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Is Elon Musk’s ‘Future We Want’ the One We Really Want?

Written by on December 20, 2017 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech with 0 Comments
Is Elon Musk’s ‘Future We Want’ the One We Really Want?

If you love Elon Musk’s audacious ways, read this!

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This New Drone Lets People Fly Without a Pilot

Written by on October 20, 2017 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech, Technology with 5 Comments
This New Drone Lets People Fly Without a Pilot

If the idea of being a passenger in a pilotless drone seems like science-fiction, you need to read this. The creation of the Ehang 184 is making it a reality now.

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Soon Robots Will Have More Rights than Humans

Soon Robots Will Have More Rights than Humans

Will robots and artificial intelligence entities of the future have more rights than flesh and blood humans? Jake Anderson believes in the future, the evolution of artificial intelligence will be so dramatic and rapid that we will scarcely be able to identify the point at which strong artificial intelligence surpasses human cognition.

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A Remote-Controlled Robotic Doctor Is Gearing Up For Action

A Remote-Controlled Robotic Doctor Is Gearing Up For Action

A new robot under development can send information on the stiffness, look and feel of a patient to a doctor located hundreds of miles away. With the help of the robot, a doctor can talk to a patient, maneuver robotic arms, feel what the robot senses and get ultrasounds.

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Reflections on the Life & Work of Jacque Fresco

Written by on June 13, 2017 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech with 0 Comments
Reflections on the Life & Work of Jacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco created the Venus Project in 1980 to pursue his plan to create a resource-based economy that would rescue modern society from the ills of failed political systems. The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable but as totally unacceptable.

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Is There a Science to the ET Contact Experience? One Neuroscientist says “Yes!”

Is There a Science to the ET Contact Experience? One Neuroscientist says “Yes!”

ET contact may be linked to other “paranormal” related encounters. Is there a science to explain it all?

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Elon Musk’s New Company Will Merge the Human Brain with a Machine

Elon Musk’s New Company Will Merge the Human Brain with a Machine

Musk has discussed how humans are becoming semi-cyborgs with small chips, artificial eyes and many other biotechnological advancements being installed into their bodies. In one recent interview, Musk suggested we’re linked to everything that has an on and off switch, restricting the human interference in these boundaries by having to touch things.

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Big Breakthrough MIT Physicists Create an ‘Impossible’ New Form of Matter

Written by on March 19, 2017 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech, Science with 0 Comments
Big Breakthrough MIT Physicists Create an ‘Impossible’ New Form of Matter

Physicists at MIT have created a very strange and exciting new form of matter. Read about it now.

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The 10 Biggest Dangers Posed By Future Technology

Written by on March 12, 2017 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech, Technology with 3 Comments
The 10 Biggest Dangers Posed By Future Technology

Today, predicting the direction in which technology is heading is a lot easier than it was 65 years ago. Unfortunately, these advancements don’t always have the potential to benefit mankind, sometimes the opposite is true. Is our way of life, or indeed all of humanity, at risk from these dangers?

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Exercise AND Wash Laundry With This Amazing Eco-Friendly Bicycle

Written by on February 16, 2017 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech, Technology with 164 Comments
Exercise AND Wash Laundry With This Amazing Eco-Friendly Bicycle

The Bike Washing Machine encourages you to conserve energy and get fit while completing household tasks.

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The United Nations Will Take On ‘Killer Robots’ in 2017

Written by on December 25, 2016 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech, Technology with 0 Comments
The United Nations Will Take On ‘Killer Robots’ in 2017

Are you worried that the future may look a lot like ‘Terminator’? Good news, the UN has finally agreed to officially look at the issue of dealing with weaponized Artificial Intelligence. Read this!

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The Future of Neurotechnology

The Future of Neurotechnology

It’s not a matter of IF but WHEN neurotechnology will become reality in our lives. It’s now gearing up in two areas: human enhancement, and artificial intelligence (AI). Neuro-tech may not yet be a common household word just yet, but it is definitely well on the way. And in fact, now that most of us […]

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Paris Makes All Public Transport Free To Battle The Worst Air Pollution In 10 Years

Paris Makes All Public Transport Free To Battle The Worst Air Pollution In 10 Years

Air pollution has been of growing concern for many, many decades, causing environmental effects like acid rain, haze, eutrophication, ozone depletion, crop and forest depletion, global climate change, and effects on wildlife. It also wreaks havoc on human health, with long-term effects including cancer, damage to the immune, neurological, reproductive, and respiratory systems.

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Researchers on the Verge of Creating Artificial Intelligence/Human Hybrids

Written by on December 12, 2016 in Futurism & Inspiring Inventions, Sci-Tech, Science, Technology with 0 Comments
Researchers on the Verge of Creating Artificial Intelligence/Human Hybrids

Citing “neuroprosthetics” like cochlear implants, Bryan Johnson of Braintree envisions BCI (brain-computer interface), a synergistic relationship between the central nervous system and external computing devices. A brain-computer interface, in the context of advanced transhumanism and taken to its logical conclusion, is AI/human hybrids.

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Is a New Memory-Enhancing Device, Currently in Development, a Bad Idea?

Is a New Memory-Enhancing Device, Currently in Development, a Bad Idea?

There are some undeniable points to be made about a drug, or an implant, that can enhance intelligence: If people have the choice to enhance their mental abilities with medication or an implant, what does that mean for society? Because if we all have access to the same enhancement, would it be an enhancement, or a new reality?

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