From an article by Mark-Lillie: Technology leaders need to focus the raw potential of emerging technology into a set of priorities with measurable, tangible business impacts Technology has moved far beyond desktop devices and software upgrades. It now incorporates data analysis, augmented reality, and reimagining products as services. In fact, the range of recent advances [...]
From an article in The Guardian by Andy Beckett: The world is changing at dizzying speed – but for some thinkers, not fast enough. Is accelerationism a dangerous idea or does it speak to our troubled times? Half a century ago, in the great hippie year of 1967, an acclaimed young American science fiction writer, [...]
May 9 2017 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos discuss Amazon's Artificial Intelligence strategies to do business. Recent News
Jeremy Rifkin’s thinking about how to build a clean-energy powered, automation-filled future is inspiring major infrastructure plans in Europe and China. Can his new Vice documentary convince American business leaders to buy in? First, the bad news: GDP is slowing all over the world because productivity has been in decline for two [...]
Researchers have long argued that where we live can help predict how we die. But how much our location affects our health is harder to say, because death certificates, the primary source for mortality data, are not always complete. They frequently contain what public health experts call “garbage codes”: vague or generic causes of death [...]
From an article by Stefan Kostarelis: Unless you are a conspiracy theorist, you accept that on July 20, 1969, we put men on the moon. According to NASA, at 10:56pm (EDT), Neil Armstrong climbed down from the lunar module and uttered those famous words. Along with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin (who was [...]
It’s been proven that time crystals do in fact exist. Two different teams of researchers created some time crystals just recently, one of which was from the University of Maryland and the other from Harvard University. While the first team used a chain of charged particles called ytterbium ions, the others used a synthetic diamond [...]
Turning saltwater into clean drinking water is an expensive, energy-intensive process, but could the wonder material graphene make it more accessible? Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved. New research [...]
From a blog post by Bill Gates on thegatesnotes.com: I’ve been perpetuating a misconception. When I give talks about global health, I typically speak about microbes as threats we need to wipe off the map. And it’s certainly true that some microbes, like the ones that cause malaria and tuberculosis, are responsible for tremendous suffering [...]
From an article by David Cox: A laser weapons physicist has come up with a novel treatment for the disease – blowing up the cancer cells in infinitely small explosions. In a small laboratory, not far from southern California’s Pacific coastline, Dmitri Lapotko is using lasers to conduct on-demand explosions on a scale almost infinitely [...]
