and other forms of passive energy, our future water networks will be operate with far more efficiency and convenience than anything imaginable today.
A turbine intake drives air underground through a network of piping that rapidly cools the air to the temperature of the soil where it reaches 100%humidity
It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.
and our elaborate network of fire hydrants throughout every community? To me, the handwriting is on the wall.
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According to Bodner s website, the company spent 2012#oequietly designing a prototype to be installed on board a naval submarine#
He cites a human study showing less sun damage to the skin of those who were administered the active ingredient
I imagine a sunscreen tablet might be developed in five years or so. Nothing like it exists at the moment.#
#7. Paper-thin flexible computers and phones In early 2013, consumer electronics shows debuted a prototype by European firm Plastic Logic of a product called the Papertab.
a fully functional, touch screen tablet computer that is not only as thin as a sheet of paper, but as flexible as one too,
#The machine is the size of a regular smartphone, with a 9. 4-centimeter (3. 7 in) display,
Users can give the phone commands by using#oebend gestures.##It consumes no power when not in use and is considerably harder to damage than an ordinary phone. 6. Tooth Regeneration Regeneration of body parts in humans seems permanently consigned to the realm of science fiction,
even though many species of animals are able to completely regrow lost parts. It s long been known that alligators are lost able toregrow teeth, for example,
won t have screens so much as they ll have a viewing area. As seen above, it could be a desktop display,
displayed by a unit the size of a toaster. 4. Real-time Google earth At RAL Space in Oxford,
scientists are building two video cameras quite unlike any other. Meter-long tubes packed with electronics and mirrors,
and use it to layer complex animations on top of Google earth, sometimes piecing together multiple camera angles to extrapolate the desired information.
and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:
which nuclear power plants produce energy) is much easier to control than nuclear fusion (the process by which the sun burns, and nuclear weapons work).
It will use a donut-shaped magnetic field to contain gases that will reach temperatures comparable to those at the core of the sun, in excess of 150 million degrees C (270 million F),
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#Who needs Hyperloop? ET3 will be global space travel On earth Daryl Oster, CEO for Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies.
#oeobviously I have to focus on core Tesla business and Spacex business, and that s more than enough,#Musk told reporters on an Aug 7 Tesla Motors conference call.#
Oster promotes a planetary network capable of speeding a passenger from New york to Beijing in two hours.#
working nights at an Air force Exchange Service Burger king as he built his book. In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln,
Among other uses, the system could transport oil more cheaply than through pipelines, he said.
life-support and sanity-preserving systems (such as big video screens to distract its passengers from the fact that they re hurtling through the choking darkness),
With respect to ET3, Texas A&m Transportation Institute spokesman Rick Davenport said in an email, #oethis is the first
says that simulating windows with high-def screens would#oehelp a lot, #but claustrophobia will be a real problem for some passengers.
Oster told Musk he was working on securing a site for a three-mile $20 million ET3 test bed and hoped to break ground before the end of 2013.
The Internet. But right now we don t have any of that excitement going on, #he said.#
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#Proposal to Eliminate Forest fires Completely Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past few days I ve been listening to news reports about the devastating fires burning in Colorado.
I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space.
the heat plume coming out of the back of the rocket produces a distinct heat signature instantly detectable by satellites tens of thousands of miles away with infrared sensors.
and monitoring pipelines. However, this same technology can be modified to work on flying drones to monitor fire activity on forestlands.
Whether thermal scanners are mounted on satellites high altitude aircraft, low attitude drones, or some combination of these, monitoring hotspots
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these#oeperi-urban#farmers PDF typically bring their goods to market by taxi or motorcycle, striking deals in advance by text message.
Information technology is boosting farmers profits Go to any African market in even the tiniest village and you ll see farmers busily text messaging on their cellphones.
By linking buyers and sellers, and making it easier to disseminate important information like market prices
information technology is greatly enhancing farmer productivity and allowing coordination at an unprecedented scale. Food brokers, for instance, can aggregate the efforts of small holders quickly and inexpensively;
what s more, much of the software they use to do that is designed by and for African programmers.
Thanks to text messages and the mobile Internet, it can now collect produce from the field,
In the mid-2000s, Uganda s largest cooking oil company, the Mukwano Group, rapidly enlisted 100 000 small farmers to grow sunflower seeds by using text messaging
and mobile-phone#oetrees#to explain everything from when to plant and weed to where and when to deliver the harvested crops.
