This Week in the Future, August 30-Septmber 3

Friday, September 3, 2010 - 15:35 in Mathematics & Economics

This Week in the Future, August 30-Septmber 3 Baarbarian Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Just agree to a lifetime of hyper-accurate real-time location tracking. The future of incarceration is just one of our favorite posts this week. This week in the future on PopSci: Technological Tracking of Free-Range Felons Could Make Incarceration Obsolete Development of Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean the World Off Oil In Just Five Years Video: Yale's Grab Lab Demonstrates an Unmanned Helicopter With a Grabbing Hand Climate Villain Bjørn Lomborg Does U-Turn, Says Global Warming is a $100 Billion Problem You can win this illustration on a t-shirt. Leave a comment to put your name in the pile; we'll randomly choose and announce our winner right here. And, if you just can't wait that long, you can buy the shirt for yourself here. Good luck! Until next time, enjoy our past weekly illustrated roundups here.

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