Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
The New York Times recently published an article about a crowd sourced timeline from Science Times of what people predict to be reality in the coming years. Think cancer will ever be cured? The timeline predicts that will happen in 2023. How about making cash illegal? Readers predicted this will also happen within our lifetime, 2056. Finally, everyone's favorite, artificial intelligence. According to the timeline this will happen by 2063. Here are some other predictions the timeline made:
2013: ELECTRONIC INK
2019: ONLINE SCIENCE
2019: UNIVERSAL MEDICAL DATABASE
2022: HALO OF DATA
2024: PRACTICAL ROBOT CARS
2026: PROGRAMMABLE ORGANISMS
2031: FULL LIFE RECORDING
2039: DIGITAL ‘LIFE’ AND EVOLUTION
2056: CASH IS OUTLAWED
2058: CYBERNETIC INTELLIGENCE
2056: CASH IS OUTLAWED
2058: CYBERNETIC INTELLIGENCE
2060: FLYING CARS
2063: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2114: MEMORY BACKUP
2259: COLLECTIVE LEARNING
2063: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2114: MEMORY BACKUP
2259: COLLECTIVE LEARNING
This is a great example of how firms are using open source publishing and incorporates how innovation will change our lives going forward. It is a pretty interesting timeline and something fun to think about.
Labels: Future, New York Times
As we embrace the holiday season, we begin thinking about gifts to give family, friends, and other loved ones in our lives. This article highlights several technological advancements of 2012 that may be deemed the perfect gift for another, or maybe even yourself. Although new to the market and quite expensive, the question is whether these inventive product offerings will take to the market and become commonplace in the household or merely become lost in the multitude of product offerings, some of which are much cheaper to purchase?
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