Future is now
A collection about headlines, insights and stories than seem futuristic, but actually happening today.
Collection by Leoᵍᵐ
WIRED UK
Nike Will Let People Design and Sell Sneakers for the Metaverse
2 min · · Swoosh members will compete to create digital kicks with the brand’s design staff and bag a royalty cut. But not even Nike knows how it’s going to work. · Shared by 95, including Chris Gledhill, Thomas Power, Matt Navarra
Fast Company
MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man
· Unsupervised reaches new highs in what’s possible with AI, creating a breathing being that synthesizes 180,000 artworks from MoMA.
· Shared by 216, including Robert Scoble, Nathan Benaich, Oliver Raduner, Pascal Sulser, Stephanie A Kowalski
Interesting Engineering
Scientists outlined one of the main problems if we ever find alien life, it's our politicians
1 min · · The geopolitical fallout of finding extraterrestrial intelligence could lead to our destruction. · Shared by 5
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scitechdaily.com
Scientists Develop “Nanomachines” That Can Penetrate and Kill Cancer Cells
3 min · · Researchers have created 'nanomachines' that use mechanical molecular motions to enter and destroy cells. Cancer is a condition where some of the body's cells grow out of control and spread to other… · Shared by 14, including Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Brian Ahier, AI, John Koetsier
Freethink
MIT’s $4 desalination device creates enough drinking water for an entire family
3 min · · MIT has developed a $4 solar desalination device that could provide a family of four with all the drinking water it needed to survive. · Shared by 30, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
euronews
Army of seed-firing drones will plant 100 million trees by 2024
2 min · · Meet the company using drones to combat biodiversity loss. · Shared by 138, including Martin Varsavsky, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, hiten.eth, UN Biodiversity
Curbed
The 2,731-Person Project to Build New York City in Minecraft
5 min · · Scenes from a global pandemic pastime. · Shared by 17, including Tactical Tech, Colin Wright
The Verge
DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions
4 min · · Machine learning meets ancient inscriptions · Shared by 57, including Michael Fisher, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Tactical Tech, Nige Roberts-Willson, John Hagel
Axios
Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help
1 min · · The AI pair programmer is a useful assistant, but won't be replacing human developers any time soon · Shared by 204, including Thomas Power, Yves Mulkers, Terence Mills, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Clemens M. Schuster, Katja Evertz, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Nils Hitze, Harold Sinnott, Steven Sinofsky
inspiration4.com
FAQ
20+ min · · The First All-Civilian Mission To Space · Shared by 9, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Paolo Attivissimo @ildisinformatico@mastodon.uno, Bright
The New York Times
Are We in the Metaverse Yet?
11+ min · · Crypto people say they’re building it. Gamers might already be living in it. The art world is cashing in on it. Web veterans are trying to save it. But what is it? · Shared by 270, including Michael (मुकेश), Kat M. Moss, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Nancy, TonyParisi.eth, Barry Silbert, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️, Christopher Mims 🤌, Paul Kedrosky, Zoe Scaman, Bill Johnston, Katja Evertz
Bloomberg
Americans Must Reclaim Their Right to Repair
· Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg.
The Independent
The files that created the web are going on sale as an NFT
2 min · · The files that began the World Wide Web will be auctioned as a non-fungible token, their creator Tim Berners-Lee has said. · Shared by 5
IEEE
Amazon's New Quantum Computer Design Relies On Tiny Schrödinger's Cats
· Theoretical blueprint aims to suppress overwhelming errors with a new approach to making qubits · Shared by 81, including Jennifer Ouellette, Erico Guizzo, Nige Roberts-Willson, Esther Schindler, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Entrepreneur
Real-time 3D holograms generated by artificial intelligence
4 min · · A new method called tensor holography allows you to create holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, medical imaging, and more. · Shared by 81, including Yves Mulkers, Ronald van Loon, Harold Sinnott, Prof. Sally Eaves, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Brian Ahier, AI, Stephan Woodtli, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nige Roberts-Willson, Iain Brown, PhD