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Apr 2, 2017
Norway Gets a New Doomsday Vault That Stores Data
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: existential risks
Just in time for doomsday, Norway’s “Doomsday Vault” is getting an expansion. Officially known as the World Arctic Archive, the vault opened this week and has already taken submissions from two countries. This time, instead of storing seeds that will survive the apocalypse, the vault is archiving data using specially developed film.
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Apr 2, 2017
Quantum Physics is Bringing Our Wildest Sci-Fi Dreams to Life
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics
Quantum physics is one of the most exciting and innovative areas of scientific research. By funding further research and development in quantum physics, great technological advancements will be made.
Think of every amazing future technology you’ve seen or read about in science fiction, or imagined yourself. Big innovations that change the world and cure disease or end war, and littler ones too, things that help us “think” a quick message to a friend without saying a word or share an experience from a distance. Quantum physics is enabling the creation of all of these futuristic technologies and some that didn’t even occur to most of us, making our sci-fi dreams part of our reality.
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Apr 2, 2017
The Next Economic Revolution Just (re)Launched: Congratulate SpaceX, Thank NASA
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: economics, policy, space travel
Apr 2, 2017
In 2068, ZDF Digital began working on a series that will change our perceptive of our world and human evolution
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: evolution
Apr 2, 2017
A Journey Into Transhumanism
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biological, transhumanism
Apr 2, 2017
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | MIT
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“This site has offered Shakespeare’s plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.”
Apr 2, 2017
Getty Research Institute Online Exhibition The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“In this 21st century, war in Syria has irrevocably changed the ancient caravan city of Palmyra, famed as a meeting place of civilizations since its apogee in the mid-2nd to 3rd century CE.”
Apr 2, 2017
Breakthrough Starshot Project Amps Up: Ball, Brakes To Be Added Into The Interstellar Sail
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: innovation, space
Scientists are proposing new methods of stabilizing the design of the first of its kind tiny and lightweight space probe.
(Photo : SciNews/YouTube screenshot)
Apr 2, 2017
Artificial Intelligence And Income Inequality
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: finance, robotics/AI
In fact, when speaking with many AI experts across academia and industry, the consensus was unanimous: the development of AI cannot benefit only the few.
Income inequality is a well recognized problem. The gap between the rich and poor has grown over the last few decades, but it became increasingly pronounced after the 2008 financial crisis. While economists debate the extent to which technology plays a role in global inequality, most agree that tech advances have exacerbated the problem.
In an interview with the MIT Tech Review, economist Erik Brynjolfsson said, “My reading of the data is that technology is the main driver of the recent increases in inequality. It’s the biggest factor.”
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