2019 January

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the cost of getting to space falls, and access to space becomes more democratised,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By 2050 we will need to feed 10 billion people, but increasingly we have the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As criminals continue to weaponise artificial intelligence they are inevitably going to find new ways…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Not only does this technology have benefits for video search, but it also has surveillance…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF An AI capable of monitoring the whole world for threats, of any kind, is a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Small robots have their benefits too, in everything from the oil and gas industries to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While we are becoming increasingly adept at growing brains, we still don’t know much about…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the one hand you can write advanced AI software to control your robots, or…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Globally there is a shortage of trained surgeons, but robo-surgeons and 5G networks could soon…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As countries vie for leadership in 5G some countries are already eyeing leadership in 6G….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By future standards today’s most advanced surgical techniques will look neanderthal, nanobots and nanomachines that…