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Now, several groups are trying to change this perception by researching technologies that could help create floating cities,
It took a series of green revolutions in farming technology to allow people to leave rural communities
We see signs that a"blue revolution  in ocean harvesting technology is underway, suggesting floating cities can't be far off.
But the drawbacks of current fish farming has created opportunities for technology like the floating"drifter pens  pioneered by Kampachi Farms.
Otec technology has already been tested in Hawaii and China's Reignwood group recently announced plans to complete a 10 megawatt plant oe the first on the open-ocean oe not far from the Fujian Province in China's southern seas.
Others are trying investigating this technique on a smaller scale too. Do-it-yourself sea-living enthusiast Vince Cate has been using prototyping simple"ball stead  homes
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Yet, there is an alternative technology available to us, which we have begun barely to apply to its full potential.
Nature provides a rich portfolio of sometimes unlikely living technologies that may shape our near-future lifestyles in new ways.
and on a range of scales oe that we can think of them as a new kind of technology.
Living technologies have unique properties that may enable us to imagine and realise our urban spaces in new ways,
Think of how trees share common technologies (leaves, trunk, roots) adapted to different kinds of environments
For example, Alberto Estevez's Genetic Barcelona proposes using synthetic biology techniques -which enables us to grow organisms that do not exist in nature by manipulating their DNA oe to create trees that produce a natural light-producing protein usually found in jellyfish.
 These developments in living technology suggest that we will evolve solutions using the transformational properties of natural systems.
Living technologies build upon traditional skills that work in combination with new scientific knowledge. Importantly, since biology is everywhere,
and diversify living technology applications. This may streamline global human development with such natural processes so that our lifestyles are more sustainable,
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Now, archaeologists around the world are beginning to embrace the same technique, flying aircraft over everything from Stonehenge to patches of scrub
Down under Using technology in archaeological expeditions is nothing new. Techniques similar to those used in the offshore oil industry have been used for years by archaeologists on the ground to spot buried structures.
Increasingly, archaeologists are using satellite photography with success for example, increasing the number of structures in the Nile valley including 17 new pyramids.
The technology has been used in a variety of ways over the last two decades, from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies
 Using it in combination with GPS and other location technologies, it allows very accurate 3d maps to be built.
Further north, a team from Colorado State university has used also the technique in the Patzcuaro  Basin
referring to a standard technique now used by all archaeologists to date finds.""Lidar is going to be folded into your research program,
Technology, she says, is going to make us realize how little we know and how much left there is to explore.
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The tissue engineer runs a program at the University of Georgia in the US that develops new technologies to help farmers in his native Uganda,
No one develops tech to help them, but I feel that there is room to create products that improve their profitability.
when he and his business partner won a Massachusetts institute of technology competition with a technology for improving electrification.
and different technologies. Like Kisaalita, they thought about using solar power, but it proved to be too expensive, at least for now.
It is also working on adapting the tech for beer brewers who also have specific chilling needs for correct fermentation.
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and genome engineering technologies, he and other scientists are dreaming up ambitious plans to resurrect long-dead animals from pigeons to Tasmanian tigers and wooly mammoths.
 The same technologies could also prevent endangered species from going the way of the dodo oe or the passenger pigeon.
From dogs to cows, scientists rushed to clone a menagerie of animals using Wilmut's technique, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT.
Scientists at the American biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technologies who had helped pioneer cloning in cattle,
and researchers are beginning to alter the genetic make-up of a more familiar bird oe the chicken oe to practice their techniques."
Church admits that bringing it back to life requires a significant improvement in existing genome engineering technologies.
However, he admits that creating a passenger pigeon from the stem cells of an ordinary pigeon would involve a massive scale up of the same technologies.
 Poinar says that genome engineering offers a more realistic shot at resurrecting woolly mammoths and other long-extinct species. Ten thousand-year-old cells and their nuclei may be degraded too to be used in cloning,
or indeed any extinct species would require a dizzying list of technological leaps in genome engineering, reproductive biology,
What is more, the technologies that scientists are hoping to use have mostly been developed for use in laboratory animals and valuable livestock only.
 says Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer for Advanced Cell Technology, the firm that has tried to clone endangered species
"The technology clearly moves at lighting speed and faster than we can predict. Saying it won't happen is silly.
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Instead of relying on traditional breeding techniques and the lavish use of chemicals, the machinery sowing this new revolution includes supercomputers, molecular biology and arrays of sensors.
However, there is a long way to go before either of these techniques can be used in the field.
and efforts to re-engineer photosynthesis succeed, Long admits it would take at least a decade to move these transformed plants from research settings to farm fields.
Using genetic techniques unavailable to Borlaug, they then crossed this flood-tolerant strain with a high-yield strain of rice."
