Key idea: As part of BrainGate, a pioneering global collaboration for restoring communications using brain implants, the team envisioned—and then realized—the ability to restore communications using neural signals from the brain. Original author and publication date:…
After Shock: Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock 50 years…
Summary: The Abundant World Institute presents a book of leading futurist reflecting about the past 50 years and the next 50 years. Futurizonte Editor's Note: I still remember reading Toffler's book in Spanish decades ago…
SpaceX is Now Four Starlink Launches from Minimum…
Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites. Source: SpaceX Summary: A few more satellites and Earth will have minimum global broadband coverage. Original author and publication date: Brian Wang - January 29, 2020 Futurizonte Editor's Note:…
Google to translate and transcribe conversations in real…
Summary: Google unveiled this week a feature that'll let people use their phones to both transcribe and translate a conversation in real time into a language that isn't being spoken. Original author and publication date:…
How Do You See the Future?
Image for illustration purposes only. Original has been edited Summary: Tomorrow will be nothing like today. It may look and feel a lot like today – you’ll get up, have breakfast, exercise, go off to…
Multi-dimensional Quantum Communications on Existing Fiber Are Possible
Illustration of two entangled photons in conventional fiver. Credit: University of Witwatersrand Summary: Researchers demonstrated that multiple quantum patterns of twisted light can be transmitted across a conventional fiber link that, paradoxically, supports only one…
Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications,…
Researchers in ORNL’s Quantum Information Science group summarized their significant contributions to quantum networking and quantum computing in a special issue of Optics & Photonics News. Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory.…
Large Amounts of Oxygen Detected in Ancient Star’s…
Artistic image of the supernova explosions of the first massive stars that formed in the Milky Way. Credit: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC) Summary: An international team of astronomers have detected large amounts of oxygen in…
AI and the Future of Your Mind
Image for illustration purposes only. Source: Pablo Buffer Summary: Susan Schneider, associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science and director of the AI, Mind and Society (AIMS) Group at UConn examines the implications of advances…