One project, working through partner radio stations in Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Mali, and Malawi, has reached an estimated 40 million listeners. 6. African farms use the least amount of modern technology in the world,
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#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.
Now measuring and application technologies from automatic sprayers to satellites are so cheap and effective,
and computer-controlled irrigation covering thousands of acres that conserve millions of gallons of water each day.#
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#Transgenics next wave of genetically modified crops could ease concerns over Frankenfoods Transgenic canola When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm,
including Monsanto s Bt cotton: a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.
Farmers will continue to be a core market for the coming generation of GM organisms.
At Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, for example, scientists are working on GM plants that will need even less pesticide than Bt cotton,
Unlike Bt cotton and other existing GM organisms, such a crop would need no insect-killing chemical for protection from pests.
#Manufacturers to reveal first bendable gadgets that will never break A prototype Samsung Windows smartphone.
We have gotten already a glimpse of the technology from manufacturers with Samsung showing off a foldable phone.
could soon be seen in everything from Apple s much-rumured iwatch to larger tablets. The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists
and in wrap-around glasses is just a step towards a bigger revolution in screens#those that can be bent,
with screens that can be attached rolled out to uneven surfaces, or even stretched. But there s still some way to go.
according to Displaysearch#is still dominated by liquid crystal displays (LCDS), which require a backlight and sit between two sheets of glass,
making the screen a major contributor to the weight of a device, from laptops to tablets.
Most of the weight in a tablet is the glass structure in the display and the support structure around it to prevent it from cracking,
said Kevin Morishige, a former engineer at Cisco, Hewlett-packard and Palm. LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,
are brighter, offer a wider viewing angle and better color contrast #and can be printed onto a few layers.
Corning, whose toughened Gorilla glass became the screen of choice for many smartphones, will provide phones with curved glass edges as soon as this year.
It is also now promoting Willow Glass which can be as thin as a sheet of paper
screens that users can bend, fold and roll will likely be plastic. But plastic is not as robust as glass.
A Samsung concept shows off a tablet-sized screen that can be rolled up Even after the success of Gorilla Glass,
popularized by the iphone, Corning is having to work hard to prepare customers for Willow displays.
He sees demand, particularly from video gamers, for Willow-based curved screens, but remains less convinced about rollable or foldable screens.
Conformable is in the near future. As far as flexible, bendable, fold-upable goes, I see that further out and I m not even sure that s a viable product,
while Samsung may introduce#oeunbreakable#screens this year, it didn t expect to see flexible displays in Samsung devices until 2014-15.
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#Japanese scientists create 581 clones from the same mouse Scientists clone 581 mice from one mouse.
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#New protein discovery could change biotech forever The quest started with trying to make better yogurt.
and NIH director Francis Collins wrote in a blog post that they are#oerevealing tantalizing new possibilities for treating human diseases#in a blog post.
The result is not so much like using a word processor as a biology lab version of what movie editors had to do back
Recently, there was a bit of an internet uproar when some outlets took an interview Church gave a German newspaper out of context
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#Should We Revive Extinct Species? Futurist Thomas Frey: Like many others, I m a fan of TED Talks and a Feb 2013 talk by Stuart Brand titled#oethe dawn of de-extinction.
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and often unquestioned network of wire that somehow defines the#oeland of the free#while also restricting movement within it.
a soft-spoken federal research scientist who admits to taping a paper list of telephone numbers on the back of his decidedly unsmart phone,
in this case, apportioning) digital information under the influence of the various media technologies#satellite imagery, RFID tags, algorithmic glitches, and so on#through
what new mythologies might Anderson s satellite-enabled, autonomous gather give rise to? Our discussion ranged from robotic rats
you can get on your laptop, right then and there, and program the polygon that contains your cows to move spatially and temporally over the landscape to this#oebetter location.#
If people decouple the best computer that we have at this point, which is our brain, with sufficient experience,
Algorithms then combine that data to determine which side of the animal s to cue,
So that s the reason why we are using GPS satellites to define the perimeter of the polygon.
With the computer technology we have today, everything we do can be stored in memory, so you can learn about each animal,
There is no reason at all that we cannot design the algorithms and gather data that, over time, will make the whole process optimized for each animal,
or a telephone pole, or a stream, and they have had electrical stimulation there before, do they associate that rock or whatever with a limit boundary?
