However, Australia is projected to becomes the world's largest supplier of natural gas, overtaking Qatar, by the end of the decade.
Similarly, the movements of the rats were tracked in their cage and used to control an avatar projected into the VR world the human subjects experienced via a head-mounted display.
The image is part of a video montage of several current and deposed world leaders that is projected onto a giant screen during the song "Nobody Knows Me" during Madonna's current world tour.
The projected images are of a world beyond politics and national hatreds, a world that is constantly changing but that never truly vanishes.
How is Europe to be disabused of the fantasy that its unique situation--which ironically exists, and can only last, under the U.S.' security shield--can be projected onto the rest of the world?
Computer-generated "bots" seem to occupy the real space of the Museum's gallery, while images of Museum visitors are captured and projected into the work's imaginary world.
ENGADGET: Museum of The Moving Image plans multi-million dollar updates with HD, 3D
America is already the third most populous country in the world and its population is projected to grow to over 400m by mid-century, virtually all the growth coming from immigration.
Newton's projected dictionary of what he called "World English" would acknowledge that an Australian might say he needed a dunny, while a British person wanted a loo and an American, a toilet.
It might seem the perfect storm: the prospect of less reliable harvests, a growing world population and demand for food projected by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to rise 70% by mid-century.
India is one of the fastest-growing outbound markets with a projected growth rate of 16% and the World Trade Organization projects the market to reach 50 million by 2020, up from the current level of 12 million.
FORBES: Expedia's Global Growth Soars With Asian Partnerships
But she improved on that performance with victory over Spain's Suarez Navarro, ranked 119 places higher at 57 in the world, and Watson is now projected to enter the top 150 on Monday for the first time.
To meet projected food demand by 2050, when the world's population will have grown from 7 billion now to about 9 billion, it says global agricultural production will need to grow 60% above the level of 2007.
The world's present population of 6.5 billion already exceeds the world's biological carrying capacity and is projected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050.
Last year's agreement was seen as marking major progress in Hollywood studios' long-running effort to gain greater access to the world's second largest movie market-projected to be No. 1 by 2020.
In other matters, Ballmer projected a long, hard workout for the recession-battered world economy.
The 18-year-old is projected to move up from her current ranking of 176 to inside the world's top 150 next week.
BBC: Heather Watson loses to Shuai Peng in Auckland quarters
By 2050, the BRIC nations are projected to be the first, third, fifth and sixth largest economies in the world.
FORBES: It's Time To Upgrade The Entire World's Infrastructure
By 2050, the employed community in the developing world, not including China with its one-child policy, is projected to increase by 50 percent.
But the rest of the world, especially Asia, is going in exactly the opposite direction, projected to use an additional billion tons of coal each year by 2016.
FORBES: As Coal Use Drops In U.S., China and India Burn Even More
More than half the world's population already lives in cities and the urban population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2030.
应用推荐