Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 658
You’re never too old to live young so long as you put forth effort.
This 63-year-old is showing up people half his age.
Credit: Gerry Mansolill
Aug 5, 2018
20 Life-Changing Technologies Coming Within The Next 5 Years
Posted by Montie Adkins in category: futurism
Some of us will look back on the technology we’re using right now, and it will seem like the stone age.
Aug 5, 2018
AI, China, Data, Good Thinking, and our Fall Conference
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
What is happening with the future of AI, and how will it alter geopolitics? That’s the kind of question that motivates our company, and our preparation for our fall conference. China looks strong. Beijing-based computer scientist, investor, and author Kai-Fu Lee will be one of several interpreters.
Why it matters: “With rising populations, growing mega-cities, and rapid global travel that saw more than 1 billion international tourist arrivals in 2015 alone — a new strain of deadly flu will make 1918 look like a walk in the park.”
Aug 4, 2018
Google Maps New Feature Displays Globe, Not Flat Earth
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Aug 3, 2018
San Diego Researchers Measure The Highest Ocean Surface Temperature In A Century
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
At a pier in San Diego, researchers on Wednesday recorded the warmest sea surface temperature since record-keeping began there in 1916.
Every day, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego collect data — by hand — from the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier.
Wednesday’s 78.6 degrees Fahrenheit at the pier surpassed a previous record of 78.4 degrees in 1931, researchers said in a statement on Thursday.
Aug 1, 2018
Newly-discovered type of lung cell has central role in cystic fibrosis
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A new type of lung cell is rare in our bodies, but is the main place where the gene involved in the common hereditary condition cystic fibrosis is active.