Sunglasses with built-in HD video recording

David Brin's "Transparent Society" is becoming more real every day:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/pivothead-video-glasses-offer-impressive-quality-we-go-hands-on-sample-video?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b4be34153d-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

(Watch the videos)

As privacy goes, so will crime. The question is how to manage the trade-off without resulting in an Orwellian society.

Japanese Hope to Make a Space Elevator by 2050

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120221004421.htm

DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/darpa-wants-to-give-soldiers-robot-surrogates-avatar-style

Single-atom transistor is end of Moore's Law; may be beginning of quantum computing

The smallest possible atomic-scale transistor has been built:

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2012/120219KlimeckAtom.html

DNA Origami Robot Developed to Deliver Medicinal Payloads

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/02/sending-dna-robot-to-do-the-job/

Solar Energy is Now Cheaper in India Than Diesel

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328505.000-indias-panel-price-crash-could-spark-solar-revolution.html

Severed Nerves May Soon Be Healed in Days

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-102319.html

50% of Jobs to Go Extinct by 2030

Mine's in there as well (teaching), but I've been pretty certain for a long time that education will be taken over completely by artificial intelligence by around the year 2025:


http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/02/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/