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Oleg Batluk

Watch MIT's Self-Flying Drone Zip Around Obstacles - ABC News - 0 views

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shared by Oleg Batluk on 06 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • The self-flying drone is able to swiftly navigate obstacles
  • algorithm that allows the drone's software to build a map of the surrounding area in real time
  • Everyone is building drones these days, but nobody knows how to get them to stop running into things
  • Oleg Batluk on 06 Nov 15
     
    Next generation drones will be able to build maps and navigate through obsticles
Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13
     
    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
Maria Gurova

New era of self-driving cars will transform cities - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • it will certainly transform our daily routines: imagine driving hands-free while having the luxury of reading a book, taking a nap, or guiltlessly texting on the road. At the same time, something far more interesting - and still unexplored - is the potential transformation of our cities themselves
  • blurring the distinction between private and public modes of transportation. "Your" car could give you a lift to work in the morning and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family - or, for that matter, to anyone else in your neighbourhood, social media circles, or city.
  • This implies a city in which everyone can travel on demand with just one-fifth of the number of cars in use today
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  • Fewer cars may also mean shorter travel times, less congestion, and a smaller environmental impact.
  • Real-time data planning and smart routing are already a reality, and more advances are coming in the wake of "intelligent city" initiatives around the world,
  • Imagine a world without traffic lights, where vehicular flows "magically" pass through one another and avoid collision
  • Traffic accidents, though rarer, would still be a possibility; in fact, they might be one of the main impediments to implementation of autonomous systems, demanding a restructuring of insurance and liability that could sustain armies of lawyers for years to com
  • We are all familiar with viruses crashing our computers, but what if a virus crashes our cars? Resolving these issues is crucial, but none is insurmountable.
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