As our technology get smaller, there will come a time in the near future where we will reach an as physical asymptote( a limit we can not cross).

One solution to this size problem is quantum computing.

what is quantum computing?

 

A quantum computer is a computation device that makes direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. Quantum computers are different from digital computers based on transistors. Whereas digital computers require data to be encoded into binary digits (bits), quantum computation utilizes quantum properties to represent data and perform operations on these data.



Although quantum computing is still in its infancy, experiments have been carried out in which quantum computational operations were executed on a very small number of qubits (quantum bits).



A classical computer has a memory made up of bits, where each bit represents either a one or a zero. A quantum computer maintains a sequence of qubits. A single qubit can represent a one, a zero, or, crucially, any quantum superposition of these two qubit states; moreover, a pair of qubits can be in any quantum superposition of 4 states, and three qubits in any superposition of 8. In general, a quantum computer with n qubits can be in an arbitrary superposition of up to 2^n different states simultaneously (this compares to a normal computer that can only be in one of these 2^n states at any one time). A quantum computer operates by setting the qubits in a controlled initial state that represents the problem at hand and by manipulating those qubits with a fixed sequence of quantum logic gates. The sequence of gates to be applied is called a quantum algorithm. The calculation ends with measurement of all the states, collapsing each qubit into one of the two pure states, so the outcome can be at most n classical bits of information.

An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken away from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland.

http://trendsupdates.com/a-huge-chunk-of-ice-breaks-from-greenland-glacier/

Spaceport America

Spaceport America (formerly the Southwest Regional Spacepor.The site has been described as "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. As of October 2009, eight suborbital missions have been successfully launched from the port) is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States.

"Smart Dust"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

am i going to be a cyborg in the future?

http://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/am-i-going-become-cyborg-future

We. Cavemen.

Until they figure out where to send the bill, renewable energies will linger in background.

Remember that post about Apple Computers I put up awhile ago?

San Francisco plans to ban officials from buying Apple Macs

 

City officials in San Francisco plan to block local government agencies from buying new Apple Macintosh computers.

The move follows the firm's decision to pull out of a green certification scheme designed to identify which electronic devices pose the least risk to the environment.

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10 July 1856

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla( Никола Тесла) 10 July 1856

HUMANs: Endangered Species

Everyone knows we are destroying the conditions on Earth that have helped us evolve to the beings we are now. Breathing and adapting to the Earth's third atmosphere, our muscle structures were formed due to Earth's gravity, the way we metabolize foods, ect.

Yet there is no doubt that we are driving the sixth major extinction event in the Earths history. Our own.

We all know about global warming, pollution, overpopulation, disease...and these all factor in...but what about the longevity of our lives?

The increase in our longevity is slowing our evolution and our adaptability to these earth changes that we ourselves are making. Animals, insects, plants and other living creatures have a much shorter life span helping them evolve with the changes in the earth at a decent rate. Humans, on the other hand, are increasing their life expectancy and slowing down our evolution of adaptation to these changes.

Will the human race survive? No

We do have a chance of survival but not on this planet. 

If the human race IS to survive, we must colonize space and even that is highly questionable. Where do we go? Do we try to adapt to another planets climates?

Do we have rotating space colonies just outside the Earth's orbit? And, better yet, do we have enough time?

Uncanny Valley

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of  ^robotics and 3d computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of humans as a function of a robot's human likeness.

The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Morias Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象) in 1970.

 

 Mori's original hypothesis states that as the appearance of a robot is made more human, a human observer's emotional response to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong revulsion. However, as the robot's appearance continues to become less distinguishable from that of a human being, the emotional response becomes positive once more and approaches human-to-human empathy levels.

 

 

Forecasts for the Next 25 years

Forecasts for the Next 25 years according to the World Futurist Society

shown are 5 of 20 total

more info on these 5 and the rest of the 20 can be read here

Forecast #1

The dust bowls of the twenty-first century will dwarf those seen in the twentieth. Two giant dust bowls are now forming...

Forecast #2

Commercial space tourism will grow significantly during the coming decade. By 2021, there will be... 

Forecast #3

Nanotechnology offers hope for restoring eyesight. Flower-shaped electrodes topped with photodiodes, implanted in blind patients’ eyes, may restore their sight...

Forecast #4

Robotic earthworms will gobble up our garbage. Much of what we throw away still has value. Metals, petroleum, and other components could get additional use if we extracted them, and robotic earthworms could... 

Forecast #5

Learning will become more social and game-based, and online social gaming may soon replace textbooks in schools. The idea that students learn more when they are engage...

Members of the World Future Society have come to understand that the main purpose of studying the future is to look at what may happen if present trends continue, decide if this is desirable, and, if not, work to change it. The ultimate goal of studying the future is to make it better.