MindBullets News

TWITTER, LISTEN TO MY THOUGHTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00

Brain computer interface works like a hearing aid
Dateline: 20 March 2022
Now you can update your Facebook status and search Google just by thinking about it. And you don't need fancy headgear or wires sticking out of your skull.
Jus...

PIRATE PARTY TAKES SWEDEN

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00

Political party founded on anti-copyright movement wins election
Dateline: 19 September 2014
With its origins in the much pursued and vilified 'Pirate Bay' website, the Pirate Party has become a global phenomenon, surpassing the Green Party in most EU c...

DIRTY PIIGS CLEAN UP THEIR ACT

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00

Tables turned as BRIC markets boom
Dateline: 1 February 2015
Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain have certainly had a negative impact on the Euro zone in the past five years. Many will tell you that the PIIGS acron...

THORIUM - THE NEW URANIUM

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00

Green, clean and abundant - what more do we want?
Dateline: 11 October 2013
Indian engineers seem to have set the cat among the pigeons of the nuclear energy industry.
Yesterday, in a Mumbai press briefing, the newly-formed INEF announ...

IT'S A PEOPLE'S CYBERWAR AGAINST CHINA

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00

The 'Great Firewall of China' collapses in minutes
Dateline: 18 June 2012
It is just a few hours since more than 100 million individuals ganged up on what they see as China's assault on "freedom of information."
Signing up to use the...

NO MORE OIL CHANGE - EVER?

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00

Nanotech revolution drives 'eternal' consumer benefits
Dateline: 9 November 2015
Well, 'never ever again' may be overstating it just a little, but two nanotech firms are battling it out in the consumer space to see who wins the battle over w...

CYBER CRIMINALS DESTROY REAL ASSETS

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00

Hackers wage war on citizens of prosperous virtual worlds
Dateline: 18 March 2012
Jupiter Stormshadow stares sadly at the remnants of his castle in one of the outlying fifes of Norrath. "All this used to be mine, then the serfs attacked."
T...

SCIENCE BREAKS THROUGH INTO THE AFTERLIFE

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00

Physical and spiritual worlds united
Dateline: 21 August 2030
It has been a truth accepted by many that after life there is an 'AfterLife'. While there may be disagreement as to its exact definition and characteristics, th...

MOON COLONISTS SUSPEND MINERAL SUPPLY TO EARTH

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00

Settlers declare independence, threaten trade route to Mars
Dateline: 1 January 2074
Chinese officials today announced that they have lost control of their dark-side of the Moon base, Yuèliàng.
The colony already produces some 80% of Chinese ...

2020: TOP IDEAS OF THE LAST DECADE

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00

A review of the key commercial catalysts 2010-2020
Dateline: 31 December 2019
Like Queen Victoria, King Charles is "not amused"
Dateline: 17 October 2025
In its most audacious move yet, media, entertainment and telecoms giant Doogle has 'bought' England to operate it as a giant tourist resort.
This crowns Doogle...

G22 APPROVES ZERO TAX RATE

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00

VAT replaces income tax as financial crisis looms
Dateline: 20 Oct 2015
After a surprisingly rapid debate at the recent G22 Summit in Shanghai, member states unanimously supported a proposal to eliminate all personal income tax from...

CARBON KILLS THE KING OF RETAIL

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00

Wal-Mart sacrificed in climate change battle
Dateline: 12 December 2020
An announcement today confirmed that Wal-Mart is filing for bankruptcy. Wal-Mart’s legendary promise of "Always Low Prices. Always." proved unable to cope with ...

THE CHINA ASSET BUBBLE BURSTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00

Could huge stockpiles and low internal demand be the sign that the party's over?
Dateline: 12 October 2011
It was in late 2009 that the Chinese economy seemed to be going back to 'business as usual' - a return to 9% - 10% growth was being predicted.
Demand for commo...

NORTHWEST PASSAGE OPEN FOR BUSINESS

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00

Shipping industry collapses following glut
Dateline: 18 July 2015
The news for retailers and manufacturers has all been good. Shipping time between China and Europe cut by 10 days. Transshipping insurance costs plunge as good...

APPLE OPENS UP ITS OPERATING SYSTEMS AS iPHONE DOMINATES

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00

Step-change thinking moves Apple to an old/new business paradigm
Dateline: 23 October 2012
Apple has not previously been known to favor opening up its software to other hardware platforms. This control obsession has seen it lose out to Microsoft in th...

THE FINAL (BUSINESS) FRONTIER

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00

Space tourism and satellite launches compete for profits
Dateline: 27 September 2015
The race to launch a successful private space business has been won - and the victor, surprisingly, is not Virgin's Sir Richard Branson, but a 40-year-old inter...

JUST DON'T MENTION THE WORD 'BANK'

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00

If you're not safe then you're not a bank, says regulator
Dateline: 1 September 2011
EU regulators have followed US trends by putting a big wedge between retail and investment banking.
Effective tomorrow, if you're not a pure commercial deposit...

BLOODBATH AS ONLINE WAR GAME TURNS REAL

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00

Virtual reality becomes running street battle
Dateline: 30 July 2011
A virtual reality war game turned horrifyingly real this weekend as two 'warring tribes' fought a running street battle in Liverpool city center, leaving three ...

YOUR TWEET IS SHAPING FUTURE GOVERNMENT

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00

First fully electronic election shows up true power of social networks
Dateline: 9 April 2015
Pouring money into influencing the electorate to vote in a particular way has been endemic in all democratic societies. In the 2008 US presidential election thi...

WELCOME TO EARTH 2.0

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00

Geo-engineering creates a new environment for a smart planet
Dateline: 21 September 2027
Our planet couldn't cope with all the demands our modern civilization placed on it. So we built a new one. Welcome to Earth 2.0. A new planet for a new, sustain...

'NET GENERATION' DECLARED A NEW SPECIES OF HOMO SAPIENS

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00

You always knew your kids were different
Dateline: 21 August 2012
In 2009, Don Tapscott published an updated version of his best-selling 1997 book 'Growing up digital' which covered the emergence of what he called 'the Net Gen...

IT'S ILLEGAL TO BAN SOCIAL NET ACCESS DURING 'WORK HOURS'

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00

European Court of Human Rights ruling surprises business
Dateline: 29 February 2011
A pressure group on the Facebook social networking site has created legal history by changing workplace rights for everyone in the EU.
In a bold reaction to ma...

HOME ROBOT TURNS KILLER

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00

Japanese family annihilated by cyber-companion
Dateline: 11 June 2021
"It seems to have been a systematic and deliberate process, well thought-through and planned, and conducted over a period of four days or so", said police chief...

SCIENCE CLONES NATURE FOR 'FREE' ENERGY PLAN

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00

Nano-machines do photosynthesis better than leaves
Dateline: 12 June 2030
What started as a bold project at Imperial College London in 2009, has now reached its first stage of commercialization in the deserts of north Africa.
Photosy...

APPLE SUED FOR KEEPING SECRETS

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00

Class action calls for information democracy to be enforced by law
Dateline: 4 July 2023
Since laws requiring the public disclosure of information by government agencies have been extended to corporations, it seems that even trade secrets have to be...

'PERFECT STORM' OF SHORTAGES AVERTED

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00

Predictions of a global lack of food, water and energy prove false
Dateline: 1 September 2029
Once again, Malthusian famine and thirst have been forecast - and failed to materialize.
Twenty years ago, Professor John Beddington, the UK government's chie...

AFRICAN BIO-FUEL GIANT SHAKES UP OIL INDUSTRY

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00

Cameroon emerges as top bio-diesel producer
Dateline: 25 August 2020
A decade of intensive investment in bio-diesel plant has paid off for Cameroon. The central African state now challenges neighboring Nigeria in terms of fuel oi...

