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.
Browsing Tag Futurecasting
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.
