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Jan 19, 2022
We all take technology for granted, but for someone like Massa, it’s the reason he can work every day
Posted by Liliana Alfair in category: futurism
Jan 19, 2022
Sou Fujimoto Architects designs walkable rooftop for rural Japanese university
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
An accessible rooftop that curves to meet the ground will distinguish the Hida Takayama University, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects is designing in Hida City, Japan.
The private university, which is expected to open in April 2024, is set to be built on a rural site in the town that is located in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto Architects’ design comprises two curved buildings that will be separated by a courtyard. The larger of the two structures will be topped by the giant accessible rooftop described by the studio as “an open hill”.
Jan 18, 2022
Earth’s interior is cooling faster than expected
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Researchers have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth’s core and mantle conducts heat. This leads them to suspect that the Earth’s heat may dissipate sooner than previously thought.
Jan 18, 2022
How Could the Big Bang Arise From Nothing?
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: alien life, futurism
READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something else available. Now my question: Where did the material come from that created the Big Bang, and what happened in the first instance to create that material? Peter, 80, Australia.
“The last star will slowly cool and fade away. With its passing, the universe will become once more a void, without light or life or meaning.” So warned the physicist Brian Cox in the recent BBC series Universe. The fading of that last star will only be the beginning of an infinitely long, dark epoch. All matter will eventually be consumed by monstrous black holes, which in their turn will evaporate away into the dimmest glimmers of light. Space will expand ever outwards until even that dim light becomes too spread out to interact. Activity will cease.
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Jan 18, 2022
Early Disaster Warning: Tsunamis’ Magnetic Fields Are Detectable Before Sea Level Change
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Magnetic field information could provide earlier disaster warning to at-risk regions, potentially saving lives.
A new study finds the magnetic field generated by a tsunami can be detected a few minutes earlier than changes in sea level and could improve warnings of these giant waves.
Tsunamis generate magnetic fields as they move conductive seawater through the Earth’s magnetic field. Researchers previously predicted that the tsunami’s magnetic field would arrive before a change in sea level, but they lacked simultaneous measurements of magnetics and sea level that are necessary to demonstrate the phenomenon.
Jan 18, 2022
AI Creates Job Disruption But Not Job Destruction
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
A common concern surrounding automation in recent years is that it will result in widescale job losses as the work previously done by people is taken over by technology. Of course, the reality doesn’t really support this narrative, and indeed, companies that invest in technology often end up employing more people as a result of the improvement in their fortunes heralded by the investment.
The leadership team of the fintech company Kashat highlight the reality of investing in technology. They reveal that microfinance has traditionally been highly labor intensive, with many of the skills the same as those used in the sector for years. With the introduction of AI, new skills have been introduced into the underwriting process in order to serve at scale, while enabling employees to further expand their skillset and become even more valuable in the future.
The impact of this distinction is clearly visible in the growth rates across the sector, with those more tech-enabled firms growing far faster, and therefore employing more people, than their more traditional peers.
Jan 18, 2022
Predjama: The world’s largest cave castle
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Predjama is one of the most extraordinary castles in the world, built in the mouth of a cave complex at the end of a valley in southwest Slovenia.
Set halfway up a 400-foot (123-meter) vertical cliff face, it appears in records from 1,202 and is listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest cave castle.
With a Renaissance facade dating back to the 1580s, the word “majestic” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Yet for tour guide and historian Vojko Jurca, one of the highlights is, on first appearances, a little underwhelming.
Jan 18, 2022
Valentino Gareri Atelier designs village made from 3D-printed cacao waste
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Valentino Gareri Atelier has unveiled renderings of the Cacao Eco Village in Ecuador for local farmers that will feature 3D-printed buildings made from recycled cacao.
Cacao Eco Village will be located on the coast of Ecuador’s Manabi province where cacao farmers live and work to produce chocolate through extracting cocoa butter and solids from cacao beans.
Valentino Gareri Atelier designed the project for Ecuadorian chocolate manufacturer Muze, as well as nonprofit organisation Avanti, with construction scheduled to begin this year.
Jan 17, 2022
Futuristic ‘volar’ eVTOL
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, transportation
The volar aircraft has a sleek, aerodynamic form that’s more akin to a supercar than other eVTOLs currently in development.