Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.
Continue reading… “First evidence that online dating is changing the nature of society”
It clings to your intestinal wall to track abnormalities and help diagnose disorders.
Continue reading… “Edible sensor can measure your gut from within”
On Sunday night, a gunman killed at least 59 people and injured 527 others on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooter, identified as Stephen Paddock, open fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into a crowd of thousands below who were attending a country music festival.
Continue reading… “Where Americans are most likely to be killed by gun violence”
These days, a radiologist at UCSF will go through anywhere from 20 to 100 scans a day, and each scan can have thousands of images to review.
Continue reading… “Scanning the future, radiologists see their jobs at risk”
The ubiquity of big data is such that Gartner dropped it from their Hype Cycle of Emergent Technologies back in 2015. Across sectors, businesses are scrambling to make every function “data driven,” and there’s no shortage of firms lining up to help them. The big data analytics industry, dedicated to helping big businesses leverage the petabytes of information they now generate and store, is worth $122 billion — and growing.
Continue reading… “Why the promise of big data hasn’t delivered yet”
Small sensors or drug delivery devices could reside in the GI tract indefinitely
Continue reading… “Wireless power could enable ingestible electronics”
Counterfeit products are a huge problem – from medicines to car parts, fake technology costs lives.
Continue reading… “A future without fakes thanks to quantum technology”
Will machines take over jobs? We’ve been wondering for hundreds of years
Continue reading… “We’ve been worrying about the end of work for 500 years”
Apple’s first iPhone was released 10 years ago this week — on June 29, 2007. While it wasn’t the first smartphone, it leapfrogged far beyond the competition and launched the mobile revolution. Few industries or societies have been left unchanged.
Here are 10 charts that show some of the profound effects the iPhone-led — and Google Android-fueled — mobile boom have caused over the past decade.
Continue reading… “How Apple’s iPhone changed the world: 10 years in 10 charts”
Even those of us fortunate enough to have good health insurance will often put off seeing a doctor when we probably should. Often it’s simply a matter of logistics. We feel like we can’t take the time off work, or arrange transportation, or get childcare to make the trip.
But what if the doctor just comes you? In a self-driving car.
Continue reading… “Self-driving doctor brings the doctor to you”
This past summer, a plane went into a stomach-churning ascent and plunge 30,000 feet over the Gulf of Mexico. The goal was not thrill-seeking, but something more genuinely daring: for about 25 seconds at a time, the parabolic flight lifted the occupants into a state of simulated weightlessness, allowing a high-tech printer to spit out cardiac stem cells into a two-chambered, simplified structure of an infant’s heart.
Continue reading… “The factories of the future could float in space”
Some worry artificial intelligence will steal human jobs — but one startup is betting that its AI will actually help you get a job.
San Francisco-based Mya Systems has developed an AI recruiter that can evaluate resumes, schedule and conduct applicant screenings, and even congratulate you on your first day of work.
Continue reading… “Your next job interview could be with a recruiter bot”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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