The Environmental Cost of Extreme Oil. The waters of the Atlantic Ocean 180 miles east of Rio de Janeiro are a cobalt blue that appears bottomless. But it only seems that way. Some 7,000 ft. beneath the choppy surface lies the silent seafloor, and below that is 5,000 ft. of salt rock, deposited when the continents of South America and Africa went their separate ways 160 million years ago. Underneath it all is oil. By one count, the presalt reservoirs off the central coast of Brazil hold as much as 100 billion barrels of crude; that's another Kuwait. Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it The print magazine in your mailbox The Tablet Edition on your iPad® Subscriber-only content on TIME.com, including magazine stories and access to the TIME Archive. Global Talent Strategy. The source of global economic power will reside in the economic power of a network or 10-20 powerful cities.
Both statistical and anecdotal evidence over the past decade has charted the increasing geopolitical power of major cities, and the influence of these urban vectors is expected to become much stronger in the future. In the future, megacities will attract the talent. Our geopolitical future is not going to be determined by the G2 combo of the United States and China. It will be determined in good part through 10-20 strategic worldwide urban networks. This is according to Saskia Sassen, professor at Columbia University and the author of Cities in a World Economy and The Global City. Sassen argues that much of global politics is increasingly also economic, and much of the global economy runs through cities. Contrary to Thomas Friedman's theory of a flat world, it seems that globalization is pushing talent towards the mega-regions of the world. Washington, New York, and Chicago. 3D printing -- an 'industrial revolution in the digital age'?
I write The Digital Life, a monthly tech column in our sister Conde Nast magazine, GQ . This is my column from last month's issue (dated May). To subscribe to GQ, click here. As the fondue pots are cleared away, a sudden buzz ripples through the crowd packed into Val d'Isere's Sur La Montagne restaurant. The room is heaving with 40 or so hard-living internet entrepreneurs and VCs here for a weekend of power-networking, skiing and après-ski partying -- but all at once it's a polished steel bracelet chain and a 2cm polyamide nylon sculpture that have captured the restaurant's attention. So what's the next stage in this revolution? Disruptive Technologies. $53 Trillion in Infrastructure Needed by 2030 – OECD/Oliver Wyman.
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Dundee had also been considered. The new factory is expected to make the enormous blades for offshore wind turbines as well as the generator units that sit at the top of the turbine. The decision is an important boost to the renewable energy industry, which has only one turbine-building site in Scotland. With most turbines being imported into Britain at a time of rapid expansion in the sector, the growth of manufacturing is seen as important in harnessing the economic benefits. New model Offshore wind farms around Britain's coast could be the next growth area for the renewables industry. “Start Quote.