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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

Parts of Africa will be especially vulnerable, with agricultural yields declining by as much as 50% in some areas. Research shows, for example, that much of the Amazon is approaching the tipping point of transforming from rainforests to savannah due to wildfires and droughts, endangering the species that call the forests home.

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

The original promise of my next book is pretty simple: I’m trying to paint a picture of the kind of digital world we’ll likely live in one generation from now, based on a survey of where we are presently as a digital society. Our agricultural practices and policies? Our insurance industries? Our life expectancies?

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

The original promise of my next book is pretty simple: I’m trying to paint a picture of the kind of digital world we’ll likely live in one generation from now, based on a survey of where we are presently as a digital society. Our agricultural practices and policies? Our insurance industries? Our life expectancies?