The Earth’s Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is Not Fixed
In a recent Nature Sustainability paper, a team of scientists concluded that the Earth can sustain, at most, only 7 billion people at subsistence...
Traditional Advertising Is Soon to Be History. Here’s What Will Replace It
This year (2018), the global advertising industry is projected to surpass $550 billion. Advertising revenues have driven Google’s valuation to >$700 billion, and Facebook...
Flexible ‘Dragon’ Drone Autonomously Shapeshifts to Fly Through Tight Spaces
A group of roboticists at the University of Tokyo have created a flexible, flying "drone-robot" that could see a multitude of uses.
The Dual-rotor embedded...
New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day
Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA.
The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code—in the form...
VR Fireside Chat: Inside a Virtual World Full of Surprises
Two weeks ago, I gave my first virtual reality presentation—a virtual fireside chat with my friend Philip Rosedale, the CEO of High Fidelity and...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
Big Tech Should Take the Lead on Climate Change—Here’s Why
At Collision, which calls itself “North America’s fastest-growing tech conference,” former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres threw down a challenge to tech titans:...
Inside a $1 Billion Real Estate Company Operating Entirely in VR
Born during the aftermath of the financial meltdown a decade ago, a publicly-traded real estate brokerage called eXp Realty is establishing itself as one...
Bot vs. Bot: Will the Internet Soon Be a Place Without Humans?
The internet, as it stands, is a global system of interconnected computer networks that allows humans to interact with each other, do business, gain...
Three Huge Ways Tech Is Overhauling Healthcare
We are on the brink of a revolution in healthcare. AI is making the drug discovery process >100X faster and cheaper, and 90 percent...
How Do You Win An Argument? IBM’s New AI Has a Formula
Anyone who’s spent even a little time on the internet lately may feel like there’s a little too much “debate”—much of which descends into...
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