links for 2009-12-23

• IBM's Crystal Ball- Five Innovations That Will Change Society | MYGreen Education and Career
  Recently IBM has looked into their crystal ball to determine the 5 most important innovations that in the next 5 years will have the potential to radically change our lives. IBM’s fourth annual “Next 5 in 5″ is focused this year on Cities. The companies future thinkers have complied a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years:

  Here are the 5.

  * Cities will have healthier immune systems
  * City buildings will sense and respond like living organisms
  * Cars and city buses will run on empty
  * Smarter systems will quench cities’ thirst for water and save energy
  * Cities will respond to a crisis — even before receiving an emergency phone call

  (tags: ICT technology environment development IBM)
• brigstocke-copenhagen.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
  (tags: audio comedy environment climatechange cop15)
• BBC News – Egypt bans a protest march into Gaza
  Egypt has rejected a request to allow activists to march across the border into the Gaza Strip to mark the anniversary of last year's conflict.

  The Egyptian foreign ministry said the march could not be allowed because of the "sensitive situation" in Gaza.

  Over 1,000 activists from 42 countries had signed-up to join "the Gaza freedom march" planned for next week.

  Egypt warned that anyone attempting the crossing from Egypt would be "dealt with by the law".

  (tags: egypt gaza police humanrights activism israel)
• Processor Editorial Article – New IT Leaders: Don’t Be A Snob
  (tags: ICT leadership business management)
• Joss Garman: Copenhagen – Historic failure that will live in infamy – Commentators, Opinion – The Independent
  rips the bullshit accord apart
  (tags: cop15 environment climatechange activism politics)