Future Timeline | Humans could live to 150, according to study
Future Timeline | Nanotech batteries will charge 70 times faster than lithium-ion
"Second Galaxy City", by artist Broken Finger artstation.com/artwork/g2YdVe #sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #futuristic #ArtStation #artwork #future
AI outperforms humans in microchip designs
"Our method was used to design the next generation of Google's artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators, and has the potential to save thousands of hours of human effort for each new generation."
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"The brain has 100 trillion synapses. To date, the largest AI hardware clusters have been 1% of human #brain scale. Cerebras has announced a system for AI models of 120 trillion parameters, more than the raw computational equivalent of a full human brain."
1 million neurons tracked in real time futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/10/7… #brain #brains #neuron #neurons #science @JasonSilva
"Scaling up current methods significantly, especially after a decade or two of compute improvements, seems likely to make human-level language behaviour easy to attain."
Read more: newscientist.com/article/mg2513… #artificialintelligence #AI #NeuralNetworks #Singularity #future
DeepMind AI predicts 350,000 protein structures futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/07/3… #AI #medicine #future
A vaccine against multiple variants of COVID-19
"A new vaccine for COVID-19, using a multi-faced nanoparticle, could offer protection against many different strains of the virus simultaneously."
➡️ Read more: futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/12/2… #vaccine #vaccination #Omicron #COVID19
World surpasses half a billion confirmed COVID cases axios.com/world-covid-ca… #covid #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic
First fully reusable, entirely 3D-printed rocket
– Potential competitor to SpaceX
– "Terran R will eventually offer customers a point-to-point space freighter capable of missions between the Earth, Moon and Mars."
➡️ Read more: futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/06/8… #Moon #Mars #SpaceX
[...] "The Moon is getting more attention than we have seen since the 1960s. The plan this time is to stay in a permanent colony, supported by mining on the surface. But what could we mine there? And why will it be necessary for our future moon ambitions?"
2042 – 16K virtual reality is mainstream
By the early 2040s, the audio-visual aspects of VR have been largely perfected for mainstream use, with a level of immersion that offers a near-perfect imitation of the real world.
futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/20… #futurist #futurism #futurology
Wirelessly powered consumer devices arriving in 2022
"Longer-range transfer of energy could radically improve home, office, and other indoor environments by completely untethering devices from cables and reducing or eliminating the need for batteries."
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Next-gen chips will be powered from below
- Buried interconnects will help save Moore's Law
spectrum.ieee.org/next-gen-chips… #MooresLaw
IBM reveals 127-qubit quantum processor
"This qubit count is a new world record, more than double that of Google's 53-qubit 'Sycamore' and the 60-qubit 'Zuchongzhi' superconducting processor..."
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"An #exascale #supercomputer in China has made a massive increase in its AI performance, according to a new study. [...] The overall performance of the computer increased 88 times when processing some of the most challenging AI-related tasks." finance.yahoo.com/news/china-unl… #exascaleday
"A yottaFLOPS #supercomputer would be 1,000 times faster than a zettaFLOPS machine, and a million times faster than an exaFLOPS machine. A simulation that might take six months to run in 2021 could be completed in 15 seconds by a yottaFLOPS supercomputer."
2036 – Supercomputers reach the zettascale
#Supercomputers are now 1,000 times more powerful than in 2021 – enabling faster, more accurate and larger-scale models in astrophysics, biology, climate science and many other areas.
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‘Paint Me a Picture’: NVIDIA Research Shows GauGAN AI Art Demo Now Responds to Words
GauGAN2 uses a deep learning model that turns a simple written phrase, or sentence, into a photorealistic masterpiece.
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/11/2… #GauGAN2 #GauGAN #AI #deeplearning #NVIDIA #art
World's most advanced humanoid robot is revealed
"Its features include advanced facial expression capabilities and motions that are noticeably smoother and more natural looking than previous generations of humanoid robots."
futuretimeline.net/videos/88-worl… #robot #robots #Ameca #AI
New record distance for quantum communications
Toshiba has achieved quantum communications over optical fibres exceeding 600km in length, three times further than the previous world record distance.
➡️ Read more: futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/06/1… #quantumtechnologies #quantum #TechNews
2035-2085 – The Einstein Telescope is operational
A gravitational wave observatory with 10 times the sensitivity of any previous instrument. It generates unprecedented new data on black holes, as well as the nature and history of the Universe.
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"There is a race to get from the tens of qubits that devices have today, to the thousands of qubits that future systems will require. [...] Rigetti's modular approach demonstrates a very promising way of approaching these scales."
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2057 – Smart clothing is a trillion-dollar industry
"Smart clothing has grown from being a small and niche segment of the market in earlier decades, to a common part of many apparel and footwear ranges in the 2050s."
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"The automated system handles everything. [...] The robots move and flatten the fresh dough, spread the sauce, place the ingredients, cook the pizza, then put the finished product in a recycled box and cut the meal into segments." futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/07/1… #pizza #automation #tech
2038 – Urban air mobility is a trillion-dollar industry
By 2038, the urban air mobility market has reached $1 trillion in size globally, a 200-fold expansion compared with 2020.
➡️ Read more: futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/20… #flyingcar #flyingcars #urbanairmobility #futurism #futurology
Jeff Bezos is reportedly funding Altos Labs, a new anti-ageing venture aiming to cheat death screenshot-media.com/the-future/sci… #aging #ageing #longevity #JeffBezos #AltosLabs #Altos #TechNews #future
AI provides fast, accurate diagnosis of heart failure
– "We wanted to push the state of the art by developing AI capable of understanding the entire heart easily and inexpensively," said Dr. Akhil Vaid.
➡️ Read more: futuretimeline.net/blog/2021/11/2… #heartfailure #AI #deeplearning
"We fast-forward to 2050 and imagine what an average day will be like when we have slashed our carbon emissions – a picture informed by the latest research, ongoing trials and expert opinion."
Read more: newscientist.com/article/mg2513… #carbonneutral #netzero #climate #future
World's largest direct air capture and CO2 storage plant begins operations
"In the long term, direct air capture could be a multi-gigaton per year industry by the 2040s, potentially playing a significant role in stabilising climate change."
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BioNTech, the company that partnered with Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, is now testing whether its same technology (#mRNA) can be used to treat cancer. A recent trial halted tumour growth and caused a complete regression of #cancer in 85% of mice.
A huge study of 20 years of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’ and shows the rich are taking most of the gains for themselves
Starbucks opens first cashierless store
Starbucks has become the latest retail chain to implement #cashierless technology, providing its customers with a faster and more convenient store experience.
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2027 – The Starlab commercial space station is operational
Starlab is the first ever free-flying commercial space station. It features one-third of the internal volume of the ISS.
➡️ Read more: futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/20… #Starlab #SpaceStation #space #future
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about
Elon Musk talks to Chris Anderson about the challenges facing humanity in the coming decades – and why we should be more optimistic.
futuretimeline.net/interviews/7-e… #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Tesla #Mars #humanity #climate #AI #future
The Accelerating Rate of Change : Are You Acceleration Aware? youtube.com/watch?v=2bovan… #Singularity – via @KartikGadaATOM
The Singularity – official thread
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