Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 1093
Aug 11, 2016
The Most Dangerous Object Known To Humanity
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
How the origin of Earth’s greatest meteor shower might be the demise of life on Earth as we know it.
Aug 11, 2016
Future By Design | The Venus Project — Directed by William Gazecki
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: futurism
Lifeboat’s Jacque Fresco in a 2006 documentary about his work and The Venus Project
Aug 11, 2016
Ready for a Human Hybrid? Human-Animal Chimeras May Now Be Possible
Posted by Carse Peel in category: futurism
There are calls to lift NIH’s restrictions on the controversial chimera studies. But are we ready for this most controversial study yet?
Aug 10, 2016
Social Entrepreneurs Need To Be Futurists, Too
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
What if we tried to prevent future problems, instead of just solving the ones in front of us?
The intelligence community’s tech think tank wants a new model for keeping data safe in the cloud.
Aug 8, 2016
A new tech giant? Why you need to know about China’s LeEco
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
China is going to try to own tech and be the SV for the world within the next 7 years. This is definitely in process and many companies in China have been rejecting US tech products for the past several months due to US pressures about the S. China Sea and ramp up efforts to build their own tech companies to take down Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. They do have the IP to possibly do it.
So, move over FB, Youtube, and Amazon, there is a new streaming media competitor on the horizon coming to online users near you. Lookout the remaining parts of Alphabet (namely Google), Amazon, and Microsoft.
China’s LeEco doesn’t come up much when China’s top tech firms are mentioned. Maybe it should.
Aug 8, 2016
DARPA wants to build very low frequency wireless systems
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
Well, we can easily figure out who this and how this will be used on.
Wireless transmitters that operate at very or ultra low frequencies (0.3‐30 kHz) typically require some big antenna complexes to handle their communications.
Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said they are interested looking to eliminate that issue and develop smaller physical structures that could handle new long-distance communication applications.
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Aug 7, 2016
5 Future Visions to Fuel Your Imagination of What’s Possible
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
Through the lens of imagination, humankind has the ability to see far beyond the present. The strongest of these guiding visions tend to coalesce and together steer the trajectory of where we’re headed—even if we don’t arrive exactly where expected.
But what fuels the imagination? The information we consume paints a picture of the world we inhabit. Both sci-fi and forecasting offer fertile ground for stimulating thoughts about the future, while also helping us imagine the steps necessary to get us closer or further from the destination.
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