If it’s not science until it’s reproduceable, then tabletop “pyroelectric” crystal-based nuclear fusion just became science. This is not the ubiquitious cheap power you might at first think of when you hear fusion, but a device whose commercial appeal lies in it’s ability to create neutrons.

One of the things I love about the confluence of networking and electronics is sharing music. I’m not talking about getting music for free (though neither am I dismissing that noble tradition) but about finding musicians I’d otherwise never know about. Podbop takes that a step further by giving you the chance to listen to bands with upcoming concerts in your area.

FutureWire, itself an good source for articles that peek at the foreseeable future, has a nice couple of links to future-oriented wikis, specifically Future (which in an appropriately recursive manner itself contains a good collection of links) and Scenario Thinking.

Fast Company has posted a fascinating portrayal of the General Electric jet engine plant in Durham, North Carolina. What makes the story fascinating is the uniquely flat hierarchical structure of GE Durham and the amazing productivity unleashed by making employees responsible for their work. “The techs at GE/Durham have challenging jobs that matter, they have a degree of control over their work that is almost unprecedented, they adhere to demanding performance standards, they receive the training and support that they need to do the best work they can–and, as a result, they do just that.”

Bruce Sterling’s published YAESR (Yet Another Entertaining Sterling Rant), this time about the future of money in that most appropriate of venues, Forbes. “Imagine yourself confronted by an electronic Web page that is eager to read you. Once it learns who you are and how much you have to offer, it make a ferocious effort to convince you that the money game is transforming, with profoundly new players, unimaginable new rules.”