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In a series called Postcards from the Future, U.K. artists Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones imagined future scenes from London, transforming familiar city views according to different scientific projections. "We were hearing a lot about the potential impacts of climate change, but everything we were hearing about was just words, or very two-dimensional graphics in magazines," says Madoc-Jones. "The only imagery we were getting was pictures or reports from places like Bangladesh…the trouble is that when you live in London, when you hear reports of people suffering in other parts of the world, you can easily forget about those things and put them to one side.
" In one scene, rising sea levels have turned London into a Venice-like city that has to be navigated by boat. If This Is What Spaceships Will Look Like In 100 Years, You're Going To Want To Get In Line Now. Within 100 years, humans may venture beyond the solar system.
What would it take to make it possible to actually live there? Icarus Interstellar, a project run by a global team of scientists, wants to achieve interstellar flight by 2100--and one of the questions they’re trying to answer is how to create an artificial environment that could support people indefinitely. Scientists and architects are designing an ecology from scratch. 10 Jobs That You Could Have In 2030. All of the predictions we've seen lately regarding the "jobs of the future" assume that we'll even have jobs once the robots take over.
Eventually, we may not. But in the medium-term future, there will still be jobs for the taking (including jobs overseeing robots). The Canadian Scholarship Trust teamed up with futurists to imagine a job fair in 2030, with predictions based on the environmental, social, technological, and social trends happening now. Here are some of the jobs they came up with. Aquaponic Fish Farmer With populations of wild fish dwindling, aquaponics--a combination of fish farming and gardening--is probably the best chance for a future where humans can still eat seafood, especially in remote locations. Garbage Designer. What Will The Economy Look Like When The Robots Take Your Job? In the past 50 years, the number of people working in manufacturing, government, and agriculture jobs have all gone down or flat-lined.
As technology infiltrates parts of the labor market that it could never reach before, employment of people who do repetitive or task-oriented jobs has seen less need for human oversight or action. And your job could very likely be next. “In the next 50 to 100 years, I don’t think we have a job market in the way we’re used to thinking about it,” Andrew McAffee says. McAffee is the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Want Money Out Of Politics? Put Some Money Into Politics With Lawrence Lessig's Super PAC. Harvard professor Larry Lessig’s business pitch seems backwards, at first.
It goes something like this: Invest in his super PAC, and get money out of politics. Donate enough money to render all the other money in politics meaningless. So what’s the return on an investment, that, by definition, wants to ruin big, private financial investments in politics? “A return to something like a representative democracy,” is how Lessig puts it.
That business pitch is now a $1 million idea. 10 Imaginative Ideas From Genius Kids To Solve Our Global Waste Problem. Google's Self-Driving Car Is Real, And It Looks Like A Tiny Bubble-Car. We've known Google has been working on self-driving cars for awhile now, but all of a sudden, the project is real: last night, Google revealed a working prototype of its self-driving car.
It's a two-seater that looks something like a mashup of a Fiat 500, Steve Urkel's car, and a cartoon smiley face. This isn't a production model; Google is making perhaps 100 of these little buggers mostly as an experiment. They have no steering wheel, no gas or brake pedals, and only two seats. They're powered by an electric engine and are artificially limited to a top speed of 25 mph (good news for the testers). The cars are resolutely simple. The car isn't designed like other cars; it lacks things most cars have, and not just the steering wheel.
The Future Of America's Roads: Smart Streets, Cars That Communicate. When Anthony Foxx was sworn in as the U.S.
Department of Transportation Secretary last summer, he said he would draw on "every ounce of innovation and creativity" to make the country's vast transportation system not only safe and efficient but also modernized. Earlier this year, Foxx, one of our 2014 Most Creative People in Business, launched the Data Innovation Challenge, the DOT's most ambitious invitation to the tech community. He gave enterprising companies and developers access to the department's data--more 2,500 data sets on everything from highway conditions and financing to railroad accidents--and challenged them to "revolutionize America's transportation system" by creating new visualization tools and apps for consumers as well as officials. Ideo Imagines 19 Concepts To Ease The Aging Process. In 1950, the average life expectancy for men and women in the U.S. was 65 and 71 respectively.
