Revenues from broadcasting and new media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics have already risen nearly 40 percent from the previous two-Games package, which includes the Beijing Olympics, and will be in excess of $3.0 billion. The IOC estimates some 15 percent of that will come from new media including the internet and mobile [...]

I have just started reading Charles Stross' “Accelerando”. (html download available here) – highly recommended… This is about as out there a book as I can imagine…. dealing with the transition of human life through a Singularity to a post human state… It even has a glossary of terms at Wikipedia to help you understand [...]