World of Public Affairs » Technology http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com Exploring the intersection of policy, politics and business at the global level. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:15:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Essentials of Life http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/2009/08/05/essentials-of-life/ http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/2009/08/05/essentials-of-life/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:01:57 +0000 Bill Black http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/?p=86 The BBC covers a report that says Britons would rather give up their vacations than their communication devices. Validates my view that communications comes after food and sex in the hierarchy of human needs.

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]]> http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/2009/08/05/essentials-of-life/feed/ 0 Bill Gates Predicts the Future http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/2009/07/25/bill-gates-predicts-the-future/ http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/2009/07/25/bill-gates-predicts-the-future/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:11:59 +0000 Bill Black http://www.worldofpublicaffairs.com/?p=34 In a speech in New Delhi, Bill Gates talked about some of the next breakthroughs in technology.

Mr. Gates spoke of cellphones that would recognize people around them or be used to test for diseases, computers equipped with voice recognition and an Internet that was used for much more than Web pages.

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