next generation of power generation facilities. Having sold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democraticfuturist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5419868&amp;post=104&amp;subd=democraticfuturist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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