Magnet powerful enough to pick up an aircraft carrier to help ITER kickstart fusion
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Fusion promises to give the world limitless amounts of clean green energy, but first we have to get a working prototype reactor … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
China unveils the worlds fastest maglev train capable of 385mph
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Trains are getting faster, and by the end of the decade they may be capable of Mach 3 speeds. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. China is a big country so naturally today...
Z Machine generates six times the world’s energy to create a White Dwarf star on Earth
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The technology we’re developing as a society is increasingly making sci-fi look tame, and we are only just beginning. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the past few years we’ve done...
Room temperature superconductor breakthrough teases new energy revolution
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We use superconductors in everything from MRI and NMR machines to sci-fi quantum computers, and room temperature superconductors will change everything. 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. Following in the footsteps...
University researchers unveil the world’s first portable MRI machine
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you wanted proof that technology always gets smaller then here it is, and in this case it could revolutionist patient diagnostics. Love the Exponential Future? Join our FREE XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over time everyone knows...
Lexus’ awesome Hoverboard goes on permanent display in the US
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many of the things we thought of as sci-fi are now sci-fact, but some are more ready for commercialisation than others. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Back in 2015, Lexus, who in another world first recently got...
A powerful battery breakthrough from MIT could usher in electric planes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The airline industry is one of the world’s heaviest polluters and it’s getting worse as air travel increases, electric aircraft will reverse that trend. Over the past year or so I’ve been discussing the eventual emergence of fully electric aircraft and sky taxis, such...
Denvers new “Hyperloop for roads” will transport cars at 200mph around the city
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One good idea leads to another, so they say, and now Denver thinks it can use an adaptation of the Hyperloop to reduce urban commute times. Start-up co-founder Brogan BamBrogan has an unusual stance when it comes to the futuristic technology he’s building, which...
Scientists have smashed the record for the world’s most powerful magnet
WHY THIS MATTES IN BRIEF Magnets are the unsung heroes of the modern era, they help produce our energy and make engines work, make MRI machines possible and make futuristic transportation technologies like the Hyperloop feasible, and developments in the field drive innovation across a variety of sectors. If...
Scientists have created the world’s first wormhole in a lab
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Wormholes that transfer electromagnetic signals, energy and other “stuff” via an unknown dimension are the stuff of science fiction, but they also have practical applications in healthcare, apparently. Sci-fi fans around the world have long been waiting for the news that we can, finally...
ThyssenKrupp unveil their new cable free, go anywhere elevators
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tomorrows skyscrapers will be 3D printed into a whole host of different, strange shapes, but in order to make them a reality we need a new type of cable free elevator and ThyssenKrupp look like they’re about to deliver In the 160 or so...
HTT’s first Hyperloop will use passive levitation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Hyperloop is a futuristic Mach 1 “Train in a pod” that companies are racing to turn into a reality, and if HTT have their way their ride will be as smooth as silk Earlier this week Southern California based start up Hyperloop Transportation...
NASA unveils plans to restore Mars’ atmosphere within three years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If Mars is ever going to become humanity’s second home it’s going to have to be terraformed, the first step in achieving that is giving it an atmosphere Mars might be better as the Red planet today but there’s plenty of evidence to suggest...
Dubai to build the worlds first Hyperloop network by 2021
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Countries are racing to improve access to, and the mobility of, their citizens and their workforces in order to boost their economies, and new “advanced transportation technologies” are increasingly being seen as the new broadband. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...
