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Could single-person spacecraft replace individual spacesuits in the future? One company is working on a design for such a craft.

The most important parts of Intel’s new Vaunt smart glasses are the pieces that were left out.

There is no camera to creep people out, no button to push, no gesture area to swipe, no glowing LCD screen, no weird arm floating in front of the lens, no speaker, and no microphone (for now).

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The FT has enlisted the help of readers, researchers and entrepreneurs to find 50 new ideas that will shape the world in the future.

The first 30 ideas have addressed the challenges of a growing world population, resource scarcity and looked at new ways to handle information and education. The next tranche of ideas, on healthcare, will be published on 5 March 2018.

Another in our “Frontiers” series, this article examines the possibility and probability of Startup Societies in the sky. The upsides are great, but so are the obstacles…

By Eliott Edge

“It is possible for a computer to become conscious. Basically, we are that. We are data, computation, memory. So we are conscious computers in a sense.”

—Tom Campbell, NASA

If the universe is a computer simulation, virtual reality, or video game, then a few unusual conditions seem to necessarily fall out from that reading. One is what we call consciousness, the mind, is actually something like an artificial intelligence. If the universe is a computer simulation, we are all likely one form of AI or another. In fact, we might come from the same computer that is creating this simulated universe to begin with. If so then it stands to reason that we are virtual characters and virtual minds in a virtual universe.

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“For 4 Billion Years Nothing Has Changed in the Rules of the Game of Life. That is Ending.”

~ Yuval Harari

Continue reading “Will the Future Be Human?” »

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After listening to the speakers and panelists, a team of creatives illustrated their visions of the future.