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The Future of Collaboration. 10 hi-tech inventions we'll be using in 2030. Can you live forever? Vernor Vinge on the Singularity. Vernor Vinge Department of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University (c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge (This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice.)

Vernor Vinge on the Singularity

The original version of this article was presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30-31, 1993. A slightly changed version appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Study finds ageing mothers prefer daughters to husband. Singularity and Futurism: augmented reality. ‪Microsoft Sustainability Productivity future vision‬‏ YouTube. GLASS LIFE IN FUTURE. Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that. A Doctor's Vision of the Future of Medicine. The most important technology news, developments and trends & more  Tags: concept future, Concept superb Google Smartwatch Render in 4, hi tech design, hi tech technology, product desing, smart project, Technology news, technology of future Concept superb Google Smartwatch Render in 4D Posted on 10 February 2014 by Endi This device seems to be a Google watch and this nifty unit has a very interesting bracelet, that looks very much like a fashion accessory.

The most important technology news, developments and trends & more 

The screen is well spaced and seems to have a pretty big diagonal, maybe even bigger than 2 inches or so. Apparently, the display is big enough to allow you to swipe down a notification area. Continue Reading. » Kure Dining pod Future technology. The Kure table can be closed as a sphere (looks like a egg) when not in use.

» Kure Dining pod Future technology

It is designed like a flower that opens up to a full-fledged dining table. The table with sphere lighting rises from the center of the table and the the base glows with blue light. A great concept!! I’m keepin’ my fingers crossed. A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain. On the grand scale of things, we know so very little about the brain.

A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain

Our thick-headedness isn’t quite cosmological in scale — we really do know almost nothing about the universe beyond Earth — but, when it comes down to it, the brain is virtually a black box. Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. FUTUREPREDICTIONS. Sentient Developments. Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science. Transhuman/futurism. Wirehead hedonism versus paradise-engineering. FuturistSpeaker.com – The personal blog of Futurist Thomas Frey. The Hedonistic Imperative. The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

The Hedonistic Imperative

The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. The Future of Health Care. Uhc_video Good afternoon.

The Future of Health Care

In the next couple of minutes, I hope to make you wiser, and I hope to do this without teaching you anything. I am, however, going to ask a couple of questions, and this idea is not really a new one. In fact, it’s thousands of years old. There is a famous quote from Lao Tzu, a famous Chinese philosopher, who said to attain knowledge, add things every day. Jack Uldrich – Keynote Speaker, Futurist, Future Trends, Strategic Consulting, Global Trends. Will robots get married?" You've known each another for many years now, and you've come to truly understand each another.

Will robots get married?"

You share a home, pay bills and putter around the garden together. The two of you look forward to your Sunday morning ritual of working on The New York Times crossword puzzle together. You are truly and deeply in love. You'd like to get married, but unfortunately, you live in a society where your relationship is considered unnatural and immoral. Despite the breadth of your love for each other, marriage is against the law. While the idea of human-robot marriage may seem far-fetched now, it may one day come to pass if artificial intelligence researcher David Levy's theory is correct. Sex Robots: Prostitution As A Science, Not An Art. We can relegate this one to the realm of science fiction for the moment, but two researchers from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand suggest that in the near future, we could all be looking at a world where prostitution is largely the work of robotic sex companions.

Sex Robots: Prostitution As A Science, Not An Art

Their study, published in the May edition of Futures magazine, is called Robots, men and sex tourism. In their paper they imagine Amsterdam’s red light district in 2050, and say that it will be “all about android prostitues.” “[They] are clean of sexual transmitted infections (STIs), not smuggled in from Eastern Europe and forced into slavery, the city council will have direct control over android sex workers controlling prices, hours of operations and sexual services,” they say.

This future scenario is detailed by Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars. Beyond the Gender Binary. Future Scanner. Futurism News / Published. Future News. Futurist sites - FutureNovo. From FutureNovo - Anticipating things to come Intelligent Future The future is smarter than we think - Observations about future technology and it’s potential impacts on society with a special focus on the evolving relationship between technology and intelligence.

Futurist sites - FutureNovo

Future Possibilities. Top 20 Trends in 2011 Forecast - The 2011 Trend Report. Outlook 2011 Top 10 Forecasts. FGadgets. Tomorrow is built today. Michael Rogers - Practical Futurist. Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence. Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces.