Top 10 predictions from The Futurist: cashless society, a million billionaires, a new Cold War, a significant extinction event, water scarcity,70 million Africans affected by floods, non-human entities making decisions for us.

China's social networking site, City8, has 360-degree street-level imaging of extraordinarily high resolution. People's faces & car number plates can be identified. Google Street View also hits Sydney. A further invasion of privacy in our society.

The younger generation seem to prefer coffee and instant drinks. Many of the older generation in Asia believe the art of tea brewing and drinking is being lost, along with knowledge about the teas. But tea is fighting back!

From November 20, Japan will require visitors to submit to photographic and fingerprinting procedures to "help prevent terrorist attacks". This will include long-time foreign residents. Does this equate terrorism with foreigners??

America and China are racing to the Moon, but so are the Japanese & private companies like Virgin Galactic. We've stuffed up the planet, so now our satellite's resources are being targeted. New currency for use in outer space has been designed - the QUID

Newly released, rare photos show SS officers and Auschwitz camp staff living it up as the gas chambers and crematoriums were operating. The images are disturbing & should act as a warning for future generations.

He is made out of mostly recycled computer parts, ranging from recycled hard drive platters and floppy disks, to memory ears and a wire tail. Good use of old computers bits & pieces!

Plants such as strawberry and clover can instant message each other along a linked network. They send out runners along or under the ground and the runners become new buds. You end up with an entangled communications network that can warn of danger.

How would you like your kid to attend a high school where they learn about the "new reality" - criminal justice, law enforcement, homeland security science. Is this brainwashing the next generation about the War on Terror? Is it right?

Between 50 and 90% of the world's 6,992 languages will cease to exist by 2100. When a language vanishes, so does the vast body of knowledge associated with that language. Read about efforts to preserve vanishing dialects.