A couple of years ago, a friend of mine sent me this prediction of the future. I don’t know the origin of it, except that he found it on somebody’s profile on Xanga. Some parts sound familiar, but I can’t tell if this is from a book, movie, comic, etc. 5 years · Wafers using Silicon Carbide begins construction. · OLED begin to replace LCD. RGBCMY CRTs replace normal (RGB only) CRTs. Laptops with Li-Ion battery has 5-8 hours of battery life. · Fuel Cells starts to take off in cars and computers alike, replacing ... lire la suite
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David Levy Sees Sexbots In Our Future British artificial intelligence researcher expects in a few decades time robots will become highly desirable partners in relationships. Levy is an expert in artificial intelligence. He is fascinated with the idea of "love and sex with robots," and his visions of the future include "malebots" and "fembots" as lovers and life partners.
Tunguska Simulation Shows Higher Risk From Smaller Asteroids Smaller asteroids are more dangerous than previously thought. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest.
Stanford Scientists Claim 10 Times Better Batteries Silicon nanowires will improve lithium ion batteries by an order of magnitude of capacity? Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Carbon Dioxide In Oceans Threatens To Kill Coral Reefs I do not see global warming as an unsolvable problem or as a reason to stop using oil (especially since I think we are running out of oil anyway). We can use one cheap way to do climate engineering or yet another to keep down world temperatures.
Electricity Dynamic Pricing Spreads Dynamic pricing based on short term changes in supply and demand is a spreading experiment. Meters that can read prices every hour are also the centerpiece of aggressive conservation efforts in Virginia and Maryland, where Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has pledged to reduce the state's electricity consumption by 15 percent by 2015.
Cochran And Harpending See Human Evolution Acceleration Evolutionary theorist Greg Cochran and genetic anthropologist Henry Harpending have teamed up again and with John Hawks, Eric Wang, and Robert Moyzis to argue that human evolution has greatly accelerated in the last 10,000 years and the human race is diverging.
Has Earth Climate Warming Trend Stopped? Former BBC science journalist and astrophysicist Dr. David Whitehouse says in spite of rising atmospheric CO2 the average temperate on planet Earth is not rising. With only few days remaining in 2007, the indications are the global temperature for this year is the same as that for 2006 there has been no warming over the 12 months.
Liver Fibrosis Stoppable In Mice Lots of liver diseases kill by causing accumulation of scar tissue. Well, at least in mice the scarring process can be stopped and partially reversed with an inhibitor peptide. University of California, San Diego researchers have proven in animal studies that fibrosis in the liver can be not only stopped, but reversed.
Pregnancy Surrogacy Outsourced To India Picture groups of women in India living - and, by doing so, working - in a sort of baby factory. ANAND, India - Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills.
The Carnival of Personal Finance will be here shortly! While Santa Claus is coming to your town, the Carnival of Personal Finance will be alighting on our doorstep at around the same time! So as the year winds down while the winds pick up, and we all settle in to enjoy our Christmas parties and time with our loved ones, I’ve decided to sign up to host the Carnival of Personal Finance.
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Do you remember my post about a video focusing on the future of genetics? It may be the second part of it. Their main question is: Would you have your child genetically enhanced?
Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there’s been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel — the ability to clearly imagine or “see” oneself participating in a future event.
I just received this interesting link to the memebox. com future scanner. I might have misunderstood the email initially, since I thought it was just another spam message, and that it suggested some weird way to predict the future. However, after visiting the site, I think it’s a great idea!
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Scientists Consider Climate Engineering Option Atmospheric CO2 concentrations are rising more rapidly than in previous decades. In the face of this trend a number of scientists are looking at the risks and benefits of climate engineering. Govindasamy Bala, an atmospheric scientist at the East Bay's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discussed a climate model he recently completed.
Is Time Slowing Down? Will Time Stop Some Day? Weird wild stuff. The idea that time itself could cease to be in billions of years - and everything will grind to a halt - has been set out by Professor José Senovilla, Marc Mars and Raül Vera of the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, and Univerisity of Salamanca, Spain.
Lawsuits Coming Over Genetic Inheritance? Some members of the British House of Lords argue that the use of donor eggs and sperm to create offspring should not be kept secret from those offspring. Children born from donor eggs or sperm could have the information recorded on their birth certificates.
Immune Naive T Cell Aging Cuts Their Numbers Because immune cells circulate in the blood they strike me as great early candidates for development of rejuvenating stem cell therapies. The cells in the blood are accessible and replaceable than cells which living in complexly shaped organs.