Jul 29, 2015
China’s answer to the Tesla Model S: The Youxia X
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
What happens when you combine a Tesla Model S with KITT from the TV show Knight Rider? The Youxia X.
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Jul 29, 2015
Researchers demonstrate the world’s first white lasers
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, futurism
More luminous and energy efficient than LEDs, white lasers look to be the future in lighting and light-based wireless communication.
Jul 28, 2015
This 1,400-Foot Desert Citadel Would Be A Self-Sustaining City Of Tomorrow — By John Brownlee | Fast Company
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: architecture, food, water
It may look like Immortan Joe’s Citadel from Mad Max: Fury Road, but this abstract desert obelisk isn’t a citadel of the post-apocalypse. It’s a self-contained city—also called an arcology—that French firms Nicholas Laisné Associés and OXO Architects propose to build in the Saharan desert.
Jul 28, 2015
How to Use a Black Hole’s Spin to Harvest Energy
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: cosmology, energy
A black hole isn’t the energy sink you might think it is. By hurling matter towards a black hole, it might be possible to get energy out of it. Learn how a spinning black hole could be an energy turbine for an entire civilization.
Jul 28, 2015
Astronomers Discover a New Class of Freakishly Dense, Compact Galaxies
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: cosmology
Imagine what our night sky would look like if its stellar density was a million times greater than it is now. Remarkably, such places actually exist: They’re called “Ultracompact Dwarfs,” and astronomers are calling them an entirely new kind of galaxy.
Jul 28, 2015
‘What Do Machines Sing Of?’, A Robot That Endlessly Performs Hit Ballads From the 1990s While Adding Emotion
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: entertainment, futurism, robotics/AI
Is this what we will be fated to in the future?….Karaoke Robots.
“What Do Machines Sing Of?” is a robot by artist Martin Backes that endlessly performs number one hit ballads from the 1990s while attempting to add the proper emotion to its performances. When one song ends the machine randomly selects another and keeps on singing.
Jul 28, 2015
‘Impossible’ EM Propulsion Engine Confirmed
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space travel
We shall see…
The EM Drive has been laughed at by scientists in the past, but now it appears to actually work.
Jul 28, 2015
3D Printed Organs Are a Heartbeat Closer to Reality
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Learn about the advancements of a robot that will save lives. The plan? It’s going to produce 3D printed organs and even a fully functional human heart.
Jul 28, 2015
100 Year Starship Announces the Canopus Award for Interstellar Writing
Posted by Jason Batt in categories: futurism, space, space travel
100 Year Starship (100YSS) today announced the establishment of the Canopus Award, an annual writing prize recognizing the finest fiction and non-fiction works that contribute to the excitement, knowledge, and understanding of interstellar space exploration and travel.
100YSS, led by former astronaut, engineer, physician and entrepreneur Dr. Mae Jemison, is an independent, long-term global initiative working to ensure that the capabilities for human interstellar travel, beyond our solar system to another star, exist within the next 100 years.
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Jul 28, 2015
When Machines Can Do Most Jobs—Passion, Creativity, and Reinvention Rule
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: employment, energy, health, robotics/AI
Not long ago, schoolchildren chose what they wanted to be when they grew up, and later selected the best college they could gain admission to, spent years gaining proficiency in their fields, and joined a company that had a need for their skills. Careers lasted lifetimes.
Now, by my estimates, the half-life of a career is about 10 years. I expect that it will decrease, within a decade, to five years. Advancing technologies will cause so much disruption to almost every industry that entire professions will disappear. And then, in about 15–20 years from now, we will be facing a jobless future, in which most jobs are done by machines and the cost of basic necessities such as food, energy and health care is negligible — just as the costs of cellphone communications and information are today. We will be entering an era of abundance in which we no longer have to work to have our basic needs met. And we will gain the freedom to pursue creative endeavors and do the things that we really like.
