futuretechreport: 12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane...
12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds
Business Insider published this graphic as part of an article they did summarizing the McKinsey report which featured disruptive technologies that are impacting the global economy.
futurescope: An Interview With Ford's Futurist Sheryl...
An Interview With Ford's Futurist Sheryl Connelly
From The Motley Fool:
Sheryl Connelly is the head of Ford's Global Trends and Futuring Division, where she separates trend from fad and helps the automaker determine what global changes will influence the market in years to come.
Join us to learn Sheryl's insights on how demographics, technology, the environment, and other global issues have shaped today's market, what these trends could mean for our future, and how one company is responding.
Stowe Boyd: A Turning Point For Europe?
Stowe Boyd: A Turning Point For Europe?:Brendan Simms, a hostorian from Cambriadge University, argues that Europe needs to learn the lessons of the Holy Roman Empire — which was none of those, but rather a secular confederation of German states — and come together in an American style federation of fall apart, like the empire did:
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futurescope: DNA 'Fog' Marks Criminals Invisibly for Later...
DNA 'Fog' Marks Criminals Invisibly for Later ID
From Discovery:
For years banks have rigged bags of money with exploding dye packs, which show the cash was stolen and mark the thief. Now DNA can do the same job — without the suspect being aware of it.
This isn't using the criminal's own DNA to track him or her — it's engineered, artificial gene sequences that act like bar codes. They can be applied to goods or people to uniquely identify them, and be made to glow under certain kinds of light or be read by swabbing them and reading the sequence chemically.
DNA marking is already being used on objects for tracking by law enforcement agencies in the United States and the U.K.
The latest version of the technology comes from Stony Brook, N.Y.-based Applied DNA Sciences. It's called "DNA Fog." The device fills a room with smoke to confuse an intruder. The smoke isn't just to make it hard for the person to see; it also contains droplets loaded with DNA. If the person escapes, they are still covered with it, and it's invisible.
Bloomberg Businessweek has a nice Infocomic:
"Digital Malaysia is the government agency tasked with developing Malaysia as a digital nation..."
"Digital Malaysia is the government agency tasked with developing Malaysia as a digital nation towards 2020. One of its 8 current major initiatives is in using crowdsourcing to give work and opportunities to the least advantaged 40% of the population. The overall strategic framework is to focus on both competitiveness and social equity and inclusiveness. This has lead to the idea of what they call 'microsourcing' as a way of providing incremental revenue to the poor. The target is households of incomes less than RM2,300 (US$750) per month, including homemakers, retirees, unemployed,disabled, prison inmates"- Crowdsourcing for social development and economic opportunity: Case study of Malaysia (via smarterplanet)
Curation in the Enterprise: Imagining Increased Social Scale
Curation in the Enterprise: Imagining Increased Social Scale:Curation in the Enterprise: Imagining Increased Social Scale By Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd)
Jun 10, 2013
The current social business architecture — a social collaboration layer sitting "on top" of non-social functional enterprise applications, like CRM, HR, ERP, a social frosting on a non-social cake — is not going to meet the needs of 21st century business.
Go read it, if you'd like.
What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
What If We Never Run Out of Oil?:tetw:
by Charles C. Mann
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. A miracle—and a nightmare.
futuramb: futuristgerd: (via The Joy of Not Being Sold...
This sign speaks for itself about the current state of humanity and where we are heading in the future…
Full Story: MIT
Full Story: MIT
New Science of Cosmography Reveals 3-D Map of the Local...
New Science of Cosmography Reveals 3-D Map of the Local Universe
The three-dimensional structure of the local universe may one day become as familiar as our local geography thanks to a new generation of maps that reveal our neighbourhood's rich complexity and our place within it
Full Story: MIT
Future of Jobs and Employment - Glen Hiemstra (Futures Agency Member)
Future of Jobs and Employment - Glen Hiemstra (Futures Agency Member):Where will future jobs come from? There are few questions that I get asked more than this one. It is becoming generally accepted that the fall off in jobs that came with the great recession in the States and the age of austerity in Europe, may not come back, at least not in the same numbers and at the same quality and pay. People going back to work as the recession has wound down have often ended up in jobs that pay less and are lower level than the job they lost. Is this the future?
futurescope: Hamburger patty made from lab-grown meat — or...
Hamburger patty made from lab-grown meat — or "schmeat" — is expected to be unveiled and grilled later this month at an event in London
CBCNews writes:
A hamburger patty made from lab-grown meat — or "schmeat" — is expected to be unveiled and grilled later this month at an event in London that is highly anticipated by animal rights activists and other backers. "The vision for this burger is really to attract support, to attract funding," said social sciences researcher Neil Stephens in an interview with CBC's The Current host Anna Maria Tremonti. "And I'm sure it will because it's a very enticing idea for many people."
Stephens, a professor at Cardiff University in Wales, has been studying the ethical and cultural issues around in vitro meat and has interviewed all the key scientific figures in the field. […]
[read more] [via reddit] [picture by Thogru/Wikimedia]
ruff22: Keeping it modern…
Keeping it modern…
ebookfriendly: We are the book [cartoon] http://bit.ly/15t6b0Q
We are the book [cartoon] http://bit.ly/15t6b0Q
nevver: Camus
futurescope: New Sensor a Thousand Times More Sensitive Than...
New Sensor a Thousand Times More Sensitive Than Current Camera Sensors
Cameras fitted with a new revolutionary sensor will soon be able to take clear and sharp photos in dim conditions, thanks to a new image sensor invented at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
The new sensor made from graphene, is believed to be the first to be able to detect broad spectrum light, from the visible to mid-infrared, with high photoresponse or sensitivity. This means it is suitable for use in all types of cameras, including infrared cameras, traffic speed cameras, satellite imaging and more. Not only is the graphene sensor 1,000 times more sensitive to light than current imaging sensors found in today's cameras, it also uses 10 times less energy as it operates at lower voltages. When mass produced, graphene sensors are estimated to cost at least five times cheaper.
[via ScienceDaily] [Nanyang Technological University] [Credit: Image courtesy of Nanyang Technological University]
"The e-book case to me is bizarre," Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, said during an onstage..."
""The e-book case to me is bizarre," Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, said during an onstage interview at a business conference last week in Southern California. "We've done nothing wrong there, and so we're taking a very principled position of this. We were asked to sign something that says we did do something, and we're not going to sign something that says we did something we didn't do. And so we're going to fight.""- Trial on E-Book Price-Fixing Puts Apple in Spotlight - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
arstechnica: Seat of Power: the computer workstation for the...
Seat of Power: the computer workstation for the person with everything
discoverynews: Download Your Memories; Retrieve Them...
Download Your Memories; Retrieve Them Later
Could human memories be uploaded and stored — just like data — in a computer? Scientists say not now, but in the coming decades it's likely we'll be able to store our memories in a way that allows us to retrieve them later. Long the stuff of science fiction novels, this kind of merger between computer technology and the human brain is being pushed by new findings in neuroscience, as well as advances in computer science and artificial intelligence. Read more
If Needed Would You Use a 3D Printed Organ?
If Needed Would You Use a 3D Printed Organ?:For some time, the general public has excepted the use of synthetic joints to repair an ailing body. However, would the general public be willing to except artificial organs that are generated from a 3D printer in a lab? The linked article implies that this would be a very real possibility in the near future.
Picture courtesy of ThinkProgress.org
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