The future will eat itself: digesting the next generation of wearable techThe Guardian - Shivvy JervisHow ingestibles and mood-impacting technologies are changing our relationship with wearables Wearable tech is well and truly mainstream – but what does the future hold? What could their potential new mean
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Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’The Guardian - Charles Arthur A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end
Inside the 50-year-quest to build a mechanical heartThe VergeWithout a heart transplant, he would soon die Replacing his central organ with plastic looked promising Williams is forever connected to a battery or plugged into a power outlet the heart pumps 2,000 of
Robot revolution: rise of 'thinking' machines could exacerbate inequalityThe Guardian - Heather StewartGlobal economy will be transformed over next 20 years at risk of growing inequality, say analysts A “robot revolution” will transform the global economy over the next 20 years, cutting the costs of doing
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?The GuardianOne spring morning in Tucson, Arizona, in 1994, an unknown philosopher named David Chalmers got up to give a talk on consciousness, by which he meant the feeling of being inside your head, looking out
How The Internet Of Things Is Changing WorkFast Company - David LumbHere’s how technologists think the world of IoT will change the workplace–and how it’s already changing how we do business today. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an exciting concept, a future where “billions
Dyson The Dyson Sphere -- Not Just Science FictionHuffPost - Xaque GruberA few years ago I wrote on The Huffington Post about author Raoul Peter Mongilardi's Next To The Gods, a complex, world-building four book series of science fiction. In it, the Aurocerians, an alien race
Getting Ready to Move to MarsThe Atlantic - Alana SemuelsScientists are hard at work preparing to create humanity’s second home. One day, when earth is destroyed by war or rising seas or a wayward asteroid, humanity will be extinguished—and along with it reality
The Most Mysterious Star in Our GalaxyThe Atlantic - Ross AndersenAstronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations are scrambling to get a closer look. In the Northern hemisphere’s
UN delay could open door to robot wars, say expertsThe GuardianThe United Nations has been warned that its protracted negotiations over the future of lethal autonomous weapons – or “killer robots” – are moving too slowly to stop robot wars becoming a reality. Lobbying
Play button Ray Kurzweil: In The 2030s, Nanobots In Our Brains Will Make Us 'Godlike'HuffPostOnce we're cyborgs, he says, we'll be funnier, sexier and more loving. Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil predicts humans are going to develop emotions and characteristics of higher complexity as a result
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Designergrisen er det nye kæledyrpolitiken.dk For blot tre år siden opdagede to kvinder en teknik, der præcist kan manipulere med vores dna. På onsdag bejler de til at modtage en nobelpris for …
The Surprising Genealogy of Your BrainThe Atlantic - Ed YongEach of your neurons is more closely related to heart cells than to most of its neighbors. Why? People talk about an individual’s genome as if it was a single consistent entity—but it isn’t. Every one
Is another human living inside you?BBC Future - David RobsonYou may think your body and mind are your own. In fact, you are a fusion of many organisms - including, potentially, another person. Words by David Robson, photography by Ariko Inaoka. This story is part
The future of food: from jellyfish salad to lab-grown meatThe Guardian - Nicola Davis, Rachel David, Zoë Corbyn, Kit Buchan, and Stefan GatesWhat do tomorrow’s dinners look like, and how will you adjust? Our special feature sheds light on a world of algae, cowless beef, insect lollies and even an mouthwatering recipe for jellyfish salad...
DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform MarsVICE - Jason KoeblerThe Pentagon is working on technology that will allow it to engineer a new organism within a day of it being found in the wild. It's no secret that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investing
Asking the Experts: Artificial Intelligence Leaders Answer AI's Most Burning Questions (Part I)HuffPost - Babak HodjatWhat if you could get a few of the top minds in artificial intelligence and pick their brain? Fun idea, right? I'm lucky enough to explore the bigger AI questions over dinner with friends and with my at
The Internet of Things You Don’t Really NeedThe Atlantic - Ian BogostSmart devices turn every industry into the computer industry, and dupe consumers into thinking their lives are better for it in the process. Atlanta turns yellow for two weeks in April. Streets, driveways,
A New Global War Front is Taking Shape in CyberspaceNBC News - Krysia Lenzo, CNBCTech News The United States may still be the world's preeminent superpower, based on size and reach of military and intelligence operations, but defending the virtual borders of cyberspace is another Cyberattacks
Controversial Philosopher Says Man And Machine Will Fuse Into One BeingHuffPost - The Huffington PostAn interview with philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. Peter Sloterdijk is Germany’s most controversial thinker and media theorist. He has dared to challenge long-established divisions in traditional philosophy
Is the world running out of space?BBC Future - Rachel NuwerIn an increasingly crowded world, will we still be able to find respite from one another? Sometimes it’s difficult to fathom that the world could actually become even more crowded than it is today – especially
Earth in 10,000 YearsThe Atlantic - Lizzie WadeClimate change means the end of our world, but the beginning of another—one with a new set of species and ecosystems. A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant
I Interviewed Paul Mason About How Capitalism Is Going to EndVICE - Simon ChildsIn his new book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Mason predicts that we're due a new economic system, one birthed by the "smartphone generation". Capitalism is on its last legs and is about to destroyed
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo 5 brain technologies that will shape the future of brain sciencebigdata-madesimple.com - Author Murali Doraiswamy The race to decipher the workings of the human brain, and build new economies around it, is on. Today’s great entrepreneurs – people such as Paul …
Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science fiction to make sense of itThe Guardian - Claire L Evans via Creative Time ReportsStar Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in your mind, hanging
'Artificial leaf' could power communities of the futureWired UK - Katie Collins The world could one day be powered by photosynthesis from artificial leaves, say researchers from Monash University in Melbourne. Their system to …
