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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 17, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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ENGINEERING: US Navy Tests GhostSwimmer, an Autonomous Sub http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…s-Sub.aspx

NEW YORK TIMES: As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up https://lnkd.in/eg9Y8fV

ENGINEERING: Is A Quantum Internet on the Horizon? https://lnkd.in/ezBsRbM

CNNMoney- Who loses if Russia implodes? https://lnkd.in/eRHu85V

Newsweek- Cheap Oil Puts Russia’s Economy in Tailspin http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/26/russias-oil-fire-292090.html

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: 12 Reasons Robots Will Always Have An Advantage Over Humans https://lnkd.in/e_H3Ujm

Forbes- Rouble Rout Means Capital Controls Could Be On The Cards For Russia https://lnkd.in/eMrMTkM

ABC News- China Raises Estimate of Size of Economy, possibly moving closer to passing the United States as the biggest economy. https://lnkd.in/ew36KmS

BBC News- Is China’s economy really the largest in the world? https://lnkd.in/eKMbTMa

Nasdaq- 3D Printing Expert Weighs in on Hewlett-Packard Company’s 3D Printer https://lnkd.in/e8ue9CM

THE GUARDIAN: Plans for a secure quantum internet take a leap forward. The ability to ‘sculpt’ individual photons is a crucial step towards a secure network of powerful quantum computers https://lnkd.in/e-SwizV

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

Written By: — Singularity Hub

UPDATE: To read more about how workers will be affected by automation technology, check out Hub’s follow up post Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry

No longer will they say, “He’s going to end up flipping burgers.” Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it’ll produce “gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.”

With a conveyor belt-type system the burgers are freshly ground, shaped and grilled to the customer’s liking. And only when the burger’s finished cooking does Alpha slice the tomatoes and pickles and place them on the burger as fresh as can be. Finally, the machine wraps the burger up for serving.

And while you fret over how many people you invited to the barbecue, Alpha churns out a painless 360 hamburgers per hour.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 16, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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Forbes- Edward Snowden and the Downside to the Industrial Internet of Things https://lnkd.in/eGp_3qr

REUTERS: Wall Street dips in volatile trade; oil prices fall further https://lnkd.in/ejZ9XyY

REUTERS: Google faces $18 million fine for web privacy violations: Dutch watchdog https://lnkd.in/e7sBr8h

Seeking Alpha- Will The Plunge In Oil Crash Markets? http://seekingalpha.com/article/2756495-will-the-plunge-in-oil-crash-markets

CBCNEWS: Oil slips below $56 US after OPEC says it’s waiting on market. Canadian dollar trading at 85 cents US as crude markets continue rout https://lnkd.in/etu7BJQ

FINANCIAL TIMES: Oil price fall threatens $1tn of projects http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b3d67518-845f-11e4-bae9-00…z3M03HtF6K

New York Times- Wall St. Sinks as Oil Resumes Its Slide http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/business/daily-stock-market-activity.html?_r=0

Washington Post- Australia’s jihadist problem is much bigger than Sydney’s hostage crisis https://lnkd.in/eRbVvy7

New York Daily News- Top 7 jobs robots can potentially replace in following years https://lnkd.in/ePM4J_r

The Huffington Post UK : Gorbachev Warns That America And Russia Are Preparing For ‘Many Years Of Confrontation’. “With such emotions running so high, as we have now, we may not survive through these years. Somebody may just lose control of himself. We must do our best to overturn this tendency.” https://lnkd.in/eBXf2MF

POPULAR SCIENCE: NASA ENGINEERS PROPOSE COMBINING A RAIL GUN AND A SCRAMJET TO FIRE SPACECRAFT INTO ORBIT https://lnkd.in/ePr5hsk

JAPANESE GLOBAL CORPORATIONS ARE (a) RISK ADVERSE AND (b) RISK-MANAGEMENT AVERSE. Wired- Sony Hackers Threaten to Release a Huge ‘Christmas Gift’ of Secrets https://lnkd.in/ewaB5ET

IGNORAMUSES THINK THIS CANNOT HAPPEN SOON. The Guardian- Fears for Russian rouble as plunging oil price dents markets. Investors are concerned that the freefalling oil price and its effects on energy-dependent Moscow will further harm the world economy https://lnkd.in/ex6gi7G

FINANCIAL TIMES: Scandinavians warn Russia after air near-miss https://lnkd.in/e2XXSQ5

Fox News- Threat forces evacuation of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters https://lnkd.in/e7j8U8N

Wall Street Journal- Google Shopping to Counter Amazon. Google Inc. plans to push deeper into online commerce by enhancing its Google Shopping service with features that more directly challenge Amazon.com Inc. https://lnkd.in/ensWE57

Telegraph.co.uk- How the Lima climate change talks failed. Lima has underscored what we already knew: that the official negotiators are just not capable of cracking the issues on the table https://lnkd.in/eT4QXZr

PHYS ORG: Switching to vehicles powered by electricity from renewables could save lives https://lnkd.in/eRu23cC

WHY RELATIONS OF THE WEST WITH GERMANY ARE SO DEFUSED? DER SPIEGEL: NSA Spying Scandal: SPIEGEL Stands Behind Merkel Cell Phone Spying Report https://lnkd.in/e2phbpC

