One of the most famous findings in physics could be wrong – the double-slit experiment was long thought to confirm that light can be a wave, but its results can be fully explained using only quantum particles
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The European Space Agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission, Biomass, launched on Tuesday aboard an Arianespace Vega-C rocket. Biomass, which will study Earth’s forests and their impact on the planet’s climate, lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:15 UTC (6:15 AM local time).
1984 vs Brave New World: Dystopian worlds compared | Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Lex Fridman
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Ray Kurzweil’s 7 Boldest Predictions—What’s Still on Track?
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Ray Kurzweil, one of the world’s leading futurists, has made hundreds of predictions about technology’s future. From portable devices and wireless internet to brain-computer interfaces and nanobots in our bloodstream, Kurzweil has envisioned a future that sometimes feels like science fiction—but much of it is becoming reality.
In this video, we explore 7 of Ray Kurzweil’s boldest predictions:
00:00 — 01:44 Intro.
01:44 — 02:42 Prediction 1: Portable Devices and Wireless Internet.
02:42 — 03:34 Prediction 2: Self-Driving Cars by Early 2020s.
