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TAKE THE TUBE TO NEW YORK

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 May 2012 00:00:00

Vacuum tube transport gets you there in double-quick time
Dateline: 15 May 2022
It's been a decade in the building, but yesterday the super high speed tube line was officially opened. Four times faster than a jet plane, the SpaceTube links ...

LIFE AFTER THE INTERNET

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 May 2012 00:00:00

Connectivity is now more than a human right - it's everywhere!
Dateline: 13 July 2018
We used to talk about Web 3.0, or the "Internet of things." And how quickly that vision has become a reality.
No-one even calls it the web anymore, or talks ab...

"WE DEMAND TO DIE!"

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 May 2012 00:00:00

200 year-olds demand the right to assisted death
Dateline: 20 October 2172
The Jezebel Assisted Living complex in Pinehurst, Florida is in uproar. More than 20,000 people live here, their daily activities governed and supported by rob...

IT'S THE GREAT JOBS REVERSAL

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00

New-age jobs flow back to West as technology booms
Dateline: 17 August 2017
In the 20th Century, with quality becoming commoditized, manufacturing competitiveness was all about labor costs. Jobs fled from the high-cost West to low-cost ...

GET TALENT FROM A BOTTLE

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00

Drink up and innovate with creativity on tap
Dateline: 7 May 2017
Now creativity and inspiration are simply a matter of popping a couple of pills and taking a drink of tonic. A new supplement for Alzheimer's patients, taken in...

DREAD DISEASES SHOCKED INTO REMISSION

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00

We're all electric - and it's saving our lives
Dateline: 30 July 2019
It's been many decades since we abandoned the barbaric practice of trying to cure mental illness with electric shock treatment. So it's more than a little ironi...

THE END OF HUNGER IN SIGHT

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00

Moringa wonder-plant brings food security to Africa and Asia
Dateline: 5 April 2019
Global poverty has been in decline for 25 years, and now hunger and malnutrition are a thing of the past, world-wide.
Although the wonder tree, Moringa oleifer...

I WAS ALMOST ME - BUT NOT QUITE

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00

The bid for a single digital identity fails
Dateline: 1 April 2017
We got so tantalizingly close to overcoming the world's digital schizophrenia! For a while, the vision of ditching all those dozens of passwords - for banking, ...

IF YOU'RE ANONYMOUS YOU'RE A TERRORIST

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00

United States targets anonymous users after big banks attacked
Dateline: 14 September 2021
"We, the free peoples of the world, have crippled the hegemon's ability to exact punitive interest penalties from their lenders and depositors. We have reset t...

CLONED BEEF BURGERS THE NEW TOP SELLERS

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00

Guaranteed to contain no meat harvested from slaughtered animals
Dateline: 12 June 2019
Burgers created from laboratory-grown beef have become their top earner says McDonalds marketing chief Ethel Bainridge.
"We have been able to create the taste...

YOUR NEW BOSS IS A MACHINE!

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00

Most business processes are now completely automated
Dateline: 15 January 2022
Back in 2011, global business and technology think tank FutureWorld created several scenarios for business life "Beyond 2020". One of these proclaimed that:
"...

HOME-MADE - THE START OF A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00

Maker movement moves to the mainstream
Dateline: 18 September 2017
Home-made devices and digital cottage industries driving the economy of the New World? It's not such a crazy idea. Just think of how the industrial revolution s...

DRUG DRONES SWAMP BORDERS

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Swarms of quadrotors overwhelm law enforcement with tons of cocaine worth billions of dollars
Dateline: 27 April 2017
More than 150 fast and high-flying aerial drones flew over the border from Mexico and crossed the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the last 24 hours. Each carrie...

FREE APP, DOWNLOAD NOW: COMMERCIAL DESTRUCTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00

It's the most dangerous malware ever developed, and it's available free to anyone
Dateline: 2 January 2013
During 2011 the Stuxnet worm targeted Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, specifically the Siemens components in it, and several other key industrial installations ...

NO PLACE TO HIDE IN THIS BRAVE NEW WORLD

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Protest grows against ubiquitous recognition
Dateline: 26 January 2017
Somehow, it wasn't supposed to turn out like this. I mean, it's a long way from George Orwell's 1984, but even so, I can't escape the uncomfortable feeling that...

ALL TECH AND NO JOBS

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Neo-Luddites are on the march as technology explodes
Dateline: 10 June 2017
Last year, advanced new technologies and nanotech production lines led to the creation of 12 million jobs in China. The problem is that these same market driver...

APPLE AND AMAZON IN RETAIL WAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Consumers no longer choosing devices but platforms
Dateline: 10 December 2012
The Christmas sales in New York and London have exposed what is being called "a war to the death" for digital adversaries Apple and Amazon.
The opposing strate...

WHO WANTS TO BE A CEO TODAY?

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00

High-flyers turn their backs on the corporate treadmill
Dateline: 9 October 2014
With the world as chaotic as it is and the myopic dedication demonstrated by top business leaders, young high-flyers are increasingly turning their backs on tra...

WASHING MACHINES GO THE WAY OF THE VCR

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Self-cleaning solutions strike at the heart of white goods and detergent industries
Dateline: 12 July 2020
We're on a summer holiday with the family and I'm 'thinking' this article into my xPad. I've just had a challenging discussion with my ten-year-old grandson.
"...

ONE ATOM TO RULE THEM ALL

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Nanotech dominates manufacturing as Invisible Economy booms
Dateline: 19 February 2019
There's a good reason they call it the "Invisible Economy." Most of the raw materials and sub-assemblies are too small to be seen with the naked eye. And whole ...

THE MICROWAVE GAVE MY TOASTER A VIRUS FOR CHRISTMAS

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00

And the washing machine has gone crazy
Dateline: 1 January 2013
The internet of things has its drawbacks. Now that everything is connected, all the time, they don't always play nice.
It's annoying, when you're sitting in a...

WEARABLE ELECTRONICS ARE JUST SO YESTERDAY!

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00

Computerized bio-implants are what make you cool
Dateline: 24 December 2019
Only a few years ago I had a wardrobe full of garments packed with electronic implants - then they were so cool. But this weekend, I trashed the lot!
The reali...

MEGACITIES HAVE TO DOWNSIZE

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00

United Nations blames supersized cities for world's social ills
Dateline: 15 March 2039
In a sweeping move, the United Nations has ordered the 75 largest megacities in the world to come up with strategies to radically reduce their urban populations...

CANNES 2020: GAMES OUST FILMS

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00

Directors lament the 'Good Old Days'
Dateline: 22 May 2020
Whoever would have thought, in the dying days of the 20th Century, that movies would one day be called 'intelligent entertainment'? 'My Life', the winning movie...

IT'S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00

Science has more profound impact on society and living standards
Dateline: 12 January 2021
David Pescovitz today released his report: "For the last ten years, my colleagues and I at the Institute for the Future have been researching the state of scien...

LIFE IS A GAME YOU CAN WIN

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00

Get bonus points for civic leadership and healthy living
Dateline: 19 September 2019
We have all become used to having everything tracked by our mobile devices and sensors. Wherever we go, our location is monitored. Whatever we do, a sensor some...

PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00

The multi-billion dollar business in 'wired' footwear and smart clothing
Dateline: 20 November 2014
Remember when shoes used to be just, well, shoes? Not anymore! Today's footwear does so much more than cover your feet. Footwear has evolved tremendously in the...

INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS UNDER THREAT

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00

Global Council of Tribes to petition the UN to review the Declaration of Human Rights
Dateline: 18 February 2019
The Speaker for the '99% Tribe' explained that the petition does not call for the end of individual rights, but will attempt to ensure that the rights of indivi...

THE GREAT FALL OF CHINA

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00

China's ghost cities stay empty as the artificial bubble bursts
Dateline: 8 August 2018
It was as inevitable as China's rise to the position of the most powerful economy in the world. Now it looks as though that title will return to the United Stat...

GLOBAL COMMERCE OCCUPIED

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00

Occupy The World strikes at the heart of the global financial system
Dateline: 20 October 2012
In a daring attack on the world's financial systems, the global 'occupy' movement yesterday hijacked almost every payment made in the entire world. The transact...

CHINA DEMANDS IMMIGRANTS NOW

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00

Falling population threatens economic miracle
Dateline: 15 August 2036
"I'm not sure what to expect, but it could be the largest human migration since the forming of the modern United States," says Rosemary Chen, a social historian...

SHORT TERM MARRIAGE REPLACES DIVORCE IN NEW WEDDING BOOM

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00

Generation C couples say "I do" - but not forever
Dateline: 1 May 2013
Why get married 'forever' and then go through all the trauma of filing for divorce? These days it has become fashionable to take a much more flexible approach. ...

