2020 January

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As cars eventually die, and autonomous vehicles become pods on wheels, we’ll need to find…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DNA storage holds huge amounts of promise but getting information into DNA and then getting…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Volumetric displays are attempting to give users a VR-like experience but without the glasses, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology is transforming warfare, and the US military believes autonomous swarms of shape shifting robots…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers will be able to crack most encryption systems on the planet, but this…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI infused life-like digital humans and avatars get better and more capable they’re starting…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Particle accelerators are useful for all kinds of things, from finding new particles to helping…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As software improves and AI gets better one big advantage that robots have over humans…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today there are hundreds of exponential technologies arriving, and many of those are already having…