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, September 29, 2020
Tesla's new 'tabless' cell design is 'brilliant,' said a top battery researcher
"The bigger 4680 cell can handle more power, and Tesla maintains that it will be faster and cheaper to produce."
https://news.yahoo.com/teslas-tabless-cell-design-brilliant-124200818.html?guccounter=1
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible: Physicist “Squares the Numbers” on Time Travel
Very interesting:
"Try as you might to create a paradox, the events will always adjust themselves, to avoid any inconsistency."
Monday, September 21, 2020
Design for a Space Habitat With Artificial Gravity That Could Be Grown Larger Over Time to Fit More People
Useful calculations for creating a generation ship that can reach the stars:
Friday, September 18, 2020
Ultra-Fast Magnetic Switching Could Transform Fiber Optic Communications & Expand the Capacity of the Internet
"When struck by successive ultra-short laser pulses it exhibits “toggle switching” that could increase the capacity of the global fiber optic cable network by an order of magnitude."
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Monday, September 14, 2020
Friday, September 11, 2020
SpaceX's Satellite Internet Service Latency Comes in Under 20 Milliseconds
Oh I really hope I have access to this! I would get 15x the download speed, 108x the upload speed and 13x lower latency:
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Monday, September 7, 2020
Nano diamond batteries have one company all charged-up
This sounds like it would blow pretty much all other battery technology out of the water:
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/nano-diamond-battery
Brain-Inspired Electronic System Could Make Artificial Intelligence 1,000 Times More Energy Efficient
This is a big deal because:
"Existing AI is extremely energy-intensive — training one AI model can generate 284 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the lifetime emissions of five cars. Replacing the transistors that make up all digital devices with memristors, a novel electronic device first built in 2008, could reduce this to a fraction of a tonne of carbon dioxide — equivalent to emissions generated in an afternoon’s drive."
Friday, September 4, 2020
Unexpected Electrical Current Discovered That Could Stabilize Fusion Reactions – Bringing the Fusion Energy That Drives the Sun to Earth
Finally getting fusion would solve so many problems:
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Laser Jolts Microscopic Electronic Robots Into Walking – Could Produce 1 Million Robots per Silicon Wafer
Getting closer to real nanobots, but still a long way to go:
New Clue in Alzheimer’s: It Might Be in Your Blood Vessels, Not Just Your Brain
More clues: https://scitechdaily.com/new-clue-in-alzheimers-it-might-be-in-your-blood-vessels-not-just-your-brain/
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"An experimental demonstration of a quantum calculation has shown that a single molecule can perform operations thousands of times fast...
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http://www.sltrib.com/home/3898355-155/albuquerque-weighs-getting-more-solar-power