- 8 years ago Sticky: Check out /t/futurism instead!
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This is why lunar colonies will need to live underground
For decades the thought of colonising the Moon has tantalised scientists and visionaries alike. Various colonies have graced our screens, from the sprawling Moonbase Alpha in Space: 1999 to the compact mining colony in Moon. A lunar colony is arguably the next logical step for mankind. It is our nearest stellar neighbour, a mere 238,000 miles (383,000km) away, which makes resupplying relatively easy. One attraction is the comparatively abundant...
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A new transparent metal has been developed for smartphone and TV displays
A new type of metal that’s both highly transparent and electrically conductive has been developed by researchers in the US, and at less than 5 percent the cost of current displays, it could see far cheaper smartphones in our pockets and enormous 'smart windows' in our homes. The problem with current displays is that they’re based on indium tin oxide (ITO), with more than 90 percent of the display market being wholly dependent on this material. And it’s by no means cheap.
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This hoverboard costs $20,000 and can fly for six minutes
2015 was literally and figuratively the year of the hoverboard. While everyone was talking about the self-balancing scooters, two companies showed off skateboard-shaped boards that actually hovered a few inches above the Earth: Lexus with the "Slide" board, and Arx Pax with its second generation Hendo Hoverboard. Now, just days before the new year, another company called ArcaSpace is taking a shot at making the mythical hoverboard.
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Matter will be created from light within a year, claim scientists
Researchers have worked out how to make matter from pure light and are drawing up plans to demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months. The theory underpinning the idea was first described 80 years ago by two physicists who later worked on the first atomic bomb. At the time they considered the conversion of light into matter impossible in a laboratory.
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11 Reasons Why 2015 Was a Great Year For Humanity
We are living through the most astonishing period of human progress in history. And nobody’s telling us about it.
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Some scientists fear superintelligent machines could pose a threat to humanity
Big-name scientists worry that runaway artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity. Are we fully in control of our technology?
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The Making of ArcaBoard
ARCA Space Corporation announced today that it has created ArcaBoard. For the first time in history, every person will be able to fly whenever they want, wherever they want. ArcaBoard represents the first revolutionary breakthrough in motion since the bicycle, automobile and airplane.
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Real Life Hoverboard
ArcaSpace creates first real-life hoverboard, on sale for $20000
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Superintelligence: fears, promises, and potentials
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, in his recent and celebrated book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, argues that advanced AI poses a potentially major existential risk to humanity, and that advanced AI development should be heavily regulated and perhaps even restricted to a small set of government-approved researchers. Bostrom’s ideas and arguments are reviewed and explored in detail, and compared with the thinking of three other current thinkers on the nature and implications...
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The Predictions We Make Can Change How the Future Unfolds
The 130-year timeline of telephone innovation describes a relatively steady rise as the technology under the surface was continuously improved, with a handful of spikes for inventions such as the rotary dial, touch pad dialing, the fax machine, and, of course, 1959’s Princess phone. The changes were predictably predictable, the future rising in a fairly smooth incline.
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Why do androids sometimes give us the heebie jeebies?
There are ethical and moral concerns to creating robots that are too human-like, say some experts.
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Meet Nadine, the world's most human-like robot
The world's most human-like robot has begun work as a university receptionist as scientists predict the new technology will eventually provide childcare and offer friendship to lonely elderly people. With her soft skin and flowing brunette hair, Nadine does not only meet and greet visitors, smile, make eye contact and shake hands, but she can even recognise past guests and spark up conversation based on previous chats.
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This floating hotel can sail around the world thanks to its shapeshifting spine
This unique floating hotel stands to change the cruise industry. The MORPHotel is a vessel concept by engineer and architect Gianluca Santosuosso. The hotel is built around a flexible spine 1/2 mile long, that changes shape based on the ocean currents. It would slowly travel around the world, docking in cities to let passengers board or disembark.
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The Faraday Future FFZERO1 Concept
A next-generation, connected electric vehicle. "At Faraday Future, we believe the automotive experience should integrate seamlessly with the rest of your life. Based in California, our global team of experts is starting with a user-centric technology approach to mobility."
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German carpenter invents on-off contraception switch for sperm
A German carpenter has invented a valve which he claims will revolutionise contraception, by allowing a man to turn the flow of sperm from his testicles on and off at the flick of a switch. Clemens Bimek told Spiegel magazine the idea first came to him some 20 years ago, when he was watching a television documentary about contraception, and wondered whether it would be possible to control the flow of sperm with a simple valve.
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Up close with Segway's new personal robot
Forget the Segway you knew. The next generation of this personal mobility device is smarter, smaller and, yes, cuter, than ever before. Intel teased the bot at its CES keynote on Tuesday, but it wasn't until the official unveiling on Wednesday that we finally get a good look at the black and white robot.
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Elon Musk predicts a Tesla will be able to drive itself across the country in 2018
Do you think Tesla's new Summon self-parking feature is neat? Well, CEO Elon Musk says that's just the beginning.
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From AI To Robotics, 2016 Will Be The Year When The Machines Start Taking Over
For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And, as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its development follows the same curve, so we are seeing exponential advances in technologies such as sensors, networks, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The convergence of these technologies is making amazing things possible.
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Time to get real: massively complex online worlds transcend gaming
For all the legions of programmers coding the movement of individual blades of grass, and all the advances in processing power and VR, the simulated worlds of online gaming still behave nothing like the real one. It's not just the proliferation of enchanted objects and implausible weaponry. It's something more fundamental. "Say I drop an object on the floor. I leave the room and come back. In 99 percent off MMOs [massively multiplayer online games], it's just vanished without explanation,"...
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Is That You, Rosie? Humanoid Atlas Robot Takes on Household Cleaning Tasks
Fans of "The Jetsons" may see shades of the robotic maid Rosie as this Atlas humanoid robot attempts various cleaning tasks. The video, from robotics company IHMC, is shown at 20x speed so you don't have to wait for the slow-moving bot to get into position. But just because Atlas can do it doesn't mean it's easy. Someone has to control its movements, double-check its hand positions when picking something up, and make sure it doesn't fall...