EmINENT Microsystems announces Embedded Software Framework™ support for the Atmel AVR® 8-Bit RISC microcontroller
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EmINENT Microsystems announces
Electronic Manufacturing Services
EmINENT Microsystems announces
Electronic Manufacturing Services
06/06/2004 03:10 AMEmINENT’s ability to provide end-to-end Electronic Manufacturing
Services (EMS) enables OEM technology providers to leverage our
valuable resources such as engineering, design, layout, board
fabrication, turnkey services, prototype and production assembly,
testing, mechanical box build and pack out. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2004]
Emulation Technology Announces Adapter
Support for ATMEL® AT93C56/66 Devices
Emulation Technology Announces Adapter
Support for ATMEL® AT93C56/66 Devices
09/09/2004 03:17 AMEmulation Technology (ET), announced today a new Programming Adapter
specifically designed to support the needs of engineers designing with
the Atmel® AT93C56/66 devices in the new dBGA2 package. The innovative
adapter allows users to program two devices at the same time. [PRWEB
Sep 9, 2004]
Search Engine Optimization Firm Elixir
Systems Announces New Client Atmel -
Allows Atmel Improved Visibility Toward
Electronics Design Engineering Community
Search Engine Optimization Firm Elixir
Systems Announces New Client Atmel -
Allows Atmel Improved Visibility Toward
Electronics Design Engineering Community
01/03/2005 03:19 AMElixir Systems a leading provider of search engine placement services
today announced an agreement with Atmel Corporation (ATML) to provide
search engine optimization to increase their presence within search
engines. [PRWEB Jan 3, 2005]
Use a Game Boy Advance as Embedded
Microcontroller
Use a Game Boy Advance as Embedded
Microcontroller
04/15/2004 07:48 AMJOEL JOHNSON -- The Xport 2.0 lets you take advantage of millions of
dollars worth of Nintendo hardware engineering in the Game Boy
Advance, turning it into a user-programmable embedded microcontroller
for directing robots, capturing images or video, or operating anything
else you can interface to its user-programmable I/O. The...
Embedded Planet Announces Support for
Freescale’s PowerQUICC™ II Pro Family
Embedded Planet Announces Support for
Freescale’s PowerQUICC™ II Pro Family
06/24/2005 09:50 PMPrPMC Single Board Computer Supporting MPC8343 and MPC8347 Processors
[PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]
Embedded Planet Announces Support for
PowerQUICC™ III Family from Freescale
Embedded Planet Announces Support for
PowerQUICC™ III Family from Freescale
06/24/2005 09:50 PMPrPMC Single Board Computer Supporting MPC8540, MPC8541E, MPC8555E,
and MPC8560 Processors [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]
Nettica.com announces support for the
Sender Policy Framework email
initiative.
Nettica.com announces support for the
Sender Policy Framework email
initiative.
09/12/2004 03:30 AMNettica.com, a leading domain name system (DNS) provider for the
Internet, announced today support for the anti-spam SPF initiative.
[PRWEB Sep 12, 2004]
LiveTime Software Announces Solaris 10
Support for its Java-Based Help Desk,
Customer Service and Support
Applications
LiveTime Software Announces Solaris 10
Support for its Java-Based Help Desk,
Customer Service and Support
Applications
06/17/2005 03:42 PMApplication performance reaches new threshold for high concurrent
access. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]
Atmel Announces Trusted Computing Group
1.2 Security Processor
Atmel Announces Trusted Computing Group
1.2 Security Processor
02/17/2004 11:43 AMBelga Direct Press Releases Feb 17 2004 3:48PM GMT
Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support
Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support
03/29/2005 11:03 AMLogos Bible Software on Tuesday announced plans to release a Mac OS
X-native version of its digital library software this December. The
software will make available thousands of Bible reference e-books to
Mac users, according to the publisher -- more than 4,000 books used by
pastors, scholars and Bible students. Categories include Bibles,
original language texts, morphological databases, commentaries,
dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, maps and more. Preliminary system
requirements call for an 800MHz CPU with 256MB RAM running Mac OS X
v10.3.8 or later.
