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LeopoldS

Worden Discusses Futuristic Vision CBS News | SpaceNews.com - 2 views

www.spacenews.com/...scusses-futuristic-vision.html

fun science space future futuristic

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  • LeopoldS on 14 Nov 10
     
    he has always been between genius and crazy .... but I like it ...
ESA ACT

mind of a fox >> Introduction - 0 views

www.mindofafox.com/introduction.php

scenario future futurist

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A known South African 'futurist'
LeopoldS

10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years - 6 views

www.networkworld.com/...x.cgi

INF future gadgets

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  • LeopoldS on 18 Jul 11
     
    what's your take on these ...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 19 Jul 11
     
    Most important news: Kurzweil postponed his Singularity to 2054. I think this is the postponed postponement of the postponed postponement. Perhaps it will happen shortly after the experimental proof of the existence of the hydrino state and of antigravity in rotating superconductors...
  • Francesco Biscani on 21 Jul 11
     
    Singularity is like fusion and commercial space travel: always 50 years away.
Luzi Bergamin

Airbus Concept Cabin - 3 views

www.thefuturebyairbus.com/...the-airbus-concept-cabin.aspx

bio future concept SciFi

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  • Luzi Bergamin on 15 Jun 11
     
    Another futuristic view on flying by Airbus. To make it more sexy it also includes some biomimetics...
  • Ma Ru on 16 Jun 11
     
    "The cabin electrical system can be compared to the human brain, with a network of intelligence pulsating through the cabin.". Oh, come on, ...
Tobias Seidl

Global Futures Studies & Research by the MILLENNIUM PROJECT - 0 views

www.millennium-project.org

LTP futures future studies foresight crowdsourcing

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  • Tobias Seidl on 13 Jul 09
     
    The Millennium Project is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgements from its several hundred participants to produce the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies such as the State of the Future Index, Future Scenarios for Africa, Lessons of History, Environmental Security, Applications of Futures Research to Policy, and a 700+ annotated scenarios bibliography.
  • LeopoldS on 14 Jul 09
     
    very nice page - we should use some of its resources!!
LeopoldS

The future is bright for humanity - opinion - 05 March 2012 - New Scientist - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...re-is-bright-for-humanity.html

Future vision

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  • LeopoldS on 05 Mar 12
     
    This is almost word for word the title Andrés gave to the first presentation of the team to DG ten years ago ...
  • Ma Ru on 06 Mar 12
     
    There's a whole series of futuristic articles, may be worth having a look: http://www.newscientist.com/special/deep-future
Jacco Geul

Soylent Passed $2 Million in Orders - 0 views

motherboard.vice.com/...in-orders-will-ship-next-month

nutrition futuristic

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  • Jacco Geul on 23 Jan 14
     
    Update on the post-food man who lives solely on powder cocktails and turned it into a business.
  • dejanpetkow on 23 Jan 14
     
    Maybe this can be used for a newcomer's joke.
jcunha

Silicon Valley celebrates Moore's Law 50 years anniversary - 2 views

www.extremetech.com/...looks-forward-to-next-50-years

PHY technology Moore Law

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  • jcunha on 29 Apr 15
     
    A bit late, but it is very interesting and instructive to listen to Gordon Moore's words "It almost doubled every year (...) so I said in the next 10 years it's going to continue to double every year, we are going to go from 16 components on a chip to 16 000. Pretty wild extrapolation!". This extrapolation (exponential with only 5 initial points) is now well-known and is one of the things that changed the World, it is pretty amazing how this "wild" futuristic vision came true.
  • Thijs Versloot on 30 Apr 15
     
    A great source is also the blog from Chris Mack (http://life.lithoguru.com/?p=451) who is a semicon pioneer and publisher of many books on the subject. He wrote an article for IEEE Spectrum on Moore's law and its future. Find it here, http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/the-multiple-lives-of-moores-law
  • Paul N on 01 May 15
     
    Whenever I think about moore's law and extrapolating like that I end up back at this xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/605/
Francesco Biscani

