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Superlife is an unprecedented paradigm shift, the key trend of our time. If we catch its surge, rather than letting it swamp us, it can carry us to a hyper-human world of greatly expanded powers and possibilities.
Thanks to scientific and social advances, we are fast evolving into a whole new self-modified species. Those of us who get with this meta-trend can look forward to six key developments. There's a big countertrend, of course. It involves super pollution, super conflict, and more. The two big trends, very positive and very negative, appear locked in mortal combat. Only one can win.

One of the biggest education infrastructure projects happening at the moment in the UK is the £90 million creation of a new ‘shopping mall’ style campus in Doncaster in South Yorkshire. CIO UK took a quick look at this investment and how IT underpins the infrastructure back in October; now the college has had its doors open for a term it seemed a good time to see how things are faring. Doncaster College is one element in the whole Doncaster Education City (DEC) project, being constructed on the waterfront in the centre of the city. The new campus will provide post-16 education in a range of areas, from traditional skills such as plumbing and hairdressing to postgraduate degrees in technology and the arts. All in all some 1,100 courses are currently offered. The structure links in turn to 200 learning gateways and e-learning facilities across the rest of the conurbation and Yorkshire generally. Doncaster plans to get its own full university by 2012.