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...
DARPA human telepathy project will let people transmit images into other people’s brains
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to project images from one person’s brain into another person’s brain is increasingly possible, but it’s still sci-fi. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. There’s a theme now of researchers developing both invasive and non-invasive Brain...
Physicists have discovered the world’s first “time crystal”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Time crystals are unique, and new, and it’s believed they could open the door to creating incredibly weird and useful new materials. Physicists at Yale University have discovered something extraordinary, a new material that more and more people are calling “Time Crystals,” a form...
Experts: AI ‘will beat humans in all tasks by 2060, and take all jobs by 2140’
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The debates about the impact of AI on humanity and civilisation will rage on for decades to come, if not centuries, but there is a broad consensus that our world will change significantly as a result of it in the next fifty years. Enjoy...
This new test will tell us if AI has become self-aware and gained consciousness
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The proof that we are turning science fiction into science fact every day is all around us, so we should conclude that one day AI will become conscious and self-aware, and now we can test for it. A few weeks ago Facebook unveiled their...
Researchers have created a Dark Matter map of the universe
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Dark matter makes up over eighty percent of the universe and holds our galaxies together so being able to map it could help us understand how galaxies and the universe formed. For the first time ever scientists at Yale University have figured out a...
Brazil releases billions of genetically modified Mosquitos to combat Zika
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There will always be questions about the viability and impact of releasing genetically modified organisms into our environment but with billions of mosquitos being released it might already be a moot point Every Saturday morning, Maria do Carmo Tunussi goes door to door asking...
