Sentences with phrase «half of the next century»

Fortune's Robert Hackett profiles a company that hopes to leverage the technology behind Bitcoin to become the bank of the next century.

Circle hopes to leverage the technology behind Bitcoin to become the bank of the next century.

Today, business pundits have anointed «mass customization» the industrial paradigm of the next century, just as mass production was the paradigm of the 20th century.

2) it's not isolated to China (though many economists see China as the great industrial hub of the next century — so it is certainly a germane point).

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

But then what would you call the theories of the next century?

In the way that we now look back on slavery, we hope that Americans of the next century will look back with deepest shame on the abortion regime of Roe.

A doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide over its pre-industrial level may occur by the middle of the next century.

The Exodus, therefore, was usually dated around the middle of the next century, that is, the fifteenth (1500 - 1400 B.C.).

Residents of the west side will have a new recreation area to see them through the beginning of the next century, officials said.

The names here are perfect for a 2017 baby, yet will serve him or her well into the turn of the next century (now there's an amazing thought!).

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has also this week joined 30 other mayors that are part of the Next Century Coalition, asking the FCC to allow more access to data that measures broadband networks.

«Half of all species could become extinct by the turn of the next century if we don't stop tearing up the planet.

Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

Where else will the Ian Watsons of the next century come from?

The draft report says that a doubling of the preindustrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is likely to reduce global GDP by between 1 and 3 per cent by the middle of the next century.

John Houghton, chairman of the IPCC's science working group, lends his personal support to the idea of stabilising CO2 in the atmosphere at twice preindustrial values, or around 1.2 trillion tonnes, by the end of the next century.

By Hansen's reckoning, where Washington now averages one day a year over 100 degrees, it will average 12 such scorchers annually by the middle of the next century.

By the middle of the next century the resulting warming could boost global mean temperatures from three to nine degrees Fahrenheit.

After the Geneva meeting, he claimed that Pearce's work shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by the middle of the next century would cause damage from climate change valued at between 1.5 and 2 per cent of «gross world product».

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

And fire severity is already increasing in many forests due to climate change — what is now thought of as a drought in some locations may be considered average by the end of the next century.

That dryness persisted into the first decade of the next century.

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

The film's title was chosen because it was the first year of the new Millenium and of the next century.

A new survey by the College Board suggests that the «graying» of the American college campus evident in this decade will continue through the turn of the next century.

«If you work a second shift as a parent, and can never talk on the phone, it's problematic, but if you can text, that's a game changer,» says Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities and former executive director of Tech Goes Home, an initiative to help improve technology access among low income parents.

Expecting the curricula standards of, say, the early 20th century, to meet the intellectual challenges of this century just doesn't make sense; neither does expecting Common Core, which is geared toward helping kids gain the skills needed for this time, to meet the economic and social challenges of the next century.

So, no, Common Core will not likely be the comprehensive college - preparatory curricula children of the next century or even for those kids at the midpoint of this one.

In Glass Houses: Avatars Dance, acclaimed Laura J. Mixon takes us to a dystopian Manhattan of the next century where Ruby and her Golem run into serious trouble.

One subject that will have trainers debating until the middle of the next century is crate training.

From there, the field of investigation moves towards modernity: in the nineteenth century the themes of spirituality, dreams, mysticism, and the «panic» force in nature saw new developments and, at the dawn of the next century, played a decisive role in the birth of abstractionism, with the work of Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint.

Morris, already the museum's boldest curator with the firmest grasp on what was happening and how the art of the next century (this one) would look, ended up with the job of explaining why Burden's Heath Robinson - ish production line never worked.

But with atmospheric carbon climbing at an annual rate of 2 ppm and expected to accelerate to 3 ppm, levels could approach 900 ppm by the end of the next century, and conditions that bring about the beginnings of ocean anoxia may be in place.

For those curious about the pronounced dips in the future scenarios here they are responses to Pinatubo - scale volcanic eruptions that are assumed to occur at a reasonable frequency over the course of the next century.

My credible sources inform me that the US will be lucky to still have a functional Navy by mid-century, and any citizen of the «banana republic» that's left at the turn of the next century won't be able to go fishing off any US Naval wharf unless they have an aqualung should BAU and your kind of nefarious illogical postulates win the day.

By Hansen's reckoning, where Washington now averages one day a year over 100 degrees, it will average 12 such scorchers annually by the middle of the next century.

By the middle of the next century the resulting warming could boost global mean temperatures from three to nine degrees Fahrenheit.

Sometime in the middle of the next century, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is expected to double from pre-industrial times.

On a lower - emissions pathway, the world would get there closer to the beginning of the next century.

The report calls for urgent action to avoid sea level rises of a metre or more over the course of the next century.

Predicting the climate of the next century with precision is impossible.

Because of the way opportunity costs compound over time the world at the turn of the next century will be poorer by the equivalent of $ Quadrillions and I suspect, if we could send a probe to our future descendants to ask if they would prefer a little less CO2 or an extra $ 500,000 each for everyone on Earth, the answer we get back would not be congratulatory for surrendering to these brain dead mooks.

The predicted rise is about 20 cm in global mean sea level by 2030, and 65 cm by the end of the next century.

Optimal policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, economists tell us, won't cost the global economy very much in the grand scheme of things — on the order of 1 percent of total global GDP over the course of the next century.

CO2 concentrations will have doubled by the middle of the next century.

«Our results can be used as a tool in climate modelling to show us what kind of climate we can expect at the turn of the next century.

Still, it suggested that «over the next decades, renewable forms of energy can gradually become competitive,» and it projected that «CO2 emissions could peak at about 10 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC) a year before the middle of the next century and decline.»

«The climate of the next century will be well beyond the range of the climate that we have observed for the last 160 years,» LeGrande explained.

This doesn't mean giving up the fight on behalf of the poor, but it does mean that one's position on the environment is going to be the crucial political divide of the next century.