POUNCING TIGER, STUMBLING DRAGON

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00

India takes on China in the new technology war
Dateline: 6 June 2021
The gloves are off. India and China are battling it out. No longer is India prepared to play second fiddle to China's economic might. In the last decade the tra...

THE AUTOMOTIVE DREAM IS OVER

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00

The young crave flashy phones - not cars!
Dateline: 11 May 2014
Oblivion is a sure thing when economists stop counting the things you produce. Now that 'New Car Sales' have lost their relevance as a key economic indicator, t...

GO BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE WIRELESS SPECTRUM

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00

For free energy and communication at light speed, take a walk on the bright side
Dateline: 15 August 2020
It's amazing how a few bright ideas can shift the world! Two breakthroughs have crept up on us and swept the globe - and cut the cost of connectivity and power ...

BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00

Like the Company Car of yesteryear, the Company Computer has become an anachronism
Dateline: 15 September 2013
Back in 2010, Gartner boldly stated that power was shifting from corporate IT departments into the hands of individuals; they underestimated the speed with whic...

NIGERIA LEADS THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00

As the African Decade draws to a close, there is a very clear new regional economic leader, and it's not South Africa
Dateline: 16 December 2019
Africa, the dark continent of the past, has enjoyed a decade of growth and prosperity, due in no small part to the resource-hungry giants of the East. China and...

SOCIAL MEDIA BECOMES THE NEW 'BOBBY ON THE BLOCK'

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00

Governments drop plans to block social media as PeoplePower takes to the streets
Dateline: 27 January 2014
Two years ago the threat that governments as ideologically diverse as Britain and China would seek to control and even shut down social media during times of un...

TWITTER FACES SANCTIONS AT UN

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00

Britain and China team up to block social media to curb riots
Dateline: 20 April 2012
Regent Street in London, once one of the most lucrative retail centers in the world, has been burning for two months. Apple's flagship store is a burned shell,...

NEW VIRUS OUTSMARTS SUPER VACCINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00

Draco wonder-drug outwitted by 'Smart Flu' super-bug
Dateline: 5 November 2021
A fearsome new threat to human health and comfort is breeding in our mucous membranes. Just when we thought it was safe to kiss and shake hands, a new 'intellig...

BIOFUEL BACKLASH

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00

Food prices plummet as fuel crops fail
Dateline: 9 August 2013
The world's romance with biofuel is over. Food prices are falling as farmers return to staple crops instead of competing with oil companies. And everyone's blam...

ORGANIC FOOD OFF THE MENU

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00

'Stubbornness and greed' destroy an industry
Dateline: 24 July 2016
It took just a few years to bring a once-flourishing industry to its knees - and insiders are blaming "stubbornness and greed" for the rapid demise of the organ...

AMAZON OPENS 100th CITY STORE

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00

Amazon eStore Hong Kong joins the high street line-up
Dateline: 22 October 2013
Amazon opened its one-hundredth city store yesterday, with queues of eager shoppers waiting to snatch up the opening specials on offer. And no, it's not fake, b...

EUROZONE SPLIT CREATES CUT-THROAT COMPETITION

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00

'Poor euro' drifts towards US$ 1.00
Dateline: 13 July 2017
It's been just three years since the Eurozone was split into two - but today it is difficult to remember the days when one euro seemed to be enough for everyone...

NAMIBIA STRIKES IT RICH

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00

Desert state becomes African oil and gas giant 'overnight'
Dateline: 20 July 2016
There's a new word in Southern Africa for oil - Namibia. Since the discovery of significant reserves of crude and gas a mere five years ago, the industry has ex...

POINT, SHOOT AND PRINT - IN 3D

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00

From camera phone to plastic clone in three clicks
Dateline: 5 July 2015
It's now a simple matter to create a bust of the company president or a replica of your favorite pet - just point, shoot a couple of times from different angles...

FACEBOOK TIME-SHARES HUMAN BRAINS

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00

First AI computer relies on sleeping students
Dateline: 18 May 2017
Hermann Goethe is asleep at home. A dense network of electrodes is attached to his head and neck. It may look like some bizarre behavioral psychology experimen...

ADVERTISING DIES A SUDDEN DEATH

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00

The new generation does not believe you anymore
Dateline: 2 April 2020
Visiting São Paulo in 2007, you would have been gob-smacked - a city free from advertising? Surely this was some kind of joke by an extreme right-wing governmen...

A WHOLE NEW LOOK AT POWER DRESSING

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00

Smart clothing pushes the boundaries of fashion and technology
Dateline: 12 February 2012
Did the phrase "hot" ever spring to mind as you eyed that curvaceous bikini-babe, or that handsome muscular hunk, depending on your preferences? Well, now techn...

SUPPRESSING BAD MEMORIES: BOON OR THE ROAD TO HELL?

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00

New drug to help us overcome mental pain stirs controversy
Dateline: 13 July 2017
Is it one more step towards creating a perfect life on earth for mankind - or a stumble closer to the mind-control horror of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'? ...

GERMANY POWERS DOWN ITS LAST NUCLEAR PLANT

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00

New Energy replaces nukes, saves money
Dateline: 6 June 2020
Germany has shut down its last remaining nuclear power plant, two years ahead of schedule. Supporters of the Greens and the Pirate Party staged a peaceful demon...

SMART BANDAGES SAVE LIVES

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 May 2011 00:00:00

Soldiers receive remote treatment via electronic wound dressing
Dateline: 5 April 2013
Denis Moore is awake and, more importantly, both his legs are still attached to his body. Moore was in a remote part of Afghanistan, serving with British force...

DARWIN AT WARP SPEED

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 May 2011 00:00:00

New species-on-demand with breakthrough gene discovery
Dateline: 10 December 2020
Evolution has traditionally been portrayed as slow and steady, but a breakthrough study in 2011 showed that nothing could be further from the truth. Charles Dar...

INSURERS GETTING TO KNOW THE REAL YOU

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 May 2011 00:00:00

Your social networking profile says it all
Dateline: 12 February 2012
Signing up for insurance now means less ink and more links. Complicated application forms have disappeared, but it's time to hand over the links to your persona...

POPULAR PROTESTS SPREAD ACROSS THE USA

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 May 2011 00:00:00

It's a revolution against democracy
Dateline: 1 December 2015
Thanksgiving Day will never have the same meaning again.
Last week, across the United States, more than three million people joined in popular protests not unl...

MY WIDGET WILL TALK TO YOUR GADGET

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00

And then we'll do lunch, or dinner, or something similar
Dateline: 20 April 2020
But first my app will check my office calendar, the car's servicing schedule, the fridge reminders, my medication schedule, your healthy dietary requirements, t...

FAKE FOOD FENDS OFF FAMINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00

Synthetic proteins and carbohydrates essential to safely feed burgeoning world population
Dateline: 1 May 2017
Manufactured and processed food is the healthy alternative these days. It's also more economically viable, and the only way to feed a global population that is ...

WALL STREET CRUNCH SPREADS TO MAIN STREET AND BEYOND

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00

Micro finance hits the skids: Beware of similar trends where you live
Dateline: 12 July 2013
The Credit Crunch of 2008 primarily hit 'Wall Street' and all associated with her. Think of this as Phase 2 of the Credit Crunch - and the worst hit are those a...

SPACE CRASH TAKES DOWN THE NET

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00

Multiple satellite pile-up causes global communications outage
Dateline: 15 March 2014
The solar flare that disabled an aging spy satellite was the root cause of the problem. With its auto-stabilizing thrusters out of action, the 'bird' went spinn...

PHARMA STOCKS SLUMP ON INSULIN SHOCK

editors@mindbullets.net — 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00

Diabetic treatment revolution sidelines the traditional
Dateline: 1 August 2016
Our bodies run on the glucose energy we get from food. The pancreas makes the hormone insulin which helps the body use or store glucose.
In people with Type 1...

APPLE FILES FOR CHAPTER 11

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00

From hero to zero in three years
Dateline: 21 December 2014
Just three years ago Apple shares peaked making it the most valuable company on the planet, topping Exxon at more than US$230 billion. Since then the oil crisis...

WALL STREET HEARS THE CLOSING BELL – FOR THE VERY LAST TIME

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00

NYSE shuts up shop as stock markets become irrelevant to new business and the economy
Dateline: 15 March 2016
It's become apparent to everyone that the stock market these days is just a giant online casino. As one commentator put it: "The stock market is becoming little...

GOOGLE ROBOTS BREAK UP TRAFFIC

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00

Driverless vehicles to ease rush-hour congestion
Dateline: 15 April 2015
"I'm still getting used to it," says Cath Roberts as we sit in rush-hour traffic together. Three cars in front of hers is an empty electric vehicle emblazoned w...

