A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Researchers unveil the first working computer built entirely from carbon nanotube transistors.
A group of researchers at Stanford University have moved a step closer to answering the question of what happens when silicon, the standard material in today’s microelectronic circuits, reaches its fundamental limits for use in increasingly small transistors.
Continue reading… “Stanford engineers successfully build world’s first carbon nanotube computer”
“There’s a lot of potential to build off existing technologies if you can recognize the right business use.”
The Kiplinger Letter has forecast future trends set to change the way we work for 90 years. According to a statement released by the letter, In 1959, they forecast copiers and printers, and in 1963, it mentioned “pocket gadgets” that would allow workers to call anyone from anywhere.
Continue reading… “Top 8 futuristic office technologies that will change how we work”
In New York last week, A working prototype of a low-cost electroencephalography device funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made its debut, the first step in the agency’s effort to jumpstart a do-it-yourself revolution in neuroscience.
Continue reading… “Can DARPA jumpstart the DIY brain-scanning movement?”
Learn-to-code programs bent on teaching anyone, even children, programming skills are on the upswing.
Meaningful education was all about learning your ABCs in the 20th Century. Today, it’s centered on Alphas, Betas and C++. Programming skills are becoming ever more important, quickly turning into the core competency for all kinds of 21st Century workers.
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In Upload, a new techno-thriller, a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world of his own making.
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Please learn a little computer programming.
Kirk McDonald: Dear college graduates: The next month is going to be thrilling as you cross this major milestone in your education. Enjoy the pomp and circumstance, the congratulations, and the parties. But when it’s all over and you’re ready to go out into the world, you’d probably like to meet me, or others like me—I’m your next potential dream boss. I run a cool, rapidly growing company in the digital field, where the work is interesting and rewarding. But I’ve got to be honest about some unfortunate news: I’m probably not going to hire you.
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The average person has to remember 15 passwords.
Over half of us say we can’t remember all our passwords. That makes sense, given that almost a third of all companies require their employees to remember six or more of them.
Continue reading… “The problem with password proliferation (Infographic)”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Fifteen years ago in an article I wrote for The Futurist Magazine, I made the prediction that once we had talking computers, we would soon have downloadable personalities to create a more human-like experience. I went on to suggest that most of us would actually download multiple personalities so we could interact with the right persona at any given moment.
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Watson
IBM achieved a quantum leap in artificial intelligence technology in 2011 when its Watson computer program trounced human champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a three-day Jeopardy! tournament, taking home the million-dollar prize by outscoring the second place competitor by a three-to-one margin.
Continue reading… “IBM’s Watson goes to college”
The self-repairing machine could keep mission-critical systems working.
Computer scientists have created a revolutionary new computer that can reprogram itself if it finds a fault. The computer mimics the randomness found in nature and can instantly recover from crashes by repairing corrupted data.
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The iPad is the number one product people want in the next year.
According to the latest data from Nielsen, Apple is going to dominate holiday shopping in the U.S., once again. (Chart)
Continue reading… “Will Microsoft lose the next generation of computer users to Apple?”
PCs consumed the majority of memory chips since sometime in the 1980s until 2012.
We have been hearing for years about the so-called Post-PC Era. But now it seems pretty hard to argue with. Personal computers no longer consume the majority of the world’s memory chip supply as of this year.
Continue reading… “Is the era of the personal computer over?”
