Plausible Futures Newsletter – Page 26 – News and scenarios for futurists since 1999

Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world?

July 31, 2007admin 63

July 25-26, Chicago—On Wednesday at Transvision 2007, Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence guru who heads up MIT’s Media Lab, puckishly suggested we could [Read more]

Sweden is Ranked Most Responsible Nation

July 24, 2007admin 68

The world’s most “responsibly competitive” nation is Sweden, according to a new Responsible Competitiveness Index. Developed by the social and ethical research institute [Read more]

Antique engines inspire nano chip

July 24, 2007admin 1,374

The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-robust mechanical computer has been outlined by US researchers. Source: BBC. [Read more]

The End of Cheap Oil?

July 22, 2007admin 63

Crude oil prices rose above $74 per barrel this week and Goldman Sachs warned that the world could be facing $95 per barrel [Read more]

ABC: The Last Days on Earth

July 22, 2007admin 2

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3553079034810235653] Via Betterhumans.com [Read more]

Where do End-of-Life Nanomaterials Go?

July 21, 2007admin

All materials and products eventually come to the end of their useful life, and those made with nanotechnology are no different. This means [Read more]

Current nuclear threat worse than during Cold War

July 21, 2007admin 3

WASHINGTON, July 19 (RIA Novosti) – The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold War as Russia’s early warning [Read more]

iRobot Receives $14 Million Order for PacBots

July 20, 2007admin

iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT) received a US Navy order worth $14 million, part of an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to supply of PackBot man transportable [Read more]

Satellite Pit Stop

July 20, 2007admin

According to DARPA’s website “the goal of the Orbital Express Space Operations Architecture program is to validate the technical feasibility of robotic, autonomous [Read more]

The new new thing (synthetic biology)

July 13, 2007admin

It’s fairly clear that nanotechnology is no longer the new new thing. A recent story in Business Week – Nanotech Disappoints in Europe [Read more]

Moving to Substack

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin – why digital currencies are challenging traditional banking systems

China launch digital Yuan to “help the world”

COVID-19: A review of pandemic scenarios

The ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Seattle as a Harbinger Of America’s Future