MIT and Stanford ChatGPT study shows low skilled workers benefit the most

MIT and Stanford ChatGPT study shows low skilled workers benefit the most

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to new technologies and work it’s often the lowest skilled workers that suffer first and are automated, but this time they could be the biggest beneficiaries.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...

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This new in vivo glucose powered fuel cell turns humans into batteries

This new in vivo glucose powered fuel cell turns humans into batteries

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology always pushes boundaries and at the edge we’re finding new ways to generate electricity using the human body …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...

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This ingestible Smart Pill helps doctors identify gastrointestinal issues faster

This ingestible Smart Pill helps doctors identify gastrointestinal issues faster

WHY THIS IS MATTERS Technology that can travel throughout the human body gathering data and identifying issues will help doctors identify and solve problems faster for better patient outcomes.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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Devs used hacks to create AutoGPT an almost fully autonomous AI and open sourced it

Devs used hacks to create AutoGPT an almost fully autonomous AI and open sourced it

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Even though OpenAI didn’t create a fully autonomous AI capable of creating, executing, and updating its own software and many other things developers have found a way to hack it ant turn it autonomous which will give future regulators and others big issues.   Love...

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This ingestible smart pill monitors your gut health from the inside out

This ingestible smart pill monitors your gut health from the inside out

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The human body is still largely a mystery so increasingly as tech miniaturises it’s going where no doctor has been before …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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Researchers say you’ll soon be able to run holograms from your smartphone

Researchers say you’ll soon be able to run holograms from your smartphone

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why live with 2D imagery when you can live life in glorious 3D!?   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In 1943, Thomas Watson, the president...

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Researchers created self-assembling proteins that can the memories of cells

Researchers created self-assembling proteins that can the memories of cells

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine you knew exactly what was happening in all the cells in your body in real time so you could detect changes, thwart cancer, or just to be nosey …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...

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New breakthrough drug reverses hearing loss and consigns hearing aids to the bin

New breakthrough drug reverses hearing loss and consigns hearing aids to the bin

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hearing loss affects everyone at one stage or another, but now it’s increasingly looking like hearing loss can be reversed thanks to a new regenerative medicine drug from MIT.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...

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An AI just aced a university maths course for the first time

An AI just aced a university maths course for the first time

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s often said that “maths” underpins everything in the known universe and AI is getting better and better at mastering it.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote,...

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MIT tries to defeat global warming with new space bubble concept

MIT tries to defeat global warming with new space bubble concept

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If our Plan A to “save the planet” from over heating fails we need a Plan B, and yes it’s odd …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...

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Self assembling tiles that make any kind of space structures ace first orbital tests

Self assembling tiles that make any kind of space structures ace first orbital tests

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF These re-configurable self-assembling space tiles make it possible to assemble almost any kind of structure in space autonomously.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...

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This Brain on a Chip tech is designed to destroy brain tumours faster and cheaper

This Brain on a Chip tech is designed to destroy brain tumours faster and cheaper

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The treatments to destroy and kill brain tumours hasn’t evolved very much in the past two decades, but new technologies are coming through to give us hope.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses...

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Blockchain could help autonomous swarms of drones and robots communicate securely

Blockchain could help autonomous swarms of drones and robots communicate securely

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more devices and robots talk to one another directly we need to find new ways to secure their communications, and blockchain is ideal …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...

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NASA and partners team up to create robotic self-assembling space structures

NASA and partners team up to create robotic self-assembling space structures

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why should we always make things in their final form, why can’t more products morph, change shape, and change their function? That’s what this project is all about.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...

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Plans to drill 12 miles deep into the Earth’s Mantle get the green light with new funding

Plans to drill 12 miles deep into the Earth’s Mantle get the green light with new funding

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all sit above a limitless amount of energy, but getting to it is an engineering nightmare …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A...

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New smart kinetic clothing records and plays back your breathing

New smart kinetic clothing records and plays back your breathing

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’re training AI can help you improve your technique, and now it can help you get your breathing right too.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote,...

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3D printed solid state batteries are getting closer to production

3D printed solid state batteries are getting closer to production

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Solid state batteries are seen by most people as the “Batteries of the Future” and they’re getting better, bigger, and denser …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Lithium-ion (LiON) batteries recently...

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Living pharmacies within our bodies could help cure jet lag and disease

Living pharmacies within our bodies could help cure jet lag and disease

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we make drugs in factories and then inject and pop them when we need to – but what if our bodies could make those drugs in vivo at the first sign of disease?     Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...

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MIT’s newest material contains sensors and a neural network

MIT’s newest material contains sensors and a neural network

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As technology gets smaller it’s going to help us transform everything around us in new ways …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Materials have always been a physical thing. But that’s...

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MIT and Harvard scientists develop a face mask that detects COVID-19 in the air

MIT and Harvard scientists develop a face mask that detects COVID-19 in the air

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Were you exposed to the COVID-19 virus when you were out and about? Now you can find out …   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 ago I wrote about...

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