Beyond the fights and the chases in Ramez Naam’s Nexus trilogy, it is an opportunity to consider how technology might move some humans beyond humanity, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

How the origin of Earth’s greatest meteor shower might be the demise of life on Earth as we know it.

Lifeboat’s Jacque Fresco in a 2006 documentary about his work and The Venus Project

There are calls to lift NIH’s restrictions on the controversial chimera studies. But are we ready for this most controversial study yet?

What if we tried to prevent future problems, instead of just solving the ones in front of us?

The intelligence community’s tech think tank wants a new model for keeping data safe in the cloud.

China is going to try to own tech and be the SV for the world within the next 7 years. This is definitely in process and many companies in China have been rejecting US tech products for the past several months due to US pressures about the S. China Sea and ramp up efforts to build their own tech companies to take down Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. They do have the IP to possibly do it.

So, move over FB, Youtube, and Amazon, there is a new streaming media competitor on the horizon coming to online users near you. Lookout the remaining parts of Alphabet (namely Google), Amazon, and Microsoft.

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China’s LeEco doesn’t come up much when China’s top tech firms are mentioned. Maybe it should.

Well, we can easily figure out who this and how this will be used on.

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Wireless transmitters that operate at very or ultra low frequencies (0.3‐30 kHz) typically require some big antenna complexes to handle their communications.

Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said they are interested looking to eliminate that issue and develop smaller physical structures that could handle new long-distance communication applications.

+ DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks

DARPA in search of a 100 Gb/sec wireless technology that can penetrate clutter+.

Through the lens of imagination, humankind has the ability to see far beyond the present. The strongest of these guiding visions tend to coalesce and together steer the trajectory of where we’re headed—even if we don’t arrive exactly where expected.

But what fuels the imagination? The information we consume paints a picture of the world we inhabit. Both sci-fi and forecasting offer fertile ground for stimulating thoughts about the future, while also helping us imagine the steps necessary to get us closer or further from the destination.

With this in mind, we’ve compiled a few of our favorite future visions from past stories to spark your imagination. No one knows the future for sure—but here are a few wild possibilities.