China plans to develop a prototype exascale computer by the end of the year, state media said Tuesday, as it seeks to win a global race to be the first to build a machine capable of a billion, billion calculations per second. If successful, the achievement would cement its place as a leading power in [...]
In the next 30 years, humanity is in for a transformation the likes of which we’ve never seen before—and XPRIZE Foundation founder and chairman Peter Diamandis believes that this will give birth to a new species. Diamandis admits that this might sound too far out there for most people but is convinced that we are evolving [...]
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? That’s the prompt that opened HBO’s Westworld, but it’s also the implied question behind shows like The OA, Stranger Things, The Good Place, and Falling Water, as well as movies like Arrival and Doctor Strange. Across popular entertainment lately, science fiction, theoretical physics, and spirituality have [...]
NBC’s new fantasy drama Emerald City is a reboot of the classic The Wizard of Oz. Unlike the wonderful world of Oz we all remember, this series takes a much darker approach as it features an over-the-top demonic ritual. (READ MORE)
The world is barreling toward what has been dubbed the “post-work economy,” as technology replaces humans at an unprecedented rate. Driverless cars are set to make millions of truckers and taxi drivers redundant and automated fast food service is poised to shut off a key job sector for young people. As artificial intelligence is increasingly [...]
A New World Order is set to emerge in 2017 as huge political changes sweep across Europe including the rise of the mega-alliance under Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Putin’s growing power and Trump’s extraordinary US Election victory are both herald’s of a growing movement against the established world governments. (READ MORE)
America’s new conservative turn signals a complete reinvention of baby names. And parents of all political beliefs are embracing names from a range of fresh sources — gods and wild animals, spiritual beliefs and childhood heroes — that all embody power. Some are predicting a “full-blown baby naming revolution” for 2017, said. Next year parents [...]
So Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have embarked on a world-wide hunt for terabytes of human speech. Voice recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But it’s still not good enough to popularize the technology for everyday use and usher in a new era of human-machine interaction, allowing us to talk with all our gadgets—cars, [...]
Catholic Online reports that new priests will be expected to be familiar with and promote efforts to reduce carbon emissions. (Read Full)
Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city”. I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes. (Read Full)
