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May 15, 2017
Scientists develop revolutionary eye drops to treat age-related blindness
Posted by Nancie Hunter in categories: futurism, life extension
The results of the collaborative research, published today in Investigative Opthamology and Visual Science, could spell the end of painful injections directly into the eye to treat the increasingly common eye disorder known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
AMD affects more than 600,000 people in the UK and predictions suggest this figure could rise sharply in future because of an ageing population.
May 15, 2017
Moon as unprospected eighth continent that will produce trillionaires
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: futurism, space travel
Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds’ first multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for 3 lunar missions between 2017 and 2020.
Moon Express sees the moon as critical for humanity to become a multi-world species, and that our sister world, the Moon, is an eighth continent holding vast resources than can help us enrich and secure our future.
MoonEx had been planning to place the International Lunar Observatory (ILO) on the Moon as early as 2018. The plan calls for placement of both a 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) radio telescope as well as an optical telescope at the South Pole of the Moon.
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May 14, 2017
This spray can turn any surface into a touchscreen
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 14, 2017
My favorite college professor was YouTube
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 14, 2017
Lab-Grown Meat Is Healthier. It’s Cheaper. It’s the Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, futurism
May 14, 2017
Chemists Are One Step Closer to Manipulating All Matter
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 13, 2017
Forget Nations. Here’s Proof That Apple Rules the World
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
- Corporations now rule the world, and one of them is Apple.
- With the company’s record-breaking cash hoard swelling to almost $300 billion, there’s not a lot the Cupertino tech giant couldn’t do.
In the science fiction flick Incorporated, a post-apocalyptic future world is no longer run by nation-states but by corporation-states, each acting in the best interests of the company. Such a future doesn’t seem that far or farfetched now, especially if one considers just how big the world’s most powerful corporations are.