Why not mesh management routines with their innate behaviors instead? For example, my song could maybe be matched to correspond to a general time of day
#A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries,
but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer #and what they say they would use in the future.
including online#oeask a librarian#-type research service, mobile library apps, library kiosks in the community,
and community members a chance to have hands-on interaction with a variety of tablets and e-readers.
Customers have access to computers with editing software, cameras, camcorders, microphones, and musical keyboards. Additionally, the Skokie media lab has a green screen wall for video projects.#
#Technology help According to the American Library Association, 35%of U s. public libraries offer one-on-one technology and/or research help with library staff.
in beginning computer tasks. And the George W. Covington Memorial Library in Mississippi offers#oeone-On-One Basic Computer Training For Visually impaired (& Sighted) Individuals.##
##oeredbox#-style library kiosks and outreach services#oein 2008, the Contra Costa County Library in California launched Library-a-Go-Go,
which can be browsed from a touch screen. The book dispensaries at available 24/7 and operate like ATM machines with a swipe of a library card to dispense books.
#The Carson city Library Branch Anywhere in Nevada#oeprovides patrons at the Boys and girls Clubs of Western Nevada with access to current library materials, digital tools and librarian-educator programming.
#The Free Library of Philadelphia has library#oehot Spots#that#oebring computer access, classes, and the internet to neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia.
Hot spots can be found in Philadelphia churches, schools and nonprofit organizations. Each Hot spot includes computers, a printer,
and all necessary broadband equipment, as well as a reference collection of Free Library materials.##Mobile Apps and Websites The Goethe-Institut New york Library s Mobile Augmented Reality App#oeallows learners to explore German cultural heritage in New york city using archival documents, photographs,
and multimedia narratives to bring to life United states history. Using this technology, users are able to hold up their mobile phones
and see archival photos layered on top of the images visible through the camera s Phone in 2012,
#The Cuyahoga County Public library of Parma, Ohio#oecreated CCPL Mobile, an exciting new mobile app that enhances the library patron experience by giving patrons access to the unprecedented convenience of checking out
items using their smart phones. The free CCPL Mobile smartphone app features a Digital Books
& Media channel that makes finding and downloading e-books and e-audiobooks from the library s collection.
In addition to using the app to renew and reserve items, patrons can also use the tool to find library branches and hours of operation.
& Go#project that allows users with mobile phone to access various library services via scanned QR codes.#
Codes on signs at the information desk open up a text message to a text-a-librarian number;
Usage of the library s mobile website is up 16 percent since the program was implemented.
##oeto help students keep pace with the fast-moving trend in e-books, online databases,
and other digital learning tools, Boston College High school adopted a cell phone policy at the start of the school year
Additionally, the school provides ipads for all faculty, as well as for students in grades 7-10.
#Customized reading recommendations The Scottsdale Public library in Arizona s#oegimme Engine#mobile website#oehelps customers find a great book to read based on a library staffer s recommendation and review.
and provide high-quality, authoritative web sites and online database resources via web addresses within the chat.#
via phone, chat, email, and text. Every day, except Sundays and holidays, anyone, of any age, from anywhere in the world can reach the library via various methods,
including by phone, text message, and online chat.##Libraries as incubators and creation spaces The Library as Incubator Project#oehighlights the ways that libraries
#Website: http://www. lopezlibrary. org/music. html Libraryfarm#orthern Onondaga (N y.)Public library#oethe Libraryfarm is an organic community garden on one-half acre of land owned by Northern
#Website: http://www. nopl. org/library-farm Santa Suits#atrons start reserving them in September at the Bolivar County Library System in Mississippi.#
#Telescopes Other services Health and Government Assistance In Florida,#oethe Orange county Library System developed Right Service at the Right Time, a sophisticated database-driven web
#And in Arizona,#oethe Pima County Public library offers on-site expert medical help, making the library the first in the nation to employ a public health nurse on site.
#The library also has large type telephones; a machine that can enlarge newspaper print to 4 inches;
The Temecula Public library in California#oehas developed new programming and created a resource center specifically for families with children on the autism spectrum by offering a new, monthly story time especially for two-to five-year-olds
#Createit and itnation programs give teens experience using various digital media software and allow them to teach introductory digital media classes to others.
