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Analysis, Business, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Predictions for money, currencies and payments

May 12, 2011

In the future, paper money may be displaced with digital points of a vendor.

Karl Dakin: The subject of how we will be paid and make payments in the future was presented at the DaVinci Institute’s Night with a Futurist on Monday night. The presentations covered potentially major changes in the way we conduct business and interact as a society as technological advances in mobile computing enable new ways of exchanging things of value.

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Analysis, Globalism, government, Science & Technology News

Interview with Ukraine’s InvestGazeta

May 11, 2011

What will cause the power to shift among nations between now and 2050?

Futurist Thomas Frey: I often get interview requests from newspaper and magazines as they probe for a better understanding of the world ahead. However, the request I received two days ago was a bit unusual.

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Birth, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Babies to be Given Anti-obesity Drugs in the Womb

May 11, 2011

Doctors hope it will prevent the birth of oversized babies.

In a trial described as ‘disturbing’ by weight loss groups, babies will be given a diet drug in the womb to stop them being born overweight. One hundred obese moms-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.

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Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

Visa Plans to Launch Digital Wallet for Banks in the U.S.

May 11, 2011

The “digital wallet” will store the banks’ customers’ credit and debit card account information, both for Visa cards and other cards.

The world’s largest credit and debit card processing network, Visa Inc, is building a digital wallet that people can use to pay for things online or with their phones instead of with traditional cards.

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Analysis, Globalism, Science & Technology News

Why Nuclear Power Will Never be Globally Scaled to Supply the World’s Energy Needs

May 11, 2011

Nuclear power plant in Dukovany, Czech Republic

There are 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide. They are all currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels. But how much bigger can nuclear power get?

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Power of 10 Interface

May 10, 2011

Information at the speed of need

Futurist Thomas Frey: The distance between information and our brain is getting shorter.

Twenty years ago if you had access to a large information base, such as the Library of Congress, and someone asked you a series of questions, your task would have been to pour through the racks of books to come up with the answers. The time involved could have easily have been 10 hours per question.

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Five Tech Gadgets That Will be Obsolete in Five Years

May 10, 2011

In-car portable navigation systems could be gone entirely in five years.

Change is the one thing that is predictable in the technology world. Technology that was commonplace ten years ago, such as PDA’s, CRT televisions and fax machines are all quickly fading away.

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Insects, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Explosives and Pesticides Can be Detected by Using Bee Venom

May 10, 2011

MIT scientists discover that bee venom can detect explosives and some pesticides.

Scientists from MIT have discovered that by coating carbon nanotubes in bee venom, they can create ultra-sensitive detectors for explosives such as TNT, as well as at least two different types of pesticides. This means that bees and their stingers could become important to making better environmental sensors.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

U.S. Facing Spectrum Crisis – If Nothing is Done Your Smartphone May be Useless by 2013

May 10, 2011

The U.S. is running out of wireless spectrum.

The United States is facing an imminent spectrum crisis in which exploding demand from smartphones will soon overwhelm the nation’s wireless capacit, according to the FCC.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, DIY, Historical Perspectives, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

Vote for Google Science Fair Semi-Finalists

May 10, 2011

The Google Science Fair has reached the semi-finals stage. Now is your chance to vote!

I’m really excited about the way this particular science fair is set up. It’s open to teenagers all over the world, and happens online so that “open to teenagers all over the world” really does mean just that. And entries could come from a wide range of scientific disciplines—everything from math to food science. Most of the finalists are still kids from the USA, but there’s also some representation from the UK, New Zealand, India, Singapore, and South Africa…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Music, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

Physical Storage Vs Digital Storage

May 10, 2011

It’s amazing how the storage of music and movies and increased exponentially over the years. This diagram illustrates how far we have come from vinyl records which could hold 44 minutes of music to today’s iPods which can hold over 83 days of music.

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App for Detecting Land Mines

May 10, 2011

What a great app!

Engineering students at Harvard University have developed a cell phone app that, when paired with an ordinary metal detector, can be used effectively to detect land mines. Instead of just beeping when it passes over a metal object, these enhanced metal detectors present the shape of the object found below ground…

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