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Oct 20, 2015
Lyft will pick you up in a DeLorean for ‘Back to the Future’ day in NYC
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
1980s hero Marty McFly travels to Oct. 21, 2015, in Back to the Future II, otherwise known as this Wednesday — and nobody is more excited than the brands.
In a partnership with Verizon, ride-sharing service Lyft will be bringing a fleet of DeLorean DMC-12s to New York City to offer users free rides on Back to the Future day, Oct. 21, 2015.
See also: Live your ‘Back to the Future’ dreams with Ford’s $1.21M flux capacitor.
Oct 20, 2015
Irish students build all-electric DeLorean for Back to the Future Day
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
The car will also serve as a promotional vehicle to help Irish students get excited for careers in STEM fields.
Oct 20, 2015
GAO Reports: The Internet of Things — FAQs
Posted by Laura Samsó in categories: futurism, internet, privacy, security, virtual reality, wearables
I think about pros and cons of living in a connected world … think about it …sometimes the answer it is not so simple, nor unique.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44227.pdf by Eric A. Fischer — Senior Specialist in Science and Technology, October 13, 2015
Oct 19, 2015
The tech ‘Back to the Future’ predicted for 2015 — and what it missed
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
How does today’s tech compare to the alternate 2015 visited by Marty McFly, and which modern marvels could never have been predicted back in the ’80s?
Oct 17, 2015
Software Lets Someone Else Control Your Face
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Researchers created expression transferring software that projects mouth, eye, and other facial movements onto another face in real time. http://voc.tv/1cRrjAQ
Oct 14, 2015
‘Back to the Future’ billboards can show 3D WITHOUT glasses
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Researchers claim to have cracked the problem of creating giant displays that can show images in 3D without the need for glasses.
Austrian researchers have developed a laser system that sends different images to each eye — and say it could lead to New York’s Times Square having its first 3D ads.
It would mean the 3D billboards seen in Back to the Future II, set in 2015, could finally become a reality.
Oct 10, 2015
h+ Magazine: Synthetic Biology — The True Savior of Mankind
Posted by Harry J. Bentham in categories: biological, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, DNA, environmental, ethics, futurism, genetics, health, innovation, science, sustainability, transhumanism
Fear of scientists “playing god” is at the centre of many a plot line in science fiction stories. Perhaps the latest popular iteration of the story we all love is Jurassic World (2015), a film I find interesting only for the tribute it paid to the original Michael Crichton novel and movie Jurassic Park.
Full op-ed from h+ Magazine on 7 October 2015 http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/10/07/opinion-synthetic-biolog…f-mankind/
In Jurassic Park, a novel devoted to the scare of genetic engineering when biotech was new in the 1990s, the character of John Hammond says:
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Oct 9, 2015
Greek town glimpses mass transit future: driverless buses
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
TRIKALA, Greece (AP) — There’ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there’s no driver anyway.
Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has been chosen to test a driverless bus in real traffic conditions for the first time, part of a European project to revolutionize mass transport and wean its cities off oil dependency over the next 30 years.
Trials of the French-built CityMobil2 buses started last week and will last through late February.
