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Gelecekte neler olacak? Hangi tarihte insanlık nasıl adım atacak?
İnsalık tarihi nasıl bir yol izleyecek? Ne gibi icatlar çıkacak? Uzaylılar ile iletişim ne zaman kurulabilecek? Gelecek, insan aklı, bilim ve teknolojinin evrimine kafa yoran ünlü beyinler, insanlık için bir gelecek kronolojisi hazırladılar. İşte merak edilen bir çok sorunun gelecek bilimciler tarafından verilen cevapları...
#TarihTime for sharing, not competing, say futurists
ISTANBUL - The Futurist Association organizes its second summit. The summit that will take place at Istanbul’s İş Art Culture Center on June 25 is organized under the slogan ’Nanotechnology will come and everything will change.’ The aim of the futurists is to catch the latest technologies
’Boş zaman’dan 200 milyon dolar buldu, iki otel daha inşa edecek
LEISURE (boş zamanı hoş zamana döndürme) sektöründe 200 milyon dolarlık yatırımın sahibi Alarko Holding, bu sektörde büyümeye kararlı. Alarko Holding Turizm Grubu Başkanı Edip İlkbahar, hedeflerinin önümüzdeki 5 yıl içinde 800 milyon dolarlık yatırım portföyünü yönetmek olduğunu söylerken, İstanbul’un yanı sıra Kıbrıs’ta da 100 milyon dolar yatırımla yeni bir otel yapacaklarını açıkladı.
Boş zamanlara göz dikti 200 milyon dolara gidiyor
LEISURE (boş zamanları hoş zamana döndürme) sektörüne yönelen Alarko, Hillside'la bu alanda büyümeyi hedefliyor. Alarko Holding Turizm Grubu Başkanı Edip İlkbahar, ‘‘Sektörde 80 milyon dolarlık yatırım portföyünü işletiyoruz. Bu rakamı 5 yılda 200 milyon dolara çıkarmak istiyoruz’’ dedi.
Obama’s two dollars and Turkey
It is a tough economy, but if President Barack Obama has $2 to invest in Turkey, I would suggest that he put one buck into consolidating Turkey’s liberal democracy, and the other into moving forward the country’s European Union accession, for a non-European Turkey would be a big loss for Washington.
Atıl Kutoğlu - Fashion designer extraordinaire Keeping residents of city chic
ISTANBUL - Atıl Kutoğlu went to Vienna to study business administration and has found himself atop the world of fashion design. Blending art, culture and a range of textiles, Kutoğlu has made a name for himself and his flagship Istanbul store.
Turkish-American cooperation in the broader Eurasian region (2)
- SecuritySecurity is a highly prized and scarce commodity amid the contemporary setting of asymmetric threats, ethnic, sectarian and tribal conflicts, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, pandemics and natural disasters.
Future’s directors film the ’others’ in Edirne
ISTANBUL - A project titled 'International Youth Filmmaking,' which was initiated last year by the US Consulate General in Istanbul and provided education for students from six Turkish cities on filmmaking, yields its results. Students in Edirne, who took classes as part of the project, have made a film featuring the life of Roma citizens in their city.
Turkish-American cooperation in the broader Eurasian region (I)
Eurasia is now the premier competition ground for all major international actors vying for power, influence and resources. The importance and the meaning of the magnitudes of broader Eurasia, which for the purpose of this article refers to Asia, Europe plus the Middle East put together, need no elaboration. Most of the world’s population, wealth and energy resources are there.
Moses is Moses, Jesus is Jesus...
We were delighted with the colorful presence of 700 Turkish-speaking kids from all around the world at a recent gathering in Turkey. They won both hearts and minds in a country full of people who would be thrilled if a tourist called at them "Merhaba!" The usual answer would be, "Ne kadar güzel Türkçe konuşuyorsunuz / Your Turkish is so very good." The children came from literally all corners of the world to compete in singing, poetry-reading and prose competition at the Turkish Language Olympics, an exciting event sadly not covered by Eurosport.
Youth tackles caste system and socializes self-interest
ISTANBUL - Istanbul tenth grader Sid Shekhar wraps up a global leadership week at Harvard University where he is taking a yearlong project to the next level: He hopes to contribute to a movement to abolish the caste system in India. If world citizenship is revealed through one's plans to help people who benefit the least from the globalization, then Shekhar is surely a leader among citizens.
Foreign, local artists’ display at Beylerbeyi
ISTANBUL - Twenty local and international artists, brought together by Filipino curator and artist Rowena Martinez Ulayan, are showing their work at Beylerbeyi Palace on Istanbul’s Asian shoreline. Hailing from Cuba, Mauritius, Russia, South Africa and the United States, as well as Turkey, all the artists brought together by Ulayan have made Istanbul their home. The exhibition, ’Creative Euphoria,’ is on view until June 4
Supermom brings in social responsibility
ISTANBUL -Şafak Akın, mother of four, is a leader in social responsibility for Turkey. She describes the years she left international law to set up the Turkey Human Sources foundation as a time when the term "social responsibility" was being redefined. Akın, who says mothers are architects of the future, is so gorgeous that she outshines Hollywood stars
Cyprus after the elections
I read the 48-page manifesto of the political party that won the general elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, or TRNC. Like a sign on the window of a barber shop that reads "Free haircut tomorrow" but remains there always, the manifesto basically says, "The system of 1974 will come back, just vote for the National Union Party!"