That well-known philosopher Yogi Berra once said: “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi, you are so right. The future ain’t ever going to be what it used to be. But isn’t it fun to peer into the future?
Continue reading… “A Look Ahead at the Year 2020”
SF Express is testing a drone it has built for delivering packages in China.
The US has a couple-decade head start on China in building drones that kill people. But when it comes to domestic uses, US businesses are hamstrung because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) isn’t required to issue commercial drone rules until 2015. In the meantime, one of China’s biggest delivery companies is tinkering with using drones—with Chinese government permission. (Video)
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Futurist Thomas Frey: How quickly we forget. Events of 20 years ago seem like a distant memory, but 1994 was the year when Nelson Mandela was elected President of South Africa, O.J. Simpson was arrested for killing his wife, huge massacres were happening in Rwanda and Sarajevo, and China got its first connection to the Internet.
Meganews Magazines
Meganews Magazines is the world’s first automatic magazine newsstand. It offers a new way to distribute magazines and newspapers with their print on demand technology. The technology will reduce the mountains of wasted paper from unsold magazines at newsstands since their vending machine only prints publications when they’re ordered, in just two minutes.
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Even employees who are employed in large corporations are encouraged to be “intrapreneurs.”
Entrepreneurs used to be thought of as the renegade cowboys out in Silicon Valley. Now it seems you have to be an entrepreneur just to get and hold a job.
Continue reading… “Why everyone will need to become an entrepreneur: Infographic”
Burning Man 2013
Participants in the Burning Man Festival every year descend on the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to form a temporary city. It is a self-reliant community populated by performers, artists, free spirits, and more. An estimated 68,000 people came to Burning Man 2013, last week, from all over the world to dance, express themselves, and take in the spectacle. (Photos)
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Google Glass
Google Glass will be getting its very own app store next year. The news was first revealed in a New York Times Magazine piece this past weekend. Since then, Google has confirmed it to the blog Marketing Land.
Continue reading… “Google Glass app store coming in 2014”
Titan is a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects.
When we buy a new computer we think at some point that it must be a supercomputer, at least when you compare it to the computer you had prior to the new one. it seems our computers are getting slower, but that is not really the case. What happens is that the software we use on it gets more powerful, which makes the computer struggle more. That’s when we all wish we had access to one of the many supercomputers currently being constructed throughout the world.
Continue reading… “World’s top 10 fastest supercomputers of 2013 (Infographic)”
31 percent of South Australia’s total energy came from renewable sources in 2012 and 2013.
In South Australia, one in five houses already has a rooftop solar array. Twenty-seven percent of that region’s power is derived from wind energy. New figures released by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) predict that thanks to new sources of wind and solar power in development, the area could source half of its energy from renewables within the decade. This would make South Australia the first industrialized region to achieve such an accomplishment, surpassing other green-power giants like Denmark and Germany.
Continue reading… “South Australia to reach 50% renewable energy within 10 years”
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Deserts may not have a lot of water like in rivers or lakes or aquifers but that doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t a lot of water around somewhere. Many desert-dwelling plants and animals have adapted to extract water from the air itself, relying on fog that reliably shows up in deserts near warm oceans.
Continue reading… “MIT’s fog harvesting technology brings water to deserts”
Pioneer NavGate
Pioneer has launched an augmented reality-equipped satellite navigation unit as part of its NavGate range that uses a head-up display (HUD) to display directions directly in the driver’s line of sight.
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The Nymi is a bracelet that will let you secure and manipulate your world with the power of your heartbeat. The Nymi is ramping up to be ever so much more than just a heart rate monitor.
Continue reading… “Nymi bracelet turns your heartbeat into a password”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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