A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2012, when 15-year old Jack Andraka’s uncle died of pancreatic cancer, he decided to look into it. He found that the current test for pancreatic cancer was over 60 years old, cost over $800, and wasn’t very reliable.
Continue reading… “Every Disaster Has a Beginning: In Search of Anomaly Zero”
Marketing can make you or break you.
We’ve all heard a marketing campaign at some point and thought, “that is just stupid,” but most bad advertising strategies just result in a few less sales than a successful campaign would have brought in. Sometimes though, a company will run a campaign that’s so idiotic that the company ends up losing thousands, if not millions of dollars. Take, for example, the Silo marketing campaign that said customers could get a new stereo for only “299 bananas.” When customers started actually showing up with bundles of bananas, the store had no choice but to give them stereos in exchange for fruit…
Continue reading… “5 idiotic marketing disasters”
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HyrdoWell Village
Haiti is looking for help with their water supply, and this may be it. Providing water in remote and austere environments is a logistical nightmare. In emergencies, water systems take too long to setup. Bulk water is expensive and difficult to deliver. Surface water is almost always heavily contaminated, resulting in death and disease.
Shasta-Trinity fire from space
An omniscient eye in the sky can spot natural and man-made disasters, give advance warning about forest fires, water contamination or an oil slick. A new Tel Aviv University (TAU) technology combines sophisticated sensors in orbit with ground based sensors to create a “Hyperspectral Remote Sensor” (HRS).
Continue reading… “‘Hyperspectral Remote Sensor’ Can Spot Natural And Man-Made Disasters”
Modified insects could soon be joining rescue workers in the search for survivors
IF YOU’RE trapped under rubble after an earthquake, wondering if you’ll see daylight again, the last thing you need is an insect buzzing around your face. But that insect could save your life, if a scheme funded by the Pentagon comes off.
Continue reading… “Cyborg Crickets Could Save Human Lives”
Thomas Frey: The panic that we hear coming from Wall Street and the halls of Washington, DC is not the typical panic associated with a recession. Instead, it is the seldom heard sounds of national systems imploding, collapsing around us.
Continue reading… “When Systems Collapse”
