For space exploration and colonization to succeed, we need to overcome taboos, consider human needs and desires.
Browsing Tag Futurecasting
A poll by the Pew Research Centre found that 44% of Americans were pessimistic about what lies ahead.
Neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal, but a new kind of living, programmable organism.
Artificial Intelligence | Futurecasting
On a practical level, the singularity doesn’t seem that plausible given how limited AI actually still is.
Within the last decade astronomers have discovered about a dozen terrestrial-sized exoplanets.
As natural disasters become more commonplace, is there a point at which we will become too distressed by the real to reproduce it as entertaining spectacle?
Robots | Artificial Intelligence
Should robots have rights? And will humanity ever reach a point where human and machine are treated the same?
Three new colliders will change the game in the coming decades.
Robot battle training. Ha, ha… ha?
Could treating social robots kindly make us kinder people? And could cruelty towards them make us more callous?
Internet access is today necessary for leading a minimally decent life, which doesn’t just mean survival but rather includes political rights.
Virtual Assistants | Artificial Intelligence
Will we fall in love with our computers? Elon Musk says…
Futurecasting | Virtual Assistants
Pursuing natural conversations with machines that sound like us can become an unnecessary and burdensome objective.
The US is planning to launch a space force. Many other nations may soon follow suit.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
This dramatic Showtime series ended its series run with a masterfully done concept visualization of the 2050s.
Companies are firing up fleets of unmanned aircraft in a race to deliver everything from electronics to food.
Boston Dynamics shows exactly ‘how’ robots will beat down humans in the near future.
Lexus wants to get in on the Star Wars hype.
Artificial Intelligence | Brain
What makes a brain tick is very different from how computers operate.
Deep fakes + expert impressionists mean we may never have to lose our favorite actors.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
How does contemporary sci-fi respond to the pressures what many environmentalists see as a dying planet in the real world?
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
Science fiction is full of warnings and we should be careful to take heed.
Autonomous Vehicles | Futurecasting
What does a future full of autonomous vehicles mean for all the spaces reserved for downtown parking?
Science Fiction | Futurecasting
If it were possible to download the neural networks of a human brain, could we preserve a computer simulation of that person?
Science Fiction | Futurecasting
Genetic modification, space stations, wind power, artificial wombs, video phones, wireless internet, and cyborgs were all foreseen by “futurologists” from the 1920s and 1930s.
Why we should worry about the use of facial recognition technology in public spaces.
While prosthetics and implants for medical purposes have been around for years, a whole new range of elective body augmentations are becoming possible.
Robots | Artificial Intelligence
We need robotics to improve our ability to monitor and maintain energy infrastructure assets which in the future will be achieved through persistent autonomy.
Transportation | Futurecasting
Aviation emissions have risen by 70% since 2005 and as demand increases in rich and poorer countries, they’re forecast to increase by between 300% and 700% by 2050.
Silicon Valley needs to transform our closets the way it transformed our desktops.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
It would seem that humanity is becoming more and more concerned with portents of human extinction.
There has been a significant advance in planning the construction of the Deep Space Gateway – a space station in orbit around the moon.
Rapid advances in digital technologies will ensure that misinformation arrives in unexpected formats and with varying levels of sophistication.
If human-animal hybrids become more like us than non-human animals, it could then be argued that it’s unethical to produce a hybrid simply for the purposes of extracting its organs.
A new report claims that jailed billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was working on turning himself into a transhuman superman.
By comparing plants with organisms with mental processes that look like our own, have we made it impossible to recognize a consciousness different to ours?
Artificial Intelligence | Futurecasting
The hysteria around AI comes from the likes of billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, but the reality of AI is currently very different.
The unit will be expected to “propose scenarios of disruption” and to consider the impact of disruptive technologies, and the use of asymmetric technology like artificial intelligence.
Biology is capable of extraordinary feats of engineering, and the next frontier in building technology might be to make buildings part of nature.
As society changes, faster than ever, the Lyons will experience everything we hope for in the future, and everything we fear.
Novelists compete with reality to describe how life in the UK could be about to change.
Sci-Fi Author Ted Chiang on Our Relationship to Technology, Capitalism, and the Threat of Extinction
GQ | Ted Chiang
The Hugo award-winning icon discusses his new collection and the evolving role technology plays in our lives.
The phenomenon of “prepping” – a predominantly American phenomenon of storing food, water and weapons, and developing self-sufficiency skills for independently surviving disasters – is on the rise.
It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars.
The world’s population is growing older due to increasing life expectancy and falling fertility levels, and the number of countries experiencing a reduction in population size is growing.