"OUR BUSINESS DOESN'T DO EMAIL"

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00

Socially-networked business: A step-change in thinking
Dateline: 12 June 2014
In 2000 it was not unusual for companies to say: "We no longer use faxes to conduct our business." Business without faxes? At one time that sounded inconceivabl...

OIL @ $200 - GOLD @ $2000

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00

MENA turmoil changes the rules-of-the-game
Dateline: 9 December 2012
MENA - the Middle East/North Africa region - once known for its dominant position as oil producer to the world, has been decimated over the past 18 months as it...

BREAKFAST WITH THE BB CLUB

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00

Ex-presidents and previous potentates lament their fate at the hands of the internet
Dateline: 14 July 2012
It's a beautiful summer's day as I stroll into the lobby of the Montreux Suisse Majestic Hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva. The group of famous, perhaps infamo...

WELCOME TO 'HOMO MOBILIS'

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00

We're all connected, all the time
Dateline: 20 February 2016
There have been plenty of milestones in the astonishing roll-out of mobile connectivity around the world - but today marks a new one: the first laser surgery pe...

THE BLACK SWAN TURNS TEN

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00

Do Nassim Taleb's aphorisms tell the real story?
Dateline: 28 February 2018
Nassim Taleb's ground-breaking book was published exactly ten years ago today and we celebrate its anniversary amongst some of the most "improbable events" the ...

IT'S SUPER-SLOW AIR TRAVEL AS FLIGHT 2.0 CHANGES THE RULES

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00

End of high-speed flying changes business and leisure travel
Dateline: 26 July 2052
Ah yes, I can still remember the days of dashing from New York to Paris in a few hours. Even a round-the-world trip from London to Australia took less than 24 h...

IT'S THE END OF LYING - BUT IS IT REALLY TRUE?

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00

Computer brain scans in courtrooms cause angry protests
Dateline: 20 December 2015
"Not guilty, your honour" has a new ring these days. Call it the ring of truth!
Ever since sophisticated brain scanning techniques were accepted as legal proce...

BUSINESS - THE ENGINE FOR SMART CITIES OF THE FUTURE

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00

Partnerships drive great service and green cities
Dateline: 3 December 2021
Remember the days when towns and cities were 'owned' and poorly managed by municipalities and local governments? Days of indifferent service, disinterested offi...

2010-2020: A DECADE OF STEP-CHANGE THINKING

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00

A review of the past decade’s most important trends – PART 2
Dateline: 1 January 2020
A review of the past decade’s most important trends – PART 1
Dateline: 1 January 2020
Life found in space - but not quite what we thought
Dateline: 25 December 2018
The world awoke this Christmas morning to the dramatic news that the answer to one of the great questions of all time had been found - we are not alone in the u...

THE NEW INFORMATION HAVES & HAVE NOTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00

Global divide in openness becomes basis for economic war
Dateline: 11 June 2018
It's been a long time coming, but the world has really crystallized dramatically around two extremes - the quest for freedom of speech and openness, and the tot...

IS OPENNESS THE END OF DIPLOMACY?

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00

WikiLeaks anniversary challenges a transparent future
Dateline: 12 May 2019
On the tenth anniversary of WikiLeaks opening its electronic doors, it's perhaps appropriate to consider the impact that the crusade for increased openness and ...

WIKILEAKS DECLARED ENEMY OF THE STATE

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00

President Sarah Palin equates WikiLeaks with Al-Qaeda
Dateline: 16 September 2013
WikiLeaks has joined the 'Axis of Evil'. The latest revelations of US military plans led to the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers. President Sarah Palin h...

ROBOT BRAIN WINS RAT RACE

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

Robot controlled by brain 'grown in a dish' beats live rodent in problem solving exercise
Dateline: 24 November 2014
Giving the term 'lab rat' a new meaning, scientists have successfully cultured rat brain neurons onto a robotic controller. But that was four years ago. Now the...

BANKS GET FOUND OUT

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

How they continued to profit in a sawtooth no-growth economy
Dateline: 31 May 2012
Everyone says they're not surprised, but today's revelations in the New York Times and Britain's The Independent have shaken the masters of the financial univer...

PICASA HELPS YOU SEE BETTER - WITHOUT GLASSES

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

First photo-editor downloaded into the visual cortex
Dateline: 12 December 2021
Yesterday's press conference at the Institute for Optometry showcased a step-change innovation in health care, but it must have sent shivers down the spines of ...

POST NEW-AGE SURVIVORS ADOPT AGE-OLD LIFESTYLE

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

Last 12 million humans live the Early Age way to survive
Dateline: 8 August 0001 NA (New Age)
As the Mayans had predicted, the world as we knew it did end sometime after 2012. The first planetary shock was the gigantic solar flare which knocked out all c...

AIRLINER 'CRASHES' AS HACKER GETS CONTROL

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

Computer virus used to take over plane's autopilot
Dateline: 9 November 2013
For the first time, an aircraft has been taken over by a hacker rather than a hijacker. In a bizarre incident over Eastern Europe yesterday, the captain of a pa...

FREE WINDOWS FOR FLEXIPADS

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

Microsoft and Facebook go 'beyond zero' with free software and access for tablet computers
Dateline: 17 October 2012
Microsoft has stunned the tech world with the announcement that they are giving away Windows software for free. But to be fair, there is a catch. Windows Cloud ...

EARTH 'ATTACKED' BY THE SUN

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

Solar storm creates techno chaos and climate change
Dateline: 13 December 2013
Welcome to Blackout Friday. Yes, it's Friday the 13th. You probably won't be able to read this on your flexipad until systems are restored next week, when the c...

US BANS HELIUM EXPORTS IN ELEMENT TRADE WAR

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

China's medical and consumer electronics manufacturers in turmoil
Dateline: 15 August 2015
In a widely expected, but controversial, move the US has banned all helium exports to China and its major trade partners, following China's banning of all rare ...

'FRUGAL' IS THE NEW 'COOL' AS EU INCENTS 100% RECYCLED GOODS

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00

Antiques industry lauds new environmental moves
Dateline: 13 September 2015
European Union regulators are being hit by severe criticism from furniture manufacturers as they plan to launch new environmental incentives.
Part of the new p...

AIDROID, YOU READ MY MIND

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00

Sony's new personal robot has one distinct advantage - it literally knows what you are thinking, all the time!
Dateline: 27 July 2020
It's the latest thing in personal service and home care in Japan. Especially for the growing senior class of citizens, who are increasingly relying on their mec...

SMARTPHONE VIRUS SPREADS USER DELIGHT

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00

Networks collapse as Machine-to-Machine app connects users
Dateline: 16 June 2012
The source of a viral Application giving smartphone users free connectivity was revealed at the World Broadband Conference today. It is a rogue App using Machin...

FUEL AND FOOD CRISIS SPARKS NEW GLOBAL INFLATION SPIRAL

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00

Millions of automobiles and western lifestyles push China's consumption beyond sustainable limits. It's another '70s style stagflation scenario.
Dateline: 25 August 2017
Even as computers and electronic devices become as cheap as the value of their waste components, prices are rocketing up for gasoline, diesel and food products....

GET A SKYPAD FOR $40

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00

Best Buy is offering a killer deal on a fully loaded tablet computer
Dateline: 26 August 2016
Personal computers aren't quite free, but they might as well be. Now Best Buy has launched a deal on the Acer SkyPad that sounds like small change: $40.
Made ...

CROSSING BORDERS WITH FACEBOOK

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00

Facebook passport accepted for travel to US and EU
Dateline: 15 August 2016
John Davenport, an IT engineer from London, waited in line at immigration along with the 400 others who had just disembarked from flight BA412 from London to Ne...

HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY CRUMBLES AS MEGA-BUG EPIDEMIC BALLOONS

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00

Antibiotics impotent in face of hyper-speed bacterial evolution
Dateline: 12 November 2022
As the northern countries head into winter, experts predict that more than 100 million people will be at risk of succumbing to new bacterial assaults during the...

'BIOLOGICAL' BUILDINGS BLOOM

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00

Photosynthetic systems take life to the moon
Dateline: 10 August 2018
Organic Buildings unveiled its latest crop of bio-solar systems today and set its sights on the moon. Investment in nano-technology linked to the natural photos...

IBM EYE-EYE PAD DESTROYS THE ENTIRE VALUE CHAIN

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00

From designer straight to desk-top manufacturing at the point of usage
Dateline: 17 June 2020
Over the past two decades we have become used to our consumer electronics being made in Asia.
Even though there are ever-more disturbing reports of inhuman co...

PERENNIAL CORN IS THE FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00

New grains that grow all year round transform food production
Dateline: 1 May 2018
The launch of perennial wheat hybrids last year has been upstaged by another new crop - All Season Maize. Now corn farmers can stick to what they do best, all y...

