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		<title>Underwater Drone Swarms</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/08/underwater-drone-swarms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/08/underwater-drone-swarms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROVs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[s the future part owner of $347 billion in nuclear missile submarines, I had to wonder about the implications of this little autonomous underwater drone a science expo last week.
The scientist who used it described how it can operate semi-autonomously and carry a variety of sensor packages in its nose. 
I was left with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wen Jiabao at Auschwitz</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/02/wen-jiabao-at-auschwitz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/02/wen-jiabao-at-auschwitz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, visited the former German extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland, last week. In his remarks, he suggested that &#8220;The tragedy of Auschwitz, is the tragedy of the entire human race. This history teaches us that we must oppose war, discrimination and crimes, to protect liberty, security, happiness and human dignity.&#8221; 
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropdown Menu Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/25/dropdown-menu-diplomacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/25/dropdown-menu-diplomacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New geographies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Sudan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new nation of South Sudan has been recognized by most of the international community, but there is one great power that denies it this status: Facebook.
The social media site &#8212; population 900 million or so &#8212; is being petitioned to recognize South Sudan, though perhaps &#8220;notice&#8221; is the more accurate term.
Meanwhile, the US Postal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Centralization and Resilience</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/14/information-centralization-and-resilience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/14/information-centralization-and-resilience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilience]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the individual level, personal information used to be decentralized and at least somewhat resilient: it was held on paper, which could last for centuries if looked after.  Knowledge of the outside world, if it was kept, typically resided in books. Many families owned a store of reference books, often including encyclopedias. Civilizational information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Are People Afraid Of?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/what-are-people-afraid-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/what-are-people-afraid-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Polling suggests many Americans fear these things:


Their children&#8217;s life will be worse than their own (28%, 2011 Kaiser-Washington Post poll)
The American economy is in long-term decline (63%, 2008 Washington Post)

Global warming is a very or somewhat serious problem (65%, 2009 Pew poll)
The 21st century will be more Chinese than American (41%, 2010 Washington Post poll)
Another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Values: Attitudes toward Gay Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/29/values-attitudes-toward-gay-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/29/values-attitudes-toward-gay-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Thomas Barnett noted this map in a recent New York Times story, overlaying it with the boundaries based on his core-gap theory.
A few comments:

Gay rights are a strong indicator of values progression, as theorized by Ronald Inglehart; &#8220;postmodern&#8221; societies tend to have strong gay rights. 
Barnett supposes a causal connection between global connectedness and acceptance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward UAV Journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/21/toward-uav-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/21/toward-uav-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UAVs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another step toward journalistic use of unmanned aerial vehicles: Polish media have been using mini-helicopters to cover protests.
As I&#8217;ve said before, it is highly likely that UAV journalism will expand to include sustained, sometimes-live coverage of otherwise inaccessible news, such as massacres in the Congolese jungle.
Facilitating conditions are likely to include:

situations with no one in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future of Human Rights: Some Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/18/future-of-human-rights-some-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/18/future-of-human-rights-some-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transhumanism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Twitter futrchat on the future of human rights today, here are some resources and links.  (Follow the conversation with #futrchat.)

Freedom House checklist of political and civil rights &#8212; This is a good list of what might be called core human rights, though that designation is subject to a variety of debates. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Chinese Oppression</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/04/upgrading-chinese-oppression/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/04/upgrading-chinese-oppression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to wonder whether a society that became so networked that it could support a ubiquitous monitoring system would end up not using such a system for oppressive political control, both because of the flows of relatively free information that the networks would enable, and because the ability to run such a system implied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Does It Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan is a step toward addressing a large gap between US effort in Afghanistan &#8212; we are now spending a trillion dollars a decade in immediate costs alone &#8212; and the actual importance of Afghanistan.  As Richard Haass put it on &#8220;Charlie Rose&#8221; yesterday, there is a [...]]]></description>
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