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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 05, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Rewritable paper http://lnkd.in/e6Nxpsi

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Buckyballs enhance capture of carbon-dioxide emissions http://lnkd.in/ehuVvHb

MOSCOW TIMES: Putin Promises Controlled Freedom in Face of Western Containment http://lnkd.in/eYFsYi4

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“You get what you celebrate.” In 1989 Dean Kamen created FIRST Robotics to change the culture from one that idolizes entertainment celebrities and sports stars to one that celebrates scientists, engineers and visionaries. Over 20 years later, how much has changed?

By Michael Molitch-Hou — 3D Printing Industry

Now on Indiegogo, the foldable Pocket3DPrinter is only in the conceptual stages. It hypothesizes the use of an FDM style extrusion technique, like you might see on a MakerBot or an Ultimaker, but, instead of heating up plastic filament, the project’s creator, Steven Middleton, proposes using a UV projecting LED light to harden curable resin onto the build platform. By doing so, Middleton believes that the 3D printer is made more portable, as there will be no need to wait for the extruder to heat up and cool down before printing. For even more portability, the machine would be battery powered and managed via Bluetooth through a smartphone app. Below are some of the Pocket3DPrinter’s possible specs:

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 04, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: CORRECTLY FORESEEING? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141203020027-34…foreseeing

New York Times: Computing Goes to the Cloud. So Does Crime. http://lnkd.in/eGFraxX

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Replacing wires with light, future computers may operate faster with less energy. Stanford optical device splits a beam of light into different colors and bends the light at opposite right angles, based on wavelength http://lnkd.in/eEN6ktj

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By Kenrya Rankin Naasel — FastCompany

Anyone who has had a chronic medical issue–or a family member with one–knows how difficult it can be to understand what their doctors are talking about. Enter Emmi Solutions, a health data visualization company that uses multidisciplinary art to explain complex concepts to patients of all ages. “Health care is very personal and can be really scary. People want to be involved, supported, reassured, and guided to make the right decisions for themselves and their families. Caregivers want that for their patients too, but haven’t always had the tools or the incentives to provide that,” says Greg Blew, the company’s chief creative officer. “So we started making interactive multimedia programs that educated patients about upcoming surgical procedures and set their expectations around factors like recovery time, postoperative pain, and potential risks.”

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CORRECTLY FORESEEING?

Let us stop the guesswork to make decisions by ignoramuses of supine ignorance, beginning with the elitist “…intellectuals…”, specially those postdoctorals from the Ivy-league and Oxbridge.

You do not make (throughput to output) decisions to be instituted in the past, but in the Continual Present, whose Continuum is hugely connected to the Future.

A MAGNIFICENT CATALONIAN TECHNOLOGIST, ASPIRING TO A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEMENT WITH LOCKHEED MARTIN, CROWNED HERSELF WITH THE THRONE OF MOST-ABJECT SIMPLETONNESS BY CONSTANTLY COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT UNDERSTANDING THE LUCID WORKS OF AND BY MR. ALVIN TOFFLER, RAND CORPORATION’S MR. HERMAN KHAN (DR. STRANGELOVES) AND ROYAL DUTCH SHELL’S MR. PIERRE WHACK.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 03, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

New York Times: Russia Forecasts a Recession in 2015, Signaling a Toll From Sanctions and Oil Prices http://lnkd.in/eGUbX5a

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Software equal to or better than humans at cataloging published science data www.kurzweilai.net/software-equal-to-or-better-than-humans-a…ience-data

TechChruch: The Internet Of Things Is Reaching Escape Velocity http://lnkd.in/eigac32

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Written By: Peniel M. Dimberu — Singularity Hub

In one of the gutsiest performances in sports history, NFL quarterback Chris Simms had to be carted off the field after taking several vicious hits from the defense during a game in 2006. Remarkably, Simms returned to the game shortly thereafter and led his team on a scoring drive before having to leave the game for good.

As it turns out, Simms had ruptured his spleen and lost nearly five pints of blood.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 02, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Star Trek-like invisible shield discovered 7200 miles above Earth that blocks ‘killer electrons’ http://lnkd.in/eanQ5yK

**QUESTION?**: ARE YOU READY FOR THE SOONEST CRASH OF THE ECONOMIES OF EUROPE AND RUSSIA?

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Protons found to pass through graphene, raising hopes for efficient fuel cells. Graphene membranes could also extract hydrogen gas out of the atmosphere http://lnkd.in/exVV3bG

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