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Edit China Daily 04 May 2016
A US consultant's new book takes wide-angle view of Chinese economy from reform and opening-up to current policies, Andrew Moody writes. Arthur R. Kroeber believes the debate about the Chinese economy is almost always polarized ... What Everyone Needs to Know, says as a result it is difficult to get the true picture ... Kroeber rejects those who forecast that China could even become the richest economy by the 2070s....

25 Things That Will Change Everything In The Next Century

Edit What Culture 02 Apr 2016
Doctor Who wiki. If you hopped into a time machine and went back 100 years, you’d find a world in the midst of the First World War, with one foot still in the Victorian era and one in the coming 20th Century ... But we’re getting ahead of ourselves ... 2026 (10 years). 25 ... Pixabay ... 24 ... 23 ... Given the variety of biotech upgrades available by the 2070s, there could be someone walking around with more non-biological parts than biological by this time....

Tories defying public anti-nuclear protests

Edit Press TV 04 Mar 2016
Despite public protests, the UK Conservative government has decided to announce £642m in further spending on a replacement for Trident nuclear submarines ... The £642m will bring money already spent on the Trident replacement program to £3.9bn ... The government is backing the building of the four new nuclear submarines that are scheduled to become operational in the early 2030s and continue through to the 2070s....

Michael Fallon to announce £642m spend on Trident replacement

Edit The Guardian 03 Mar 2016
Defence secretary’s move will make it harder to pull out of deterrent programme, whose cost has risen to estimated £31bn ... Fallon’s move on Friday will make it harder to pull out of the project, given that substantial sums will have already been spent ... The government is backing the building of the four new nuclear submarines that are scheduled to become operational in the early 2030s and continue through to the 2070s ... Related ... ....

Shadowrun Online Coming to Steam Early Access, New Screens/Video Unveiled

Edit GamersHell 11 Feb 2016
In Shadowrun Online players take on missions alone or together in the dystopian world of the 2070s, ranging from hustling a local Ork gang, to stealing valuable cargo from a ghoul-infested warehouse, through ......

Nuclear commission OKs Vermont Yankee decommissioning plans

Edit The Oklahoman 04 Feb 2016
MONTPELIER, Vt ... "We do not have any concerns or objections to the decommissioning road map that Entergy has developed," NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said Thursday ... The schedule Entergy set out for the various phases of decommissioning is "adequate to achieve VY license termination within 60 years of permanent cessation of operations," meaning the deadline for the work getting done would be in the mid-2070s ... ....

The Bhopal boy set to prove David Cameron wrong on carbon capture

Edit The Guardian 18 Dec 2015
The Conservative government didn’t have faith in CCS and ditched a £1bn plan, but at a lab in Imperial College London, Aniruddha Sharma believes his team has hit upon a chemical that could make decarbonising fossil fuels affordable. @dpcarrington. “I have seen first hand what can happen if pollution is not controlled,” says Aniruddha Sharma ... climate change ... He told the Guardian ... That could be in the 2050s, 2060s, 2070s ... ....

‘Fallout 4’s’ Retrofuturism Of The 1950’s Atomic Age In 2077 Is What Makes The Game Possible

Edit Inquisitr 09 Dec 2015
The satire of the 2070s in Fallout 4 inspired by the 1950s seems to be that of an alternate history completely. A divergence if you will. The art deco stylings of interior decorating to the retro-futuristic technology of robot butlers is reminiscent and likely inspired by those that had their ideas of a future. Fallout... ....

Arctic Ocean to have less ice, more water by 2050s

Edit The Hindu 13 Nov 2015
The entire Arctic coastline and most of the Arctic Ocean will experience an additional two months of open water each year by the 2050s, projects a new study ... They analysed multiple runs or “realisations” from a single climate model ... By the 2070s, the modelling study concluded, there could be close to 200 days a year with no sea ice at Drew Point, which is likely to worsen coastal erosion ... Keywords....

A Rising Tide

Edit The New Republic 09 Nov 2015
“When I started this job, people kept asking me, ‘Why do we have so much flooding now?’ and I said, ‘Well, there’s just one problem ... “This whole beautiful landscape’s going to change,” he said ... more than $400 billion. Once you account for future sea-level rise and continued economic growth, Miami’s exposed property will far outstrip that of any other urban area, reaching almost $3.5 trillion by the 2070s. ....

Less ice, more water in Arctic Ocean by 2050s, new CU-Boulder study finds (University of ...

Edit Public Technologies 02 Nov 2015
(Source. University of Colorado at Boulder). CIRES news release ... 'We hear all the time about how sea ice extent in the Arctic is going down,' says Katy Barnhart, who led the study while at CU-Boulder's Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) ... By the 2070s, the modeling study concludes, there could be close to 200 days a year with no sea ice at Drew Point, which is likely to worsen coastal erosion ... Contact. ... distributed by....

Shadowrun Chronicles: Infected! Released, Screens Unveiled

Edit Gamers Hell 28 Oct 2015
Revealing these screenshots, Nordic Games and Cliffhanger Productions announced the availability of Shadowrun Chronicles ... Continuing the Boston Lockdown story arc set in the 2070s of the Shadowrun timeline, Infected! features all new enemies, missions as well as skills, weapons and cyberware for the player's Shadowrunners and various improvements to balancing and solo gameplay ... ....

What Emma Thompson got right and wrong on climate change

Edit The Guardian 07 Sep 2015
In a BBC interview, actress Emma Thompson got some climate comments wrong, but the urgency right. Actress and Greenpeace activist Emma Thompson was interviewed on BBC Newsnight about Shell’s drilling in the Arctic and associated climate change threats ... This is incorrect ... …our best estimate is that the [fossil fuel intensive] emissions scenario would lead to a warming of 4°C relative to pre-industrial during the 2070s ... ....
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