Yearly Archives: 2012

Energy Update: Solar is Taking Off According to this BP Report

If you are not following the energy industry mix closely then you probably are unaware of just how much new solar capacity has come...

Communications in the 21st Century – Part 2: Breaking Down the Barriers by 2100

The digital revolution is a half-century old but for most of us our interaction with it comes through a keyboard and mouse. Our software...

Energy Update: Home Energy Storage Technology Goes Commercial

Panasonic is the first company out of the gate to begin mass producing home energy storage systems. For those of you who have a...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for July 6, 2012

This week saw a major scientific discovery announced coming from experiments at CERN. We begin our weekly headline review with this story and then...

Materials Update: The Graphite Revolution

Graphite is the substance we call lead in our pencils. The word is derived from the Greek verb meaning "to write." Of course it's...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for June 29, 2012

If you are a new reader of 21st Century Tech then welcome. Each week we publish feature articles, industry updates and weekly headlines. If...

Human Population Update: What is Our Ecological Footprint on this Planet?

I am a member of two LinkedIn groups focused on global issues and the future. In one of them the discussion has moved to...

Communications in the 21st Century – Part 1: Our Interconnected World

We live in a world of instant communication, that speeds data, voice and images around the planet at the speed of light. It is...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for June 22, 2012

Agriculture Update: Plant Recognition Technology Prototype Being Developed at University of Southern Queensland in Australia Imagine a technology that detects weeds in a field and...

Rio+20: A Report Card On How We Are Doing So Far?

Our world leaders are meeting to set goals for humanity in the 21st century. So 20 years after the first Rio meeting in 1992...

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