ROBOT ARMY INVADES ZENUTIA

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Big Dog leads the charge while Taranis provides air cover
Dateline: 7 April 2016
It’s an open secret that NATO has been planning an invasion, but the ‘troops’ sent in to ‘restore democracy’ are quite unusual. For the first time in a conventi...

CLIMATE CHANGE FORCES PROPERTY RETHINK

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Sustainable technology starts a green housing boom
Dateline: 12 June 2015
Empty properties from 2009 still litter the global beach-front. Elsewhere new developments incorporating only efficient solar systems producing energy and fres...

FOOD IS NOTHING BUT I.P.

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Billionaire digital chef creates the ultimate franchise
Dateline: 12 October 2023
When the first 3D ink-jet printers appeared, they were typically used for high-tech applications that could justify the cost. Leading-edge medicine was an early...

FANS LOVE INTERACTIVE HIGH-TECH WORLD CUP

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00

New technologies give massive boost to the bottom line
Dateline: 28 June 2018
It seems like the furor around 'the bizarre secret society of fallible referees' that so dominated the 2010 World Cup is now a distant memory. Technology has fi...

AVATAR WARS: CLONE vs ROBOT

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00

You can't live forever, but your avatar can - with your brain
Dateline: 23 June 2025
There's a battle brewing in the avatar industry. The battle for your mind. Your brain. Or to be more specific, the backup of your brain.
The contenders are Clo...

GOODBYE SILICON, HELLO CARBON

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00

New forms of carbon are grabbing the technology spotlight
Dateline: 27 March 2017
Once, the center of hi-tech development was called Silicon Valley. But silicon is rapidly becoming a thing of the past as carbon emerges as the new super-materi...

SHELL VS BP: HBR VIEW CREATES STIR

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00

Could the Gulf disaster have been prevented by thinking differently?
Dateline: 12 July 2011
An article in this month's Harvard Business Review, primarily focusing on BP's arch-competitor Shell, contains lightly-veiled criticism of BP's thinking in the ...

IS THIS THE END OF INNOVATION?

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00

The pace of technology advances slows as all invention is outsourced to computers
Dateline: 3 March 2033
We are in trouble. We've reached the end of the road. Like the mythical serpent devouring itself from the tail, we have progressed in ever decreasing circles, u...

IT'S AN ONLINE WORLD AS 'PEOPLENET' TAKES OFF!

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 May 2010 00:00:00

Human-to-human transmission wins the day for mobile broadband
Dateline: 14 September 2019
First we tied the world in a tangle of copper cables. Next came miles of fiber optics. And all the time, the ultimate communications conduit was right there, un...

RENT A FLYING CAR FROM AVIS

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 May 2010 00:00:00

Computer piloted 'transformer' vehicles cleared for public use
Dateline: 8 May 2021
Ever since DARPA's 'Flying Hummer' known as the Transformer X made its debut, people have been champing at the bit to get a chance to use them for personal trav...

A WORLD WITHOUT JETS

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 May 2010 00:00:00

Ten years after the impact it's a new business order
Dateline: 1 January 2023
In 2010 the impact of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud created surprising turmoil. But, in no way did it prepare us for the New Year asteroid impact of 2013.
W...

COMMUTING IS SO COOL IN THE iCAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 May 2010 00:00:00

Road rage and accidents are a thing of the past now that we've got Apps-for-Cars to keep the traffic moving along
Dateline: 15 March 2017
It all started before I even got out of bed! A message on my bedroom smart-wall warned me that a burst water main was slowing traffic, and suggested I spend the...

MIGRATION SPLITS US UNITY

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00

State-specific laws creating 'District 9' - say critics
Dateline: 10 October 2018
It's been a turbulent decade for law-makers in the USA. Beyond regulations controlling the banking industry, the number one divisive issue has been legislation ...

AFTER ASH - END OF GLOBAL CRASH

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00

The superfast rail link between London and Hong Kong is just one of the ways the world is coping without regular jetliners
Dateline: 27 March 2025
The train which arrived at London's St Pancras station today has taken a mere four days to travel from Hong Kong. On board were a number of tourists, a few bus...

STOCKS SOAR AS NANOTECH BOOMS

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00

Twenty years after the dotcom peak we are experiencing a euphoric bubble built on nanotech. Will this new spurt of "irrational exuberance" lead to another crash?
Dateline: 10 March 2020
On 10 March 2000 the NASDAQ hit an all-time high, heralding the peak of the dotcom boom. Two years later, it lay in ruins as the companies tanked. Will this sur...

FREE ONLINE NEWS? THAT'LL BE £1!

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00

The young generation says: You've got to be joking
Dateline: 1 December 2010
Since the Murdoch group of newspapers, including The Times and The Sunday Times, started charging for online news from June this year, their revenue expectation...

CALENDAR GOES METRIC TO MATCH EARTH'S NEW ORBIT

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00

Today is the first day of the ten-month year
Dateline: 1-Four 2031
Things are finally beginning to settle down again after the great asteroid impact of 2029. The earth has been thrown into a slightly lower orbit around the sun,...

REVOLT AGAINST 'THE INTERNET BEAST'

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

Resistance to digital media spreads
Dateline: 3 November 2015
With every new interactive innovation, with each new communications device, so interconnectedness grows - leaving very little time for face-to-face relationship...

APPLE, AMAZON E-PRICING OVERTURNED

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

eBooks, eMovies and eMusic "rip-off" stopped by social networks
Dateline: 8 November 2012
No one really knows how Apple managed to get away with its iTunes pricing for so long, but now consumers have teamed up on social networking platforms to take e...

TAX BECOMES CITIES' BATTLE GROUND

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

Political opportunism trumps long-term competitiveness
Dateline: 12 January 2016
Almost a decade of somewhat desperate attempts to regain economic stability has seen countries adopt vastly different strategies to recover from massive nationa...

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 of 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...

SPAMMED OR SCAMMED? BLAME THE PRESIDENT

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00
George Bush spreads new virus from his smartphone
Dateline: 1 January 2007
If you've just tried to call your husband and you get your mother's mobile number, then you've been the victim of the latest smartphone spam-scam, and you know ...

PARIS HILTON OPENS THE STELLA FOR CHRISTMAS

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00
Welcome to the hotel at 'the edge of the world'
Dateline: 22 December 2017
The Stella Hilton officially opened for guests in time for the Christmas holidays. The glittering 'first night' featured Senator Charlize Theron and veteran spa...

WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE FOREVER?

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00
You'd better check how many years you can afford
Dateline: 13 September 2025
Two decades ago, Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey were often considered the lunatic fringe of science. Living forever? What nonsense!
Then, ever so slowly, thei...

RIVAL AIDS VACCINES SET FOR RELEASE

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00
Breakthrough by South Africa and India leaves West gasping
Dateline: 13 November 2009
No fewer than three rival vaccines for AIDS are now awaiting final global drug approval, following breakthrough discoveries by South African and Indian scientis...

CHINA'S ATTITUDE TO IP BECOMES WORLD NORM

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00
Western ideals seem unable to shape the future
Dateline: 12 September 2015
To a time-traveling visitor from 2005, this week's Auto Show in Frankfurt would seem like a very strange place.
Chinese, Korean and Indian firms are openly sho...

CAN I TRUST YOU, MOM, OR IS THAT GOOGLE CALLING?

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00
Trust and identities blur in a world without wires
Dateline: 5 March 2010
Thanks for the information - but where did it come from? Mom says she got it from Google - so it must be true. In today's fast-paced, connected world, the conce...

IT'S OFFICIAL: PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER YOUR BUSINESS' MOST IMPORTANT ASSET

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Nov 2005 00:00:00
Global HR conference endorses a new role for HR
Dateline: 24 September 2015
What started out as a gradual realization that corporate hierarchies were going the way of the dodo, has turned into a fashionable new embrace of the 'business ...

MICROSOFT WINS WITH WINDOWS ON PHONES

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00
Smartphone space now dominated by Windows Mobile
Dateline: 13 January 2008
Despite analysts' predictions to the contrary, Microsoft has come out on top with its latest smartphone software. Symbian sees declining market share as ever mo...

NETWORKED ROBOTS ALL OVER MY HOUSE & GARDEN

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00
Is this my worst nightmare, or perfect Utopia?
Dateline: 12 November 2015
Ever since Karel Capek coined the term 'robot' in his 1920 play Rossum's Universal Robots, we have associated these 'working machines' with the human form. That...

VIRTUALLY PERFECT

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00
V-Man now the top e-mobile application for women
Dateline: 14 February 2012
Single women the world over have discovered the perfect man. According to 3G.com, V-man is now the top selling smartphone application among female subscribers. ...

