Everyone wants to know what’s coming.
At Singularity University, faculty are constantly bombarded with questions about what’s next. At Singularity Hub, we’re trying to keep...
New advances in technology constantly push humanity into uncharted territory.
Sometimes this territory brings us questions we might not have imagined needing answers so soon, like, "Is...
We’re in the midst of a life sciences revolution. The natural world, including our own bodies, is becoming malleable in a completely unprecedented way.
Today,...
"Post-truth" was chosen as the 2016 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, a catch-all term describing a perception of growing distrust of “the facts” and...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Big Tech's AI Predictions for 2017
Lolita Taub | The Huffington Post
"For the final Cognitive Business post of the year, I asked artificial intelligence centric...
On 14 February, 1990, as the spacecraft Voyager 1 was leaving our planetary neighborhood, legendary astronomer and cosmologist, Carl Sagan, suggested that NASA engineers...
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. –Maria Montessori
There’s a kindergarten I walk past...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Great A.I. Awakening
Gideon Lewis-Kraus | The New York Times Magazine
"Google’s decision to reorganize itself around A.I. was the first major manifestation of what...
Have laptop, will travel.
That’s become the slogan of an increasing number of the global white-collar workforce. People are unleashing themselves from corporations and companies...
Roboticists have long turned to nature for inspiration, but their creations have generally been conspicuously un-lifelike. Now, breakthroughs in the design and manipulation of...
ROBOTICS: MIT's Modular Robotic Chain Is Whatever You Want It to Be
Evan Ackerman | IEEEE Spectrum
"If you can get all of the communication and coordination figured out,...
Imagine if your favorite picture could automatically be converted into a short video and labeled. Sound like a fantasy? Maybe not for much longer.
Using a...
Most physicists agree that time travel into the past is impossible, but what if virtual reality (VR) could provide a workaround?
Doron Friedman is the...
How does intelligence work?
According to Dr. Joe Tsien, a leading neuroscientist at Augusta University in Georgia, the key lies in one simple, unassuming equation:...
Are you scared of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Do you believe the warnings from folks like Prof. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others?
Is AI the greatest...
Despite nature’s bewildering complexity, the driving force behind it is incredibly simple. ‘Survival of the fittest’ is an uncomplicated but brutally effective optimization strategy...
A biomedical engineer is building a brain implant to serve as a memory prosthesis. The UK's new Investigatory Powers Act may cause problems at Apple. And Google's AI...
About 20 percent of youth in the United States live with a mental health condition, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
That’s the...
It’s no longer a radical question.
The aging literature is replete with treatments that could prolong lifespan by 20-40%, at least in lab animals. Interventions...
Bioprinting has been all over the news in the past several years with headline-worthy breakthroughs like printed human skin, synthetic bones, and even a fully functional mouse...
A new computer-brain interface is allowing "locked-in" woman to communicate from her home, Silicon Valley tech giants are reorganizing to embed AI throughout their companies,...
Quantum computers could bring about a quantum leap in processing power, with countless benefits for fields like data science and AI. But there’s also...
Until a few years ago, reversing paralysis was the stuff of movie miracles.
Yet according to Dr. Andrew Jackson, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University in...
With all the talk of building walls, it seems to me that technology has actually been rapidly tearing down walls.
Besides your passport, what really...
“The Six Ds are a chain reaction of technological progression, a road map of rapid development that always leads to enormous upheaval and opportunity.”...
How important is the internet to your day-to-day life?
For starters, you’re definitely reading this on a screen and using the internet to access it....
Our lives today are increasingly digital, so why isn’t our old memorabilia? As we use smartphones and the cloud more often, our pre-digital personal...
China makes history using CRISPR-modified cells in a human, while SpaceX makes a pitch to launch 4,425 satellites into orbit. AltspaceVR's new feature lets...
The CRISPR-Cas9 “drag-and-drop” gene editing technique has been used in its first human trial, reports Nature. Scientists at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China began...
The road to renewable energy requires one step at a time.
Well, actually, it requires quite a few steps.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and...
As rapid improvements in virtual reality technology make it possible to create and live in worlds perfectly tailored to our needs, are humans nearing...
