The Poeple’s Daily reports that,
A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China’s Anhui Province.

The device will reportedly be built for USD 37 million — 15 times less than the ITER Tokamak project — although [...]

PC Advisor’s Peter Sayer writes that Malta might be Europe’s most innovative country if its proportion of high technology export revenue is taken into consideration:
Malta, [...] a member of the EU since May 2004, derives a greater proportion of its export revenue from high technology than any other European country, according to figures from Eurostat, [...]

Roger Martin writes that “Chinese and Indian companies aren’t leaving design to the North Americans”:
“There is a romantic notion in North American business that its future lies in design and innovation, while India and China will be the home of less skilled, lower-paying operations churning out the products and services the U.S. comes up with.
…
These [...]

Some U.S. students are taking note of a lesson learned by U.S. corporations and are outsourcing their homework. Lee Gomes at the Wall Street Journal writes:
Rent A Coder enables people — usually Americans — who need computer programs to put them out to bid — usually for cut-throat prices by Indians and Eastern Europeans.
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Indeed, some [...]

In an audio podcast, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Director of the Singularity Institute for Artifical Intelligence, talks about what will happen if and when we make machines that are smarter than we are:
Link to NeoFiles Web site.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports their take of the top ten trends affecting education in 2005:

The browser-based application
Firefox
Wikipedia’s news reporting
The $100 laptop
Podcasting
A renewed debate on what students are doing on the Internet
OpenOffice.org 2.0
Web 2.0
Moodle
Blackboard’s takeover of WebCT

Read the original article.

NewScientist reports:
Development giants China and India “hold the world in balance”, says a new report by a US environmental think tank.
“The choices these two countries make in the next few years will lead the world either towards growing ecological and political instability – or down a development path based on efficiency and [...]

The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, finds that 2.35 million people took an online course in 2004. Furthermore:

The overall percent of schools identifying online education as a critical long-term strategy grew from 49% in 2003 to 56% in 2005.
The largest increases were seen in Associates degree institutions where 72% now agree that it [...]

Today, Wikipedia turns five years old. From their announcement:

“The English Wikipedia alone now has more than 920,000 articles, with over 340,000,000 words. The millionth article is expected to appear in late February or early March. The combined Wikipedias for all languages have an estimated total of over 3,100,000 articles in some two hundred languages. [...]

Upcoming Urban Leadership Academy workshop in Minneapolis:
Creating Schools of the Future through Systems ThinkingFebruary 1, 2006
Verna Allee, Verna Allee and Associates
Verna Allee, M.A., is recognized worldwide for her work as a pioneer in the field of knowledge management. She is a practitioner, thought leader, author, and frequent keynote speaker on value networks, knowledge management, [...]