GETTING OUR KNICKERS IN A TWIST OVER CHINA

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00
Boris Johnson says our fears are misplaced
Dateline: October 2005
China is becoming in our imaginations the fashionable new dread, the incubator of strange diseases, a vast polluted landscape of Victorian factories where cooli...

DISASTERS NOW BIG BUSINESS

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00
Fortune launches Non-Profit Top 100
Dateline: 7 September 2009
As man-made and natural disasters grow in frequency and scale, the importance of aid has increased proportionally. Every major disaster gets prime-time media co...

THE LAST VW ROLLS OFF THE WOLFSBURG PRODUCTION LINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00
German economy gets to grips with the death of an industry
Dateline: 19 December 2011
Despite recent forecasts that more cars would be sold in China and India during the next twenty years than had been sold world-wide in the past hundred, it was ...

PLAYSTATION NOW #1 HOME SERVER

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00
PC and Windows sales fall as game consoles take charge
Dateline: 1 October 2010
If your middle-class home doesn't have one then you're in the minority, you're no longer cool - and that's OFFICIAL.
British Consumer Council research has est...

NANOTECH BITES PLATINUM PRICE

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00
New exotic materials threaten old resource stocks
Dateline: 11 October 2009
ZChing, the Chinese nanotech firm, has launched its first commercial product - and it's creating chaos in the platinum group market for catalysts worth US$10-12...

IT'S WAR IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00
Taiwan's Declaration of Independence ignites conflict
Dateline: 1 September 2008
Mounting tension across the Taiwan Strait erupted into force this morning when the Chinese military fired numerous DF-11 short-range ballistic missiles at the c...

US TREASURY LAUNCHES eDOLLAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Sep 2005 00:00:00
Credit cards & PayPal threatened by electronic cash
Dateline: 9 November 2009
The retail banking industry stands on the edge of a crisis today after the US Treasury announced it would start issuing digital cash.
The new eDollars will run...

DID YOU CURSE YOUR PHONE TODAY?

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Aug 2005 00:00:00
Phone rage now a bigger psychological problem than work stress
Dateline: 5 January 2009
Roger Kaputnik was arrested yesterday for torching his phone - in the middle of downtown Manhattan traffic. "I just couldn't take the disconnects anymore," he w...

COMMODITY PRICES CRASH ON LOW CHINESE GROWTH

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00
Resources and agriculture hardest hit; consumer spending to slump
Dateline: 12 September 2014
It's been a tough year for resources stocks.
For much of the past two years steel, coal and platinum futures have been in decline. Now it seems that was just t...

VIRTUAL REALITY GEARS UP E-COMMERCE BOOM

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Aug 2005 00:00:00
It's the end of call centers as avatars provide the human touch
Dateline: 1 July 2012
With the launch of the new OmegaWorld virtual reality browser, shopping is much more of a 'real' experience. Stroll down the virtual high street, and all the st...

US GOVERNMENT SCRAPS PERSONAL INCOME TAX

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Aug 2005 00:00:00
President kick-starts stalled economic growth
Dateline: 9 February 2009
Fulfilling election promises regularly made by losing presidential candidates, newly-installed US President Hillary Clinton today announced that the US would be...

CHINESE ECONOMIC OPTIMISM FALLS ON NEW JOBLESS DATA

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00
The 'Chinese Century' comes to a grinding halt
Dateline: 1 April 2015
One hundred million people are now out of work in what has been the world's fastest growing economy. Figures released by the Chinese government are thought to b...

CLIMATE CHANGE & BACTERIA NOW BLAMED FOR FUEL CRISIS

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00
Prices soar on slump in biofuel and crude production
Dateline: 19 August 2017
Now that it's largely an organic industry, the market price of fuel is subject to the vagaries of the weather. In the past, the fuel price was controlled by Ara...

CHINA MOVE TRANSFORMS WORLD TEXTILE INDUSTRY

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Jul 2005 00:00:00
'Cheap' to 'one stop shop' takes West by surprise
Dateline: 19 June 2011
For years, Chinese textile workers have worked their fingers to the bone, three shifts a day, seven days a week. With average labor costs as low as US 60 cents ...

DOES YOUR LIFE SUCK? GO GET ANOTHER ONE!

editors@mindbullets.net — 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00
Virtual second lives displace reality and earn hard cash
Dateline: 8 June 2008
David Jones, a student at Stanford, admits to spending ninety percent of his free time as Rinswynd in secondlife.com's virtual world. "I meet people, discuss po...

THE #1 DESTINATION FOR MEDICAL TOURISM: INDIA

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00
Surgery plus holiday proves irresistible combination for 40 million Americans
Dateline: 12 February 2010
It's easy to understand why India has become the first choice for surgical procedures for the 40 million Americans without health insurance. Private medical cos...

PHILIPS, VODAFONE AND NETWORK TEN LAUNCH FIRST RE-USABLE NEWSPAPER

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Jun 2005 00:00:00
Blurring the line between reporters and newscasters
Dateline: 13 March 2010
On the train this morning I downloaded a complete copy of The Times onto my phone and then folded out a tabloid-size screen to read it all in glorious graphic c...

EU SUES CHINA FOR POLLUTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00
Ed Fagan counts the cost of cheap industry in billions of euros
Dateline: 20 April 2009
In the largest class action suit to date, Ed Fagan is taking the Chinese Government and industry to the European Court of Justice for the damage caused by decad...

"A DONKEY COULD DELIVER CHEQUES FASTER THAN BANKS CAN DEPOSIT MONEY INTO CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS"

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Jun 2005 00:00:00
In this high-tech age why does your money still travel at a snail’s pace?
Dateline: 12 February 2009
That May 2005 statement from Ed Mayo of the UK's National Consumer Council certainly started a revolution in banking practice and has speeded up money transfer ...

WHICH WAY NOW FOR EUROPE?

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Jun 2005 00:00:00
EU ideals crumble as countries choose limited interdependence
Dateline: 19 November 2007
Since the new EU Constitution was soundly rejected in mid-2005, countries have been trying to sketch out alternate futures around which there might be general a...

RENT A ROBOT AND RETIRE

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 May 2005 00:00:00
HSBC lets you earn while you snooze
Dateline: 11 September 2095
With 60% of the population of the US and EU now over the age of 65, economists have expressed astonishment at the continued strength of the world economy.
"I...

THE HOUSE-PRICE BUBBLE BURSTS

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 May 2005 00:00:00
Global financial implosion as reality of low prices hits consumers
Dateline: 11 December 2007
With home ownership world-wide at record levels, the impact of a sudden fall in house prices has had a cataclysmic effect on economic activity.
Soaring intere...

US BRINGS BACK THE DRAFT

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 May 2005 00:00:00
Campus protests spill over into violence
Dateline: 3 March 2006
Twenty students and a teacher were gunned down in the grounds of Kent State University in continuing violent protests over last month’s announcement of the new ...

JOBS GALORE AT WOW!

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 May 2005 00:00:00
Steve Jobs is putting the world to work
Dateline: 21 March 2018
Today Steve Jobs announced that ten million vPods have been sold and that his World of Work enterprise has created more than ten million jobs. The workplace is ...

A LITTLE PESTICIDE A DAY WILL KEEP YOU HEALTHY

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00
...but organic farming threatens the world
Dateline: 1 December 2006
The news is finally out.
After months of rumors about pending new government announcements, studies released today by the EU and the US FDA expose the myths an...

MOVE OVER CNN, WE'RE ALL CONNECTED NOW

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Apr 2005 00:00:00
Phone blogs and podcasting transform traditional media
Dateline: 7 September 2009
Imagine you are a network news exec. What could you do with 900 million news reporters, all armed with cameras, and globally dispersed to capture eyewitness new...

BILL GATES REFUSED ENTRY AT HEATHROW TERMINAL 5

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Apr 2005 00:00:00
Is your virus software up to date, Mr Gates?
Dateline: 6 February 2012
This morning an embarrassed Bill Gates was refused entry at Heathrow Airport. The virus detection alarms went off as he stepped through Terminal 5's DNA scanner...

INDONESIA LOSES ITS MAGNETISM

editors@mindbullets.net — 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00
Earthquake triggers polar shift
Dateline: 18 July 2006
In the third such incident this week, an Indonesian military transport helicopter ferrying medical supplies over Aceh, ran out of fuel and crashed in the jungle...

BILL CLINTON'S IDENTITY STOLEN

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Mar 2005 00:00:00
Another major scam, and one in five of us will be next
Dateline: 16 December 2008
It just had to happen. After three years of escalating identity theft, a real celebrity has put the problem into the spotlight. Yesterday someone stole Bill Cli...

