2020: a look forward to the promises of a truly amazing year
Posted by admin in Future on 28. Apr, 2011 | 1 Comment
Get ready for the first complete synthetic human brain, moon mining, and much more Future Cities! In the year 2020, cars will fly, cities will power themselves with sunlight, biofuels, and minerals mined from the moon, computers will be more powerful than the human brain, and everything will be a touchscreen! Perhaps. Robotic moon bases, [...]
As if Quantum Teleportation Weren’t Spooky Enough, Physicists Propose ‘Time Teleportation’
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 19. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Time Teleportation, Neatly Graphed and Color-Coded As if the idea ideas of quantum entanglement and time travel weren’t difficult enough to wrap one’s head around separately, two physicists at the Universtiy of Queensland in Australia have further compounded the headache by merging the two ideas via a new kind of quantum entanglement that links particles [...]
Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 11. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Biostorage: Storing Bytes in Bacteria Just one gram of bacteria could store as much information as 450 2,000-gigabyte hard drives in its DNA, a Hong Kong research team says. E. coli gets a bad rap – probably due to the violent illness it induces – but a group of Chinese University students in Hong Kong [...]
Researchers Call For ‘Physical Internet’ To Ferry Freight Through a Series of Tubes
Posted by admin in Future on 05. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
Foodtube Stop A series of tubes could connect grocery stores to homes and businesses, providing a food and freight pipeline modeled after water, sewer and oil pipelines. Hungry? Better turn on your linear induction motor and send a metal capsule through an underground polyethylene tube to retrieve some groceries. That’s the vision of Foodtubes, a [...]
Swarms of Robot Soldiers Could Make Better Decisions Than Human Leaders on Data-Strewn Battlefields
Posted by admin in Future, Robots on 01. Dec, 2010 | 0 Comments
Robot Troops of the Future Robo-Soldier wants to execute (an efficient, well-calculated plan). Modern warfare relies increasingly on robotics for intelligence gathering and increasingly for strike capabilities, but the decision-making capacity still rests solely in the hands of human commanders. But British defense company BAE systems is testing a way to turn over battlefield decisions [...]