#Library Nurse Program Mangamania!!##The library s annual manga, anime, and graphic novels convention for teens#oecombines hands-on workshops, cultural demonstrations, gaming (open play and tournaments),
#Seed Library STEM Programs for Youth include Science Saturdays, astronomy programs, and LEGO Robotics programs for youth.
California alt+library:##oeour programming initiative designed for (but by no means limited to) people in their 20s and 30s.
Early literacy programming for participants children. Best of the Best Seminar Series with college professors giving lectures Magic#The Gathering Teen Tournaments.
Seed lending library Reading camp for struggling first grade readers ipad and e-Reader/Kindle classes Civil war re-enactment bivouac on back lawn, Dessert contest, scarecrow
We don t require a card, just something of value like a backpack, instrument, cell phone, laptop.
Additionally, MT FWP staff works with libraries across the state to provide programming in libraries on MT animals.#
in order to take advantage of the sun s energy, or grow indoors with the help of artificial lights.
so here are some examples of starting points designed to begin the conversational thread of situational futuring. 1. 3d Ice Printers A 3d printer designed to work exclusively with ice could be used to make ice sculptures, ice containers, ice cubes with your favorite liquor inside
and even our brain as these tools evolve into hyper-analytical portals into our own metabolism. 5. Wireless Power Will having users linked to wireless power networks in the future be similar to linking to Wi-fi networks today?
Billion-Cam Video Project What kind of business will be needed to connect 1 billion live video cameras to the Internet?
What can a billion-cam network do that a million-cam network can t? 11. Centralized Law Project Very few countries have posted their laws in a central repository.
if all laws were required to be posted on one central online website? 12. Dream Recorder It s easy to forget our dreams,
they completed 10 houses in a single day using a massive printer that was 490 feet long, 33 feet wide,
Downloadable Personalities If you had the ability to create a newpersonality for your conversational computer, with some new personality-builder software,
Who are some of todays best-known celebrities that would likely show up as downloadable personalities for your computer, car, or robot?
Invisible fences, invisible screens, invisible cars and windmills will all be possible. What kind of market will there be for invisible netting like this?
So if you re getting too much sun on the beach, shining darkness on yourself becomes an easy solution.
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#Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.
Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering. Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
Coupled with an intelligent network, such sensors could feed crucial information back to maintenance crews or robots.
Automation Variable rate swath control: Building on existing geolocation technologies, future swath control could save on seed, minerals, fertilizer and herbicides by reducing overlapping inputs.
By pre-computing the shape of the field where the inputs are to be used, and by understanding the relative productivity of different areas of the field,
Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.
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#Post college towns teem with college-educated young adults, jobs Young adults spend leisurely time at Marion Square in Charleston, SC.
and she s editorial director at Bibliolabs, a small tech start-up that designs easy-to-navigate e-book lending websites for public libraries.
founded eight years ago, employs 30 people, many of them software engineers. The median age hovers in the mid-20s,
WHERE THERE ARE JOBS#Alex Summer, a software developer from Newberry, S. C.,bought a three-bedroom house in suburban Mount Pleasant in 2009,
Eric Bowman, founder of local software start-up Sparc, says that among his 140 developers, the median age is about 28.
And most of them know more than he ever did at that age about software. These 25-,27-,28-year-olds are just blowing me away.
Every one of our developers can get a job in five days he says, so you have to treat your team members fairly.
and over the next three years it plans to hire about 600 more information technology employees, bringing its total number of workers in the region to about 8, 000.
watched live golf on big-screen TVS and played retro coin-operated video games. They re in Charleston to live in Charleston
a young developer who is working with the city to build acreative corridor on Meeting Street, an industrial thoroughfare once dominated by car dealerships.
All 15 are software engineers. She calls themour secret weapon and says she can hire good engineers here for about half the cost of comparable workers in Silicon valley.
Much of the region s development owes its success to both public and private investment and upgrades in infrastructure.
develops software that helps employees manage workplace health and life insurance benefits. It has estimated an 20 million users.
Hoping to inspire his Web developers to design beautiful stuff, Jenkins has peppered the offices with handsome objects,
Just as data storage and software development formed some of the Information Economy markets, things like sustainable energy and resource sharing are emerging as Purpose Economy markets.
and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city and among their peer group to drive one.
