‘Technology - Future Trends’ Archives
Have scientists discovered how to create downpours in the desert?
Mail Online January 3, 2011 For centuries people living in the Middle East have dreamed of turning the sandy desert into land fit for growing crops with fresh water on tap. Now that holy grail is a step closer after scientists employed by the ruler of Abu Dhabi claim to [Read More]
Dawn of the age of the robot
Guardian December 30, 2010 By Dominic Rushe The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see the rise of a mechanised army that will revolutionise private and public life just as radically as the internet and social media have shaken up the past 10 [Read More]
Flashback: Washington’s Future, a History
Washington Post April 27, 2008 By Marc Fisher THINK BACK TO JANUARY 1991: The Web, e-mail, cellphones — all virtually unknown. The three networks still mattered. The Soviet Union still existed. Downtown Bethesda was barely worthy of the name. There was no Dulles Town [Read More]
Gerald Celente: What’s in store for 2011
Russia Today January 1, 2011 What’s in store for the world in 2011? Trends forecaster Gerald Celente of the Trends Research Institute provided his insights on the year ahead. Will the people of the world wake up to a dire economic reality? Will the US dollar or the value [Read More]
5 futuristic technologies IBM says will soon be a reality
Wtop December 30, 2010 By Kathy Stewart Topping IBM’s new list of technology predictions for the next five years — 3-D holographic phone calls from your cell. It wasn’t long ago that cell phones were only used for calls, but experts at IBM had predicted [Read More]
Artificial intelligence to transform web: Russian tycoon
AFP December 28, 2010 MOSCOW — The emergence of artificial intelligence is to transform the Internet industry and social networking over the next decade, Russia’s leading web tycoon said in an interview on Tuesday. The low-profile Yury Milner, chairman in the [Read More]
IBM Creates Cloud-Computing System for NATO Command
Bloomberg December 22, 2010 By Katie Hoffmann International Business Machines Corp., the world’s biggest computer-services provider, is building a cloud-computing system for NATO in the first such deal for the international military alliance. The software and hardware [Read More]
Enhanced brain-machine interface taps into additional senses
eurekalert December 14, 2010 Monkeys moved thought-controlled computer cursors more quickly and accurately when provided with additional sensory feedback, according to a new study in the Dec. 15 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. While most brain-machine technologies [Read More]
Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy
Mercury News By Brandon Bailey December 6, 2010 Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel worries that people aren’t thinking big enough about the future. So he’s convening an unusual philanthropic summit tonight at which he will introduce other wealthy tech [Read More]
70 Jobs for 2030
World Future Society • Bio-botic Physicians and Bio-botist Assistants. These individuals would look at the integration between biological functionalities and implanted enhanced life extensions (nano-robotics). People in this field would repair internal chips, resolving [Read More]
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