Research of billions of links shows the internet is both shrinking and expanding
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The internet is increasingly our second, if not our first, home – and changes to it affect all of us in one way or another. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The...
Firms line up Green Ammonia as a future zero emission fuel for aviation and shipping
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By 2050 the aviation and shipping sectors need to be carbon neutral, which means they need to wean themselves off of polluting fossil fuels fast. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. You...
New Australian heat tolerant COVID-19 vaccine heads to human trials
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most COVID-19 vaccines today have to be stored at extremely low temperatures making it hard to get them to remote regions who need them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the...
Replica Studios makes it easy for games studios to create synthetic voices
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When AI can create authentic human voices who needs voice actors? And what else can they do? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Hot on the heels of DeepZen who recently released...
A new ultra thin film turns your ordinary glasses into night vision goggles
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New materials let us do new amazing things, and this is just one simple example. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently we’ve seen a number of different breakthroughs in developing night...
CRISPR gene editing tool shown to stop Coronavirus replication in human cells
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By future standards today’s medicines and treatments are old fashioned, and we have an increasing array of powerful new tools at our disposal. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A little while...
Flying race car company Alauda unveils their fantastic new Mk3 Airspeeder
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying cars and flying cars races were born to be the future of transport and entertainment. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I first heard of Alauda’s plans for a flying electric...
Australian designer uses 3D printing and AI to create amazing butterfly inspired fashion line
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing is helping the fashion industry re-invent itself and fashion itself. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. 3D printed clothes are starting to get fashionable, and hot on the heels of one...
Australian firm unveils the world’s first Hydrogen battery to power homes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future homes won’t be powered by electricity from power stations – and there will be plenty of alternatives. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The energy industry is changing. Yesterday...
Fossil fuels running out of gas as renewable energy becomes the world’s cheapest energy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The cost of generating electricity from renewable energy sources is approaching zero, and fossil fuels can’t compete as they face elimination from the global energy mix. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Energy scavenging nano tech generates energy from everything
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We have an abundance of energy, and now we have the tech to tap into it – no matter where it is. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Imagine a mobile phone...
Researchers unveil Google maps for the human body
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The cellular and genetic make up of our bodies influence what illnesses we get and how ill we get, so better understanding it will help us create better cure-alls. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote,...
Australian government backs renewables and unveils plans to export sunshine to Asia
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the global energy grids are connected together it becomes increasingly realistic for countries to run their entire economies on renewable energy. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The world of energy is...
An AI hiring company says it can predict job hopping based on your interview
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Ironically at a time when companies should be hiring “creative explorers” and “disruptors” those are the same people that this company’s AI will tell you not to hire … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential...
World’s smallest camera is so small it travels around your bloodstream scanning you from the inside
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Big tech companies watch you from the outside, now they can watch you from the inside, literally. And it also has medical applications … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Cameras...
This E-Bike reads your brainwaves to help you stay alive on the road
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Your mind can perceive threats much faster than you can react to them, now companies are building mind reading tech into products to help keep you safe. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI) that read...
AirSpeeder gets set to launch flying car races in 2021
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As drones get larger and flying cars take flight it’s inevitable that someone’s going to want to race them and create a new sport. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the power to weight ratios of drones increase,...
HyperPower unveil their new high density electric motor to accelerate the Hyperloop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Futuristic transport like the Hyperloop, a Mach 1 train in a tube, need a futuristic power source. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The Hyperloop is a futuristic train in a vacuum tube that will one day be...
New hot qubits let quantum computers run near room temperature
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s quantum computers need to be supercooled to near absolute zero, but a new breakthrough means they could one day run at room temperature opening them up for everyone to use. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Quantum...
Researchers squeeze a record breaking 44.2Tbps out of ordinary fiber optic
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is consuming more and more content, more things are being connected to the internet, so in the future we need much faster networks to handle it all. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. You probably consider...
