Trendsbridge is site about various trends, connections, influences and innovation. Interrelations and cross-fertilization between trends.
Every day new developments and social changes take place in the world and in society. Climate change and environmental issues, lifestyle and the economy influence the habits of consumers. Producers and designers are coming up with new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and products to keep or gain market share. The Internet and the media play a major role in this process, it’s top down and bottom up at the same time, but power is more and more shifting to individuals instead of bureaucracies, agencies and large corporations .
INTERVIEW-New book puts cost of saving planet at $190 bln 07 Mar 2008 10:19:00 GMT - Written by: Timothy Large What would it cost to wipe out world poverty, guarantee universal health care, stabilise population growth and roll back the ravages of global warming? About $190 billion a year, or the equivalent of a third of U.S. annual military expenditure, a prominent environmental economist says in a new book. "Once you accept that climate change, population growth, spreading water shortages, rising food prices etcetera are threats to our security, it changes your whole way of thinking about how you use public resources," Lester Brown told Reuters in an interview
The future of television is online New Scientist - special issue on Home Entertainment It has already happened to millions of people in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and in the next few years hundreds of millions more across the globe should have the same experience: their TV picture will quite suddenly - and very permanently - disappear. No amount of shouting, bashing the box, or fiddling with the aerial will get the picture back, because after half a century of service, analogue TV broadcasts are being switched off for good.