PEACE, LOVE & WOODSTOCK 50 YEARS ON

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00

Old dreams of a new world amidst cyber drugs & porn
Dateline: 17 August 2019
Exactly 50 years ago today, on 17 August 1969, more than 200,000 people gathered at Yasgur's farm in upstate New York to preach love and peace amidst a global y...

APP INDUSTRY BIGGER THAN GOOGLE

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00

Smartphones empower millions of small entrepreneurs
Dateline: 11 April 2012
Today Gartner revealed that the mobile application industry (or Apps for short) is a global software industry that is worth more than Google.
Obscure and low-...

TELEPORTATION WRECKS THE WORLD ECONOMY

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00

Redundant infrastructure and jobs create an industrial wasteland
Dateline: 1 October 2045
Today's youngsters do not know a world without teleportation. To them it is a fact of life. It is like the air they breathe - and they never think about it at a...

HOOVER DAM DESTROYED

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00

Tens of thousands perish, power and water supplies cut
Dateline: 12 December 2010
At 16:00 yesterday the opening ceremony for the spectacular new bridge over the Hoover Dam, designed to alleviate traffic congestion on the US93, was brought to...

YAHOO! MERGER WITH BING GIVES A BOOST TO GOOGLE

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00

After one year, CEO tries to explain away 'negative value'
Dateline: 18 August 2010
Last year's merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft's search business, has had unforeseen consequences on the overall search and advertising market.
In the middle ...

WORLD MARKETS IN UPROAR OVER NEW UTILITY CHARGES

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00

Re-introduction of interest rates considered by central banks
Dateline: 8 October 2020
We've become used to basic amenities being free. Free phone calls, free internet, free electricity and free banking. Now that's all set to change, as regional r...

BIG BROTHER REALLY IS WATCHING YOU

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00

Every screen you gaze at is looking back at you
Dateline: 4 August 2019
Ever since the innovation of integrating camera transistors with every pixel of an organic LED screen, it has become technically possible to make display panels...

WIMBLEDON - THE THREE-DAY CHAMPIONSHIPS

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00

Commercial impact soars on back of lightning games
Dateline: 5 July 2020
Tennis has learnt a lesson from the high-impact success in other sport entertainment - cricket with its Twenty20 format, the international Rugby Sevens tourname...

EUROPE HELD TO RANSOM BY SUNNY AFRICAN STATES

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00

Solar energy at the centre of an economic storm
Dateline: 11 May 2020
It's been just a year since the Afro-European solar energy initiative was launched to harness the deserts of North Africa to supply European countries with clea...

WOMEN DOMINATE

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00

Business & Government are the last male bastions to fall
Dateline: 12 December 2070
1970 has been commonly regarded as the cusp for the emergence of the modern women's rights movements.
By 2010, women in top executive and government jobs had ...

DIGITAL DROUGHT DISAPPEARS

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00

Upstart satellite operator creates bandwidth flood
Dateline: 15 May 2011
The Google-funded satellite communications company O3b has transformed the cost of internet access in all those hard-to-reach places, by launching dozens of dat...

WHO TO BLAME FOR THE CREDIT CRUNCH?

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00

US courts to charge one individual primarily responsible
Dateline: 12 December 2010
"The chain of catastrophic bets made over the past decade by a few hundred bankers may well turn out to be the greatest nonviolent crime against humanity in his...

PRIVACY WARS

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 May 2009 00:00:00

Google’s planned merger with Amazon has regulators in a tizz
Dateline: 12 June 2012
It seems that the proposed merger is just one step too far for the European Union.
“Google has pictures of our homes and can track our every movement. Amazon k...

IF YOU'RE A UK MP - YOU'RE FIRED

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 May 2009 00:00:00

Voters insist on a new regime of openness, trust and integrity
Dateline: 15 January 2010
It's become the Everyman Revolution against what is seen to be corrupt government. 2009's 'Annus Horribilis' for Gordon Brown's government, escalated into a pre...

GLOBAL POOR FLOCK TO THE SPOKEN WEB

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 May 2009 00:00:00

Cellphone-based 'voiceweb' bridges digital divide
Dateline: 20 June 2012
Once we talked about the "digital divide", back in the dark days when the ability to read and write separated the wired from the unwired. Today, more than 85% o...

WILL GOOGLE LOSE RIGHTS TO THE NAME?

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 May 2009 00:00:00

A 1913 book dredges up a monster battle
Dateline: 12 December 2011
The family of the author of a bizarre 1913 book are taking Google Inc. to court for use of the name 'Google' and are demanding a share of the company's profits ...

SLOW RECOVERY IN GLOBAL TRADE

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00

After the credit crunch and swine flu, finally a new beginning
Dateline: 27 April 2011
The Swine Flu pandemic has been contained - thanks largely to the efforts of futurists and scenario planners, and the leaders who believed in them. Governments ...

LIQUID BATTERIES KEEP THE BIG APPLE SHINING

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00

New York City runs all night on a single charge
Dateline: 21 April 2015
In the city that never sleeps, the lights burn all night. But don't worry, they're not consuming precious fuel or polluting the environment, because the lights ...

IS SEVENTH SENSE HEAVEN ON EARTH?

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00

Augmented reality makes the real world really useful
Dateline: 16 June 2018
Remember when five senses were enough to understand what was going on around you? Then MIT introduced 'Sixth Sense' technology, and you could get information fr...

LONG BOND COLLAPSE TRIGGERS US$13 TRILLION TRADING LOSSES

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00

It's 2008 all over again as markets disintegrate
Dateline: 19 August 2019
Markets were left reeling today as US long-bonds continued their downward spiral.
"We've seen $13 trillion wiped off bond-markets around the world," says a sho...

CHINA'S MAGNETIC SPACESHIP ENGINE SUPERCEDES REALITY

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00

Revolutionary 'electric rocket' reaches Mars without fuel
Dateline: 1 April 2029
They said it was impossible, but China has done it. After decades of skeptical press in scientific circles, an engine has been built that actually delivers thru...

STABILITY TRUMPS THIRST FOR GROWTH

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00

Depression demands new attitudes from the next generation
Dateline: 21 September 2013
"I am unashamedly a Baby Boomer. We were the first generation to take 'growth' for granted. Somehow we claimed an inalienable right to grow every business, year...

'NEWSPAPER' IS AN OXYMORON

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00

Paper it ain't and news has no value!
Dateline: 26 January 2011
In 2009, Nicholas Carlson, an editor at website Silicon Alley Insider, calculated that it cost the New York Times about twice as much to print and deliver the n...

INSECT SOLDIER-BOTS DEFEAT HUMAN ARMY

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00

Cyborg locusts open new frontier
Dateline: 28 April 2014
The first 'cyborg-war' has just been won after millions of wirelessly-controlled locusts swamped the North Korean army as it massed on the border with South Kor...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RECYCLING?

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00

Sorted rubbish turns out to be a real waste
Dateline: 12 June 2012
In nature, the word 'detritus' describes the dead discarded organic material within an ecosystem. Examples include leaf litter on the floor of the forest or the...

NUCLEAR FUSION A REALITY AT LAST!

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Hyper laser produces 'cool fusion' from plasma
Dateline: 15 March 2011
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility have announced that they have done the impossible - produced entirely controllable, sustained nuclear fusion react...

MASSIVE MIGRATION TO MAINLAND CHINA

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Individuals and businesses in Hong Kong take off for greener pastures
Dateline: 11 November 2011
"Hong Kong has all its eggs in one basket - and that is labeled 'stocks and shares and property'." So screamed one headline in Hong Kong's South China Morning P...

