We've all heard about climate change due to rising sea levels and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. But the question is, how rapidly is the climate actually changing?...
What’s the worst possible outcome of virtual reality technology going mainstream?
A generation of burnt-out, washed-up VR junkies losing touch with reality and surviving only to...
I've been wanting to write this headline for awhile. When SpaceX first began launching, steering, and landing rockets a few years ago, the dream of reusable...
Last Friday at the Neural Information and Processing Systems conference in Montreal, Canada, a team of artificial intelligence luminaries announced OpenAI, a non-profit company...
The Star Wars universe is full of droids. Everywhere you turn, there are medical droids, exploration droids, labor droids, pilot droids, even battle droids....
In Greenlight VR’s last article for Singularity Hub we broke down the virtual reality landscape, including company growth, investment, and geographical trends. In this...
Isaac Castro: Biomedical Technology, Entrepreneur
Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate
Bogotá, Colombia
True passion is tough to fake. Name it a calling or a career, when your...
What might a crime headline look like in 2025? According to Marc Goodman, author of Future Crimes, it may read something like this:
“Man arrested for...
Science fiction’s visions of the future can appear more fantasy than fact. Sometimes books and movies are unnerving, other times they’re way off. Although sci-fi...
A wide-eyed, rosy-cheeked, babbling human baby hardly looks like the ultimate learning machine.
But under the hood, an 18-month-old can outlearn any state-of-the-art artificial intelligence...
ROBOTICS: China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
Will Knight | Technology Review
"China is already the world’s largest producer of everything from clothes to electronics, but...
Coal miners mine coal; diamond miners mine diamonds; gold miners mine gold; space miners (will) mine space—and anything in it that has precious metals...
Dr. Guy Standing is a distinguished political philosopher and one of the world’s foremost experts on basic income, which he has researched and promoted...
Entrepreneurial space is looking up, way up. It's almost time to start drinking Tang again…
This post is about three exciting developments and what they...
To most of the scientific community, “anti-aging” is a dirty word.
A medical field historically associated with charlatans and quacks, scientists have strictly restricted the...
ROBOTICS: 8 industries robots will completely transform by 2025
Paul Szoldra | Business Insider
"These are just some of the interesting — and sometimes scary — predictions...
Over the past several weeks, we have been writing about how technology is impacting education as part of our 'Future of Learning' series. Our contributors explored...
Einstein Ntim: Entrepreneur
Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate
Ghana, United Kingdom
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
―Søren Kierkegaard
Great leaders and entrepreneurs...
Last week, the people of Argentina elected a new president.
Mauricio Macri, the mayor of Buenos Aires, billed himself as the candidate of change during...
This might be a controversial post.
My Thanksgiving was one filled with texting, Snapchat, Skyping, Facetime, Beam robots and ringing phones.
Some people HATE the way...
For a generation of CEOs, Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma was a guiding light on how to survive industry disruptions. His book educated business executives...
ROBOTICS: Google’s robot group struggles to fill leadership vacuum as it shoots for ambitious launch before 2020
Jillian D'Onfro | Business Insider
"Nearly two years ago, Google...
Ali M. Ismail, Entrepreneur
Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate
Baghdad, Iraq
Ali Ismail had been patiently waiting in Baghdad for the arrival of a visa the US embassy...
