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Dvorak tries to do some crystal gazing into the Google of the future. Google browser ? Google OS? Google PC? read this article to find out more.

India is fighting for an international regime to protect its biodiversity, but back home, it is still struggling to understand how best to document it. This is especially important since pharmaceutical and chemical companies have now set their sights on traditional medicines as the source of new drugs. While this makes good sense but these major corporations often take these traditional knowledge from the public domain and impose patents and other barriers of use against the very people who own the knowledge. Personally, I believe these traditional knowledge sources must be documented and developed further with the help of private enterprises but the resulting research must be given back to the public domain. A share of the profits should also be given back to the community.

Jef Raskin was one of the creators of the Apple Macintosh computer. He now wants to revolutionize the way people interact with computers. The article goes on, “…Raskin’s model allows a computer user to simply shift between word processing, spread sheets, photo manipulation, and just about everything else through simple “command sets.” …”