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Category: futurism – Page 2
EARTh pARTy Conference
Conference at Forbes Island (San Francisco Bay) in July 2025 featuring Brewster Kahle Tim Anderson Heidi Petty:
The eARTh pARTy Conference brings together visionaries in technology, art, and culture on a unique floating island to reimagine our collective future. Over three immersive days, we’ll explore how technology can empower rather than control humanity’s creative potential.
Our world stands at a crossroads. This gathering champions a future where creators maintain ownership of their work, receive fair compensation, and preserve their digital autonomy. Together, we’ll explore what a future looks like with a distributed creative network that advocates for ethical platforms and transparent systems.
The pieces for our future already exist. We simply need the courage to reassemble them into a world where creative expression flourishes, and the impact you make becomes your most valuable asset.
Join us in launching a movement that ensures technology serves human creativity rather than exploiting it.
Building the future of creative economies: decentralized, regenerative, thriving.
Analysis provides day-by-day insight into prehistoric plankton’s capacity for change
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures from millions of years ago were shaped by their environment on a day-to-day basis for the first time.
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could improve our understanding of how character traits driven by environmental changes shaped evolutionary history and life on Earth.
It could help scientists to understand how much of a species’ evolutionary journey is down to “nature vs. nurture.”
Southern Ocean saltier, hotter and losing ice fast as decades-long trend unexpectedly reverses
Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ice in steep decline.
Since 2015, Antarctica has lost sea ice equal to the size of Greenland—the largest environmental shift seen anywhere on Earth in the last decades. The Southern Ocean is also getting saltier, and this unexpected change is making the problem worse.
For decades, the ocean’s surface freshened (becoming less salty), helping sea ice grow. Now, scientists say that trend has sharply reversed.
