development
James Stewart: What Sustainable Development Can Teach Us About Infrastructure
infrastructure
James Stewart: Can We Afford to Pay for the World’s Infrastructure Needs? We Can’t Afford Not To
Paying the word’s infrastructure needs is daunting, which is why we need real leadership and innovative thinking.
James Andrew Lewis: You Still Have Zero Privacy — Get Over It
Overregulation in the name of security will hobble the burgeoning Internet of Things. We need to be pragmatic about managing security and privacy risks.
It’s been 20 years since the Internet first went public. It started small and grew quickly, in part due to the decision by the Clinton administration to not regulate it. Based on the conclusion that it was better to get the Internet’s economic benefits—even though it came with some risk—rather slowing down deployment to await perfect security, that decision helped unleash the Internet economy.
James R. Maughan: A Brief History of Peak Oil
How technological advances in exploration and production have pushed back the date when oil output will max out, creating an opportunity for the development of alternative energy sources.
With apologies to Stephen Hawking for the title of this blog and an acknowledgement of a recent Wall Street Journal article on the subject, here’s a summary of various predictions of when the world will run out of oil:
Please watch a recorded version of this live event below as our panelists discuss these pressing global issues.
Google+ Hangout on the Water-Energy Nexus
Diversity and Divergence at Play in Natural Gas Boom
These factors are not universally present. We have diversity and divergence – and an absolute requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide – at play.
There is cause for caution because, as in all complex processes, there is risk.
Risk