‘Technology - Future Trends’ Archives
Made in the USA: Intel to build world’s smallest chips in Arizona desert
Fox News | Jan 24, 2012 Intel is building the world’s most advanced, high volume chip fabrication plant in the Arizona desert — even as most of our electronics are produced overseas. At a whopping cost of about $5 billion, “Fab 42″ is scheduled to be [Read More]
Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA
Infowars | Jan 26, 2012 By Paul Joseph Watson Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world [Read More]
Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’
Wired | Jan 19, 2012 By Noah Shachtman Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to [Read More]
Stuxnet weapon has at least 4 cousins: researchers
Reuters | Dec. 30, 2011 Comment from Old-Thinker News: This is a classic example of problem-reaciton-solution at work. Create the cyber security threat and ensure endless demand for your new Cyber Command department and its ability to “flip the switch” on the [Read More]
The End of Free Will?
Big Think | Dec. 29, 2011 By Megan Erickson The field of neuroscience evolved so rapidly in the past twenty years that it will pose unprecedented challenges to the legal system in the decades to come, changing the way we understand crime and punishment, says [Read More]
IBM Predicts Mind-Reading Machines
Fox New York | Dec. 20, 2011 ARMONK, N.Y. - Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. The ” IBM 5 in 5 ” predictions were based on societal trends and research [Read More]
Utah researcher helps artist make bulletproof skin
BND/AP | August 21, 2011 By LYNN DeBRUIN SALT LAKE CITY — A bio-art project to create bulletproof skin has given a Utah State researcher even more hope his genetically engineered spider silk can be used to help surgeons heal large wounds and create artificial tendons [Read More]
When algorithms control the world
BBC | August 22, 2011 By Jane Wakefield If you were expecting some kind warning when computers finally get smarter than us, then think again. There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing us that our human services are now surplus to requirements. In reality, our [Read More]
IBM Partners With Portland To Play SimCity For Real
Fast Company | August 8, 2011 By Greg Lindsay The Oregon city is the first to use IBM’s app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living? Can the complexity of cities [Read More]
The Singularity’s impact on Business leaders: a Scenario: how will technologically enhance Individuals collaborate with “normal” employees?
allbusiness | March 1, 2010 By Kunstler, Barton The “Human Singularity” refers to the radical fusion of the human body with technology to achieve levels of mental acuity and physical ability that eclipse anything humans have previously known. This would [Read More]
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