The National Interest Online (blog)- India’s ‘Annihilator of Enemies’ Submarine Begins Sea Trials https://lnkd.in/eNvJAKG

ASK SONY! — JAPANESE GLOBAL CORPORATION’S ABJECT RISK AVERSION AND OUTRIGHT REJECTION TO BEST-IN-CLASS AMERICAN-LIKE RISK MANAGEMENT AS THEY BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY THING IMPORTANT IS THE “…ASSEMBLY LINE…” AND THE “…WORK SHOP…” BENCH, OVER-FOCUSED ON THE IGNORANT CERTAINTY THAT THE IN-HOUSE OPERATIONALS FACADES WILL NOT GET EXTERNAL THREATS, EXTERNAL THREATS THAT DESTROY EVERY CANONICAL MILESTONE(S) ACHIEVED BY KAISEN OR TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM (TPS).

Washington Post- As Ukraine truce holds, Russia vows economic pain https://lnkd.in/echway7

BBC News- Denmark challenges Russia and Canada over North Pole http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30481309

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

Written By: — Singularity Hub

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Bitcoin is a decentralized, digital currency. It was invented by a mysterious individual known by the handle, Satoshi Nakamoto. A bitcoin is volatile but is currently worth about $380; regulators are increasingly interested; retailers too—true believers believe.

These headlines you’ve likely read. But where the hell do bitcoins come from anyway? They’re mined by computers making calculations lightning fast—or in this case, by a man with sixteen minutes’ free time, a pencil, and pad of paper.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 15, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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BUSINESS INSIDER: Dubai Crashed, Qatar Crashed, And The Rest Of The Gulf States Got Smoked http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-gulf-stocks-reel-on-slidi…z3Lu9XTWzd

InfoWorld- Google wants you to design the Internet of things. Impatient for the Internet of things, Google is providing seed money for researching new technologies https://lnkd.in/eRFnwpp

Wired- Butterflies, Ants and the Internet of Things https://lnkd.in/eKQiFVG

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Bankers, watch out for the robots: Goldman Sachs has invested in a company that could use algorithms instead of analysts https://lnkd.in/ecfWW-n

CNNMoney- China wants to build a train system near you https://lnkd.in/ea_3-t7

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains https://lnkd.in/ewBTqsq

REUTERS: Asian shares fall to nine-month low as oil prices sink https://lnkd.in/eiaES3y

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: How cheap oil changes the world https://lnkd.in/e4gxzFG

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

Written By: — Singularity Hub

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Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth?

You’ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it’s the final frontier. Because it’s there.

What you haven’t heard is anything to inspire a sense of urgency. Indeed, NASA’s struggle to defend its existence and funding testifies to how weak these justifications sound to a public that cares less about space than seemingly more pressing needs.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 14, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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ZDNet- Professional jobs at risk from robotics and automation: Govt http://www.zdnet.com/article/professional-jobs-at-risk-thank…utomation/

POPULAR SCIENCE: Secretive D.O.D. Drone Dodges Defenses At Hypersonic Speed. A new weapon in America’s superfast arms race with China https://lnkd.in/eK7-KUA

ENGINEERING: US Manufacturing Tech Orders Dive, Yet Tool Orders Soar.…What Does it Mean? https://lnkd.in/e2zknG3

PHYS.ORG: Is an understanding of dark matter around the corner? Experimentalists unsure https://lnkd.in/e7bk4B9

REUTERS: Russia says will react if U.S. imposes new sanctions https://lnkd.in/ea4m3HM

BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: A global natural gas boom alone won’t slow climate change https://lnkd.in/esJW8T2

BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: Russia’s latest provocations: Business as usual? https://lnkd.in/eVngNSc

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: A Step Toward Artificial Cells, Built from Silicon. A microfluidic cell copies some basic functions of life. https://lnkd.in/eficBbR

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How Africa is changing Chinese oil companies https://lnkd.in/eQCwWR9

PC WORLD: The future is now: The 10 biggest tech innovations of 2014 https://lnkd.in/eu3m5Pn

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: RoboBrain: The World’s First Knowledge Engine For Robots https://lnkd.in/evGUwn2

The Economist- International trade. A troubling trajectory. Fears are growing that trade’s share of the world’s GDP has peaked. But that is far from certain https://lnkd.in/efe6KCX

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

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By Rachel Metz — MIT Technology Review

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“I want to quit Google,” the message on my iPhone read. “It’s boring here.”

Posted by an anonymous user in San Francisco to the confessional app Secret, the message quickly gained attention; after four days, it had received 78 comments, ranging from “just means you’re not on the right project” to “I quit Google, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.” At times, the original poster chimed in, saying things like: “I’ve been there a long time. Many jobs. The company no longer values initiative, and promotion is very slow.”

Many of us are addicted to sharing status updates on Facebook, photos on Instagram, and thoughts on Twitter. But real, raw honesty is tricky online. It’s hard to say what you really think when your true identity is attached, especially if your post could get you in trouble, either now or years down the line. That bored Googler on Secret wouldn’t be likely to voice those thoughts online under his or her real name—even if doing so could be therapeutic or even lead to other job options.

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