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Elon Musk: AI could be more dangerous than nukes
The entrepreneur has used technology to reshape payments, electric cars and space travel, but he's still really worried about what could happen if tech gets super-smart.
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UK to Launch Commercial Spaceport by 2018
The U.K. government is laying the groundwork for its first spaceport in anticipation of a growing space tourism demand and a growing space plane industry by 2030, according to a new timetable. Government officials also envision orbital launches from that country within the next 15 years.
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How your boss will run your life in a few years
Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in the United States and several other countries. You probably won’t be surprised to hear that big companies could end up so powerful and influential they morph into “ministates” that fill the void when government is unable to provide essential services.
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Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future
Some bitcoin enthusiasts have used their cryptocurrency to travel around the world. Others have spent it on a trip to space. But the very earliest user of bitcoin (after its inventor Satoshi Nakamoto himself) has now spent his crypto coins on the most ambitious mission yet: to visit the future.
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The Future of Travel Has Arrived: Virtual-Reality Beach Vacations
But part of the promise of VR has always been what it means outside of gaming and entertainment. Now, with the Teleporter, Marriott Hotels is trying to be the first to show the world…well, the world.
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Nokia saw the future, but couldn't build it
There was once a time when my search for a new phone would start (and likely finish) with a visit to Nokia.com. The Finnish company had the widest choice, the best designs, and the most respected brand around the world, so it was pretty hard to pick a bad phone from its catalog. Try doing the same thing today, however, and you’ll find every link on the Nokia homepage pointing to Microsoft’s Mobile Devices division — the new incarnation of the Nokia most of us knew and loved.
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Forget GMOs. The Future of Food Is Data—Mountains of It
Inside a squat building on San Francisco’s 10th Street, packed into a space that looks a lot like a high school chem lab, Hampton Creek is redesigning the food you eat. Mixing and matching proteins found in the world’s plants, the tiny startup already has created a reasonable facsimile of the chicken egg—an imitation of the morning staple that’s significantly cheaper, safer, and possibly healthier than the real thing—and now it’s working to overhaul other foods in much the same way.
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The holidays of 2024: Space travel, underwater hotels and endangered species
A decade from now the richest of us will be journeying into space to get away from it all, while the rest of us holiday underwater and travel to newly accessible countries in a bid to be the last person to see a species before it goes extinct, according to a newly released report by Skyscanner.
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The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation
Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future
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Tesla will unveil new car and 'something else' on October 9th
The Paris Motor Show is taking place this month and we've already seen Volkswagen and Lamborghini introduce eye-catching new vehicles in preparation for it. A week from now, Elon Musk's Tesla is going to join in the new-car fun by unveiling "the D and something else." That's presumably in reference to a new Model D that would join the current Model S and X options on offer from Tesla.
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The Inventors of the Wristwatch Drone Share Their Vision of the Future
A drone that can be dispatched with the flick of a wrist feels like an invention likely to fly out from the Batcave, but a Stanford Ph.D. and a Google program manager are close to finalizing a quadcopter that can be worn like a slap bracelet.
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Predictions Of 'Peak Oil' Production Prove Slippery
Just a few years ago, authors were predicting production would soon hit a peak and then decline. But since then, supplies have surged. So are the forecasters now slapping themselves in the head?
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Why futurologists are always wrong – and why we should be sceptical of techno-utopians
From predicting AI within 20 years to mass-starvation in the 1970s, those who foretell the future often come close to doomsday preachers.
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Yes, Time Travel Is Possible; Here's How
Time travel's been one of man's wildest fantasies for centuries. It's long been a popular trend in movies and fiction, inspiring everything from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine to the Charlton Heston shrine that is The Planet of the Apes. And with the opening of Interstellar today—n0t to spoil anything—we're about to fantasize about it even more. The most fantastic thing? It's probably possible.
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Future Of Work by General Electric
Once upon a time, a factory built one thing. Now, a factory can build as many things as there are people to imagine them.
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Where will plants migrate?
Where will plants grow in 2041, 2070, and 2099?
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Cleveland Clinic Does Its 2nd Face Transplant
Cleveland Clinic surgeons have replaced nearly the entire face of a middle-aged man severely disfigured in a car accident, the hospital announced Tuesday. The operation in late September was the second face transplant by the Ohio hospital.
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In a self-driving future, we may not even want to own cars
Personal transportation is on the cusp of its greatest transformation since the advent of the internal combustion engine.
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When Science Fiction Stopped Caring About the Future
The Star Wars reboot looks like another example of how the genre's most popular works have given up on imagining new worlds.
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Waste-Free Future: 5 Package Redesigns for Everyday Products
Starting with name-brand versions of popular products found in virtually any home, this designer has come up with a series of clever solutions to eliminating the waste from each package system on a case-by-case basis. Aaron Mickelson took on this challenge as a master’s thesis project at the Pratt Institute, asking (and answering) the question: can any product be truly garbage-free, leaving little or nothing unused in its wake? The strategies employed here are also potentially versatile...
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