Futurism & Inspiring Inventions
The future of year-round farming could lie not in farms, but in huge warehouses lit with an eerie pink light, researchers have claimed. Researchers have found that tomatoes grown around LED lights in the winter can significantly reduce greenhouse energy costs without sacrificing yield – and say the technique could change the way farming works.
Google is opening a new research lab to see if a quantum computer can solve problems too taxing for traditional computers.
This prospect raises rather profound questions about our current health entitlements. First, will the kinds of technological interventions that permit such extraordinary gains in life expectancy, such as gene therapy, organ replacement etc., be included as mandatory “essential health benefits” covered by Obamacare? Medicaid? Medicare? Given their obvious contribution to adding years to life, it would be hard to imagine policymakers denying such coverage. What we do not (and perhaps cannot) know is what the relative cost of such procedures/ technology will be as it becomes more ubiquitous.
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an apparent proof of “time crystals” which could demonstrate a special form of perpetual motion.
As 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, picks up steam in industrial manufacturing and spurs the public imagination, scientists say the next frontier is 4-D printing: materials that fabricate themselves.
Futurist Marcus T. Anthony explains why he is optimistic about the future, and why courageous pioneers like you will bring the Big Mind Shift into being.
Futurist Marcus T. Anthony explains why he is optimistic about the future, and why courageous pioneers like you will bring the Big Mind Shift into being.
If you think the future is far away, think again.
Today there are tons of apps available that can make us feel like we live in the future right now.
Recent breakthroughs in wireless charging is making it commercially practical for everything from electronic devices to vehicles…
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and the Henry Semat Professor at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
Federico Pistono of Zeitgeist Italy delivered a very compelling presentation at TEDxVienna 2012 on the nature of technological unemployment and why we should embrace it. This video contains so many quotable phrases and wonderful points.
“There’s no more important project than understanding Intelligence and recreating it. I do envision a fundamental approach based on everything we understand about how the human brain [works]. And there are some things we don’t yet understand so I plan to go off and explore some of my own ideas about how certain things work.”