"We still have to develop the concept to apply it to small farmers and to low tech or low income areas,
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More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum, new technologies as revolutionary as the printing press are changing the concept of a book and
The same technology allows readers to reach out to authors provide instant reaction and even become creative collaborators,
and on mobile devices, said technology has the power to oebroaden our thinking about what a book does.
Digital technology is also transforming reading from a famously solitary experience into a social one.
but some people worry that new technologies will diminish the classic reading experience. Whereas printed texts often are paved linear paths by the author chapter by chapter,
he said. oemy response is that the tech train is out of the station, and its impossible to stop.
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#Shifting Trend in Luxury Purchases Buying Top Technology and Investing in a Lifestyle Experience The new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health
the lure of new technologies and emerging lifestyle twists that are often as much personal as cultural. oethe luxury brands are all trying to reinvent themselves
For some, its about owning top technology-based products. Consider: The four brands most admired by Americans with six-digit incomes in a recent survey by the marketing specialist Affluence Collaborative were Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy and Sony.
Im more inclined to purchase new technologies. Andrew Sacks, who is president of Agencysacks, says he bought an ipad the first week it was introduced. oepart of it is escapist luxury,
so theres a feeling that owning new technology allows me to be organized more, more efficient and have more time.
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The technology, produced by Pascal Katana, a 24-year-old University of Nairobi engineering student,
then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. oethe heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
he said. oeit is a simple technology because one does not have to be literate to operate it,
according to Hussein Said of Kenyas National Council for Science and Technology. But it may offer significant benefits in Kenya,
what we in terms of technology and equipment to fight forest fires, he said. Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land.
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a farm or ranch will adopt technologies that leave todays operations far behind. Ultra high tech farms of the future will generate exotic half-plant, half-animal vegetation as well as crystalline plants, air plants,
and generic non-species plants designed for postharvest flavor and nutrient infusions. Leveraging Plant Intelligenceaside from growing food, new opportunities will emerge for oegrowing products.
Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One
Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.
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#The Sahara Forest Project A Renewable Energy Oasis The Sahara Forest Project The Sahara Forest Project is a unique combination of proven environmental technologies,
their proposal to combine two innovative technologies, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) and Seawater Greenhouses, to produce renewable energy,
We need a portfolio of technologies to help us to combat these advancing problems. The Sahara Forest Project is one of the first projects weve seen that proposes not only to combine technologies to optimise performance and production
but also aims to tackle all of the serious challenges mentioned above. It is a bold and ambitious plan that,
Positive Collaboration The most exciting aspect of the Sahara Forest Project is not specifically the use of these technologies.
an engineer Bill Watts of Max Fordham & Partners, an engineering firm that focuses on energy efficient systems for the built environment.
These CSP/Seawater Greenhouse technologies will work together at a location some distance from the north coast of Africa, hopefully at a point below sea level
Commercial Synergies The Sahara Forest Project team tell us that the innovative interaction between the two technologies helps each to function more efficiently:
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Ivey is just one of hundreds of engineers and entrepreneurs who are attacking the payment ecosystem,
Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,
giving anyone with rudimentary programming skills access to the kind of technology and payment-industry experience that Ivey used to build Twitpay.
But now engineers can focus on building applications, while leaving the regulatory and risk-management issues to Paypal. oei can focus on the social side of the business and not on touching money,
And so, an army of engineers and entrepreneurs is rushing in, hoping to do to the payment world what has already been done to the music,
without a series of interlopers grabbing their share. oewe bring an engineering discipline to this problem,
Scott Thompson, then Paypals CTO, started meeting with Osama Bedier, vice president of merchant services technology
and fondness for pleated pants and button-down shirts, he looked like a dotcom engineers straightlaced father. oewhere
Soon other Paypal engineers were asking to be transferred to the project. They saw it as a return to Paypals original ambitions
But Porta doesnt have the technology or expertise to handle the transactions themselves. Thats why Lanng is coding with X. com. For now
Ivey is just one of hundreds of engineers and entrepreneurs who are attacking the payment ecosystem,
Amazon com and Google are both distributing their shopping cart technologies across the Internet, letting even the lowliest etailers process credit cards for less than the old price cutting out middlemen,
giving anyone with rudimentary programming skills access to the kind of technology and payment-industry experience that Ivey used to build Twitpay.
But now engineers can focus on building applications, while leaving the regulatory and risk-management issues to Paypal. oei can focus on the social side of the business and not on touching money,
Smart cards use chip technology to communicate with card readers rather than direct contact between them.
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and its associated technologies have enabled the creation of a class of international business megastars. As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive,
The TED conferences (the acronym stands for Technology Entertainment, Design#)are an important stop for the digerati;
or algorithm or technology with the potential to change the world, however briefly. Hence the presence last year of three Nobel laureates, including Daniel Kahneman, a pioneer in behavioral economics.
