DARPA already has proven that it will make its dreams into reality — not the reality everyone agrees with, but we should take note of their predictions.
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Feb 19, 2016
Japan Is Trying To Make Ghost in the Shell Real
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Forget that Hollywood live-action adaptation nonsense, scientists and researchers in Japan are trying to turn the world of Ghost in the Shell into reality.
The Ghost in the Shell Realize Project, which launched in 2014, fosters projects and ideas inspired by the famed sci-fi manga and anime.
The Tesla is worth only $500. She’s just a child. Car go up to 9 KM / H, corresponding to the speed of the jogging. Little Model S, like the “grown up” Tesla, charging from the network.
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Feb 17, 2016
New Cancer Therapy Sends 93 Percent Of ‘Incurable’ Patients Into Remission
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Beautiful — a new treatment to cure repeatable occurrences of blood related cancers.
New Cancer Therapy Could Give Hope To ‘Incurable’ Patients.
This could be the future of cancer treatment.
Feb 17, 2016
What Happens When You Zoom in Too Much on Google Maps
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
It’s like some kind of surrealistic, never ending nightmare! Eeek.
Sleeping too well lately? Looking for that “something something” to turn those boring restful nights into a horrorscape? Turns out, zooming in too far on Google Maps’ user-uploaded 3D Spheres produces some impressively fucked up images.
Digital artist Kyle F. Williams has been collecting some of the weirder glitchy images Google Maps turns up when you zoom in too close on some of its 3D spheres. Some look like that photo in Back to the Future where the kids slowly fade. Others look like Picasso took some bad ketamine and got Photoshop:
I learned something new today; the first fax machine was built in 1860; and using the Nodal Clock for more accurate timestamping of real-time media IP signals and future event handling.
When transmitting an image from a sender to a receiver some notion of synchronization is required. In the 1860s Giovanni Caselli invented the Pantelegraph (a fax) that used a pendulum clock to regulate the transmitter’s scanning stylus and the receiver’s writing stylus.
In our day, “black-burst sync” and “tri-level sync” were used to align video signals in a facility. Now with Ethernet/IP taking the reins, synchronization may be achieved with common nodal clocks. The essence is for a “slave node” to lock its clock to a “master node” clock. Common node clocks can be used to create sync as will be shown. The SMPTE ST 2059 family of standards and the IEEE-1588 V2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) standard are the basis for facility clocking and signal synchronization using IP networks.
Feb 16, 2016
Why the Most Famous CEOs Are Often Wrong About the Future
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: futurism, mobile phones
Interesting read — I must admit that today’s CEOs of large companies are not like the CEOs of my grandfather’s generation who were more like the mold of Sam Walton.
This habit for grandiose predictions seems to be contagious. Last fall, Miguel McKelvey, founder of shared office space giant We Work Cos. promised his company would be in a thousand locations “in the near future.” Given that the company at the time was present in just 52 places, this promised a growth rate north of 1500 percent—but probably had some intended influence on the company’s $10 billion valuation.
In 2013, before he left Blackberry under pressure, the company’s CEO Thorsten Heins declared that “in 5 years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”
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Feb 16, 2016
Scientists Discover a Boiling River of Amazonian Legend
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
The universe never ceases to amaze, does it?
Deep in the heart of the Amazon, legends tell of a river so hot that it boils from below. As a geoscientist, Andrés Ruzo’s training told him the stories couldn’t be true. But that was before he saw the river with his own eyes.
It’s incredible to think there are natural wonders on this planet not yet known to science, but such was the case for the river at Mayantuyacu, publicized for the first time in The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon. The book is an engrossing, true story of discovery, adventure, science, and mysticism, told by a man who was driven to explain something impossible, and is now on a quest to preserve it.
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Feb 14, 2016
Top Marine Looks to Science Fiction to Prepare Corps for Future
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: futurism, military
Getting ready for battle — future of military gear and acessories.
The Marine Corps is expanding its cyber warfare and information warfare communities, and embracing cutting-edge technologies.
