LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn billionaire and education policy enthusiast, has an intriguing theory for a new type of digital literacy: “network literacy.”
Top religion in the U.S. is christianity. Here’s the second-top in each state.
In the U.S., Christianity is the largest religion by a wide margin: more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. Buddhism is second. The data comes from a 2010 census sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.
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11 ways technology may soon grant you superhuman powers
Human flight
As a child, everyone had a favorite superhuman power – flying, invisibility, comic book character strength and agility. Some of us secretly hoped to cultivate psychic powers like telekinesis, precognition, mind reading, etc., even as teens and young adults.
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Researchers discover 3D material that behaves like graphene
This illustration depicts fast-moving, massless electrons inside cadmium arsenide.
Researchers from Oxford, SLAC, and Berkeley Lab have found that cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2D graphene. The researchers also found that the new “semimetal” material exists in a sturdy 3D form that should be much easier to shape into electronic devices such as very fast transistors, sensors and transparent electrodes.
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Electric car travels over 1,100 miles without a recharge on a new aluminum-air battery
Together the Israeli company, Phinergy, and the aluminum giant, Alcoa Canada, demonstrated an electric vehicle (EV) capable of driving over 1,100 miles between charges using a combination of aluminum-air and lithium-ion storage technologies.
Top 7 military weapons most people have never heard of
Lun-class Ekranoplane
History of weapon design is full of examples of human ingenuity run amok. “What are some historical weapons that most people have never heard of,” a group of Quora users asked. The answers provide an amazing insight into the history of war, and offer examples of some of the most ingenious — yet impractical — weaponry ever created.
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Robots that self-assemble when heated up
Printable robotic components that, when baked, automatically fold into prescribed three-dimensional configurations.
MIT researchers have developed some printable robotic components that fold into a specific 3D shape when they are ‘baked’ under heat. The team, led by Professor Daniela Rus, has introduced the “bakeable robots” in the hope that they lead to a variety of self-assembling designs that function on their own and fold together like origami.
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The future of work imagined
Fast forward to 2024. Robots have not completely taken over but they and automation have definitely changed the landscape of work. This isn’t meant to be a crystal ball into our future world but rather an attempt to extend what we already see happening in work and the movement of these practices from the fringes of ‘innovative workplaces’ to the mainstream. Being a worker in this future world might look something like this…
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What the consumer will look like in 2030
The future consumer is a self-sustaining prosumer, a savvy maker/consumer empowered by their network and data.
Futurists help us envision what the far future will look like. Futurist Jeremy Rifkin’s recent book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet Of Things, The Collaborative Commons, And The Eclipse of Capitalism, is a robust 300-page work that crystallizes his thinking about the maturation of the sharing economy and the emergence of new Internets to manage energy and the transports-logistics infrastructure.
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18 Brilliant Images of the Near Future
Our visions of the future come in many different forms, but seeing real life images of what future life may actually look like can be very helpful.
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Sanaria will use robots to mass produce a promising new malaria vaccine
SporoBot would increase the speed of production 20 – 30 times over.
What if you had developed a vaccine for malaria that, in early trials, was 100% effective. But you couldn’t get the funding you needed to produce enough of the vaccine to market it because of political wrangling over the budget. What would you do? (Video)
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Asia will dominate the smartphone industry by 2019
The data from Ericsson couldn’t be clearer: Go East if you want to sell a phone in the near future. The West is basically over as a growth market for phones. That’s because the U.S. and Europe is close to full penetration when it comes to high-end mobile devices.
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