#As it happens, a fellow tenant in Jennings s high-tech, high-rise Moscow office building recently put together a deal that exemplifies just this kind of intra-emerging-market Trade last year, Digital Sky Technologies,
Russia s largest technology investment firm, entered into a partnership with the South african media corporation Naspers and the Chinese technology company Tencent.
All three are fast-growing firms with global vision#ast fall, a DST spin-off called Mail. ru went public
A California technology executive explained to me that a company like Bharti has a competitive advantage in
#At last summer s Aspen Ideas Festival, Michael Splinter, CEO of the Silicon valley green-tech firm Applied materials, said that
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Simply defined, gamification involves applying game techniques such as leveling, rewards and competition, to any human experience.
which encourages people to use its check in technology by giving them an incentive, when they checked in to a certain venue.
a technology that allows for encrypted data to be exchanged between two devices in close proximity(#near field#)to each other.
Licensing Mastercard s Paypass technology, shoppers simply tap their mobile device on special terminals at points-of-sale to pay instantly.
and the adoption of this technology will change virtually everything in the field of transportation planning.
We are also looking for drone repair techs, drone dispatchers, and drone salesmen.##In 2010 the U s. Military spent $4. 5 billion on drones, increasing to $4. 8 billion in 2011.
With this kind of focused spending, military drone technology has improved dramatically over the past decade. But as a technology, future drones will go well beyond military uses.
The stage is being set for thousands of everyday uses in business and industry all over the world.
Emergence of Food Printers-3d printing is a form of object creation technology where the shape of the objects are formed through a process of building up layers of material until all of the details are in place a relatively slow process often requiring hours to complete.
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#Similarly, whenever a column is written about the best paying jobs of the future, jobs like civil engineers, registered nurses,
and change as technology and communication systems make their impact. As an example, technology research firm IDC predicts the amount of data businesses will have access to will grow 50-fold over the next decade.
As data becomes cheaper, faster, and more pervasive, the nature of our work begins to change as well.
3d printing Engineers Classes in 3d printing are already being introduced into high schools and the demand for printer-produced products will skyrocket.
and engineers to design and maintain the next wave of this technology. 13. 3d Food-Printer Engineers Pushing the envelope for 3d printer technology even further,
will be the coming age of food printers. Converting 3d printers to work with cartridges containing food-stocks will prove difficult and demanding on a number of levels.
Wind Turbine Repair Techs The proliferation of windmills around the world will dramatically drive the demand for repair techs who are not afraid of heights
because the technology is shrinking in size until it reaches the particle size of dust.
New Science Philosopher-Ethicists Every new technology creates its own set of unintended consequences and people who can ask the tough questions
Elevated Tube Transport Engineers The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks.
Jobs in 2030 and Beyond A number of technologies currently on the drawing board will require a bit longer lead time before the industry comes into its own.
Heavy Air#Engineers Compressed air is useful in a wide variety of ways. However, we have yet to figure out how to compress streams of air as they pass through our existing atmosphere.
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This is the promise of food printer technology as we move from simply printing ink on paper
History of 3d printers 3d printing is a object creation technology where the shape of the objects are formed through a process of building up layers of material until all of the details are in place a relatively slow process requiring several hours to complete.
The first commercial 3d printer was invented by Charles Hull in 1984, based on a technique called stereolithography.
Since the first stereolithographic (SLA) technology came into existence, a number of related technologies have emerged giving the fledgling new industry a number of new options.
These include: Fused deposition modelling (FDM) Selective laser sintering (SLS) Selective laser melting (SLM) Multi-jet modelling (MJM) Clearly this is an industry hung up on three letter acronyms.
Over the coming years expect to see dozens of new technologies to appear. Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands of items
Unusual 3d printing Projects 3d printer technology has a way of unleashing the inventive mind in virtually everyone it touches.
Here are a few unusual examples of products designed around the limitless possibilities of 3d printer technology.
including its glass panel prototypes, printed with a 3d technology called, fused deposition modeling (FDM.
Tissue engineers create artificial blood vessels on a 3d printer Tissue engineers are now printing#new body parts,
but now a team from Germany s Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB has developed a way to print capillaries with a 3-D printer.
The virtuoso mixer, the robotic chef and the digital fabricator all aim to bring the tools we use to make food up to date with digital technology.
a 3d molecular food printer that relies on the experimental molecular cooking technology. New designs for printed food The Molã culaire is based on the same layer-by-layer printing technique that arranges small particles from a set of ingredients.
Within minutes, it prints out three-dimensional desserts, complex structures, shapes for molecular dishes, and patterns for decorating a meal.
Virtually limitless food presentation styles and techniques According to Yanko Design, you simply insert a blister pack into the reservoir, place Molã culaire on top of a plate,
the fundamental technologies we use to prepare meals today is only an incremental improvement over the tools we have been using for hundreds of years.
