Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Aspiration and reality, while many people have a goal of healthier eating and avoiding high calorie fats, the truth can be quite different. McDonald’s has admitted that while salads make up a large part of image enhancement into healthy food,…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Anton Walhman speculates about the future of Google’s Chrome operating system. According to Walhman, Google is likely to expand the range of tablets and smartphones that are powered by Chrome, providing consumers with an OS that can be controlled by Google…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative will be led by NIH, DARPA, and NSF, with a proposed budget of $100 million in the next fiscal year. According to President Obama the new project will give “scientists the tools they…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. An effort by ExxonMobil and Craig Ventner’s Synthetic Genomics to develop algae based biofuels is heading back to the drafting board. As a general rule, alternative biofuel technologies that look promising in the laboratory tend to fail when scaled up to…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Intel is talking about making personal data economically valuable to individual consumers. The New York Times reports that the High Plains Aquifer that stretches from Wyoming and South Dakota to Texas is drying up as the contents are tapped for irrigated agriculture. Farmers are…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. An article outlines the debate about the concept of a “universal basic income,” a minimum income that could be provided to everyone in a society. According to this story in the New York Times, both the recent fire in a high…
DetailsHere are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Joel Kotkin argues that the elites of Silicon Valley are evolving into an autocratic ruling class. The combination of vast wealth, increased lobbying in Washington DC, and the control of digital media outlets increasingly enables this emerging elite to disproportionately shape public…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. Data suggests that young Americans with student debt may be deterred by that debt from buying homes and cars, adding drag to the US economy. Researchers at Amherst College and Simon Frasier University ran a head-to-head competition between a D-Wave quantum computer,…
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Writing at A Fistful of Euros, Edward Hugh suggests that some countries may die demographically, losing population so severely that they are no longer sustainable as politico-economic entities: It leads me personally to ask the question whether it is not possible that some countries will actually die, in the sense of becoming totally unsustainable, and…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. In a new paper in Science, researchers report that they have succeeded in creating a persistent bacterial infection in a strain of mosquitoes that transmit malaria. Scientists have long hoped that by infecting mosquitoes with certain bacteria they could stop them…
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