Nov 5, 2015
AI will reorganize the human population
Posted by Julius Garcia in category: robotics/AI
Artificial Intelligence will start reorganizing people on the planet long before it will be able to drive your car.
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Nov 5, 2015
Panera CEO Says Robots Will Replace Human Workers
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: business, robotics/AI
Using a touch-screen ordering station instead of speaking to a human while ordering a Panini at Panera is in the imminent future, reports Business Insider.
According to Panera founder and CEO Ron Shaich, a robot revolution will take over companies as labor prices increase and what he calls “digital utilization” goes up, according to the report.
Nov 4, 2015
Dozens of people mistake robot for real woman — and they think she’s ‘sexy’
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Viewers are in awe of how lifelike the robot appears — and have even claimed to find her attractive.
Japan has developed a new genetically mutated strawberries, and it’s BLUE
Nov 4, 2015
Relativity v quantum mechanics – the battle for the universe
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: quantum physics
Physicists have spent decades trying to reconcile two very different theories. But is a winner about to emerge – and transform our understanding of everything from time to gravity?
Nov 4, 2015
Robot spiders could build giant webs in space
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, space
The SpiderFab manufacturing system would build huge structures in space using arachnid-like robots.
Nov 4, 2015
In This Trippy Short Film, a Man Meets Every Possible Future Version of Himself
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: futurism, time travel
In Therefore I Am, the McCoubrey brothers create a compelling time travel mystery in just six minutes. It leaves you with questions, BUT in a good way.
Therefore I Am tracks a conversation a man has with future versions of himself, each one arriving slightly earlier than the last, each one with slightly different instructions for how to get to that point. You can even trace the loops—each one leads to the next. And yet, not a single one seems to have successfully avoided the event they’re trying to stop.
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Nov 4, 2015
The Future of Work: Less than 10% of People Have Jobs
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: employment, futurism
In; The Future of Work: Less than 10% of People Have Jobs’ I have shared some articles and interviews where Steve talks about what may be a very real future of work.
Five hundred years from now, says venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, less than 10 percent of people on the planet will be doing paid work. And next year?
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Nov 4, 2015
Using Heat-Seeking Bubbles To Destroy Cancer
Posted by Roy in categories: biotech/medical, health
We have plenty of chemicals that can kill cancer cells, but they often hit healthy ones too. The search has therefore been on for a targeted approach, that delivers a fatal payload to tumours without harming surrounding tissue.