News: Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support
News: Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support
03/30/2005 05:42 PMLogos Bible Software on Tuesday announced plans to release a Mac OS
X-native version of its digital library software this December. The
software will make available thousands of Bible reference e-books to
Mac users, according to the publisher -- more than 4,000 books used by
pastors, scholars and Bible students. Categories include Bibles,
original language texts, morphological databases, commentaries,
dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, maps and more. Preliminary system
requirements call for an 800MHz CPU with 256MB RAM running Mac OS X
v10.3.8 or later.
Snowbound Software Announces Microsoft
Word Support for RasterMaster Imaging
Library and SDK
Snowbound Software Announces Microsoft
Word Support for RasterMaster Imaging
Library and SDK
08/31/2004 03:16 PMWebProNews Aug 31 2004 6:37PM GMT
St. Bernard Software Announces Open File
Manager 9.3 with Support for 64-bit
Computing Platforms
St. Bernard Software Announces Open File
Manager 9.3 with Support for 64-bit
Computing Platforms
08/11/2004 03:11 PMAMD Zone Aug 11 2004 7:07PM GMT
Sun Microsystems Announces New Servers,
Services
Sun Microsystems Announces New Servers,
Services
12/03/2003 02:57 AMBoston Globe Dec 3 2003 1:55AM ET
LiveTime Software Announces Multi-domain
Active Directory Access to its J2EE
Support Products
LiveTime Software Announces Multi-domain
Active Directory Access to its J2EE
Support Products
08/17/2004 02:00 AMSingle point authentication and permissions gateway now simplifies
support access across large and complex organizations. [PRWEB Aug 17,
2004]
IntelliTrack Adds Support for Wireless
Devices from American Microsystems Ltd.
IntelliTrack Adds Support for Wireless
Devices from American Microsystems Ltd.
02/01/2005 09:17 PMIntelliTrack Inc., the leading manufacturer of affordable bar code
tracking software, announced today that its entire product line now
supports the American Microsystems Ltd. (AML) Wireless (RF) Terminal,
model M7100. [PRWEB Jan 28, 2005]
TEK Microsystems, Inc. Announces
JazzStore Family of Data Recording
Solutions
TEK Microsystems, Inc. Announces
JazzStore Family of Data Recording
Solutions
12/17/2004 06:31 PMAnnouncing the JazzStore™ family of data recording solutions for
demanding high speed sensor applications. JazzStore is the first data
recording solution to implement a real-time FAT32 file system that
provides embedded computer developers with an easy to use and native
interface for information retrieval. Radar, signals intelligence,
imaging and surveillance applications can configure the modular
JazzStore with a wide range of PMC and XMC-based I/O modules to design
a solution to precisely meet their specific requirements. [PRWEB Dec
16, 2004]
Sun Microsystems Rolls Out New Servers,
Software
Sun Microsystems Rolls Out New Servers,
Software
02/10/2004 02:47 AMBoston Globe Feb 10 2004 6:48AM GMT
Sun Microsystems Rolls Out New Servers,
Software (Reuters)
Sun Microsystems Rolls Out New Servers,
Software (Reuters)
02/10/2004 02:52 AMReuters - Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O) on
Tuesday rolled out new, faster computer servers starting at
about $2,800 and updated software as the network computer
makers seeks to tap into modestly improving spending on
information technology.
