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A topic concerned with events and trends of the future or which anticipate the future.
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Patients titrating and administering their own medication? Sounds like some futuristic scene from a sci-fi movie where Doctors no longer exist and patients are in charge of their own healthcare. But this is actually not so futuristic explains Dr. Via Parag Vora, Lionel Reichardt / le Pharmageek 
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Ray Kurzweil & Matt Marshall at DEMO 2012...
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How do you get Angelenos--some of the most car-cultured people in the world--to use mass transit?
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We talk a lot about hip apps that let you rate beer, get a cab, or locate friends in a crowded room. But beyond that is a whole world of technologies created in and for communities that need help a lot more than you or I need another daily deals app.
Each year, the Tech Awards honor innovators and entrepreneurs who make a difference around the world in education, medicine, struggling economies, and social services. Here are the laureates for 2012.
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Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating -- jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans d...
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"A Silicon Valley startup has designed an innovative new monorail system of robots for tilting solar panels toward the sun, increasing the amount of electricity produced by up to 15 percent and..."
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More than 5 billion travelers passed through the airports of the world in 2011, according to Airports Council International. That’s an incredible number, considering the population of the entire planet is something like 7 billion.
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The video is about the exponential progression of information technology (exemplified by e.g.
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Can speculation about the future of technology serve as a measuring stick for what we create today?
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The FDA has approved the first digestible microchip for humans. Proteus Digital Health has created a chip that’s safe to embed in a number of pharmaceuticals.
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The Loowatt toilet made from poo transforms excrement into energy...
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There still isn’t a common language or science of cities for the 21st century, but that could change.
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Remember late last year when Recon Instruments introduced its MOD Live Android-enabled heads-up display for the likes of ski goggles?
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The cities of the future will have waste-to-energy plants, not shopping malls or churches, at their center, according to urban designer Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE. At DLD Cities in London, he said "cities have centers that celebrate previous centuries -- in Europe, the cities celebrated spirituality, with cathedrals. After some time, the cathedrals became downtown cores- and celebrations of capitalism and commercialism". The cities of the future will celebrate "the belief of what keeps us alive" - or elements of the city that make our lives better.
Terreform ONE, a green design company in Brooklyn, explores biohacks for the ecological issues facing modern cities. For instance, the waste New York City produces every hour weighs as much as the Statue of Liberty - in the future that waste could be recompacted into building blocks, or recycled "bales". Looking beyond recycling, though, it would be even better to create a city which didn't produce waste in the first place... That means growing thousands of homes -- building a new suburb could involve twisting, pruning and manipulating large trees into the frames of buildings. "There would be no difference between the home and nature -- it would be something that would be a positive addition to the ecology," explained Joachim.
For more information on these innovative concepts, including biomimicry and new green technology proposals for future cities, stop by to read the complete article and visit referenced links on urban sustainability... Via Lauren Moss
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Finding clean water can be a matter of life and death. Globally 3.6 million people die each year due to a lack of clean water, roughly the population of Los Angeles.
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Bioengineers design rapid diagnostic tests inspired by natureR & D MagazineBy mimicking nature's own sensing mechanisms, bioengineers at University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) and University of Rome Tor Vergata have designed inexpensive...
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Many tech companies have already planned out their roadmaps for the next several decades. What do we have to look forward to? What's complete science fiction?
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"We’re used to Silicon Valley creating the future itself. For those of us in the rest of the country and the world, it’s hard not to envision the Valley as a crazy place where Google’s self-driving cars zip along, carrying a tweeting Mark Zuckerberg to a meeting with the world’s richest VCs where they create a new technology that will change the world. But despite the brainpower and business acumen that’s currently concentrated there, nothing lasts forever. What do futurists predict will happen to the Valley?"
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Scientists in Japan have created a microscopically thin film that can coat individual teeth to prevent decay or to make them appear whiter, the chief researcher said. The “tooth patch” is a hard-wearing and ultra-flexible material made from hydroxyapatite, the main mineral in tooth enamel, that could also mean an end to sensitive teeth. “This is the world’s first flexible apatite sheet, which we hope to use to protect teeth or repair damaged enamel,” said Shigeki Hontsu, professor at Kinki University’s Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology in western Japan.
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PositiveFuturist.com - Cutting-edge news and information covering science, technology and the evolving world.
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This super-sweet toddler, whose name is Emma, has a congenital disorder that means she doesn’t have the muscle strength to lift her arms by herself. But hey, no big deal — this robot ex...
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Starbucks opens its latest coffee shop made from recycled shipping containers and gives Inhabitat the skinny on the new design.
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It's impossible to predict the future, but the idea that our technology will soon collide with our biological sense of vision continues to pop up in the world.
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