In order for us to move cooking technologies into the digital age we will need to reimagine the entire process of getting food from the farm to the dinner table.
Food printer technology is clearly a quantum leap forward. In the future, we will only be consuming food that our body has a positive reaction to.
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with technology permeating virtually every aspect of the seeding, growing, and harvesting of today s food production systems.
and tech companies around the world began to sense a market shift. Little did they know how much,
I ll focus on just a two pieces of technology smart dust and smart contacts to illustrate the transformations about to take place.
Early visions of smart dust technology Smart Dust In the 1990s, Kris Pister, a researcher at UC Berkley dreamed up the idea of sprinkling the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains
Current moisture sensor Current state of smart dust technology Future smart dust sensors Future designs for smart dust will have them detecting everything from moisture content,
Information gleaned from smart dust will be far more granular and instantaneous than any current information gathering technologies.
built using micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) technology, which is incorporated into the lens. Technology imbedded in smart contacts Photo credits Fast Company Our demand for information is growing on a daily basis. Using devices such as smartphones
and tablet computers to display what we are looking for is slow and clunky at best. With a constantly surging trend line towards creating a seamless and invisible interface between the information world and our brains,
one of the tech geek s ultimate forms of display technologies will be the smart contact lens.
and transmission technology. But once connected wirelessly to the processing power and send/receive capabilities of a nearby smartphone,
when this technology comes into play. And it s not that far off. In the future, using smart contacts,
and other signaling technology. The crazy people of the past, who spent every waking moment of their day talking to their plants
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Hewlett-packard and Googles moves surprised the tech world. Marc Andreessen (board member at Hewlett-Parckard) explains why software is eating the world.
Todays stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
Apple, for example, has A p/E ratio of around 15.2#bout the same as the broader stock market,
Many of the winners are Silicon valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures.
and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works
Its not an accident that many of the biggest recent technology companies#ncluding Google, Amazon, ebay and more#re American companies.
eating markets far larger than the technology industry has historically been able to pursue. Instead of constantly questioning their valuations,
lets seek to understand how the new generation of technology companies are doing what they do,
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#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.
Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new Quick Tap#payment technology.
This technology much trialled but never launched, will admittedly be used mostly for buying cups of coffee
Thats not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
This technology is cheaper for banks shops and customers. Almost everybodys happy. The snag, however, is that for now only one phone,
one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology. So yesterday was a milestone
Even though the near-field communications technology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,
Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
its surprising mainly that this technology has been so unpopular in the UK when it has been ubiquitous in South korea and Japan.
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While the technology is already being installed in millions of phones #and is used overseas#wide adoption of the so-called mobile wallets is being slowed by a major behind-the-scenes battle among corporate giants.
Mobile phone carriers, banks, credit card issuers, payment networks and technology companies are all vying to control these wallets.
Credit card and technology companies have talked about mobile wallets for well over a decade. But now, finally, the pieces are starting to fall into place.
There are several technologies that allow phones to communicate wirelessly with other technologies, though the front-runner for payments is called one near-field communication,
using a variety of technologies. In Africa, where many people do not have credit cards, mobile phones have replaced often cash.
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Many in the food business already are using traceability technology, mostly relying on bar codes that can be affixed after harvesting to a piece of fruit or a crate.
But the new law has triggered a small gold rush for technology companies angling for a piece of an emerging market,
They are competing to develop the tracking technology and manage the data. Some are experimenting with radio frequency identification and other sophisticated methods
Not only does the technology provide information about the food, but it also allows the consumer to send a comment to the farmer,
Its about using technology to put people back in touch with the people who grow their food.#
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#Five technologies IBM predicts will be possible in the next 5 years What if a computer could let us feel#the texture of a fabric before we buy clothes online?
it s all within the realm of possibility in the next 5 years, according to IBM s list of technologies it thinks are on the cusp of adoption.
Every year IBM polls its R&d brain trust about what technologies that may have been at the hairy edge before
This year those closer-to-the-scalp#technologies converge around computers growing ability to handle richer,
The general premise is that these sensory and cognitive technologies will convert computers from glorified calculators into true thinking machines.
So, without further ado, here s IBM s sixth annual 5 in 5 technology picks. 1. Computer with a sense of touch Even people who love shopping online say that it s hard to get a good read on the finished
this technology could warn users based on what it s learned from past sounds, as to whether a mud slide is likely.
By compiling foodpairing trees#its technology can identify vegetable or seafood ingredients that reinforce the flavor of different meats,
This technology could also sniff out minuscule amounts of environmental toxins before they hit critical mass,
Since I m still waiting for the jet packs we were promised decades ago, I m skeptical about technology predictions,
but IBM s list provides a good starting point to track tech progress and priorities. It s also fun to grade its prognostication skills.
Los angeles is testing advanced flywheel technology as a way to reap wasted energy from braking trains
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