Prism Microsystems, Inc. Announces
StatusTracker - Monitor the Status and
Uptime of the Your Critical Systems,
Networks, Websites and Network
Applications 24* 7
Prism Microsystems, Inc. Announces
StatusTracker - Monitor the Status and
Uptime of the Your Critical Systems,
Networks, Websites and Network
Applications 24* 7
06/05/2005 11:39 PMStatusTracker monitors resource availability including systems, web
resources and ports. It meters resource availability, providing
reports detailing resource availability and calculating cost of
resource downtime. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]
Embedded Planet Announces Immediate
Availability of RFID Reader Kit
Embedded Planet Announces Immediate
Availability of RFID Reader Kit
06/24/2005 09:50 PMKit Includes a Single Board Computer Based on a Freescale PowerQUICC™
I Processor, a PCMCIA Firmware Upgradeable RFID Reader, and Embedded
Linux [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]
Sasser worm and Embedded Support Partner
(ESP) port 5554/tcp
Sasser worm and Embedded Support Partner
(ESP) port 5554/tcp
05/04/2004 03:18 PMSGI Security Coordinator (May 03 2004)
Embedded Solution Partners Announces
SolutionSDC for Secure Distributed
Computing
Embedded Solution Partners Announces
SolutionSDC for Secure Distributed
Computing
03/14/2005 05:58 PM [PRWEB Mar 9, 2005]
Enea Announces Safety-Critical Platform
For Embedded Medical Devices
Enea Announces Safety-Critical Platform
For Embedded Medical Devices
09/14/2004 07:39 AMParvus Announces Availability of
4-Channel MPEG-4 Multimedia Encoder for
Embedded Computer Systems
Parvus Announces Availability of
4-Channel MPEG-4 Multimedia Encoder for
Embedded Computer Systems
03/23/2005 04:31 AMParvus’ MPEG104+ PC/104-Plus Video Encoder Designed for Remote/Mobile
Video Surveillance and Security Applications [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
Embedded software development tips
Embedded software development tips
07/14/2002 11:29 PMCNET Jul 14 2002 10:13PM ET
"Framework for Support, Third Edition
(Canada)"
"Framework for Support, Third Edition
(Canada)"
08/22/2004 07:54 AMMicrosoft Adds SP2 Support for .Net
Framework
Microsoft Adds SP2 Support for .Net
Framework
08/31/2004 01:15 PMMicrosoft has rolled out three new service packs aimed at improving
the security of the .Net Framework.
Transmeta releases software for embedded
devices
Transmeta releases software for embedded
devices
01/06/2004 01:13 PMThe chipmaker unveils a development tool for its Crusoe processor and
for developing embedded mobile devices that use Microsoft Windows CE
.Net and Windows XP Embedded operating systems.
Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket
Framework -- First Native Framework for
the OpenAccess Database; Framework Co
Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket
Framework -- First Native Framework for
the OpenAccess Database; Framework Co
04/06/2005 08:32 PMBusiness Wire UK Apr 7 2005 12:47AM GMT
AdvancedIO Systems Announces 10 Gigabit
Ethernet and RapidIO Connectivity and
Packet Switching Functionality for
Embedded Applications
AdvancedIO Systems Announces 10 Gigabit
Ethernet and RapidIO Connectivity and
Packet Switching Functionality for
Embedded Applications
06/17/2005 04:24 PMAdvancedIO Systems Inc. announced the industry's first configurable 10
Gigabit solution bridging parallel RapidIO® interconnect architecture
and 10 Gigabit Ethernet at SUPERCOMM today: the V1010™ Switched
Mezzanine Card (XMC) module. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2005]
Kozio, Inc. Introduces Two New Products;
Colorado embedded systems software
developer saves customers time, money
with ready-to-run manufacturing test and
self-test software for shipping products
Kozio, Inc. Introduces Two New Products;
Colorado embedded systems software
developer saves customers time, money
with ready-to-run manufacturing test and
self-test software for shipping products
07/12/2004 02:14 AMKozio, Inc., a developer of embedded systems software, has introduced
two new products that provide end-of-production-line manufacturing
test and power-on-self-diagnostic test capabilities for manufactured
products that use embedded single-board computer systems. [PRWEB Jul
12, 2004]
Anti virus software embedded in
Enterprise Java
Anti virus software embedded in
Enterprise Java
04/26/2004 08:50 AMKozio, Inc. Announces Support for
Freescale PowerQUICC III - Kozio Expands
Processor Architecture Support to
Complement Its Strong Networking and
Communications Line
Kozio, Inc. Announces Support for
Freescale PowerQUICC III - Kozio Expands
Processor Architecture Support to
Complement Its Strong Networking and
Communications Line
06/06/2005 12:14 AMKozio, Inc., a leading provider of embedded software for system-level
