Exponential technologies and digitization lure our focus to global markets, dangling the potential of massive profits and dizzying scale.
Entrepreneurs and investors look for opportunities...
Advances in automation will create an enormous increase in productivity and wealth, and potentially, a world where that wealth is unavailable to the majority...
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ROBOTS: It's Time For Robot Pilots
Jason Koebler | Motherboard
"Flying a plane from the ground (or taking it over from the ground, in...
"How can we reconcile these sort of concerns that we all have around how quickly things are changing?"
So asked California's Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom, in...
The American industrialist Henry Ford, regarding diminishing customer surveys on early cars, once famously quipped, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they...
Worries about the future often share a critical flaw. They sometimes assume nothing changes, or that change happens more slowly than it does—when instead,...
For most of the last century, the study of emotions was not considered serious science. The problem was subjectivity. Science is objective, rigorously objective....
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ROBOTICS: Sawyer: Rethink Robotics Unveils New Robot
Evan Ackerman & Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"According to Rethink, labor costs in Chinese factories are rising...
Update: India's Global Impact Competition Announced Winning Entry Focused on Pollution Free Cities for India. 24-year-old Shubhojit Mallick won the contest for his innovative...
“What is the greatest challenge humanity faces today?”
This question was posed by Nick Haan, Director of Global Grand Challenges at Singularity University, to the...
How you buy real estate is changing. Forever.
This post is about the two key exponential technologies converging to eliminate the middle-man (i.e. the real estate...
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ROBOTS: China’s factories are building a robot nation
Li Xuena, Wang Xinci & Zhang Boling | MarketWatch
"'At first, robots replaced workers who had jobs...
The Founding Fathers of the United States considered intellectual property so important that they gave it a special place in the Constitution: “To promote...
We see a lot futuristic concept sketches from architects. Spiraling Japanese ocean cities; skylines like dinosaur eggs on golf tees; or a Paris of 2050...
Morpheus, Gear, Rift, Vive—the list of prospective virtual reality devices is growing longer. And although this latest chapter in virtual reality was born in...
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ROBOTS: Why Robots Will Be The Biggest Job Creators In World History
John Tamny | Forbes
"Robots will ultimately be the biggest job creators...
There are many things right with online education—like the plethora of free and easily accessible content developed by Udacity, Coursera and others. In particular,...
On Feb. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a huge step towards patient-centric medicine when it approved the marketing of genetics testing...
