FUTURISM UPDATE (February 12, 2015) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn
LINKEDIN: The Future of Scientific Knowledge Doubling, Today! https://lnkd.in/eEYn9dR
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence. A true AI might ruin the world—but that assumes it’s possible at all. https://lnkd.in/eHq-w_7
TRIBUNE-COM: ‘Pakistan Foresight Initiative’ launched https://lnkd.in/e2zui_e
BLOOMBERG: The Return of Artificial Intelligence. Google, Facebook, Amazon spur rebirth of industry after decades of little corporate attention https://lnkd.in/ei3yxam
POPULAR SCIENCE: Right Now, You’re Breathing A Potentially Dangerous Substance. Air: It’s one of the world’s most important, least understood, and possibly life-saving substances https://lnkd.in/enY-esy
PHYS-ORG: A collaborative of researchers from several U.S. universities has published a new paper that explains the major contradictions presented by the prevailing cold dark matter (CDM) cosmological model, and proposes approaches for reconciling cosmological observations with the CDM model’s predictions. The paper, titled “Cold dark matter: Controversies on small scales,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December. https://lnkd.in/eyGzxCb
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Don’t Block the Sun to Cope with Global Warming https://lnkd.in/e6jkNir
PHYS-ORG: Britain starts public trial of driverless cars https://lnkd.in/efGgtsC
PHYS-ORG: Europe said it had launched a prototype space plane Wednesday in a strategy to join an elite club able to both launch a spacecraft and return it safely to Earth. https://lnkd.in/euewPkr
PHYS-ORG: Novel high-power microwave generator. High-power microwaves are frequently used in civil applications, such as radar and communication systems, heating and current drive of plasmas in fusion devices, and acceleration in high-energy linear colliders. They can also be used for military purpose in directed-energy weapons or missile guidance systems. https://lnkd.in/ehv-qYB
LINKEDIN: The Future of Biotechnology and The Future of Bravado Futures, Now! https://lnkd.in/ebmBDMW
Deloitte Review: The creation of products and services derived from crowd-based insights is the foundation of the “billion-to-one” experience. Taking your characteristics and behavior and contextualizing them with data from many thousands of other individuals allows designers to deliver products and services that are, or at least feel, unique. https://lnkd.in/eD4m_nv
NATURE-COM: Hubble successor will struggle to hunt alien life. Exoplanet researchers will vie with astrophysicists for access to James Webb Space Telescope, which is not optimized for studying Earth-like worlds. https://lnkd.in/emnUvTZ
NEWSWEEK: Off-World 3-D Printing Is How Humans Will Colonize Space https://lnkd.in/esuazmG
LINKEDIN: Homer Simpson on Rocket Science and Bart Simpson on Hi-Tech https://lnkd.in/e2ArRek
FOREIGN POLICY: Why Arming Kiev Is a Really, Really Bad Idea http://ow.ly/ITBF4
NATURE-COM: Brittle intermetallic compound makes ultrastrong low-density steel with large ductility https://lnkd.in/ey9Cdxf
FINANCIAL TIMES: Greek bailout talks with Europe break down http://on.ft.com/1FAh8zY
LINKEDIN: The Personal Cosmology of Southern Europe and Eastern Europe! https://lnkd.in/e5kTZhk
FINANCIAL TIMES: Australia jobs market worse than expected in January http://on.ft.com/1FAjxuk
THE ECONOMIST: War against Islamic State needs not just guns and planes but the waging of a battle of ideas http://econ.st/1DFms5T
THE ECONOMIST: Several studies suggest that when immigrants arrive, crime goes down, schools improve and shops open up http://econ.trib.al/WzCB2Zd
STRATFOR: Can Greece implement the strategy Argentina used to save its struggling economy? http://social.stratfor.com/zSS
THE ECONOMIST: After a while, like any feel-good drug, debt becomes addictive http://econ.trib.al/69kbYX9
FORTUNE MAGAZINE: Tesla hits a speed bump as sales and big spending disappoints http://for.tn/1zNbkCl
THE ECONOMIST: If freeing crude exports makes America richer, its allies stronger and the world safer, what stands in the way? http://econ.trib.al/hOf0cxH
FINANCIAL TIMES: Private banks must be more than laundries http://on.ft.com/1FzE0zr
THE ECONOMIST: In recent weeks US airlines have been the victims of a dramatic spike in social-media bomb threats http://econ.st/1D2iL9M
MONEY-COM: Apple and Tesla are battling for this critically important resource http://money.us/1ITEOod
REUTERS: SpaceX rocket blasts off to put weather satellite into deep space http://reut.rs/1IWMaY2
REUTERS: Apple deal, tax change could spark corporate solar stampede http://reut.rs/1FAjkaJ
GIZMODO: Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile wall along the Iraq border. http://gizmo.do/APTIiM9
FINANCIAL TIMES: Opinion: Differences that divide union in Europe http://on.ft.com/1Fze2fn
THE ECONOMIST: If freeing crude exports makes America richer, its allies stronger and the world safer, what stands in the way? http://econ.trib.al/hOf0cxH
THE ECONOMIST: You, and me, and baby makes three. So who’s this other lady? http://econ.st/1zC76gX
FORBES: Datto deals in the coma-inducing — but profitable — business of information recovery: http://onforb.es/1Chlybt
THE MOSCOW TIMES: Analysts: A Simple Cease-Fire Won’t Bring Lasting Peace to Ukraine https://lnkd.in/eF2QdB3
SCIENTIFIC AMERICA: Nicaragua [through China] Constructs Enormous Canal, Blind to its Environmental Cost https://lnkd.in/eE_fh8p
INC-COM: Robots Are Replacing Us Faster Than We Expected. As robots learn to react to the unexpected, the need for human workers continues to diminish. https://lnkd.in/eptUZMV
Harvard B-school opens the flood gates with online courses http://fortune.com/2015/02/10/harvard-business-school-expect…ign=buffer
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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini
White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)
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