hardware testing, today announced plans for support of Freescale's
PowerQUICC III processor architecture. Kozio is currently working with
Silicon Turnkey Express (STx) to support and create a software
evaluation kit for STx's GP3 reference board and will continue to add
support for additional reference boards from STx and other
manufacturers. Kozio develops turnkey software solutions that verify
design and validate hardware for any embedded single-board computer
systems for a variety of applications, including networking and
communications technology. [PRWEB May 23, 2005]
" Rush, not a sinking ship kinda guy, by
way of the eminent Mr. Bogg"
" Rush, not a sinking ship kinda guy, by
way of the eminent Mr. Bogg"
05/13/2004 03:37 AMNew VDC Report Says PolySpace is the
Fastest Growing Vendor of Test
Automation Solutions for Embedded
Software
New VDC Report Says PolySpace is the
Fastest Growing Vendor of Test
Automation Solutions for Embedded
Software
09/14/2004 02:03 AMPolySpace Technologies, the worldwide leader in the automatic
detection of run-time errors at compile time, announced today that
Venture Development Corporation (VDC) - a prominent technology markets
research firm - recognized PolySpace as the fastest growing vendor of
test automation solutions for embedded software. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]
Jicarilla software framework
Jicarilla software framework
11/18/2003 12:45 PMNew content on JicarillaWiki
Vibren Technologies Acquires Accelent
Systems Embedded Group - Acquisition
Creates Premier Embedded Engineering
Company
Vibren Technologies Acquires Accelent
Systems Embedded Group - Acquisition
Creates Premier Embedded Engineering
Company
08/16/2004 02:20 AMCombination of Vibren and Accelent positions united firm as provider
of most comprehensive embedded engineering products and services.
[PRWEB Aug 16, 2004]
Boson Software, Inc. Announces the
Release of Version 5.48 of their
Software (13 New Practice Tests)
Boson Software, Inc. Announces the
Release of Version 5.48 of their
Software (13 New Practice Tests)
08/21/2004 03:19 AMBoson's latest release, Version 5.48, includes 13 new practice to aid
in certification preparation. [PRWEB Aug 21, 2004]
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MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint
12/16/2003 04:12 PMThe carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of
Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless.
Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint
04/19/2004 09:52 PMmyfootprint.org
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"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"
08/09/2004 08:37 PMCray Expands Its Footprint
Cray Expands Its Footprint
03/08/2004 11:20 PMSupercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., which currently sells a single
system aimed at the highest echelon of users, is expanding its
footprint with systems for slightly less expensive HPC applications.
"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
"Ecological Footprint Quiz"
04/21/2004 03:24 AMCan iPod stand on its own footprint?
Can iPod stand on its own footprint?
09/18/2004 12:52 PMA recent <A
HREF="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/09/17/cx_ah_0917tente
ch.html">article</A> on Forbes.com about the
Apple/Beatles lawsuit contains an interesting footnote that brings to
light and an more interesting question: Can the iPod name survive
without the Apple brand?
While the reverse is already being tested by Hewlett Packard, it
remains to be see whether any of Apple's products can survive without
their namesake. For all of Apple's unique and unmistakable designs,
what would happen if the Apple was removed from the front of the iMac?
Or the 23-inch Cinema Display? Or the back of the iPod?
Forbes seems to think that a move away from the Apple name and symbol
"would harm its prospects not one bit.
"The iPod brand is turning out to be as powerful a brand name as
that of its corporate parent. By itself, it's also free of any
expensive encumbrances involving musicians who haven't done anything
terribly interesting in the last few years (i.e., The Beatles)."
The iPod name is certainly strong enough to exist on its own, but
would there be any benefit (aside from the Apple/AppleCorps dispute)?
Could Apple create better computers — or better music players
— if the pressure was off to do both under the same moniker?
I'd like to personally think not, and with the unveiling of the latest
iteration of the iMac, it seems that Steve Jobs & Co. can certainly do
both, and do it well, if not borrowing from the other side along the
way. The iPod is as much Apple as it is its own individual namesake,
but splitting the two would likely cause separation anxiety for one
— or even both — parties.
