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Startup founders will develop and launch transformative companies in the emerging field of synthetic biology at new Silicon Valley SynBio Startup Launchpad
Macworld In the future, you'll use a speech-based interface to access all the world's knowledge – including your own personal memories – stored in the cloud, according to a legendary engineer who was a member of the team that designed Apple's original Macintosh user interface.
Mac daddy predicts all-knowing, all-seeing UI • The Register
The central premise of this book is that people with slightly more right-brain skills will dominate the work force in the 21st century... or at least be much more important than the past 20 years. I bought this book because that is a premise I agree with, so I was curious to see how he demonstrated his point, or any advice he could offer.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (9781594481710): Daniel H. Pink: Books
Can We Download Our Brains? | Dr. Kaku's Universe | Big Think
Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science.Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science.
The Digital Age in an Analog World | Dr. Kaku's Universe | Big Think
Using Kinect, MIT Media Lab pulls off gesture-based web browsing, with more on the horizon - Core77
As the aforementioned quartet (Aaron Zinman, Doug Fritz, Greg Elliott, and Roy Shilkrot) explain, this is just an early first step and there's plenty more to come:
Futurist Reading for 2011 | World Future Society
What follows is a selection of new and forthcoming books that have been selected for inclusion in the Global Foresight Books project ( www.globalforesightbooks.org ) by Michael Marien. and includes titles on medicine, economics, the environment, education, business, and technology.
6 Web Pioneers on What the Internet of the Future Will Look Like
Throughout 2010, I made a habit of wrapping up interviews with what I am sure was perceived as a cruelly broad question: “What do you think the future Internet will look like?” The responses I received varied a great deal, but usually began with something along the lines of “Wow.
Editorial: "How to engineer a better future"
We can feed 9 billion people in 2050 - environment - 11 January 2011 - New Scientist
Welcome to Future City | URBNFUTR
With the global urban population proliferating at a rate of knots every year, perhaps even absorbing 60% of humanity by the end of this decade, it has become one of the most pivotal questions that mankind has to ask itself: Can the cities of Planet Earth support us all? Although an approximation, land accounts for 29% of the Earth’s surface with only ~1% of this being colonized by humans.
Contactless ID technology to invade homes soon: NXP | mydigitalfc.com
Within the next 10 to 20 years, advances in biometric and RFID technology, especially contactless ID technology, may grow to the point that even regular homes will have such technologies, NXP Semiconductors India said.The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has a large collection of automobiles -- 73 -- in its collection.