LONG DISTANCE LOVERS HOOK UP IN CYBERSPACE

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Couple to wed after ‘teleporting’ to romantic Valentine date in Paris
Dateline: 15 February 2024
Justin and Britney are enjoying the afterglow of a wonderful night out in Paris. The evening started with a sunset cruise on a bateau mouche down the Seine, mov...

'NEW SOCIALISM': IS IT THE NEW CAPITALISM?

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Individuals demand more predictability - nations get unexpected growth
Dateline: 9 March 2013
The stark economic reality has even sidelined the annual Davos jamboree: US$ 8 trillion has been pumped into world financial systems; banks and a large part of ...

MUSLIM GHETTOS MUSHROOM IN EU

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00

Are 'safety zones' for protection or control?
Dateline: 8 September 2010
As Muslims celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, Europe is grappling with the formation of 'Muslim Safety Zones'. The question is: "Whose safety are they for?"
Since early la...

VOTERS BACK WAR FOR BRAINS

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00

At last the gurus are in charge
Dateline: 11 November 2016
His Holiness The Dalai Lama once remarked: “It is most remarkable that India, since independence in 1947, has maintained the noble tradition of investing noted ...

CHINESE STABILITY TEETERS ON LACK OF JOBS & GROWTH

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00

The 'Chinese Century' comes to a grinding halt
Dateline: 3 June 2014
Tomorrow's planned 'One Million Farmer' march on Tiananmen Square will be a critical test for the Chinese government's attitude to the future - and the greatest...

RUSSIA DISINTEGRATES

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00

ECONOMIC CONFUSION DRIVES REGIONAL CONFLICTS
Dateline: 1 January 2010
European economies have continued to remain unstable throughout 2009, even as the US and other global markets stage a careful recovery. Many analysts blame exc...

NEW LEGS FOR THE NEW YEAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00

Prosthetic limbs are the latest teen craze
Dateline: 20 December 2020
"I'm getting them upgraded for the New Year," beams a happy Deon Pretorious, aged 15.
Pretorious is one of thousands of teenagers around the world voluntarily ...

XMAS EARTHRISE - THIS TIME FROM MARS

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00

Could this mean more new perspectives for mankind?
Dateline: 25 December 2028
It was sixty years ago today, at 3am London time, that an astronaut aboard Apollo 8 took a series of never-to-be-forgotten photographs - grainy images that show...

DEBT CRISIS CREATES BUSINESS INNOVATION

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00

Withdrawal of foreign aid increases emerging entrepreneurship
Dateline: 12 June 2009
The financial meltdown of 2008 affected not only the bonuses of the Wall Street bankers, their Porsche dealers and their favorite restaurants. It initially left...

NETWORKING YOURSELF TO OBLIVION

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00

The tribulations and perils of a connected avatar
Dateline: 12 June 2020
We are all ubiquitously interconnected. But you know that. You are one of us.
With more than five billion active users of the web, I know that anyone is just a...

"FREE-TO-FEE" DRIVES NEW WIN-WIN MARKETS

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00

Customers set the price as everything commoditizes
Dateline: 20 July 2016
Remember the bad old days when businesses, rather than we consumers, set the price of goods and services? Back before actual value-added determined what the mar...

CLEANTECH BUBBLE BURSTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00

'Greenbucks' in the toilet as recession bites
Dateline: 12 January 2010
In a massive shakeout, green technology start-ups the world over have taken a major dive, as the harsh realities of dealing with global recession set in.
The s...

CYBERATTACKS KILL THOUSANDS

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00

New internet regulations to encourage responsible blogging
Dateline: 9 December 2011
It all started in the most wired of societies - South Korea. In 2008 several public figures committed suicide as a result of strong, and often unfounded, online...

THE #1 CLOUD BANK OPENS ITS DOORS

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00

Your personal information now under your direct control
Dateline: 11 June 2013
Think about the real meaning of 'wealth'. It really isn't just your financial resources. The holistic sum of your personal wealth includes health, education, at...

AFTER THE CRASH, CHINA SMILES

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00

The tables have turned and emerging economies are on top
Dateline: 8 August 2010
Today's lucky 'eight-eight' celebrations were marked by happy, smiling crowds in the world's fastest growing major economy. Chinese President Hu Jintao, presidi...

PAPER AIRPLANES SAVE FUEL

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00

'Bucky-paper' the new composite material for energy efficient transport
Dateline: 6 September 2016
Don't look now, but the commercial jetliner you've just boarded is made out of paper. Don't worry, it's perfectly safe.
This is no ordinary paper, but thin lay...

FROM MALLS TO MARKETS IN A DECADE

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00

Economic quagmire destroys appetite for 'retail therapy'
Dateline: 30 October 2018
Today is the tenth anniversary of the opening of 'Westfield London', then the biggest urban shopping mall in Britain.
This marble temple to up-market consumer...

GM, CHRYSLER & FORD NATIONALIZED

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00

Death knell sounds for US auto industry
Dateline: 4 January 2009
Wall Street is in uproar at what will likely be President Bush's last major decision, just days before the end of his term.
Cornered by vocal demands from unio...

FORGET THE FLAB, TAKE THE FAT-JAB

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00

Anti-obesity drug set to radicalize new age health
Dateline: 24 November 2013
"Another slice of cream cake? Or another beer? And then when we've eaten, we'll go out and party all night! Oh, and do take a handful of chocolates with you."
...

ITZ OFISHAL – SPELIN IZ DED!

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00

Textspeak dominates new English
Dateline: 25 September 2014
No more split infinitives, apostrophes and double meanings. The English language revolution is over, and the reformists have won. Or rather, wun!
The battle to...

THE CHIPS ARE UP FOR CHINA

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00

Intel moves to India and cuts prices to compete
Dateline: 14 August 2012
Who would ever have believed it? China, once the copy-cat nation of the world, has snatched the lucrative computer chip market from Intel with a series of innov...

PUTIN RAPS WEST FOR NATIONALIZING ECONOMIES

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00

"Whatever happened to open markets?"
Dateline: 12 January 2012
Vladimir Putin is relishing his new-found fame. Since retirement from politics, he has become one of the top-paid business speakers with his angle on the demise...

GOVERNMENT 2.0 REALITY AT LAST

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00

Cities show national governments the way
Dateline: 28 November 2015
Government designed from the bottom up. Democracy coupled to a strong service ethic and ubiquitous participation. The world's leading cities are harnessing the ...

NOW YOU CAN HAVE FOUR BILLION WORKERS – FREE

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00

Co-creation is the new business innovation
Dateline: 21 January 2009
Here's a conundrum: How can you employ virtually everyone in the world - and no-one at the same time?
The answer lies in the definition of 'employment'. For th...

GADGETS INFECTED WITH VIRAL POWER

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00

No need for batteries - inoculate your phone with nano-cell virus
Dateline: 25 July 2013
Remember the old days of Duracell, Energizers and Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries? They've gone the way of vacuum tubes and DVDs. Now all you need is a hybri...

SELL ME YOUR MEMORIES

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00

Latest craze is 'living' other people's lives - to the full
Dateline: 19 September 2019
This weekend I climbed Everest. Next weekend I'm thinking of walking on the moon. But for both, I don't have to leave my armchair in London.
Environmental pres...

ENERGY GLUT TRIGGERS CRASH

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00

Renewable energy supplies exceed traditional demand
Dateline: 18 May 2023
Investors are still shell-shocked after two days of panic selling that has wiped 27% off the Dow Jones, 32% off the London Stock Exchange and a terrifying 40% o...

SILICON OUSTED BY PLASTIC

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00

Plastic electronics industry booms, costly silicon fabs close down
Dateline: 19 August 2015
You could be forgiven for thinking that 'Silicon Valley' should change its name to 'Polymer Planet'. The truth is, not much of the innovation coming out of the ...

