Woot!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/business/renewable-energy-coal-solar/index.html
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Burger King's Meatless 'Impossible Whopper' Is Going Nationwide
Meatless meat continues to spread (that sounds wrong, but whatever):
http://time.com/5579687/burger-king-impossible-burger-whopper/
http://time.com/5579687/burger-king-impossible-burger-whopper/
Friday, April 26, 2019
Futuristic inventions and emerging technologies that will change the world
Light on details, but topics to keep an eye on:
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/future-inventions?rebelltitem=9#rebelltitem9
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/future-inventions?rebelltitem=9#rebelltitem9
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Scientists Take a Step Toward Decoding Speech from the Brain
This likely could be easily modified to allow what amounts to functional telepathy between people over any distance!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-take-a-step-toward-decoding-speech-from-the-brain/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-take-a-step-toward-decoding-speech-from-the-brain/
Ticklish Robot Interacts with Crowd
A useless robot, but its movements are fast and fluid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfHMmHhA3w&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfHMmHhA3w&feature=youtu.be
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Electric Car Price Tag Shrinks Along With Battery Cost
Parity with ICE vehicles could happen in 2020?
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-04-12/electric-vehicle-battery-shrinks-and-so-does-the-total-cost
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-04-12/electric-vehicle-battery-shrinks-and-so-does-the-total-cost
Scientists Generated Nuclear Fusion With a Tabletop Device
Well, if they can make anything practical out of this, it would change the world:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-nuclear-fusion-device-smaller
https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-nuclear-fusion-device-smaller
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
The problem with automation
Automation is evidently not creating more jobs than it's destroying:
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-465ec948-f0e0-4532-8f75-54945eeed331.html
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-465ec948-f0e0-4532-8f75-54945eeed331.html
Harbour Air Is Switching Over To 100% Electric Seaplanes
Makes sense that a sea plane would be part of a sea change....
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/06/how-maritime-harbour-air-is-switching-over-to-100-electric-seaplanes/
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/06/how-maritime-harbour-air-is-switching-over-to-100-electric-seaplanes/
Monday, April 8, 2019
Friday, April 5, 2019
China Is Taking the Worldwide Lead in Wind Power
Ugh. At least they're not as efficient as the other countries:
https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/04/china-is-taking-the-worldwide-lead-in-wind-power/
https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/04/china-is-taking-the-worldwide-lead-in-wind-power/
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Why a lab-grown BK Whopper is cause for excitement
There are a lot of reasons to go with meatless meat, now that it is indistinguishable from meat:
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/whopper
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/whopper
This “Transparent Wood” Could Cut the Cost of Heating Your Home
Transparent wood. Go figure. So now the windows and the walls will need curtains?
https://futurism.com/the-byte/transparent-wood-cut-heating-cost
https://futurism.com/the-byte/transparent-wood-cut-heating-cost
Monday, April 1, 2019
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Quantum Teleportation Becomes Reality on Active Internet Cables
https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-teleportation-becomes-reality-on-active-internet-cables/
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http://www.sltrib.com/home/3898355-155/albuquerque-weighs-getting-more-solar-power
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"An experimental demonstration of a quantum calculation has shown that a single molecule can perform operations thousands of times fast...