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Subtitle: How genomics & Other forces are changing your life, work health & wealth.

The book was published in 2001 when the human genome was just about to be decoded.  It is primarily about life sciences and the dramatic change the author predicts it will have for individuals, nations and companies. It is written in a provocative style to make the reader uneasy and surge for further information.

As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth author: Juan Enriquez rating: asin: 1400047749 binding: Taschenbuch list price: EUR 11,66 EUR amazon price: EUR 16,20 EUR

In this talk Jonathan Harris shows three projects that visualize collective feelings (We Feel Fine), a joint preservation of images, quotes and thoughts in a time capsule (Yahoo! Time Capsule) and visualizing current events and their relationship to "superstars", location, time and uncover "myths" and "secrets" (Universe).

According to this Symantec blog entry Al Gore's Web site climatecrisis.net was hacked and hidden links to hacked university page added. Hacked blog sites and comments in unsecure blog were also used to point to such hacked pages. This leads to a higher pagerank on search engines and the hacked page eventually provides a link to the pharmaceutical site that sells these products.

Mad world.

Kaioo starts as a new social networking platform like Facebook, MySpaces and StudiVZ. Unlike these it is provided by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with the intention to donor revenue from advertisement to charity organisations. Beneficiaries are suggested and voted for by the community members.