THE NEW ECONOMIC WAR: CITY VS CITY

editors@mindbullets.net — 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Ugly battles for differentiation: Kuwait wins
Dateline: 14 January 2015
Hong Kong's New Year celebrations were dampened by the news that Kuwait's Silk City had topped the financial services league to become "The #1 Global Financial ...

ROBOTIC GIRL 'MURDERED' BY JEALOUS HUMAN LOVER

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Japanese woman disposes of her boyfriend's toy companion, faces trial
Dateline: 14 February 2018
Thirty-something Jennifer Lee Sato is facing trial in a Tokyo court for letting her jealousy get the better of her. The civil action, brought by her boyfriend C...

INDIA & CHINA FORM POWER BLOC

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Nuclear energy central to plans for world domination
Dateline: 5 May 2014
India and China may be the unlikeliest of partners, but the continued demand for clean energy has brought the world's most populous nations into an economic emb...

BRITNEY SPEARS WINS THE MILLENNIUM MATHS PRIZE

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00

"Oops, I did it again" solves Mills-Yang Problem
Dateline: 22 March 2023
On 24 May 2000 Timothy Gowers of the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, MA announced seven prize problems in mathematics; each with a prize of US$ 1 milli...

SILICON ISLAND PROVIDES THE ULTIMATE IN PRIVACY

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00

Bio-engineered data haven also home to tax refugees
Dateline: 18 June 2037
Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, an island is taking shape. "Nothing like this has ever been built before," says Leon Almara, the chief architect.
MinTelBay, the...

TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND WE'LL GOOGLE YOU IN THE MORNING

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Another blow for traditional health care as virtual doctors rule
Dateline: 26 May 2012
It all started way back in 2008 with consolidating patient records. Next came online medical consultations. And now the latest revolution in health is...Google ...

YOU CAN NO LONGER CALL ME 'CHINESE'

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00

The most popular fast food will never be the same again
Dateline: 1 November 2014
In a legal battle reminiscent of the right to call sparkling wine 'champagne', Chinese traders are appealing to the WTO, and anyone else who will listen, that w...

SERVER FARMS IN THE CLOUDS

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00

A whole new understanding of business computing
Dateline: 1 February 2013
Almost all of IBM's server business now comes from just four customers - Google, Microsoft, Tata and Amazon - these are the companies that dominate ownership of...

UPGRADE YOUR BODY WITH PLASTIC NANO-REACTORS

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00

Boost insulin, treat cancer, even change your skin colour without DNA
Dateline: 7 July 2019
Meier Inc of Switzerland have launched their new range of body upgrades just in time for the summer holiday season. You won't need sunblock - a simple injection...

DEMISE OF CAPITALISM AND FREE ENTERPRISE

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 May 2008 00:00:00

Is there a new model arising out of the ashes?
Dateline: 21 May 2015
Ongoing violent protests in major cities around the world are crippling developed economies.
What started with an overt war against business in India by the Na...

KIDS' TOYS LEAD IN THE NEW 'COMPUTER' BOOM

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 May 2008 00:00:00

Flash drives as cheap as chips as mini-laptops take over
Dateline: 15 January 2010
It has been said that the size of their mobile is the only thing that men are modest about. Well, perhaps not any more. "My PC has less than yours" could be the...

FILL 'ER UP WITH SHUGGA-D

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 May 2008 00:00:00

Synthetic biodiesel from sugar makes oil-based diesel look primitive and costly
Dateline: 9 April 2010
Amyris has launched their second-generation biofuel, and it looks like they're taking the market by storm. The new diesel is 'manufactured' by tiny microbes dir...

UN: ETERNAL LIFE IS A MATTER OF CHOICE

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 May 2008 00:00:00

But remember...that makes 'death' a personal choice too
Dateline: 12 March 2021
In a statement from the United Nations today, it was confirmed that the world's G18 nations had agreed to remove the idea of 'retirement' from their statute boo...

iPA, YOU KNOW MY EVERY MOVE

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 May 2008 00:00:00

Virtual PA re-writes the rules of office efficiency
Dateline: 14 November 2014
At the annual Service Excellence Awards banquet in New York, Electra Speed, a virtual personal assistant from Virgin Stars, won the top honour against stiff com...

FUEL VS FOOD: THE WAR SPREADS

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00

Strikes and riots become bloody and lethal
Dateline: 12 November 2013
Fueled by continued growth and prosperity, the world's food shortage has been likened to a war for survival. Now officially in its second year, the 'war' has tu...

COAL HITS US$10 PER TON AS SOLAR POWER SHINES

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00

Nano solar films bring cheap energy to sunshine states
Dateline: 5 May 2018
It's hard to believe that a mere decade ago fossil fuels were at a premium, and everyone talked of 'peak oil' and the high prices of natural gas and coal. Now n...

CHINA: THE NEW COLONIAL POWER

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00

Vicious new wars at home and abroad
Dateline: 2 May 2020
"The Chinese are the new boers!" screamed a May Day rally poster in last night's CNN webcast from South Africa's resource heartland.
Hundreds of thousands of ...

THE NOTEBOOK PC IS DEAD - LONG LIVE THE SMARTPHONE

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00

Mobile phones become the new portable computer
Dateline: 5 June 2011
Have you noticed how no-one buys a new laptop these days?
Just like VCRs and PDAs, the laptop is so last century. Some say that the iPhone was the cata...

GM HYDROPONIC CROPS FEED A BILLION CHINESE

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00

Biotech plants break the famine and economic barriers
Dateline: 8 August 2012
Faced with feeding every fifth person on the planet with less than one-tenth of the world's farmland, Beijing has been pumping hundreds of millions of sino-doll...

PLASTIC BAGS NOT THE VILLIAN AFTER ALL

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00

Wilful misinformation and ignorance exposed
Dateline: 1 December 2010
The results of the first-ever broad-based scientific study on the environmental effects of plastic bags have proved surprising and embarrassing.
Just when the ...

US PRESIDENT ESCAPES SUICIDE ROBOT ATTACK

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00

Kamikaze White House cleaning robot detonates 'battery' bomb
Dateline: 11 September 2011
An attempt to assassinate the US President was foiled today by White House security. "At no time was the President in danger," said a spokesman for the Secret S...

ENERGY CONSERVATION: IMMORAL AND DANGEROUS

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00

We must put humanity before our planet
Dateline: 12 February 2009
Back in 2007, Dr Brian Cox, a member of the High Energy Physics Group at the University of Manchester, started a ripple that has now turned into a political and...

SONY LOSES DIGITAL MEDIA GROUND AS APPLE SHINES

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00

Home entertainment giant stumbles despite success of high definition TV and Blu-ray Disc
Dateline: 9 October 2010
Sony used to dominate the personal music space with the Walkman. The arrival of the iPod changed all that.
It has been said that if Apple had opened up its op...

ENERGY TOPS LIST OF ECONOMIC CATALYSTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00

US and South Africa double prices
Dateline: 5 January 2009
The economy formerly known as the world's largest, and one of the smaller first world economies, have simultaneously succumbed to price increases to control ene...

US AUTO INDUSTRY CRUMBLES

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00

American cars now number just one in three sold
Dateline: 3 December 2010
The sub-prime crisis in 2007 was one of the catalysts. The resulting US economic downturn has proved to be the last straw for the US auto industry.
Detroit has...

CHINA OFFSHORES ITS FACTORIES

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00

Not off their shores - off yours!
Dateline: 7 February 2010
In an amazing New World manufacturing coup, China has delivered 170 factory ships just outside the territorial waters of the United States. These are not fish f...

