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Science
The Future Of Sex Is Torrenting Yourself
11:30PM Danny Allen | Are the rapid advancements in technology and science, in artificial-intelligence and genetics, leading us to a moment in time—a technological singularity—where ultraintelligent machines improve on their own designs, while we humans are free to edit our own evolution? More »
Gadgets
IBM Embarrasses Itself with Five Idiotic Predictions for the Future
2:30AM Adam Frucci | IBM has just released a list of five innovations it thinks we’ll see in the next five years, and they’re ridiculous. It’s the kind of crap we laugh at when we see old Life magazine from the 40’s predicting airship kitchens by the year 2000. More »
JP Morgan Retracts iPhone Nano Prediction
7:14AM Seamus Byrne | Not only was the iPhone Nano prediction obvious, now they’re taking it back as “unlikely anytime soon”. Told you. [TUAW] More »
Navy Looking Into Bomb-Predicting Technology
3:15AM Seamus Byrne | The Navy isn’t asking for much: they just want to be able to predict where bombs will be as to avoid, you know, getting blown up by them. Is that so much to ask? They’re looking for out-of-the-box thinking and new technologies to help in their quest, and they’ve got a big ol’ barrel of grant money to hand out to anyone with a halfway feasible idea. It should lead to some pretty interesting technologies, hopefully ones that’ll make people safer. I’m really hoping they like my proposal to replace the terrorists’ bomb-making supplies with delicious candy. I’ll keep you guys updated! • [Danger Room] More »
Stock-Predicting Robot to Make More Money Than You
4:20AM Seamus Byrne | If you think you suck at playing the stock market now, wait until you have to compete with an army of stock-predicting robots. Lehman Brothers is working on a “secret” AI system that they hope will be able to foresee the future of the markets, making the very rich even richer. We aren’t just talking about mergers and acquisitions, either; this bot would take into account the emotions of the traders. You know, emotions like greed and vindictiveness. They’re hoping it will make trading easier and make the market more stable, but who knows if it’ll actually work. But hey, here’s hoping it does, as if there’s anyone who deserves to catch a break it’s the folks on Wall Street. You’re the heroes, guys! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! –Adam Frucci International Herald Tribune [The Raw Feed] More »
Into the year 2000: future past predictions
11:25AM Seamus Byrne | I love the future. It’s always so exciting, and it loves to bite you in the butt when you suggest you know what’s coming next. Take this list of predictions from 1900, looking at what may come to pass in the hundred years ahead… a lovely list of hits and misses.
Here’s a taste:
Prediction #7: There will be air-ships, but they will not successfully compete with surface cars and water vessels for passenger or freight traffic.
Prediction #26: Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great great grandchildren for their Christmas dinners a hundred years hence.
Where will we be in 2100?-Seamus Byrne
1900 Predictions [Shiny Shiny]
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