It's not secret that the iPod has brought Apple back to major player
status, and while it may be true that Apple the computer company has
ridden Apple the music company to new heights, they most certainly
need each other to survive.
I mean, just take a look at <A
HREF"www.apple.com">Apple.com</A>…
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship
11/01/2003 01:56 AMSunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 0:24AM ET
London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future
London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future
06/03/2004 06:30 PMExtensively researched paper describes scope of commercial, free, and
municipal wireless in London, England: Using maps, warflying,
stumbling, and other resources, Julian Priest has released an
exhaustive look at the state of wireless in London. He looks at the
lead that free networking has had in the city due to bans on
commercial deployment until early 2002; still, the commercial
footprint is extensive. Among many interesting facts and discussions
in the paper are the necessary geek per square kilometer density
necessary to fully cover London on average with free networks (about
1.25 geek activits per sq. km). Priest also review municipal projects,
none of which are rousing successes and many of which demonstrate the
limits of straitjacketed civic projects. Priest ends with a call for a
wireless festival in London that would celebrate the city's current
unwired state, while marketing and educating further to increase
density of deployment. [link via James Enck, Daiwa Securities SMBC
Europe Ltd]...
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
BT to double coverage footprint for
broadband SDSL
07/06/2004 03:12 AMPublicTechnology.net Jul 6 2004 7:11AM GMT
FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint
FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint
05/06/2004 02:45 PMDynamic Network Factory has released the FireFly 4800 RAID tower.
Sporting a 9-inch footprint, the FireFly 4800 features USB 2.0 and
FireWire 400/800 connectivity. It stripes data across four IDE drives
simultaneously, and it supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 and 5+hot spare.
It's compatible with Mac OS 9.x or OS X v.10.x or higher and comes in
320GB, 480GB, 640GB, 800GB and 1TB capacities for US$1,794, $1,957,
$2,046, $2,290 and $1,995, respectively.
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs
08/18/2004 02:34 AMGood Technology expands internationally, opens a Canadian office.
Adds Financial Services Customer; Signs First Four Canadian VARs
[PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX
12/19/2004 02:54 PM

Global Footprint Stress
Index: Extreme (purple, >10), High (orange 3-10), Moderate (yellow
1-3), Low (white <1)
Last month I wrote an article
suggesting that a propensity for war-mongering and civil violence,
i.e.
the tendency to take hasty and extreme action rather than a reasoned
and responsible response to a crisis, might be attributable to what
Edward Hall describes as population stress, the adrenaline-driven
aggressive/panic stress response that all creatures exhibit when their
population greatly exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Hall
explains
that this is nature's 'last resort' method of bringing the population
of the species quickly back into balance with the rest of the
ecosystem, when the species fails to manage its own numbers and when
opportunistic diseases don't do the trick. Earlier I had calculated<
/a>
a simple Population Stress Index (PSI), which was computed by
multiplying density per arable square mile by population growth rate,
and I compared it to an astonishingly similar map by another
blogger, Matthew White, showing violent death rate by country.
As I explained in last month's post, the PSI is an imperfect stress
index. It does not show the very different levels of consumption and
demand on local resources of people in different countries (which has
as much to do with sustainability as population). So I have now
computed a Footprint Stress Index (FSI), plotted on the map above,
which is computed as follows:
- First, I calculated the Resource Use Index
by taking the aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) of each country in
hectares (the per capita footprint from sources such as the Living Planet Report, times the country's
population), and dividing it by the number of habitable
hectares of land in the country (I used as a proxy for this the lesser
of 80% of total land area and 200% of Oxford's 'arable land area'
data). This very useful number indicates the number of times over each
country's citizens are using the renewable and sustainable resources
available to them. A Resource Use index of 1.0 is sustainable. An
index
of, say, 5, indicates that to restore the country to sustainability,
it
needs to do some combination of reducing population and reducing
per-capita resource consumption, by a combined 80%. The table below
shows some sample Resource Use indices I computed.
- Then I
multiplied this Resource Use Index by the estimated
annual growth rate of the country's aggregate Ecological Footprint.