YE OLD RETAIL REVOLUTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00

Over-55's outspend the under-25's ten to one
Dateline: 11 January 2020
What a holiday season! What a retail boom! How the grey consumers have turned the retail industry upside down. I've seen the future - and it's grey.
Figures no...

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GOES TO MUSLIM WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00

Turkey takes the lead as US President joins global applause
Dateline: 10 October 2017
On an inauspicious day just over a decade ago, ten Muslim women decided to become a very vocal force for peace and reconciliation.
Their aims were bold: "We wa...

WRINKLIES SEEK LOVE ONLINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00

Mobile phones and the internet spawn a new mating boom for Google
Dateline: 17 January 2009
January and February are dark months in the northern hemisphere. It's when depression sets in after the high jinks of Christmas and New Year celebrations. The d...

THE FUTURE OF REVENGE

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00

Facebook and MySpace become first choice
Dateline: 11 August 2009
Revenge used to be so beautifully analog.
A jilted lover storms out of her boyfriend's Bahamas hotel, flies back to New York, sprinkles his entire apartment wi...

LIFE EXPECTANCY LEVELS OFF AT 25

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00

Government and business leaders now in their teens
Dateline: 1 April 2050
The cordial questions asked during Prime Minister's Question Time yesterday proved that this has been an interesting few decades. For the first time in almost 3...

HAPPY HIGHTECH HOLIDAY!

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00

Climate change and technology reshape the ski slopes
Dateline: 24 December 2010
It's ski season - but hitting the icy slopes of Europe and the US sure ain't what it used to be!
The days of skimming the low-lying valleys of Italy, France, ...

BROWN BLAMED FOR BLACK CHRISTMAS

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00

British government continues bleeding private data
Dateline: 20 December 2008
A song at the top of the hit parade one year ago talked of 'Bleeding Love', but this year Gordon Brown is spending Christmas thinking of something else.
Since ...

PRIVATE BANKING GETS REALLY PERSONAL

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00

They'll even bank your DNA and baby's stem cells
Dateline: 1 June 2010
Do you remember, just a few short years ago, when companies introduced 'Concierge Services' to support busy executives and high-flying travelers?
Today, those ...

CITIBANK DUMPS RETAIL AS P-2-P LENDING TAKES OVER

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00

Social banking and circles of trust replace consumer savings and loans
Dateline: 21 November 2009
Citibank has divested from its retail banking operations and is focussing strictly on commercial and merchant banking activities. It is also seeking to get rid ...

GM LOSSES FORCE MASSIVE JOB CUTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00

Hit on US economy expected to be vast
Dateline: 1 November 2009
The timing could not have been worse for the already-struggling retail industry.
Troubled car maker GM has really put the cat among the Christmas season pigeon...

RECORD SALES PLUMMET AS MUSIC BOOMS

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00

Music industry hits tipping point
Dateline: 1 June 2011
In the past five years artists and consumers have been chipping away at the record companies' dominance. It's been dark days for the record industry, but never ...

WE ARE NOT ALONE

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00

Evidence of complex life confirmed on Gliese 581c
Dateline: 12 June 2030
The images that arrived back at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics last night are nothing short of astounding. They clearly show large 'animals' the...

BIG 3 AUDIT FIRMS ON THE RACK?

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00

Real-time trust and auto verification change the game
Dateline: 14 April 2020
At the London inauguration of the newly formed joint venture between the Global Auditing Systems Authority (GASA) and Google, Charles Smith, CEO of the joint ve...

IN-HOUSE SOCIAL NETWORKS NO LONGER THE OUTCASTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00

Restricted no more - companies derive massive value
Dateline: 22 December 2009
There was a time when social networks were the outcasts on the corporate agenda. Alternate identities in MySpace were banned by some companies and access to sit...

SKYSCRAPER FARMS SOLVE URBAN FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00

Indoor farming produces fresh food where it's needed - in the store
Dateline: 1 May 2030
New thinking in urban design, plus new technologies, are turning city blocks into self-contained 'country villages'. Hydrogen fuel cells and community reactors...

INTERNET GOES OFFLINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00

Global emergency spreads like a digital wildfire
Dateline: 21 December 2010
It's been 24 hours since the internet stopped dead.
For the past day not a single email message has been delivered and no e-business transaction has been exec...

DIABETES STEM CELL BONANZA

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00

Production line promises cure-on-demand
Dateline: 12 June 2017
India's Apollo Hospital Group has announced the launch of a stem cell production line targeted at curing type 1 diabetes. It appears that Indian scientists have...

CYBORG EYES SAVE STARS FROM PEEPING TOM'S GAZE

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00

Wanted man picked out of crowd with bionic vision
Dateline: 3 November 2019
The notorious 'Celebrity Stalker' was apprehended last night after being spotted in a street crowd - with the help of cyborg eyes.
The latest improvements in ...

THE NEW RICH LIST

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00

Where have all the old industries gone?
Dateline: 21 June 2030
Forbes Magazine published its annual list of the world's richest individuals yesterday. A separate study shows the dramatic changes in wealth creation over the ...

NEW YORK WORKERS GET POWER OUT OF THIN AIR

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00

This is the end of the power cord as we know it
Dateline: 12 November 2010
It doesn't matter if you're at the office or at home, take a look under your workstation. See the tangle of power cords, adapters and multi-plugs. What an ugly,...

FROM LIGHT BULBS TO SUPER-SIZED DISPLAYS

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00

San Diego shopping center shows the way to the future
Dateline: 7 July 2013
The incandescent light bulb is 135 years old this year, and officially dead!
The death knell was announced at the annual congress of the International Council ...

DATA CENTERS DISAPPEAR, WEB SERVERS GO VIRTUAL

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00

Amazon, Google and eBay dominate internet hardware
Dateline: 5 September 2009
Why buy cows when all you need is milk? Have you noticed how no-one buys any server hardware anymore?
In fact, I can't remember the last time a company or cor...

MICROSOFT GOES OPEN SOURCE

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00

BUT STAYS PROPRIETARY AND COMMERCIAL
Dateline: 18 June 2008
Bill Gates said the words. I was there. I heard it. I posted it on YouTube. Now the whole world knows.
"From tonight, at midnight, we are making the Microsoft ...

MURDOCH CREATES FULL MONTY

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00

Digital swoop 'completes' media and retail empire
Dateline: 1 April 2010
In a brilliant swoop on the jewels of the digital world, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has seized control of the top auctions, payments, video and communication p...

EU MAKES RETIREMENT AGE 90

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00

Actuarial data point way to long working lives
Dateline: 12 November 2030
The UK’s Institute of Actuaries has blown the whistle on the continued political battle over the official retirement age in the EU.
For the past few years the ...

SYNTHETIC LIFE MAKES THE JUMP FROM VIRTUAL WORLDS

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00

Artificial DNA used to make live replicas of game characters
Dateline: 8 August 2028
Now that scientists have perfected the technique of synthesizing DNA, it is possible to take computer-generated characters from virtual world environments and m...

UK GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR END OF OUT-BOUND SUMMER TOURISM

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00

The end the summer holiday...as we know it
Dateline: 29 August 2011
This could be the last time that you have taken your summer hols...certainly as you have known them up to now.
The Conservatives have taken their green policie...

WIND FARMS TAKE TO THE SKY

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00

Negative reaction to wind farm pollution spawns new GE business
Dateline: 12 March 2020
You may be right to feel that our romance with alternative energy has gone berserk.
Solar power may be fine, but not in my backyard - the NIMBY consumers have...

VISIT THE SAHARA NOW - WHILE IT'S STILL THERE

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00

Hydroscopic fungus turns deserts into bushland and forests
Dateline: 14 March 2017
The simple application of a fungal cocktail to arid soils in Southern Africa has enabled small shrubs and trees to take root where no plants have grown for over...

