Physics of the Future

Google Glass page.

I agree with Mason and Michaela that this page is straight from Google. This website is helpful because it shows us how even in just a year, Google Glass could be everywhere. This information can be helpful in predictions for 2100. We could predict that in 2100 everyone would have Google Glass and other technological devices of that sort. Google Glass could make life so much better for everyone. If we were going to make a prediction with Google Glass' place in the future, we would need to mention that it could be distracting and could enable students to cheat at school. Overall, this is a reliable resource.

the designs for google glasses

"Originally designed for industrial uses, QR codes have become common in consumer advertising. Typically, a smartphone is used as a QR code scanner, displaying the code and converting it to some useful form (such as a standard URL for a website, thereby obviating the need for a user to type it into a web browser)."

"The Oculus Rift is an upcoming virtual reality head-mounted display. It is being developed by Oculus VR, which has raised US $91 million, of which $2.4 million was raised with crowdfunding via Kickstarter.[4] The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and Scaleform co-founders Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov,[5] as well as Nate Mitchell. id Software co-founder John Carmack was later hired as its Chief Technology Officer.[6]"

"Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project,[8] with a mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.[1] Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format,[9] that can communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.[10][11]"

Judith Aquino from NBC wrote this article predicting nine jobs that humans may lose in the future and explains why we might lose them.

"Europa is an icy world slightly smaller than Earth's moon. It is unique in the solar system, being thought to have a global ocean of water in contact with a rocky seafloor. If the ocean is proven to exist, Europa could be a promising place to look for life beyond Earth." It's not Europe, it's Europa. Europa is one of the 63 discovered moons of Jupiter, which may be able to sustain life if it is carefully colonized. There is thought to be twice the amount of water on Europa than on Earth, and signs of energy are making scientists want to learn more and more about the somewhat distant moon.

"The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) uses a small collection of high sensitivity telescopes (probably 4 large 3.5-meter telescopes) with revolutionary imaging technologies. It will measure the temperature, size, and the orbital parameters of planets as small as our Earth in the habitable zones of distant solar systems. Also, TPF's spectroscopy will allow atmospheric chemists and biologists to use the relative amounts of gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane and ozone to find whether a planet might support life. The launch was to be anticipated between 2012-2015 until NASA's budget cuts." The Terrestrial Planet Finder was discussed in the book Physics of the Future. This object will have better optics and will be approximately 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope. Its infrared sensors will be able to nullify the intense radiation from a star by a million times, revealing planets that have been undiscoverable otherwise. This radiation will even have the power to completely remove a star from the universe, if one ever so desires. The Terrestrial Planet Finder is predicted to be an extremely valuable tool to astronauts and scientists within the next century.

This document was written by Chrisanthi Avgerou and Shirin Madon of the London School of Economics and Political Science. This was written to explain the digital divide and come up with ways we can approach it.

This document was created by Ali Acilar from Turkey. He is a professor at Bilecik University and he made a lot of detail in his writings. This is an example of how the digital divide in a country can affect education.

"A trip to the moon on gossamer strings? A "partial" space elevator that could carry satellites to geosynchronous orbit might be just the ticket." This source gives a great insight on how a space elevator would be created an operated. It has great information on much it may cost, how it would be used, and how it could even be possible. This is a reliable source, as National Geographic is a reliable company. I believe this resource could be very useful for our themes and research.

Touchscreen technology will expand beyond fingertips, evolving to incorporate artificial intelligence, light and even sound.This year's Computer Human Interface conference featured several new touchscreen inventions, as over 2,500 international researchers presented their work in Austin, Texas. Scientists and inventors showcased everything from medical to social networking and gaming-related touchscreen technologies, touching on a variety of intriguing directions that interfaces will take in the future.

This is another page about how nanotechnology can change medicine forever. There is a section about how we can treat a tumor and be done with it in a short period of time because of little medications. This page also gives great new, interesting facts.

Overview of nanotech in medicine.

Time magazine about 2045

Huffpost about merging with robots

Merging with robots discussion

"We do know that whatever computing device we use will be far more powerful than the computers we use today by mid-century, just as today's machines greatly overshadow their predecessors." Using quantum computers could make computers faster and more powerful.

" Quantum "processors" could possibly one day replace silicon chips, just as the transistor replaced the vacuum tube." This is an example of how technology has changed-a comparison of the past to a comparison of the future.