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	<title>Future Atlas</title>
	<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog</link>
	<description>The geography of the future</description>
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		<title>What Are People Afraid Of?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/what-are-people-afraid-of/</link>
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		<title>Values: Attitudes toward Gay Rights</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/29/values-attitudes-toward-gay-rights/</link>
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		<title>Toward UAV Journalism</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/21/toward-uav-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Future of Human Rights: Some Resources</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/18/future-of-human-rights-some-resources/</link>
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		<title>Upgrading Chinese Oppression</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/04/upgrading-chinese-oppression/</link>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Does It Matter?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the title, this is not an overview but a few thoughts, in preparation for the APF Twitter chat on the topic today.
Transparency
Increasing transparency may be revealing how power is wielded, but it has a very long way to go.  Most people, even in open societies such as the United States, have only a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/19/the-future-of-power/</link>
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		<title>Pick Your Apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine has done a slideshow of 20 apocalyptic visions on film. 
Charted by plausibility and likelihood, they come out like this:


Plausibility &#8212; The plausibility that this kind of event would unfold in this way.
Likelihood &#8212; The likelihood that this kind of event will happen.



There are three broad categories in this list worth heeding:

The likely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/12/pick-your-apocalypse/</link>
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		<title>An Aside: Fighting UAVs the Old-Fashioned Way?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As tiny unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of all kinds proliferate &#8212; here&#8217;s one the size and layout of a hummingbird &#8212; one can imagine that they could inspire a curious revival.
For some time to come, the best countermeasure against small UAVs might be a living creature.  Specifically, a bird of prey such as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/03/08/an-aside-fighting-uavs-the-old-fashioned-way/</link>
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		<title>Humanitarian Intervention in Libya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of analysts have called for humanitarian intervention of some kind in Libya &#8212; a no-fly-zone at least, as suggested by the International Crisis Group, with others implying something more.
While such an intervention might become morally essential, several factors should give us pause:

The anti-imperialist card &#8212; Any military intervention would greatly enhance the &#8220;foreign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/23/humanitarian-intervention-in-libya/</link>
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