Now, men on average live to 76, and women can expect to live to 81. This Is What It's Like To Watch A Holographic Musician. It’s not that easy to completely surprise concertgoers with a hologram anymore.
Tupac's holographic performance back in 2012--that was out of nowhere. 5 Insane Geoengineering Ideas That Won't Save The Planet. When it comes to hacking climate change, the solutions tend to match the scale of the problem.
Geo-engineers have proposed pumping tons of sulphur into the atmosphere (to deflect sunlight), fertilizing the ocean with millions of tons of lime (to improve its CO2 absorbing capacity), and planting trees across 2.5 billion acres of desert. How Zombies Help Siemens Design Disaster-Proof Cities. Once there's no more room in hell and the dead start walking the Earth, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
See movies such as Dawn of the Dead and World War Z. Panic ensues. The entire grid falls over. Hospitals close down. The government collapses. Profesiones que asegurarán un empleo en el futuro - Tendencias. La tecnología y el cambio climático determinarán las profesiones del futuro. Así lo asegura el Informe de Tendencias Laborales 2014 publicado de Sodexo que publica la lista de las 30 profesiones que serán indispensables en 2030. Government Service of the Future? Visions from Dubai.
The United Arab Emirates have been one of the most aggressive nations on Earth in implementing tech-driven, customer-driven government services. So, when visions of tech-driven, customer-driven services are exhibited on its soils, one must pay close attention. This is a place where today’s fictions become tomorrow’s reality with almost magical efficiency. The Museum of Future Government Services launches this week at the UAE’s second-ever Government Summit.
Connected Air: Smart Dust Is The Future Of The Quantified World. This article is part of ReadWrite Future Tech, an annual series in which we explore how technologies that will shape our lives in the years to come are grounded in the innovation and research of today. The year is 2035, and Sgt. 2020 by Trend Micro. Iftf : Government Service of the Future? Futurist Says We'll Use Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon. The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Modern science can already erase and implant memories in rats, and in the future such techniques might be used on humans as well. This Google Glass App Will Detect Your Emotions, Then Relay Them Back To Retailers. After raising a $6 million series B round, facial recognition company Emotient will open a private beta for a Google Glass app that detects users' emotions in real time.
Venture-capital firm Handbag led the financing, which closed in December but was announced Thursday, bringing the total amount raised to $8 million. This Is What Your Face Will Look Like In 2060. Google Glass is now old news. In January, Google announced it was working on a product even more closely melded with the human body: Smart contact lenses that contain a chip to measure glucose levels in diabetics' tears. A Giant Bubble Fort To Give Polluted City Residents A Safe Place To Breathe. Una Pregunta Similar Es Hecha A Padres Y A Sus Hijos. Las Diferencias Son Espléndidas. Watch These Chilling Videos About The Scary Future Of Cybersecurity. Predicciones de Isaac Asimov para el año 2014 (escritas en 1964) Isaac Asimov es uno de los titanes indiscutibles de la ciencia ficción literaria, pero al igual que colegas suyos como Ray Bradbury o Arthur C.
Clarke, fue también un privilegiado observador crítico de su momento histórico. En 1964, con ocasión de la Feria Mundial de General Motors en Nueva York, Asimov escribió una pieza para The New York Times titulada ”Visita a la Feria Mundial del 2014“, en la que describe algunos avances científicos, tecnológicos y sociales que sin duda podemos reconocer hoy en día, al igual que otros (probablemente la mayoría) que aún quedan lejos de nuestro alcance. Jared Leto On Creativity, Commerce, And Lessons From Surviving A $30 Million Lawsuit. A Literatura da Utopia. Por volta de 1516, Thomas More imaginou a chegada do Homem civilizado num paraíso natural e como esta ilha seria o lugar ideal para a construção da sociedade perfeita.
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