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...this issue, we focus on paths toward a future world that all of us--corporate chiefs, subsistence farmers, environmental activists--would like to inhabit. Among the strategies: a new Industrial Revolution based on much more than just raw output, high-tech buildings that are environmentally savvy, incentives to speed the switch to clean energy sources, fast and safe cars that don't pollute and innovative programs to keep the sprawling global village from swallowing our precious wilderness. "So much environmental reporting emphasizes only the problems," says Alexander. "We wanted to focus on the solutions...
...with a U.S. troop presence in Saudi Arabia--namely, bin Laden's demand that the House of Saud be deposed for hosting the infidels--the Saudis know they can't afford to lose the guarantee of U.S. protection. Since the Gulf War, the kingdom has spent $270 billion on high-tech weapons, but its forces still lack the training and skills to make them work. As a result, the regime is helpless against external threats, and Iran could become one even if Iraq is neutralized. "They need us more than we need them," says a U.S. diplomat in the region...
...with a U.S. troop presence in Saudi Arabia-namely, bin Laden's demand that the House of Saud be deposed for hosting the infidels-the Saudis know they can't afford to lose the guarantee of U.S. protection. Since the Gulf War, the kingdom has spent $270 billion on high-tech weapons, but its forces still lack the training and skills to make them work. As a result, the regime is helpless against external threats, and Iran could become one even if Iraq is neutralized. "They need us more than we need them," says a U.S. diplomat in the region...
SOHN: We don't need as many people to produce widgets, cars, whatever, because of productivity gains. Initially in the 1990s and early 2000, we had productivity gains from manufacturing high-tech equipment or even low-tech equipment. Now we are getting gains coming from the application of that equipment. Employers are also very cautious--look at overtime, which is going up. They don't want to hire people. They would rather employ technology and work people harder...
Followers of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong often use high-tech tools to spread their message in China, where the sect is banned. But the group's latest tactic--overriding Chinese satellite Sinosat 1 and replacing its regular programming for 10 minutes last week with fuzzy text reading "Falun Dafa Is Good"--stunned government officials with its sophistication. (Falun Dafa is the name given to the group's beliefs.) To pull off the feat, the activists needed a nearly 30-ft. satellite dish plus about $1 million worth of equipment that would fire a perfectly tuned beam at Sinosat...