GROW YOUR OWN PHONE OR PLAYSTATION

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Mar 2005 00:00:00
New process enables home assembly of consumer products from organic materials and minerals
Dateline: 3 April 2021
Today, we are used to seeing biotech being used to grow replacement human organs and houses that grow themselves.
Now, Chinese technology giant International ...

SMART LUGGAGE IS 21ST CENTURY JEEVES

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00
When a suitcase is not just a suitcase
Dateline: 14 October 2008
"It's completely unfair," said Molly Abernathy. "We've been waiting here for two hours before departure and that man arrives ten minutes before and gets checke...

PERSONALIZED MEDICINE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00
Instant genetic profiles and personal prescriptions short-circuit clinical trials
Dateline: 1 October 2013
Recent ground-breaking developments in pharmaceutical genomics now enable individuals to access unique treatments based on their own genetic blueprints. The inc...

BIRD FLU PLAGUE ON ITS WAY TO USA AND EUROPE

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Feb 2005 00:00:00
China’s economy under threat as millions die
Dateline: 25 April 2009
South East Asia is under attack by deadly disease. With growing industrial development and market economies, the region was looking at a rosy future in 2004, wh...

MICROSOFT LOSES THE SMARTPHONE WAR

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00
Symbian cleans up in the hottest tech space since the PC
Dateline: 15 March 2007
It's official. Research group Gartner has reversed its 2003 prediction that Microsoft would triumph in the battle for the Smartphone platform.
In a rare publi...

FIVE MILLION PENSIONERS FORCED TO GO BACK TO WORK

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Feb 2005 00:00:00
Governments in turmoil as social security plans flounder
Dateline: 12 April 2009
In a sudden and unexpected move, EU policy on retirement was reversed yesterday as it became obvious that funds allocated for retirement benefits would be virtu...

SOMETHING'S EATING THE WORLD'S OIL RESERVES

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Feb 2005 00:00:00
New study shows resources being degraded at an alarming rate
Dateline: 18 December 2009
The briefing by Russia's Yukos oil conglomerate was just the thing to put you off your Christmas dinner.
Showing the most graphic images of bugs and bacteria i...

DOPING SCANDAL ROCKS TURKEY AND THE EU

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00
Protests and riots erupt over government-sponsored psycho-medication
Dateline: 25 November 2018
Turkey's accession to the EU is in doubt as rioting continues in Istanbul for the third week with red-rimmed images of the burning city beamed around the world....

DIAMONDS ARE FOR LIFE - AND DEATH

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Jan 2005 00:00:00
De Beers hit hard by new market realities
Dateline: 11 February 2007
Some years ago, Carol Shriner of Marquette, Nebraska, was turned into a yellow diamond. Her family was one of the first customers of LifeGems, an American compa...

NEVER CHARGE YOUR PHONE AGAIN

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Jan 2005 00:00:00
New nanotechnologies set to scramble battery makers
Dateline: 15 August 2011
From a consumer point of view Motorola's new technology announcements may just mean more convenience. For battery manufacturers this could be the death-knell to...

SAHARA SHRINKS AS PLANET COOLS

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Jan 2005 00:00:00
Technology makes water abundant and upturns economies
Dateline: 1 June 2033
Two of the world's greatest problems, global warming and water shortage have been solved in one fell swoop. A new UN report shows that the great deserts of the ...

LONELINESS NOW THE BIGGEST SOCIAL ISSUE

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Dec 2004 00:00:00
Men and women worldwide opt for a solo lifestyle
Dateline: 30 December 2010
This is perhaps the worst of seasons to be alone.
In the distant past, the soup kitchens of the Salvation Army helped the poor and homeless over times when the...

NESTLÉ JOINS PHARMA-FOOD REVOLUTION

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Dec 2004 00:00:00
Chocolate that makes you happy and sexy, keeps you healthy and sane - what more can you ask for?
Dateline: 23 December 2008
Just in time for Christmas, Nestle has released the news that the cocoa in their new chocolate products will help you fight cardiovascular disease, lower blood ...

US-LED COALITION INVADES IRAN

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Dec 2004 00:00:00
College geeks the virtual Top Guns in American forces
Dateline: 7 April 2013
Fox News and CNN have long been pushing the idea of "military action against Iran to restore democracy", but the nature of the invasion force has taken some by ...

WORRIED ABOUT FALLING EDUCATION STANDARDS?

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Dec 2004 00:00:00
Nine out of ten business executives fail a 1898 entrance exam for eleven-year-olds
Dateline: Today
The Spectator recently published a copy of a Victorian entrance exam in English history, geography, Latin and arithmetic for King Edward's School in Birmingham....

SA EX-PRESIDENT CHARGED IN WORLD COURT

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Dec 2004 00:00:00
AIDS denial leads to investigation of crimes against humanity
Dateline: 12 October 2030
South Africa's Thabo Mbeki looked old and weary in yesterday's BBC interview. He had just been informed that the International Criminal Court is to investigate...

EXECUTIVE TECHNOPHOBIA COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Nov 2004 00:00:00
Threats to competitiveness force radical new debate on growth and innovation
Dateline: 11 June 2007
Fortune magazine's June report on executive technophobia is sure to create a massive stir in business circles. Their study, in association with professional ser...

INFORMATION: THE NEW PRODUCTIVITY CURSE

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Nov 2004 00:00:00
New skills, jobs and technology to counteract information neuroses
Dateline: March 2008
McKinsey & Company today announced radical measures to help employees suffering from ever-increasing information overload. Symptoms have included fits of aggres...

BEEN RIPPED OFF ON THE INTERNET?

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00
Take revenge – join the Scam-Baiting craze
Dateline: 15 November 2005
Tired of being offered untold millions by a member of a Nigerian ‘Royal Family’ in return for a deposit of just $100? Exasperated that your banking details are ...

PRESIDENT CLINTON HERALDS THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Nov 2004 00:00:00
Canada joins the USA as ex-President George W Bush claims credit
Dateline: 4 July 2010
Today's Independence Day celebrations marked a return to Camelot as President Hillary Clinton celebrated the new economic boom and welcomed the former Canadian ...

TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES BREAK CONSUMER TRUST

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Oct 2004 00:00:00
Subliminal advertising is the new phobia for the 'thumbs & joystick' generation
Dateline: 19 June 2008
In a consumer revolt unprecedented in California's technological heartland, parents have taken to the streets to protest against what they claim are subliminal ...

THE EMBARRASSMENT OF THE WORLD'S LAST SMART CARD USER

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Oct 2004 00:00:00
Perfect 'Neighborhood Security' at last
Dateline: 1 January 2010
For me, this is a somewhat embarrassing story. Here was your entrepid reporter, trying to pay at a restaurant, with my trusty smart card, worn thinner through y...

WTO II: DAWN OF A NEW WORLD ORDER?

editors@mindbullets.net — 14 Oct 2004 00:00:00
Free Trade shows two faces: Unity and dissent
Dateline: 1 February 2038
Washington - Speaking from the White House this morning, George Bush III announced a wide-ranging new international trade agreement between the EU, AU and AsU t...

BABY BOOMERS TIP USA HEALTHCARE INTO CRISIS

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Sep 2004 00:00:00
Is it time to toss out the current system and start again?
Dateline: 3 January 2010
The effect of the imminent retirement of 78 million baby boomers is proving to be the tipping point for the straining healthcare industry.
Healthcare costs co...

NUCLEAR FUTURE A PERSONAL REALITY

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Sep 2004 00:00:00
GE launches community and home reactors
Dateline: 7 November 2022
During the past two decades global energy demands have doubled. The nuclear power industry has grown on demands for electrical power to fuel economic growth plu...

PART-TIME LOVER REPLACES TROPHY WIFE AS LIFESTYLE ICON

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Sep 2004 00:00:00
US President turns conservative social norms upside down
Dateline: 14 April 2021
Helen of Troy could have been the first trophy wife in recorded history. Many powerful men have succumbed to this temptation ever since. But how the tables have...

LOST IN TRANSLATION AT CONRANS

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Sep 2004 00:00:00
Technology and laughter stops diners in their tracks
Dateline: 15 August 2007
London's chain of Conran restaurants launched their new interactive multi-language menus over the weekend.
Attempting to serve London's increasingly cosmopoli...

SAO TOME CLEANS UP AT BEIJING OLYMPICS

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Sep 2004 00:00:00
Olympic mercenaries or new age trailblazers?
Dateline: 27 August 2008
The tiny island nation of Sao Tome and Principe today finished the Beijing Olympics with a massive 57 medal haul. This remarkable nation is home to just 200 th...

RETIREES OPT FOR ECO-VILLAGE SELF-SUFFICIENCY

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Aug 2004 00:00:00
Bartering a response to weakening cash-based economies
Dateline: 15 November 2020
A small village, quite aptly named Haven, may be the model for retirement in the future. Bartering talents, skills, produce and goods is how this community thri...

