Are women starting companies in the most cutting edge fields and keeping pace with the future? Although many are now learning coding and engineering...
From launching hardware to the International Space Station to hosting events in San Diego, New York City, and Amsterdam—it was a big year for Singularity...
Besides your passport, what really defines your nationality these days?
Is it where you were live? Where you work? The language you speak? The currency...
In 2012, University of Pittsburgh researchers released a video of Jan Scheuermann feeding herself a bite of chocolate. This, of course, wouldn't be noteworthy...
We're heading towards a world of perfect knowledge.
Soon you'll be able to know anything you want, anytime, anywhere, and query that data for answers...
Television, cellphones, radio, WiFi—modern civilization converses in radio waves.
Most of us need some kind of device to translate the signals into something we can...
Benjamin Storm, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz , recently ran an interesting experiment in memory and technology.
Storm took twenty college...
From Elon Musk’s tweet that artificial intelligence may be more dangerous than nuclear weapons to the growing clamor of voices warning robots will take...
Four billion people are buying new smartphones every two years, massively outpacing the PC industry (where we buy 1.6 billion PCs every five years).
Our...
Enjoy this week's stories on technological progress and the resulting tension caused!
ROBOTS: Does the Halting Problem Mean No Moral Robots?
Michael Byrne | Motherboard
"The general idea under...
In the decade or so since the Human Genome Project was completed, synthetic biology has grown rapidly. Impressive advances include the first bacteria to...
Astronomy is no stranger to citizen scientists. Amateur stargazers are credited with the discovery of comets, asteroids, and even planets. That said, while amateurs...
Not long ago, I attended two tech conferences. AI, robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology—both were future focused. But the most curious thing I saw there...
One of the hard truths of human existence is that though we are able to move freely through space, we are mercilessly constrained by time.
Each moment of life arrives...
It's a fairly universal truth that things can always get better. But gains in computing don't guarantee that technological advances immediately translate into lifestyle improvements. In time, problems introduced with technology tend to...
Wanderers is an inspiring vision of humanity’s expansion beyond planet earth, showing digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from photos...
The idea of creating life from scratch is deeply rooted in the imagination, from ancient mythology up to modern science fiction. Yet recent scientific advances...
Finally, the robot revolution is arriving.
There's a Cambrian explosion in robotics, with species of all sizes, shapes and modes of mobility crawling out of...
News trends make sense when they can be traced back to specific events, developments, or monumental moments. Other times, the minds of journalists and writers seem to...
The saying goes, “Lightning never strikes the same place twice.” But what's in a saying? Dr. Eric Betzig recently showed creating one revolutionary new microscope...
“I am bleeding just a little bit,” said Raymond McCauley. “Might I ask for a little assistance?” McCauley, chair of Singularity University’s biotechnology and...
We've all wondered how our lives would be different if things had gone another way. Would we be the same person or someone we wouldn't even recognize?
The...
In the evolution of information technology, acceleration is the rule—and this fact isn’t easy for the human brain to grasp.
You’d be hard pressed to...
Neil Jacobstein, Singularity University’s co-chair in AI and Robotics, has been thinking about artificial intelligence for a long time, and at a recent talk...
What technology has the most world-changing potential in the next decade or two?
Brad Templeton, Singularity University’s networks and computing chair, thinks it's driverless cars....
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
This quote, credited to sci-fi writer William Gibson, is popular among futurists and technologists because...
Hacking and cyberterrorism are modern-day realities, and the more connected we become, the more vulnerable we are.
While this is true for individuals, it's much more...
Scientists from Scripps Research Institute just discovered that optic flow—the technical term for the temporal rate at which objects move past the eye—helps us...
If the last few decades in information technology have been characterized by cheaper, faster, and smaller computer chips, the next few decades will add...