FLYING SAUCERS EMERGE FROM A SECRET HANGAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00

Airforce unveils maglev aircraft after years of secrecy in Nevada desert
Dateline: 3 July 2027
The USAF and DARPA today treated the press to the first demonstration flight of an 'anti-gravity' vehicle. After 70 years of development, the demo finally lifts...

NEW CAR SALES SLUMP AS OLD CARS STAY NEW

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Jul 2007 00:00:00

These autos refuse to age - they just repair themselves
Dateline: 19 June 2012
Another new car dealer has gone bust trying to sell the latest models. One can hardly be surprised, as pre-owned vehicles look factory fresh.
The secret is in ...

NOVARTIS SUED OVER TOBACCO JAB

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00

Big tobacco claims vaccine is dangerous
Dateline: 1 March 2011
In a last-ditch attempt to stop Novartis new anti-smoking vaccine from getting to market, Big Tobacco has launched a series of legal interdicts through the US S...

VISTA WAS THE LAST MICROSOFT PRODUCT TO BE SOLD IN A BOX

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00

New launch expected to herald a switch to services
Dateline: 1 March 2010
Microsoft couldn't have timed it better - an April 1 launch date for its new services platform, expected to be called (not surprisingly) MicrosoftLive.
It is e...

GOOD FOOD TURNS BAD

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00

Consumers shun organic, local and fair trade food after exceedingly bad press
Dateline: 24 January 2011
It must have been the lull in news after the holiday season in Europe that caused the recent excessive focus on the downside of everything organic and fair in t...

IT'S SKYPE CREDITS VS VODACASH IN THE NEW VIRTUAL BANKING WAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00

Taxman loses in the race to dominate the online payments market
Dateline: 9 February 2010
Since eBay and PayPal allowed users to charge and pay with Skype credits, the banks and credit card companies have been running scared. That was until Nokia, Vi...

FRANCE CHAMPIONS INVASION OF UZBEKISTAN TO SECURE OIL

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 May 2007 00:00:00

Sarkozy rejoins NATO to sideline Russia
Dateline: 2 January 2008
Nicolas Sarkozy, new president of the French Republic, has wasted no time in building bridges with the world's most powerful nation. When the most recent ultim...

ONE BILLION VOTES CAST IN 'WORLD IDOL' CHAOS

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 May 2007 00:00:00

Music, social extremes and politics collide in ultimate reality show
Dateline: 12 May 2011
More than one billion votes were cast in the final round of the Disney's World Idol competition.
For Disney, this is proving to be a marketing disaster. When t...

ECONOMY BOOMS - EMPLOYMENT FALLS

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 May 2007 00:00:00

If you're not an entrepreneur, prepare to be unemployed
Dateline: 12 December 2012
Last week's Fortune 500 conference hosted in Berlin reported sobering numbers. Globally, 2007 was the peak year for the number of people in formal employment in...

THEY CAME FROM MARS - WE ALL DID

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 May 2007 00:00:00

We're not alone, and we're not from here!
Dateline: 21 March 2014
Astonishing results from the first soil samples returned from Mars indicate that there was once 'life' on the red planet - and that it was similar in structure ...

US OUTLAWS GUNS - FINALLY

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00

It took 1000 deaths to topple the gun lobby
Dateline: 11 May 2019
The ripples of the largest school massacre in US history had not yet settled when the US Congress, House and Senate, yesterday passed an emergency motion to ban...

WORLD POWERS JOIN CHINA'S ‘NO FOSSIL FUEL’ STRATEGY

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Europe appears to be left on the fringe of a new green revolution
Dateline: 10 January 2009
Less than a year after China’s bold move to marginalize fossil fuels, India and the USA have released similar strategies, within hours of each other. This seems...

GOOGLE EARTH WORLD'S SIXTH BIGGEST ECONOMY

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Virtual world covers two-thirds of the 'real' world
Dateline: 7 June 2017
Google Earth's virtual online buildings, designed and built by the in-world residents, now cover most of the developed world and all major tourism destinations....

GM IS THE NEW 'ORGANIC'

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Modified beef set to boost consumer health
Dateline: 12 December 2009
The first genetically modified cows approved by the US Food and Drug Administration were simple creatures. They removed the susceptibility that cows have to Mad...

'DISABLED' RUNNER BEATS THREE WORLD RECORDS BUT NOT CRITICS

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00

Uproar over "unfair advantage" and "immoral surgery"
Dateline: 12 May 2012
A disabled athlete has disrupted the annual Paralympics in London by setting new world records in the 100m, 200m and 400m distances - faster than any able-bodie...

CHILDREN NEED OUR PROTECTION - FROM SUPPLIERS AND OURSELVES

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00

The world conscience embraces the next generation
Dateline: 19 June 2015
During the past two years the world has suddenly woken up to the need to protect the next generation – from the rest of us humans.
It seems that we are passin...

ELLESMERE ICESHELF HAZARD TO SHIPPING

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00

Plan emerges to nuke massive "Iceberg of Evil"
Dateline: 18 November 2008
A 20 square-mile stretch of ice, named the Ellesmere Iceshelf, which drifted down into the Beaufort Sea in June during our particularly hot northern summer, has...

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: TIME FOR REGIME CHANGE

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00

Loss of moral authority spurs call for new leadership
Dateline: 22 January 2012
In Davos this week, the resounding theme was for new leadership from business as the power of the nation state continues to decline. Individuals, business group...

NANO-VIRUS PANIC AT BOSTON TECH-FEST

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00

Billions at risk from evolutionary information pandemic
Dateline: 20 March 2020
As humans we once lived with and managed dread diseases, but today we are now threatened by our own ingenuity. Evolution and natural selection have always been ...

'DIRTY' STOCKS TAKE BODY BLOW

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00

Consumers and investors turn against resources, air travel and cars
Dateline: 15 August 2020
As climate catastrophes have become the norm in the 'Summer of 2020', investors have turned their wrath on all manner of 'dirty' stocks and shares in a bold att...

US ECONOMY SLIPS INTO RECESSION

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00

Nigerian oil crunch proves to be the last straw
Dateline: 17 December 2010
2010 has really has been a bad year for the US and oil supplies.
First, the April terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia scuttled major oil production facilities an...

BIRD FLU EPIDEMIC SPAWNS DEADLY EGGS

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00

KFC re-opens as mutant chickens stopped dead
Dateline: 29 December 2012
The terror is over. A disruptively cold winter has destroyed the uncontrolled breeding of mutant chickens which have swept across South East Asia over the past...

BOEING EXPLODES INTO THE VEHICLE MARKET

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00

Hybrid electric vehicles boosted with rocket power
Dateline: 19 August 2015
Pulse Detonation Propulsion has taken the world by storm.
Volkswagen Audi have used Boeing's new patented PDP technology to boost their electric hybrid motor...

THE QUIET FAMILY REVOLUTION IN TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00

High Tech City Villages change the way we live and work
Dateline: 11 December 2020
It used to be that we were logistics-mad.
Everything we bought was made somewhere else, usually a long way off. That's the way the shipping companies boomed in...

CLIMATE REFUGEES SWARM INTO EUROPE

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00

Humanitarian disaster threatens to overwhelm millions
Dateline: 2 August 2025
An emergency sitting of the UN Security Council has failed to find a solution to the refugee crisis engulfing Europe.
Millions of refugees from Africa and the...

FACEBOOK TO CLOSE: GEN Z REJECTS DIGITAL LIFESTYLE

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00

Flower children of the twenties look for analogue bullet
Dateline: 12 January 2021
In what might be considered a typical anti-establishment rebellion of youth, teenagers of the 2020s seem to be disenchanted by their parents' excessive pre-occu...