For
this, I started with the annual population growth rate as a proxy (the
EF studies suggest aggregate footprint and population are growing at
roughly the same rate), and then substituted more precise EF growth
rate numbers when I could find them online (China's EF is growing much
faster than its population, for example).
Resource Use Index: Sample
Countries
80 Japan
60 S.Korea
40 Israel, Palestine
35 Switzerland
25 Netherlands, Belgium, UK
16 Germany
13 Ireland, France, Italy, Venezuela
11 US, Columbia, Chile, Sweden
|
9 China, Philippines
8 Congo
6 World Overall
6 S.Africa, New Zealand
5 Brasil, Iran, Mexico
3 Canada, India, Iraq, Russia
2 Australia, Argentina
1 A few equatorial African nations |
Footprint Stress Index: Sample
Countries
40+ Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait 30 China 18 Congo 12 Venezuela,
Columbia 10 US 8 Chile 6
India, Netherlands, Belgium, Iraq
4.5 World Overall
|
4.0 Mexico, Iran, UK
3.0 New Zealand, Sweden 2.0 Brasil, Argentina, Japan,
France
1.5 Canada, Australia 1.0 S.Korea, Switzerland 0.5 Germany,
Italy 0.0 S.Africa, Russia
|
The US, China, Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, and several Mid-Eastern
nations all have FSIs in excess of 10. These are all countries
embroiled in war, imperialistic or regional or civil, except for China
where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. These are the countries that
are suffering enormous anxiety because not only are they consuming
vastly more resources than what they have available domestically,
their
populations or industrial capacities are also growing rapidly, meaning
they will need to find ever more resources outside the country to feed
the soaring need.
Japan, South Korea and most European nations have very high Resource
Use Indices, but because their populations are growing slowly and
because they are mostly very aware of conservation, their EFs are not
increasing. As a result, their FSIs are more moderate. Because they
all
depend so heavily (90% or more) on imports of other countries' natural
resources, however, as these resources get depleted and as exporting
countries realize how cheaply they are giving them away, these
nations'
unsustainable resource demands will not be able to be met, and that
will drive their Footprint Stress Indices way up. Once these
scarcities
become endemic, there will no longer be any option to increase resource use, and at that
point the Resource Use Index itself will become the Footprint Stress
Index.
What will the world be like when dozens of nations, whose economies
are using resources at more than ten
times
the rate they can sustain them from domestic supplies, suddenly find
the price of these supplies quadrupling, or that these supplies are
not
available at any price? Colour all the countries on the left side of
the Resource Use Index table above purple on the map at the top of
this
article and you'll get the idea. We're talking about a world war for
increasingly scarce resources. And all of the countries on the right
side of that table then become invasion targets.
We all know what we have to do. Immediate massive taxes on resources
to
finance the development of technologies that conserve or don't require
natural resources. Shut-down of corporations that waste resources,
that
pollute, and that produce non-essential products. An end to subsidies,
so that we can begin to realize the true cost of our profligate
deficit
spending. The pay-down of government debts to reduce the risk of
economic collapse when interest and inflation rates spike. Incentives
for having no children, or maybe one.
Of course, we have no appetite for these draconian solutions. The
corporatist Frankenstein monster is perpetuating the waste and madness
that is producing this crisis, and they accept no responsibility for
the ultimate Tragedy of the Commons that will hit us with colossal
force once we simply run out of resources to consume to keep
civilization's engine running. The hydrogen economy simply won't occur
fast enough to stave off disaster.
Our best hope is, ironically, that some crisis will shock us into
collective action before the real crunch hits. We learned nothing from
the oil line-ups a generation ago, but perhaps it is not too late. If
the first crisis to hit is manageable, we may be motivated to combine
three massive human efforts: Voluntary negative population growth,
global large-scale conservation, and an unprecedented investment in
innovation and new low-footprint technologies, that could prevent a
social, economic and ecological collapse. We survived a Great
Depression three quarters of a century ago by exactly this type of
huge, collective intervention. That's what we need now. The 'market'
isn't going to fix this mess.
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EmINENT Microsystems announces Embedded Software Framework™ support for the Atmel AVR® 8-Bit RISC microcontroller