NANOTECH - THE NEW FRANKENSTEIN

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Aug 2004 00:00:00
Protests hit Clinique cosmetics launch
Dateline: 12 February 2009
A crowd of two thousand people dressed in their best impression of Frankenstein's 'monster' gathered around the entrance of Macy's in New York yesterday to prot...

FREE COMPUTERS FOR ALL

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Aug 2004 00:00:00
Spoogle puts the global brain in the palm of your hand
Dateline: 14 June 2012
No, this is not another ad for some internet computer service. Unless you are a mega-corp, your personal computing budget has gone to zero with the launch of Sp...

'RUSH SOCIETY' TEETERS ON BRINK

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Aug 2004 00:00:00
A search for moderation unites billions
Dateline: 18 October 2015
This weekend's ceremonies celebrating 'Peace and Harmony' in more than 200 global centers is the pinnacle of an informal movement that originated just ten years...

RETAIL GIANTS TO DOMINATE EU MARKETS

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Jul 2004 00:00:00
Tesco, Wal-Mart and eBay the only game in your weekly shopping
Dateline: 1 December 2010
Trading in shares of supermarket chain Morrisons (the owners of Sainsbury’s and Safeway) was suspended late last night after Morrisons' management blocked hosti...

SONY/IBM LAUNCH FIRST ACTIVE UNDER-SKIN CHIP

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Jul 2004 00:00:00
The convergence of in-body and in-home networking is here
Dateline: 15 September 2010
The chip business hasn’t exactly set the world on fire the last few years but today two consumer giants Sony and IBM got together to launch their entry into the...

AD-PROOF YOUR CHILDREN BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Jul 2004 00:00:00
Obese at 10 and bankrupt at 18, is this what we want for our kids?
Dateline: 17 October 2008
Children, teenagers and young adults have become the target of aggressive advertising campaigns for everything from fast food to credit cards. The result of thi...

GROW YOUR OWN TEETH, LIVER, PANCREAS & HEART

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Jul 2004 00:00:00
Personal stem cell medicine comes of age with Organs-R-Us IPO
Dateline: 15 May 2012
Hot science has suddenly become consumer mainstream. Yesterday's IPO of Organs-R-Us, based in San Diego, has mapped out the future of medicine and hospitals. Th...

COCA-COLA CEO CANDIDATE GETS THUMBS-DOWN FROM HI-TECH SIMULATION

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00
CEO selection at the company has never been stranger
Dateline: 19 June 2009
The two-man race for the top job at Coca-Cola finally came to an end today, with the unexpected appointment of Dave Delargo, over popular first choice Peter Wob...

MOVIE INDUSTRY'S DREAM CAR IS HERE

editors@mindbullets.net — 24 Jun 2004 00:00:00
This car knows who you are, what you like and where you want to go
Dateline: 1 December 2012
Ten years ago I drooled over a car in Steven Spielberg's movie "Minority Report", the Lexus LUXA MR 2020. Today I drove that dream car, almost a decade before t...

WATCH YOUR HOME BUILD ITSELF

editors@mindbullets.net — 17 Jun 2004 00:00:00
Housing shortage set to be eradicated by 'treehouses'
Dateline: 14 June 2019
Using new technology developed by DuPont scientists you can now grow your own home in three weeks. The starter pack comes complete with a DNA blueprint for the ...

PRINTING - THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING

editors@mindbullets.net — 10 Jun 2004 00:00:00
No more paper or ink, but everything else goes
Dateline: 17 June 2012
I spent a frustrating few days at the World Printing Industry Showcase in Beijing this weekend. As an old-timer of the printing industry, I simply didn't recogn...

MASS SUICIDE AT RETIREMENT HOME

editors@mindbullets.net — 03 Jun 2004 00:00:00
Plummeting global growth fuels public fear of economic collapse
Dateline: 20 May 2030
In a Milan retirement home yesterday 350 retirees, living in abject poverty, committed mass suicide. They left a suicide note pinned to the entrance of the sta...

MACHINE KILLER GETS LIFE

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 May 2004 00:00:00
Massive implications for future Bill-of-Rights
Dateline: 14 January 2038
The trial of Dr John Arbuthnot has been at the centre of press attention around the world for more than six months. Yesterday was judgement day. In a New York c...

DREAMCATCHER GRABS CONSUMER IMAGINATION

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 May 2004 00:00:00
Digital imaging files for Chapter 11
Dateline: 14 June 2017
Kodak, for years the leader in the photography business, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy today. Kodak’s demise brings to an end a memorable era when we had to ...

THIS SEASON'S HOTTEST MOVIE STAR: YOU!

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 May 2004 00:00:00
New digital toys for those who have everything
Dateline: 3 November 2007
Leroy Johannsen, BioTech entrepreneur extraordinaire, owns two yachts, six homes in exotic locations around the globe, the latest mobile phone, platinum golf cl...

HUMAN DRIVERS BANNED FROM ALL HIGHWAYS

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 May 2004 00:00:00
"We can save a million lives a year" says Automobile Association
Dateline: 2 November 2018
The British Government today passed legislation banning all human-driven motor vehicles from highways, effective one year from today. The move has been widely w...

SENIOR ARMY FLIES INTO WAR ZONE

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Apr 2004 00:00:00
High-tech Senior Service to implement latest Arab-Israeli peace deal
Dateline: 12 September 2073
The Senior Army will today be flying to the Middle East to monitor the peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority as they embark on the la...

HERTZ VOTED BEST AIRLINE

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Apr 2004 00:00:00
Boeing and Airbus in a tail-spin as the allure of personal planes hits air travel
Dateline: 16 July 2020
As the holiday season gets into full swing, some of the major air hubs in Europe and the USA are comfortably quiet. Chicago, Atlanta, Amsterdam and London's maj...

DIGITAL DOCTOR'S FIRST CALL

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00
Dramatic pre-emptive rescue on Cape Town's Table Mountain
Dateline: 12 September 2009
Herman Olifant, fifty years old and heavily overweight, should have taken more care climbing the steep slopes of Platteklip Gorge on Table Mountain, Cape Town. ...

MARKETING & ADVERTISING IN GLOBAL TURMOIL

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Apr 2004 00:00:00
Anti-spam movement creates massive push for change
Dateline: 12 February 2010
The global advertising industry has called for an unprecedented week-long emergency session in New York, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum, to expl...

ELVIS IS ALIVE!

editors@mindbullets.net — 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00
Your children could be your worst nightmare
Dateline: 1 April 2021
Dr Curtis Strange of Strange Industries – the secretive Russian biotech lab – has a new baby. He has cloned Elvis Presley.
Dr Strange has developed a reputatio...

OIL IS NOT A FOSSIL FUEL

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Mar 2004 00:00:00
Unlimited supply ignites world-wide turbulence
Dateline: 15 September 2008
Conventional wisdom had it for a long time that oil and gas was formed from the remains of plants and animals buried millions of years ago. Now we know that oil...

WHERE ARE THE NEW JOBS?

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Mar 2004 00:00:00
Venture capital is frozen by fear of failure
Dateline: 15 March 2007
Disappointing employment growth numbers out of the United States highlights the deepening employment crisis. Growth is positive, profits are up but there are fe...

WASHING GIZMO WAR TURNS DIRTY

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Mar 2004 00:00:00
Government, retailers and manufacturers turn on Sony
Dateline: 1 December 2009
UK retailers ganged up on Sony just in time for the Christmas season yesterday. Claiming that Sony’s new ClothesMan II product would seriously stall sales of wa...

SMART REFRIGERATOR ZAPS NANO-ADS

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Mar 2004 00:00:00
Cannes advertising first for technology that wows the family
Dateline: 19 June 2008
At the annual International Advertising Awards festival the overall winner of the Grand Prix was, for the first time, an ad for a refrigerator. The LG iSpy Home...

SUGAR AND FAT ARE THE NEW TOBACCO

editors@mindbullets.net — 26 Feb 2004 00:00:00
Coca Cola, McDonalds, Unilever and Nestle in the firing line
Dateline: 15 November 2008
In a surprisingly quick and controversial judgement the food industry has been served the most dangerous curved ball in its long history.
The fast-food industr...

USA SPLITS INTO THREE

editors@mindbullets.net — 19 Feb 2004 00:00:00
Desperate measures to avert political turmoil and ideological clashes
Dateline: 16 January 2009
The old USA is no more. It's official.
Yesterday, in three simul-taneous ceremonies across the former USA, three new presidents were inaugurated. Overnight, th...

LIBERATED FROM LANGUAGE

editors@mindbullets.net — 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00
Universal translation technology enables global lifestyles
Dateline: 10 March 2010
Our lifestyle correspondent Lillian Luo reports back after participating in IBM and Sony Ericsson’s beta program for the release of 'Myvoice', their universal t...