Tesla is building a network of car superchargers so that owners can drive coast-to-coast without range anxiety.
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#The future of drones expected to transform agriculture 80%of the commercial market for drones will eventually be for agricultural uses.
While much of the attention regarding drones has focused recently on Amazon and UPS seeking to use them to deliver packages,
Today, satellites, manned planes and walking the field are the main ways farmers monitor their crops.
and sell services like training and hardware right next to the big green tractors and combines displayed in their showrooms.
but said the firm is on pace to posttriple-digit growth in both hardware and (drone) sales.
Our phones are continually ringing said Ellerbroek. Still, he said for drones to have a meaningful and long-lasting impact in agriculture,
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#162 Future Jobs: Preparing for Jobs that Don t Yet Exist Futurist Thomas Frey: Last week I was speaking at an event in Istanbul.
A recent article in The Economist quotes Bill gates as saying at least a dozen job types will be taken over by robots and automation in the next two decades
. Impact Minimizers 7. Demand Optimizers 8. Secondary Opportunity Developers 9. Feedback Loopers 10. Construction Teams PRTS have the potential to become the largest infrastructure project the earth has seen ever,
Site Collection Lease Managers 12. System Architects 13. Water supply Transitionists 14. Purification Monitors 15. Impact Assessors Creating the God Globe Thegod Globe is intended to be a master command center for planet earth,
Automation Engineers 47. Backlash Minimizers Ever new technology has its detractors this perhaps more than most.
Data transmission Optimizers 52. System Anthropologists 53. Data Actuaries 54. Last Milers People who specialize in bridging the gap between where the data fields end
3d printing will be bigger than the Internet. 55. Automation Auditors Assessing what parts, processes, and systems can be automated. 56.
Material Experts 57. Design Engineers 58. Cost Estimators 59. 3dimensionalists Those with an innate ability to think three dimensionally. 60. 3d Printerink Developers 61. 3d Food Printer Chef 62.
3d printed Clothing Fashion designers, Material Specialists, and Stylists 63. Organ Agents 3d printed organs are now being created
IBM even created a starter kit to help people get started. 66. Locationists People who specialize in adding the relevance ofplace to our global online communities. 67.
Ownership Network Setup Specialists Everything people own over a certain value can be tagged, tracked, and monitored. 70.
Big data Social media, blogs, web browsing, and company s security systems are all generating enormous quantities of data,
Computer Personality Designers Talking back and forth to a computer that has a machinelike voice is boring
Smart Contact App Developers Smart contact lenses superimpose information on the wearer s field of view. The bank of the future Crypto Currencies & Alternative Financial Systems In 2008 the entire world was beginning to panic as our global financial systems teetered ever so close to total meltdown.
Monetary Exchange Interface Experts 85. Standards Developers 86. Lending Tacticians 87. Seed Capitalists In the startup business world there is a huge gulf between initial concept and fundable prototypes.
This dearth of funding options will require an entirely new profession. 88. Privacy Managers If you think you have lost most of your privacy already,
Mass Energy Storage Developers We are still terrible at storing energy from one day to the next.
Site Planners 101 Setup Teams 102. Tear down Teams 103. Cleanup Teams Drivers need not apply!
Driverless Operating system Engineers. 109. Emergency Crews for when things go wrong. Bio-Factories Based on using living systems
Hundreds of products are already in the pipeline. 110. Nano-Medics The medical problems most people have can be traced to a single cell or a small group of them.
Strategists, and Developers 112. DNA Scientists 113. Gene Sequencers 114. Treatment Monitors Micro-Colleges The systems used to create colleges centuries ago seems justifiably primitive by today s standards.
Avatar Designers Next generation avatars will become indistinguishable from humans on a two-dimensional screen. However
avatars will only live in the computer world for a short time longer. It is only a matter of time before they emerge from the computer
and appear as visual beings, walking around among us. Once an avatar goes through the radical metamorphosis from an image that we see on a screen to a three dimensional being that joins us for dinner,
carries on conversations with our friends, and serves as a stand-in for us at meetings,
Final Thoughts In much the same way that the 1985 Apple Laserwriter gave birth to desktop publishing,
Automation is no longer the domain of the elite few and the quicker we can make the transition to all industries,
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