The FAA’s long-awaited rules for flying small drones have arrived. Up until today it was illegal to fly drones for commercial purposes unless you had a specific a testing exemption from the FAA.
Continue reading… “FAA takes huge step towards legalizing commercial drone flights”
Demo day for 500 Startups’ newest class has taken a somber turn. Demo day featured not one, but two startups that are in the death business, and one uses the hot tech of the moment — drones.
Continue reading… “Using drones to map cemeteries”
Futurist Thomas Frey: It all started when Toni, one of our staffers working on our flying drone workshop, asked me a simple question. She asked, “Since I live in an apartment complex, if I order something to be delivered by drone, where would they leave the package?”
Continue reading… “37 Critical Problems that need to be Solved for Drone Delivery to become Viable”
Farmers, police forces, and extreme sports enthusiasts have already found uses for drones. Now engineers are testing versions of the tiny craft that can do more than just observe.
Continue reading… “New wave of hands on drones”
Need help finding a parking spot? Just ask the drone flying overhead. Continue reading… “Drones to help you find a parking spot”
Futurist Thomas Frey
Thomas Frey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute estimates that billions of jobs will disappear in the next 15 years due to the Internet of Things (IoT) and many associated technological advances, but these extreme and accelerating changes will also create many new industries and countless new jobs to replace those they’ve eliminated.
Continue reading… “The technology-driven future will bring upheaval and opportunity”
If you want to be a drone pilot this is where you start. You don’t start with a crazy $1,200 semi-autonomous eye in the sky, but a cheap miniature quadcopter.
Continue reading… “The best drone for beginners”
Prototype of the bioengineered drone.
Autonomous drones can seem like they have minds of their own and that creeps out some people. But a new, NASA-backed research project seeks to create something quite different: A living, breathing, biodegradable drone made out of bacteria and fungi.
Continue reading… “NASA to create bioengineered drones made of mushrooms and bacteria”
Futurist Thomas Frey: A few weeks ago I got into a discussion with some friends centered around this question. “What, in your mind, will be the most powerful entity in the world 100 years from now?”
Continue reading… “What Industries will produce the First Trillionaires?”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness, excessive overtime, chronic stress or anxiety.
Continue reading… “101 Endangered Jobs by 2030”
Florida university library lends drones to students.
Justin Ellis is an instructional-technology associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s library. He thinks of himself as the gadget guy. He manages a program at the library that lets students and professors check out a growing catalog of computers, cameras, and other electronics—a selection more akin to a Best Buy store than a lending library.
Continue reading… “College libraries are lending out some surprising gadgets”
TED talks have become an integral forum in airing ideas about tomorrow’s world, and how the likes of transport and energy will be revolutionized in the future. Here are nine of the most thought-provoking discussions on what the transformation of tomorrow will entail. (Videos)
Continue reading… “Top 9 TED talks on the future of tomorrow”
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