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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today.
- Startup Siluria is building demonstration plants for a catalytic process it says can convert methane and oxygen to ethylene, which can then be converted to gasoline for half the price of petroleum-derived gasoline, at least at today’s bargain natural gas prices.
- Science magazine has named cancer immunotherapy, a treatment approach that harnesses the body’s immune system to fight tumors, as its breakthrough of the year.
- McKinsey has come out with a report on how to make the cities of the future great.
- The travails of the Internet of the Things: A recent analysis of a botnet attack found that 100,000 connected devices and appliances–including a smart refrigerator–were used in a malicious spam attack.
- China has embraced the cloning of pigs on a mass scale for the testing of medicines and other biomedical research.