Meeting notice: The 02.April.16 meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at 
the Royal East (782 Main St., Cambridge), a block down from the corner 
of Main St. and Mass Ave.  If you're new and can't recognize us, ask 
the manager. He'll probably know where we are.  More details below.

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Suggested topic:  Last minute crises interfered with my hope of 
extending and elaborating the topic discussed last time.  Maybe in 
May.  For this Tuesday, you might want to scan "The Next Sixty Years -
- A Business Perspective", from The Harrow Report, Feb 2002.  

Samples:

2004: First global consumer boycott (consumers linked via 
Internet boycott brands on a global scale). 

2006: Second economic crisis in Asia: Robotic production becomes 
cheaper than manual labor; Asia looses its advantage in the 
global economy.

2007: Advertising industry collapses: Most advertising in 
electronic media filtered out by intelligent agents; most private 
shopping done by bots based on product standards, price and 
ratings.

2010:  VR inspires an "Authenticity Movement".  Retail chains 
establish "authenticity policies". Info-fasting becomes global 
craze.

2025: Paper money taken out of circulation.


For the whole list see: 
www.theharrowgroup.com/articles/20020304/TNSY.htm





 

  

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In twenty years half the population of Europe will have visited the moon.

				-- Jules Verne, 1865

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Announcement Archive: 
http://www.pobox.com/~fhapgood/nsgpage.html.
	
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Legend:

"NSG" expands to Nanotechnology Study Group.  The Group meets on 
the first and third Tuesdays of each month at the above address, 
which refers to a restaurant located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

The NSG mailing list carries announcements of these meetings and 
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post to it and must post from the address from which you 
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