NEW YEAR - NEW PLANET

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00

Startling discovery sheds new light on evolution
Dateline: 4 January 2009
Yesterday, NASA sprung a surprise on the world's news media by proclaiming the discovery of what they term 'a silicon planet', or SP-1 for short.
On SP-1 life ...

NANO-VIRUS DISSOLVES PHONES

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Dec 2006 00:00:00

'Phone flu' makes screens go blank, then turn into silver slime
Dateline: 12 December 2016
A new nano-virus, thought to have been spawned by genetic modification of bacteria for industrial manufacturing, has had an unfortunate spin-off. It causes the ...

NO WHITE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00

Ski resorts stay closed as Global Warming burns up the slopes
Dateline: 22 December 2014
The Alps are bare and European holiday makers fan themselves at Parisian sidewalk cafés. You wouldn't think it's almost Christmas - there's not a chance of dece...

DEMOCRACY CREATES MONSTER

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00

Has our obsession with minority rights destroyed individual freedoms?
Dateline: 12 December 2010
The EU is in a quandary. The US legal system is tangled in a two-year impasse. South Africa's new president scrambles their young constitution.
In late 2006 th...

WATER POWER DRIVES OIL PRICE DOWNHILL

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00

New hybrid cars run twice as far on a tank - of water
Dateline: 7 August 2017
The latest breed of hybrid vehicles, those that run on ordinary fuel and water, are taking the global market by storm. So much so that the oil price is falling ...

AI AGENT WINS NOBEL PRIZE

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00

Researcher makes physics breakthrough with artificial help
Dateline: 2 October 2010
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shocked the scientific community yesterday by announcing that the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to an artificial int...

MICROSOFT LAUNCHES DNA SEARCH ENGINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00

Instant match of genes to drugs creates a health care revolution
Dateline: 11 June 2011
Microsoft-Live! have finally launched a DNA search engine. You can now match any disease indicators in your DNA directly to all the world's medical information,...

COMMUNICATIONS AND BANKING DEFINED AS BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00

Swedish and South African governments unleash human and economic potential
Dateline: 12 November 2009
Personal communications and basic financial services have joined shelter, education and health care as basic human rights.
Within weeks of each other, the Swed...

BIG GOOGLE IS WATCHING YOU

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00

Watch that phone hanging from your employee's neck - it's a webcam!
Dateline: 19 April 2008
In the UK, Big Brother is watching, and shouting at you. Dutch TV is hounding someone caught sunbathing topless on Google Earth - so everyone now knows where sh...

SECRET PAPERS EXPOSE EBAY, GOOGLE & VODAFONE MOVE INTO FINANCIAL SERVICES

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00

Ban on gambling payments creates new financial utility for one billion customers
Dateline: 20 April 2009
Yesterday's exposé in the New York Times has put the cat among the pigeons of the financial services industry. The report claims that the NYT investigation has ...

FIFA OUTRAGED BY RIVAL WORLD CUP

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00

South Africa exploits 2010 success to expand the game
Dateline: 21 January 2011
South Africa has announced that it will host the first Alternative Football World Cup in 2012. Following the spectacular success of the 2010 World Cup, the co...

THE NEW ICE AGE STARTS ON SUNDAY AT 8:00 SHARP

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00

Stores sell out of supplies as consumers panic in the face of abrupt climate change
Dateline: 11 December 2012
Violent storms are battering North America, while plunging temperatures are bringing chaos to Britain and parts of Western Europe. What was thought 'impossible'...

TECHNOLOGY SAVES CHAMPION SURFER FROM SHARK ATTACK

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00

People and endangered species fight back
Dateline: 19 August 2008
Surfing was suspended for two hours due to a shark scare during the final of the Billabong Pro surfing championship in Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa, yesterday. ...

WHICH ONE IS THE REAL ME?

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00

The Matrix Syndrome affects teens and adults as realities blur
Dateline: 17 September 2014
A quarter of all urban teens are thought to be suffering from disassociated reality disorder, also known as ‘The Matrix Syndrome’. Many of them have become so i...

TERRORIST HACKER GETS LIFE

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00

Writer of Tusk.M virus blamed for deaths in US and EU
Dateline: 18 September 2008
Yevgeny Imakov today became the first prisoner in a refurbished Guantanamo Bay, now a prison for international criminals and fugitives.
On 26 August 2007 the T...

WE'RE ALL CANNIBALS NOW!

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00

'Human' flesh back on the menu as 'long pig' re-classified as pork
Dateline: 15 October 2027
Queues at McDonalds are undiminished today. "It tastes good and it's not like they're real people," says seven-year-old Anita Jeffries.
Fourteen years ago sci...

BOOM IN WATER - THE NEW OIL

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00

We can no longer rely on natural water sources says World Bank
Dateline: 11 August 2016
Since oil prices peaked with political uncertainty in 2006, the next big boom industry turned out to be water - and it’s now worth more than US$ 1 trillion. The...

'SUPER-PASSPORTS' CAUSE PROTESTS AT JFK AND LAX

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Sep 2006 00:00:00

Passengers demonstrate against new travel elite
Dateline: 20 May 2007
"It's discrimination and it's un-American!" So says Elizabeth Negroponte of the American Association for Civil Liberties.
Over the past two months a new travel...

A WORLD WITHOUT GOLD?

editors@mindbullets.net — 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00

Consumer activism cuts gold demand by 30%
Dateline: 28 January 2010
Governments chose to move away from gold to protect their currencies more than thirty years ago. Now changing consumer habits and new environmental priorities h...

PRINTABLE MEMORY PUTS FRAUDSTERS ON THE SPOT

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00

Credit cards and passports get information and security boost
Dateline: 20 July 2008
The new MemoryJet printer from HP creates memory spots at the same time as it prints documents. The memory spots work in much the same way as the more simplisti...

CARRY-ON BANS CREATE BOOM IN NEW TRAVEL AND HOTEL SERVICES

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00

PC makers in a frenzy as the rules-of-the-game change
Dateline: 1 August 2007
In the aftermath of last year's chaotic holiday season at British airports, and the incident a few months later when a Blackberry was used to detonate a bottle ...

THORIUM - THE NEW URANIUM

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00

Indian breakthrough changes focus of nuclear frenzy
Dateline: 11 October 2009
Indian engineers seem to have set the cat amongst the pigeons of the nuclear energy industry.
Yesterday, in a Mumbai press briefing hosted by Prime Minister Ma...

SPACE OUTPOST ALL BLOWN UP

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00

Bigelow pips Branson as leading space tourism pioneer
Dateline: 16 July 2015
The final module of the Bigelow 'Last Outpost' space entertainment center was successfully inflated and attached today. This brings the space station to a stage...

WHO NEEDS AN AGENT AND A RECORD LABEL?

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00

The self-promoting artist makes music on the 'net
Dateline: 1 December 2009
More than 70% of all recording artists say no to industry bosses. This is the reality says Groundswell.com, who has been tracking this space for the last five y...

GREENBUCKS FOR GREEN TECH

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00

Sweden leads the race to go green as consumers shun 'dirty' products
Dateline: 8 June 2012
Carbon credits are dead - long live greenbucks! It finally dawned on eco-conscious consumers in the West that their old habit of outsourcing polluting productio...

US PRESIDENT RICE OPENS INDIA'S MAGLEV NETWORK

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00

New rail infrastructure to turbo-charge Indian economy
Dateline: 11 July 2021
US President Connie Rice was the honored guest at the Mumbai opening of the newly completed maglev network linking India's biggest cities. The magnetic levitati...

DRAGON BURNS DOWN HOUSE

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00

GeneTech's new fantasy pets set the world on fire
Dateline: 8 July 2025
It was a scene out of some fantasy epic that greeted Reginald Dobbs as he arrived home last night. His house was on fire and a dragon was perched on the roof, b...

