Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 540
Dec 3, 2021
Thanks to renewables, ‘insanely cheap electricity’ is coming. But when?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, nuclear energy
There’s even talk in some quarters that solar could one day fulfil the unrealised promise of nuclear power to generate electricity so abundant that it would be “too cheap to meter”.
So how cheap can solar get? And will you — the energy consumer — still have a power bill?
This future of cheap power is already here — at least sometimes.
Dec 3, 2021
In Asia’s virtual future, will one metaverse emerge to rule them all?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: futurism, internet
No such fully realised metaverse yet exists but that has not stopped US tech companies from falling over themselves in recent months to announce their own forays into the space. The flurry of interest has shown few signs of abating and Asia is not immune to the trend, as around the world investors and companies scramble to latch onto what many see as the next big thing.
Investors and companies are scrambling to carve out a piece of an internet revolution that promises to forever change how people interact online – but some question whether Big Tech should be allowed to dominate its development.
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Dec 3, 2021
The future of CRISPR is now
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Help us turn December BLUE… register here for the space party:
www.f4f.space/bluemarblenight.
F4F is launching Blue Marble Night as a new spacer holiday, commemorating the Blue Marble photo taken by Apollo 17 on 7 December, 1972.
Dec 2, 2021
Solar reaches 110 per cent of South Australia demand as more records tumble
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Records continue to tumble in South Australia, with solar reaching 110 pct of local demand, and wind and solar meeting an average 100pct of demand over 93 hours.
The records for wind and solar output and market share keep falling. On Monday, we reported how wind and solar peaked at a record share of 135 per cent of South Australia state demand on Saturday, and averaged more than 100 per cent of local demand over a 72 hour period.
It turns out we only just scratched the surface of the new records being posted in that state and elsewhere in Australia’s main grid over the last few days.
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Dec 2, 2021
Cyber Spirituality: Why Silicon Valley’s technologists are euphoric about the prospects of self-divinization
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: futurism, singularity
If history is a guide, people always need to believe in something bigger than themselves, in higher powers, so I wouldn’t be surprised if in the interim, we might get all sorts of movements, including the religious ones. But as opposed to rigid religious doctrines, spirituality most of the time requires finding your own personal path to God and enlightenment through introspection and spiritual growth. And that, I believe, would be the key going forward. Religiosity is unavoidably cultural, spirituality is, in contrast, a higher-order transcendental metaphysics, cognized subjectively.
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Futurist and evolutionary cyberneticist Alex Vikoulov was recently interviewed by Magda Gacyk, San Francisco-based correspondent for Wyborcza, the most prestigious daily newspaper in Poland, and her article “Prophecies of the Tech Spirituality: A New Gospel of Silicon Valley” appeared in the last Saturday issue of November.
Dec 1, 2021
Researchers develop nanometer-scale adaptive transistor
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Normally, computer chips consist of electronic components that always do the same thing. In the future, however, more flexibility will be possible: New types of adaptive transistors can be switched in a flash, so that they can perform different logical tasks as needed. This fundamentally changes the possibilities of chip design and opens up completely new opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence, neural networks or even logic that works with more values than just 0 and 1.
In order to achieve this, scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) did not rely on the usual silicon technology, but on germanium. This was a success: The most flexible transistor in the world has now been produced using germanium. It has been presented in the journal ACS Nano. The special properties of germanium and the use of dedicated program gate electrodes made it possible to create a prototype for a new component that may usher in a new era of chip technology.
Dec 1, 2021
Volocopter to create first public eVTOL system in the futuristic region of NEOM, Saudi Arabia
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Volocopter announced a joint venture with NEOM in Saudi Arabia to implement and operate the world’s first bespoke public eVTOL mobility system.