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Jun 1, 2016
Watch a chick develop and hatch outside of the egg
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Cracking an egg into a glass bowl and then watching the chick develop, grow, and hatch sounds like the most terrible idea ever. But this adorable and super-enthusiastic video from Japan shows that it can be done — and lets us watch the entire fascinating process first-hand.
If you’re anything like us, your first reaction to this is probably “What the eff is going on here?” and your second is, “Why the hell would anyone do this?”
The video doesn’t come with subtitles, so it unfortunately doesn’t give us many clues. But with the help of Sarah Caroline Bell over at The Huffington Post, we’ve done some digging, and it turns out the experiment is demonstration of technique developed in Japan a few years ago.
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New glass walkway in China https://www.facebook.com/thisis/videos/1552846968356029/
This new glass platform in China will terrify anyone afraid of heights.
Jun 1, 2016
Microsoft and Facebook want to lay over 4,000 miles of cable beneath the ocean
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 31, 2016
Futurists Were Right: 10 Predictions Made
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: finance, futurism
The world of money and finance is completely different than it was a century ago, with decentralized banks and electronic balances making it possible to access your funds from just about anywhere on Earth. Writer Edward Bellamy’s 1888 novel Looking Backward was a huge success in its day, but it’s best remembered for introducing the concept of “universal credit.” Citizens of his future utopia carry a card that allows them to spend “credit” from a central bank on goods and services without paper money changing hands.
May 30, 2016
A Timeline of Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions, The Futurist with an 85% Accuracy Rate
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, Ray Kurzweil
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Source: http://futurism.com/images/the-dawn-of-the-singularity/?src=home
May 29, 2016
Bottle that always pours out all the ketchup
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
May 29, 2016
10 TV Shows That Predicted The Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, futurism
Top 10 episodes from popular television shows that predicted things that happened years in the future.
Screenrant: Hidden R Rated Easter Eggs In Disney Movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbMsxzbiYJw
May 29, 2016
We talked to futurists about what sleep will be like in 2030
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Interesting.
Futurists are accustomed to launching headfirst into some very complex subjects, but even the most high-minded and enthusiastic of prognosticators may take a pass when it comes to dealing with the future of sleep.
That’s no cop out.
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