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Jul 22, 2018
An Introduction to the Future with Oxford VSI
Posted by Jennifer Gidley in categories: climatology, education, evolution, existential risks, futurism, general relativity, homo sapiens, philosophy, transhumanism
“The Future: A Very Short Introduction” (OUP, 2017) by Dr. Jennifer M Gidley.
Oxford University Press has just released a wonderful little animation video centring on my book “The Future: A Very Short Introduction” published in 2017. In an entertaining way it shows how the concept of the future or futures is central to so many other concepts — many of which are the subject of other OUP Very Short Introductions. The VSI Series now has well over 500 titles, with ‘The Future’ being number 516.
To watch the video click here.
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Jul 21, 2018
Interesting Facts About The Speed of Light
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Along with Aubrey de Grey, Stephen L. Sorgner, Rob van Genderen, Paul Nemitz of the European Commission, William Echikson of Center for European Studies, Professor Emeritus Chapel Hill U. Woodrow Barfield, and Anne Zeiter of Ebay, I’ve joined the Editorial board of a new interdisciplinary technology journal called Delphi, published by Lexxion Publisher. They’re looking for papers and abstracts. Give it a read and submit if you like. Here’s the link: http://www.lexxion.de/pdf/delphi/Call_for_Papers_Delphi.pdf
Jul 21, 2018
Creators of future AI must not be ideologues
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di4p6MnN1Eo
This talk by Jordan Pederson suggests human level AGI is here within the year. And after we go expo.
Jordan Peterson’s Links:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
Self Authoring: http://selfauthoring.com/
Jordan Peterson Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
Podcast: http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-p…
Reading List: http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/gr…
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
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Jul 20, 2018
How U.S. Retail Giant Kroger Is Using AI And Robots To Prepare For The 4th Industrial Revolution
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Traditional grocery retailers are trying to develop omnichannel approaches to stay viable for the 4th industrial revolution. Kroger, one of America’s largest grocers, is making a significant commitment to creating the grocery experience of the future via today’s latest technology.
Jul 20, 2018
Future electronic components to be printed like newspapers
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, futurism
A new manufacturing technique uses a process similar to newspaper printing to form smoother and more flexible metals for making ultrafast electronic devices.
The low-cost process, developed by Purdue University researchers, combines tools already used in industry for manufacturing metals on a large scale, but uses the speed and precision of roll-to-roll newspaper printing to remove a couple of fabrication barriers in making electronics faster than they are today.
Cellphones, laptops, tablets, and many other electronics rely on their internal metallic circuits to process information at high speed. Current metal fabrication techniques tend to make these circuits by getting a thin rain of liquid metal drops to pass through a stencil mask in the shape of a circuit, kind of like spraying graffiti on walls.
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Jul 19, 2018
Time for the Meghalayan: A new geological age has officially been declared
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
After years of debate, the International Chronostratigraphic Chart has officially been revised. What does that mean, exactly? Our current point in Earth’s geological timeline has been updated so that we’re now living in the Meghalayan age, which kicked off 4,200 years ago with a catastrophic two-century drought that destroyed several civilizations.
Jul 19, 2018
Martian atmosphere behaves as one
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, space
New research using a decade of data from ESA’s Mars Express has found clear signs of the complex Martian atmosphere acting as a single, interconnected system, with processes occurring at low and mid levels significantly affecting those seen higher up.
Understanding the Martian atmosphere is a key topic in planetary science, from its current status to its past history. Mars’ atmosphere continuously leaks out to space, and is a crucial factor in the planet’s past, present, and future habitability – or lack of it. The planet has lost the majority of its once much denser and wetter atmosphere, causing it to evolve into the dry, arid world we see today.
However, the tenuous atmosphere Mars has retained remains complex, and scientists are working to understand if and how the processes within it are connected over space and time.
Jul 19, 2018
Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth’s ancient biosphere
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval leading up to the emergence of animal life.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, represent the oldest measurement of atmospheric oxygen isotopes by nearly a billion years. The results support previous research suggesting that oxygen levels in the air during this time in Earth history were a tiny fraction of what they are today due to a much less productive biosphere.
“It has been suggested for many decades now that the composition of the atmosphere has significantly varied through time,” says Peter Crockford, who led the study as a Ph.D. student at McGill University. “We provide unambiguous evidence that it was indeed much different 1.4 billion years ago.”
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