PRIVATE EYE ARRESTED FOR INVISIBLE SURVEILLANCE

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00

Invisibility cloaks declared illegal in private hands
Dateline: 26 May 2011
Since the development of 'metamaterials' that can bend electromagnetic waves - such as light - around an object, the hottest item for geeks and pranksters has b...

POLITICAL TURMOIL THREATENS 2010 WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00

ANC unity crumbles as majority alliance splits
Dateline: 2 May 2009
The May Day celebrations were muted this year as ANC factions licked their wounds and tried to determine what the Good News message could be to members and the ...

MORE HEALTHCARE BUT FEWER HOSPITAL BEDS

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00

Industry in turmoil as rules-of-the-game change
Dateline: 12 June 2015
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Group, recently ranked number one in the United States for the 20th consecutive year, yesterday released plans for a massive restruc...

PIRATE COMPANY BUYS CANON

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00

Profitable copy-cat entrepreneur buys failing real thing
Dateline: 26 December 2012
Vietnam's Chinese-owned CanDo has been brazenly copying Canon's consumer products for the past five years, initially targeting the Chinese market but more recen...

GOVERNMENT GETS REAL

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00

Democrats propose to vote someone out of government each month
Dateline: 1 April 2008
The traditional run-up to the presidential election is being heavily influenced by the seventh season of American Idol. Yesterday's final garnered more than 100...

LAST ADVERT FLIGHTS ON TV

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 May 2006 00:00:00

Point-of-Purchase interaction finally kills the TV ad
Dateline: 12 March 2012
In 1941 Bulova became the first to advertise on TV, to a tiny audience of a few hundred New Yorkers. As last night’s episode of "Desperate HouseHusbands" ended...

THE THREE OLD MEN OF EUROPE CRUMBLING

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 May 2006 00:00:00

EU contemplates expulsion of founding members
Dateline: 12 June 2010
Tomorrow the EU will table a proposal to jettison three of its founding members.
For years Britain's Sir Tony Blair had warned that Europe was falling behind ...

BIRD FLU PLAGUE CONTAINED AMID VAST TRADE DISRUPTIONS

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 May 2006 00:00:00

Scenarios speed business and government response
Dateline: 7 April 2009
The Bird Flu pandemic has been contained - thanks largely to the efforts of futurists and scenario planners, and the leaders who believed in them. Governments a...

TOYOTA LAUNCHES A CAR FOR THE GREEN CENTURY

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 May 2006 00:00:00

Flex-fuel hybrid promises to be the car of the future - today
Dateline: 9 March 2016
At the Beijing motor show, the world's largest auto event, Toyota today unveiled the 'car of the eco-age' - the Lexus Futura. This hybrid-engine flex-fuel compa...

DOCTORS PROFITEERING FROM LONDON BOMBINGS

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00

Legal action exposes unethical professionals
Dateline: 1 September 2007
The ongoing hearings into unethical behaviour by professional firms around the time of the London bombings in July 2005 are uncovering the true extent of the pr...

ENERGY GLUT CREATES NEW TRADE CHAMPIONS

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00

Rich nations on the back foot as energy floods emerging economies
Dateline: 7 March 2019
The end of the oil age has heralded a glut in energy worldwide; but surprisingly the developing nations have been the first to benefit. While solving the 'energ...

MIAMI, NEW YORK AND BOSTON DEVASTATED

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Apr 2006 00:00:00

Canary Islands collapse results in multiple tsunamis
Dateline: 26 December 2011
Boston, New York and Miami were hit by 50-meter tidal waves in quick succession, starting at around 01:30 this morning.
It is believed that a minor volcanic e...

THE NEW CALL CENTER REVOLUTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00

Consumers don’t want to talk to machines any more
Dateline: 12 June 2007
The consumer campaign against infuriating automated call-centers is gaining momentum.
Last year, US computer expert Paul English created a ‘cheat sheet’ to get...

US DUMPS COPYRIGHT LAWS

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Mar 2006 00:00:00

This year there will be more authors than readers
Dateline: 12 June 2015
In an increasingly open world it seems that the idea of traditional copyright protection has just become an anachronism.
The internet, the cell phone and 'free...

THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY FIZZLES BEFORE IT STARTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00

Methanol seen as the dominant fuel of the future
Dateline: 15 July 2015
The hydrogen economy - with its vision of gas-guzzling engines replaced by hydrogen fuel cells that produce water instead of smog and greenhouse gases - may be ...

VODAFONE GIVES AWAY THE CROWN JEWELS

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00

World's largest operator gives the business back to its customers
Dateline: 8 October 2008
Vodafone stunned the world with its bold announcement yesterday - its new strategy will in effect put the proceeds of the business back into the hands of Vodafo...

24-HOUR AUDIT GUARANTEED OR GET YOUR MONEY BACK

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00

Move over Big Four, Google's the new automated kid on the block
Dateline: 20 October 2010
Today, a ground-breaking technology was launched that will change the face of auditing forever.
In a monumental press conference, Google announced their lates...

GOOGLE GRID BECOMES THE REAL-LIFE MATRIX

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00

New strategy puts Google at the center of your world-view
Dateline: 11 July 2008
The last time anyone attempted to catalog all the world’s knowledge was in 300BC at the Great Library of Alexandria. They were said to have gathered copies of 7...

RETAILERS SET TO LEAVE SHOPPING CENTERS

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Feb 2006 00:00:00

Will mega-malls become the ghost towns of the future?
Dateline: 11 February 2010
Since the iPod made digital music fashionable, digital options have eroded the markets of music, movie and computer games retailers. Those in large malls, depen...

HOW DID VALENTINE’S DAY GO FOR YOU THIS YEAR?

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Feb 2006 00:00:00

Enjoy the revenge of the digital cupids
Dateline: 14 February 2010
Today, I reflected on a New York Times article I’d read back in February 2006. I looked back in my files and found the exact statement I was looking for:

'SUPERSTARVE ME' CAUSES STORM

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00
Director starving on 'healthy' ready-meals
Dateline: 12 December 2009
Morgan Spurlok, whose controversial 2004 blockbuster 'Supersize Me' attacked McDonald's and fast food, is in hospital fighting for his life.
The 47-year-old ...

YOUR LATEST GADGET HAS ARRIVED - BY EMAIL

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00
Apple's Nanofax creates digital consumer products at home
Dateline: 5 January 2012
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, Apple's designers unveiled their latest strategic innovation. Dubbed the nanofax, this device is essentiall...

THE NO-SLEEP DRUG TURNS TEN

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00
East and West wage productivity war as the party goes on forever
Dateline: 12 November 2017
Do you remember a time when sleep was 'necessary' and 'good for you'? You also can't remember a world without always-on smart phones!
Last night, PerkBon, the ...

A BRAND NEW OPERATING SYSTEM FROM MICROSOFT

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Jan 2006 00:00:00
Information security and privacy come centre stage
Dateline: 7 June 2011
In a major move Microsoft has announced the availability of the beta version of its much-touted new operating system - but with an unexpected competitive twist....

CHINA SUES US FOR IP THEFT

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00
US sued for compulsory licensing of revolutionary biotech treatment
Dateline: 8 August 2012
The WTO was in uproar today as China's trade representative, Hu Way Lo, announced a suit against the US government. "We have been patient but the US has now lic...

THIS IS THE VERY BEST NEWS FROM THE FUTURE

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00
New award captures the spirit of 'Learning from the Future'
Dateline: 5 January 2009
The Wall Street Journal's annual innovation awards were this year coupled with FutureWorld's 'Best Headlines from the Future' award.
The FutureWorld awards are...