http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diama...ur_future.html
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Abund...sVA/page1.html
This book is a look at how technology is rising to meet the challenges that humanity faces, and at an ever quickening pace.
In that TED talk, one of the author's reveals that Coca-Cola may soon deploy the slingshot device to numerous countries in the developing world. The gloomy predictions of tomorrow, like 'water-wars', are looking to be way off the mark.