Next Big Future February 25, 2019 According to a report by the Drexler and the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute in the UK, the concept of comprehensive AI services (CAIS) provides a model of flexible, general intelligence in which agents are a class of service-providing products, rather than a natural or necessary engine of progress in themselves. Responsible development of AI technologies can provide an increasingly comprehensive range of superintelligent-level (SI-level) AI services that can deliver the value of general-purpose AI while avoiding the risks associated with self-modifying AI agents. Tasks for advanced AI include: Modeling human concerns; Interpreting human […]
Category Archives: Emerging technology
Trends, events and predictions for 2019 (Podcast)
Physics World January 9, 2019 In the first episode of the year of Physics World Weekly, journalists gaze into their crystal balls to predict the future forecasting the key trends in physics and related areas of science, including the unabating rise of quantum-based technologies. They also preview some of the year’s key events including the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT2019), a United Nations-backed initiative to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the table’s creation by Dmitri Mendeleev. Readers of Physics World magazine can also discover some of the highlights to look out for in the monthly publication during 2019…read […]
TOP TECH 2019
Here are some of the technologies you’ll be reading about this year according to IEEE Spectrum…read more.
Nanowerk’s Nanotechnology Top 10 Articles
Nanowerk January 1, 2019 The most popular Nanowerk Spotlight articles for each year from 2006 to 2018 are listed…read more.
The 10 most intriguing inventions of 2018
MIT Technology Review December 28, 2018 Here are some of the more recondite inventions MIT Technology Review has covered this year, many of them plumbed from the arXiv, the pre-publication academic paper database. They include Artificial synapses, Anti-aging medicines, Electric planes with no moving parts, DNA computing for programmable pills, Group brain-to-brain communication, Seeing through walls using Wi-Fi, Secure quantum communications via satellite, Phones that shoot a million frames per second, Edible electronics and Electricity-generating boots… read more.
Topological matters: Toward a new kind of transistor
Phys.org December 10, 2018 An international team of researchers (Australia, Singapore, USA – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign) has demonstrated electronic switching in ultrathin sodium bismuthide (Na3Bi), a topological Dirac semimetal that can carry a charge with nearly zero loss at room temperature. They demonstrated switching by subjecting the material to a low-current electric field. They found a way to grow it extremely thin, down to a single layer arranged in a honeycomb pattern of sodium and bismuth atoms, and to control the thickness of each layer they create. Topological transistors that could have […]
The dry history of liquid computers
Arxiv November 25, 2018 A liquid can be used to represent signals, actuate mechanical computing devices and to modify signals via chemical reactions. Researchers in the UK give a brief overview of liquid-based computing devices developed over hundreds of years. These include hydraulic calculators, fluidic computers, micro-fluidic devices, droplets, liquid marbles and reaction-diffusion chemical computers…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Breaking Through to Next Levels of Technology
Next Big Future November 28, 2018 There have been complaints about the seeming lack of acceleration or slower than expected development of societal technology. According to researcher in the UK there is a need to understand the s-curve concepts in innovation and barriers to exploration of technology. There is a need to review history when technology was held back and how breakthroughs did occur. There can be barriers or innovations needed to enable successful development of technologies…read more.
MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts
MIT News November 21, 2018 The aircraft, which weighs about 5 pounds and has a 5-meter wingspan, carries an array of thin wires beneath the front-end act as positively charged electrodes, while similarly arranged thicker wires beneath the back end serve as negative electrodes. The fuselage of the plane holds a stack of lithium-polymer batteries supplying electricity at 40,000 volts to positively charge the wires via a lightweight power converter. Once the wires are energized, they act to attract and strip away negatively charged electrons from the surrounding air molecules. The air molecules that are left behind are newly ionized […]
What will be the big changes from 2018 to 2028?
Next Big Future October 13, 2018 Emerging technologies for the next 10 years include private supersonic jets, windowless business jet, start of some point to point hypersonic travel via SpaceX BFR, new space habitats on the moon and in various orbits, at least two missions to Mars, Electric cars and trucks will have a dominant market share, some drone air taxis and there will flying suit sport racing, Artificial Intelligence and quantum computers will transform IT and logistics, Virtual reality, augmented reality and industrial and home robotics will have become more mainstream, China’s high-speed rail network will continue to fill […]