Expert panel urges NASA to revive futuristic think tank - space - 07 August 2009 - New ... - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...dn17568

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  • NASA should revive its Institute for Advanced Concepts, a blue-skies idea mill that closed in 2007, says an expert panel – but it says the new incarnation should have its feet a little closer to the ground.
  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Aug 09
     
    NASA should revive its own ACT, expert panel says.
ESA ACT

For those who don't know - what is money? - 0 views

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money future futurist finance economy

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    When you finally get bored asking "what is love?", ask: "what is money?" There's of course a bit of propaganda, but one thing seems to be true - one day, the system *will* collapse.
ESA ACT

Your future, today - 0 views

www.futurizon.net/blog.htm

future futurist technology roadmap

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A blog of a futurologist. We don't do that, but still it is interesting how these guys work. And what type of stuff they distribute...
ESA ACT

Bruce McCall's faux nostalgia | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...e_mccall_s_faux_nostalgia.html

future fun futurist presentation

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    interesting presentation on past ideas of the future ...
santecarloni

[1107.0392] Emergence of good conduct, scaling and Zipf laws in human behavioral sequen... - 3 views

arxiv.org/1107.0392

emergence human behavior science

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  • santecarloni on 07 Jul 11
     
    ... proof that humanity is good?
  • LeopoldS on 16 Jul 11
     
    "The dataset contains practically all actions of all players of the MMOG Pardus since the game went online in 2004 [18]. Pardus is an open-ended online game with a world- wide player base of currently more than 370,000 people. Play- ers live in a virtual, futuristic universe in which they interact with others in a multitude of ways to achieve their self-posed goals [22]. Most players engage in various economic activities typically with the (self-posed) goal to accumulate wealth and status. Social and economical decisions of players are often strongly influenced and driven by social factors such as friend- ship, cooperation, and conflict." quite impressive ...
Nicholas Lan

Real-Life Jetpack Flies at Futuristic Conference - 5 views

www.livescience.com/5688-jetpack-flight-video.html

technology fun

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  • Nicholas Lan on 20 May 14
     
    frickin awesome
  • Ma Ru on 23 May 14
     
    finally!!!
mkisantal

Better Language Models and Their Implications - 1 views

blog.openai.com/better-language-models

AI

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  • mkisantal on 15 Feb 19
     
    Just read some of the samples of text generated with their neural networks, insane.
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  • mkisantal on 15 Feb 19
     
    "Pérez and his friends were astonished to see the unicorn herd. These creatures could be seen from the air without having to move too much to see them - they were so close they could touch their horns. While examining these bizarre creatures the scientists discovered that the creatures also spoke some fairly regular English. Pérez stated, "We can see, for example, that they have a common 'language,' something like a dialect or dialectic."
  • Marcus Maertens on 15 Feb 19
     
    Shocking. I assume that this could indeed have severe implications if it gets in the "wrong hands".
  • marliesarnhof on 18 Feb 19
     
    "Feed it the first few paragraphs of a Guardian story about Brexit, and its output is plausible newspaper prose, replete with "quotes" from Jeremy Corbyn, mentions of the Irish border, and answers from the prime minister's spokesman." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=XMJ8VxgUzTc "Feed it the opening line of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four - "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" - and the system recognises the vaguely futuristic tone and the novelistic style, and continues with: "I was in my car on my way to a new job in Seattle. I put the gas in, put the key in, and then I let it run. I just imagined what the day would be like. A hundred years from now. In 2045, I was a teacher in some school in a poor part of rural China. I started with Chinese history and history of science." (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction)
  • marliesarnhof on 18 Feb 19
     
    It's really lucky that it was OpenAI who made that development and Elon Musk is so worried about AI. This way at least they try to assess the whole spectrum of abilities and applications of this model before releasing the full research to the public.
  • mkisantal on 18 Feb 19
     
    They released a smaller model, I got it running on Sandy. It's fairly straight forward: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
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