shanghai-scores-as-top-tech-hub-in-the-world-as-silicon-valley-gap-grows

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2014/09/16/shanghai-scores-as-top-tech-hub-in-the-world-as-silicon-valley-gap-grows

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/10/can-the-chinese-government-turn-shanghai-into-the-new-hong-kong/280319/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai#Architecture

https://www.google.ca/search?q=shanghai+vs+hong+kong&sa=X&es_sm=93&biw=1920&bih=971&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=nlUhVP6gGcnYoAS8y4C4BQ&ved=0CDsQsAQ

The 1914 Seattle Smith Tower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower 462 ft (141 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower#History " Although L.C. Smith did not live to see construction begin, his namesake building was completed in 1914 to a height of 143 m (469 ft) from curbside to the top of the pyramid,^[7] with a pinnacle height of 159 m (522 ft)."

Even a 100 years later, Vancouver & BC made sure that no office building would rival what Seattle had in 1914. No 40 story office tower in Vancouver and no 20 story office stump in Victoria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Centre_(Vancouver)  144.78 m (475 ft.)

It would take until 1973 for Vancouver to allow something comparable in height to what Seattle had in 1914. 

https://the-intersection-point.blogspot.com/search?q=Urban+Tech+Intersection

computers-will-be-like-humans-by-2029-googles-ray-kurzweil

http://www.kurzweilai.net/cnbc-computers-will-be-like-humans-by-2029-googles-ray-kurzweil?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=158ecb0c5b-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-158ecb0c5b-281959761

nasa-robosimian-robot-disaster-response

http://www.space.com/24406-nasa-robosimian-robot-disaster-response-video.html
A spider-bot certainly would have the dexterity.

http://the-intersection-point.blogspot.ca/2014/01/bionics-robotics-and-transhumanism-etc.html

Supercomputers and the Universe

Supercomputers and the Universe
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/09-do-we-live-in-the-matrix

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57615540-1/are-we-in-the-matrix-science-looks-for-signs-were-not-real

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143180-probing-the-matrix-is-our-universe-simulated-and-if-so-by-who

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/121012/universe-computer-simulation-university-bonn-germany-matrix-beane

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2216189/Do-live-Matrix-researchers-say-way-prove-do.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628950.300-the-idea-we-live-in-a-simulation-isnt-science-fiction.html#.Usj8NPRDsrU

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/07/-a-matrix-universe-are-we-living-in-a-vast-computer-simulation.html


http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/reality_simulated_reality.asp

BIG CITIES and the growing World Population

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_kn45qIvI

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2013/2013-world-population-data-sheet/data-sheet.aspx

BIG DATA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBJLJQqbWsQ

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2533850/Coming-soon-Star-Wars-phone-lets-talk-holograms-loved-ones.html

Bionics, Robotics and Transhumanism, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1-YFbAifA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zP7yP8hdLE

Robotic Army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0VgrSSlGoo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2533850/Coming-soon-Star-Wars-phone-lets-talk-holograms-loved-ones.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57615540-1/are-we-in-the-matrix-science-looks-for-signs-were-not-real/