GIZMO TO END WASHDAY BLUES

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Feb 2004 00:00:00
Sony plus smart fabrics set to make washing and ironing a thing of the past?
Dateline: 19 March 2009
Dream a little. It's the year 2020. You're relaxing at home. Your grandchild is riding your knee like an imaginary horse.
Suddenly his eyes light up and he sa...

CEO CONVICTED IN LONDON FOR EMAIL CRIME

editors@mindbullets.net — 29 Jan 2004 00:00:00
Landmark ruling under tough anti-spam laws
Dateline: 17 May 2007
In an amazing outcome to the widely publicized High Court trial of Global Mutual Plc’s CEO, Sir Jim Humphrey-Smythe, a serious blow has been struck against spam...

NEW YORK EVENTS MARK THE END OF AN ERA

editors@mindbullets.net — 22 Jan 2004 00:00:00
Film as we knew it, is no more
Dateline: 19 August 2009
Broadway had never seen anything like it. A Saturday night wake of passionate proportions. Professional photographers, hobbyists and cinema buffs mourned the fi...

VIRTUAL WORLDS GROW REAL ECONOMIES

editors@mindbullets.net — 15 Jan 2004 00:00:00
Videogames are not just entertainment but a new commercial juggernaut
Dateline: 4 June 2006
Three virtual worlds that exist on the internet have grown economies with a per-capita income comparable to those of small countries and several more are well o...

RETIREMENT? FORGET IT!

editors@mindbullets.net — 08 Jan 2004 00:00:00
Furore as the EU scraps the mandatory retirement age as anachronistic and unaffordable
Dateline: 7 December 2010
The European Union debate over Europe's pension deficit and the mandatory retirement age has been one of the fiercest in its history. Last night, insults we...

INSPIRATION & DESPERATION – THE BEST & WORST OF 2008

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Dec 2003 00:00:00
MTV Awards capture the power of the connected individual and the worst of establishment thinking
Dateline: 23 December 2008
It has been a year of polarity. For some, as Frank Sinatra once crooned, “It was a very good year”, and for others, in the words of fave Australian grunge band,...

PHONE NUMBERS NOW HOT PERSONAL ASSET

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Dec 2003 00:00:00
Consumers take ownership and topple service providers' marketing strategies
Dateline: 14 December 2006
Mobile phones have become the de facto standard contact point for many people - especially with the explosion of small and networked business structures. Until ...

CAMPHONE TAX DISPLACES FUEL TAX

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Dec 2003 00:00:00
New tax to exploit rampant growth in universal communications
Dateline: 21 March 2010
In a surprising move, Evelyne Huytebroeck, Belgium's Minister of Finance announced in her webcast this afternoon that CamPhone Tax would be extended to include ...

IS THIS A FOREST OR A FACTORY?

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Dec 2003 00:00:00
Anglo's Mondi Ventures launches new BioPharming strategy to turn forests & fields into biological factories
Dateline: 2 August 2008
Anglo American, the tenth largest company on the FTSE100, announced a major medical breakthrough and a new strategy at its investors' briefing in London yesterd...

DIETICIAN REALLY GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN

editors@mindbullets.net — 27 Nov 2003 00:00:00
With Intel's new ChippIE food warnings have just become very personal
Dateline: 11 December 2009
Litigation against the food industry has left massive controversy in its wake and it's the consumer who has been the real winner. But in-body computing looks se...

WILL THE REAL 007 PLEASE STAND UP!

editors@mindbullets.net — 20 Nov 2003 00:00:00
Controversy rages at Oscars as Sean Connery and his youthful electronic avatar double share the Best Actor Award
Dateline: Sunday 28th March, 2010
So who was the real winner? Sean Connery, the imposing, but ageing, figure on the podium, or Sean Connery, the electronic avatar, with the characteristic gravel...

SOUTH AFRICA - HUB OF THE NIP N’ TUCK

editors@mindbullets.net — 13 Nov 2003 00:00:00
New technology and the demands of an ageing population make cosmetic surgery one of the fastest growing industries in the world
Dateline: 14th October 2008
Ten years ago cosmetic surgery was the province of the young and the early middle-aged, but platelet technology has changed that. The use of platelet gel accele...

HOMES SWITCH OFF BIG ENERGY

editors@mindbullets.net — 06 Nov 2003 00:00:00
Home users embrace cheap bacterial fuel cells, leaving the utilities dependent on business customers. Is it too little, too late?
Dateline: 29 February 2016
After reporting a massive loss in sales to the domestic sector, Electricité de France, the world's largest utility, announced today that its survival would depe...

THE DRAGON ROARS EAST

editors@mindbullets.net — 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00
‘One China’ is the response as Taiwan formally declares independence
Dateline: 10 July 2008
The world held its breath today as a superpower conflict erupted in East Asia. In response to Taiwan's formal declaration of independence, China is mar-shalling...

PERSONAL MEDICINES ON DEMAND

editors@mindbullets.net — 23 Oct 2003 00:00:00
Instant genetic profiles and personal prescriptions short-circuit clinical trials
Dateline: 1 October 2009
Life Sciences company Millennium Pharmaceuticals and its joint venture partner, DNAture Group, announced today that up to five years can be cut off new drug del...

OIL $5 A BARREL!

editors@mindbullets.net — 16 Oct 2003 00:00:00
THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL PLUMMETS AS THE USA SHUTS THE DOOR
Dateline: 3 February 2009
Global markets reeled today as America announced a total embargo on oil imports from the Middle East.
The move effectively smashes the stranglehold of OPEC. At...

NEW LIFE FOR BANKING

editors@mindbullets.net — 09 Oct 2003 00:00:00
There's no money in this bank at all!
Dateline: 21 June, 2007
If forecasts prove correct this could turn out to be the world’s most valuable bank. DNAture World Inc was launched yesterday as the world’s most ambitious proj...

BIG BROTHER CATCHES THE MAN!

editors@mindbullets.net — 02 Oct 2003 00:00:00
On the eve of a planned attack in the UK, the notorious terrorist Black Hammer is captured by Smart Dust
Dateline: 16 September 2008
Just hours before a planned terrorist attack of monstrous proportions, the elusive Black Hammer, the world's most wanted terrorist, was captured today at Heathr...

LIGHTS UP FOR THE SHOW!

editors@mindbullets.net — 25 Sep 2003 00:00:00
London’s new South Bank bathes in brilliant white light as the incandescent light bulb shatters
Dateline: 7 January, 2010
The lights went up last night in London as South Bank, the capital city’s new theatre and arts complex, was unveiled.
But this was no ordinary illumination. Ov...

AVATARS PROVIDE THE PERSONNEL TOUCH

editors@mindbullets.net — 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00
AT&T introduces BE ME 'conscious software' and says goodbye to its HR department
Dateline: 8 September 2010
If you are an employee of AT&T and ring the HR department tomorrow morning, you will be not be talking to a human being. You could be talking to Millie, Sam or ...

MASTERCARD AND VISA CHOPPED DOWN TO SIZE!

editors@mindbullets.net — 11 Sep 2003 00:00:00
The credit card game is over - the mobile phone wins
Dateline: 3 August 2009
Some of the most powerful icons of 20th Century capitalism were finally shut down last night by a real 21st Century villain: the mobile phone.
Over the past se...

ELDERLY CARE S-E ASIA’S 5th BIGGEST INDUSTRY

editors@mindbullets.net — 05 Sep 2003 00:00:00
Europe and America 'outsource' their ageing populations to reduce healthcare costs
Dateline: 12 August 2015
While the Western World has reeled from its rapidly ageing population, spiraling health care costs and falling pension benefits, the countries of South-East Asi...

WORLD'S FIRST CLONED HUMAN TURNS 14

editors@mindbullets.net — 04 Sep 2003 00:00:00
The unthinkable becomes passé
Dateline: 26 June 2020
Today human cloning is the de facto standard for wealthy couples to have the child they want. The once much-vaunted 'designer baby' is now an uneventful reality...

MONEY FROM MUCK!

editors@mindbullets.net — 28 Aug 2003 00:00:00
Plastic from food scraps - increased profits for Princess Cruises
Dateline: 14 November 2007
Who would have thought that a cruise liner could function as a ‘green’ factory? The luxury cruise ships that sail the world’s oceans carry a lot of waste. This ...

BEAM ME UP A BURGER, SCOTTY!

editors@mindbullets.net — 21 Aug 2003 00:00:00
Dinner from Sony – made atom by atom, molecule by molecule
Dateline: 9 February 2010
Pushing the trolley around the supermarket looks soon to become a thing of the past. You can now make almost anything you want, custom-built, right in your kitc...