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1st aspect - How would space exploration look?

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1st aspect - How would space exploration look?

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**This type of question is almost solely based on one's inferences, so I am giving my opinion, influenced by where we are now with the situation and where we plan on going.**
Space exploration is hard to question. Space is so ever-changing, that we can never really be sure what will happen next. If the past is today, then some reasonable assumptions that can be made (with enough proof with today) is that we will have reached Mars and will have started on other planets.

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The progress of technology - Nov 1st 2018

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The progress of technology - Nov 1st 2018

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If you only looked at the world today without any prior knowledge of tech that has been invented within the last few years, you would  think that we are progressing rapidly. I somewhat disagree. If you take a look at the video I posted titled, "Advancement in Technology: Merging the digital world with real-life interactions," you would know that Pranav Mistry invented that tech in 2006. My question is - Why hasn't this been expanded in such a way that more people know about it? It worked so efficiently, and 2006 is BEFORE the 1st iPad came out. Mistry even made it into a more compact, marketable product! In my opinion, this should be everywhere.

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What would the past have looked like?
If modern tech existed in 1700, then it is probably rational to assume that the world has a population similar to today's, and basically everything that happens now happened then, as a ground foundation. This means that all past events still happened the same way, but in an earlier time frame.

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Google Doc: interesting aspects to focus on, deets about them

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Google Doc: interesting aspects to focus on, deets about them

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways:

3D metal printing, artificial embryos, and dueling neural networks are three of the biggest breakthrough technologies of 2018. - MIT Technology Review

While some of the choices on MIT's 2018 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies have not yet reached widespread use, they will all have a profound effect on human life. - MIT Technology Review

The year 2018 has only just begun, but a number of emerging technologies are poised to make a huge impact on our lives for the rest of the year and into the future, according to a Wednesday report from the MIT Technology Review.

The annual report, titled 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018, features some advances that have been in the works for years, and others that were more recent achievements. Some of the technologies listed have not yet reached widespread use, while others may soon become commercially available.

"What we're really looking for is a technology, or perhaps even a collection of technologies, that will have a profound effect on our lives," according to the report. Many have direct implications for the enterprise, including improvements to security, data analysis, and travel.
SEE: IT leader's guide to the future of artificial intelligence (Tech Pro Research)
Here are MIT's 10 breakthrough technologies for 2018, in no particular order.

1. 3D metal printing

3D printing technologies have been in existence for decades, and have proven to have a number of enterprise applications, including for rapid prototyping and medical device testing. However, it's been slow to catch on: Only 18% of organizations said they were actively using 3D printers as part of business operations in 2016, according to a Tech Pro Research survey.

But 3D printing is now becoming easier and less expensive to potentially be a practical way to manufacture parts, which could upend the entire manufacturing industry, MIT noted. A number of companies, including GE, Markforged, and Desktop Metal, have recently released 3D metal printers, which could reduce the need for manufacturers to maintain large inventories, and instead customer print materials as needed.

2. Artificial embryos

Embryologists working at the University of Cambridge in the UK recently grew realistic-looking mouse embryos using only stem cells-no egg or sperm needed. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Rockefeller University are now pursuing the next step of making an artificial embryo from human stem cells. While these embryos could make it easier for researchers to study the beginning of human life, they have also stoked an ethical debate.

3. Sensing city

Many smart city plans have faced delays and operational and cost issues, but a new smart city project in Toronto, called Quayside, is working with Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs to rebuild the urban neighborhood around digital technologies.

The project aims to base decisions about design, policy, and technology on data gathered from an extensive network of sensors, that can measure factors such as air quality, noise level, and human activity. It also calls for all vehicles to eventually be autonomous and shared.

4. AI for everybody

Up to this point, artificial intelligence (AI) tools have only been accessible for big tech companies like Amazon, Baidu, Google, and Microsoft, along with some startups. But new machine learning tools based in the cloud are helping more enterprises tap this emerging technology.

"Sectors such as medicine, manufacturing, and energy could also be transformed if they were able to implement the technology more fully, with a huge boost to economic productivity," according to the report.

5. Dueling neural networks

While AI can identify images after being trained on a database of pictures, it still fails to generate original images by itself. Until now: A major breakthrough approach from a PhD student at the University of Montreal, called a generative adversarial network (GAN), takes two neural networks and pits them against each other, to create realistic images and speech.

"The technology has become one of the most promising advances in AI in the past decade, able to help machines produce results that fool even humans," according to the report.

6. Babel-fish earbuds

Google's $159 Pixel Buds work with its Pixel smartphones and the Google Translate app to produce almost real-time translation. While they faced criticism for their design, they "show the promise of mutually intelligible communication between languages in close to real time," the report noted.

7. Zero-carbon natural gas

Natural gas is one of the world's primary sources of electricity, but is a major source of carbon emissions. A company called Net Power is testing a technology that could make clean energy from natural gas, which could offer the world a way to produce carbon-free energy from a fossil fuel at a less expensive cost.

8. Perfect online privacy

A new cryptographic protocol called a zero-knowledge proof may help true internet privacy finally become a reality. It was pioneered by digital currency Zcash, the developers of which used a message called a zk-SNARK (zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge) to give users the power to transact anonymously.

"For banks, this could be a way to use blockchains in payment systems without sacrificing their clients' privacy," the report stated. "Last year, JPMorgan Chase added zk-SNARKs to its own blockchain-based payment system."

9. Genetic fortune telling

Scientists are able to use data from large genetic studies to create polygenic risk scores, which offer predictions about health and IQ based on examining a person's DNA.

10. Material's quantum leap

IBM researchers recently were recently able to simulate the electronic structure of a small molecule using a seven-qubit quantum computer. Understanding molecules in exact detail like this will allow researchers to design more effective drugs and better materials for generating and distributing energy.

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The 10 biggest breakthrough technologies of 2018... so far

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Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: 3D metal printing, artificial embryos, and dueling neural networks are three of the biggest breakthrough technologies of 2018. - MIT Technology Review While some of the choices on MIT's 2018 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies have not yet reached widespread use, they will all have a profound effect on human life.

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What would majorly affect kids? (Interests, big deals) - October 22nd, 2018

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What would majorly affect kids? (Interests, big deals) - October 22nd, 2018

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- AI
- school system/way of learning/gaining info
- comfort/hobbies
- SPACE EXPLORATION :o

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Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)

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Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.

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Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach

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Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together.

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Advancement in Technology: Merging the digital world with real-life interactions - October 5th, 2018

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Advancement in Technology: Merging the digital world with real-life interactions - October 5th, 2018

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Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

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At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

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Quora - Discussion on past civilizations and technology - October 5th, 2018

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Quora - Discussion on past civilizations and technology - October 5th, 2018

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"., "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

(edit) And as far as your point about "tablets," this has been explored in a detailed experiment. A group of social scientists asked the same question, and selected a village where no-one spoke english, virtually no schools, and one internet connection for the village elder (for communication). So the researchers gave a tablet to all of the younger children. No computers the children had access to, and the tablets were locked down. They were otherwise stock tablets, but did have a simple app that could be used to create simple programs or games.

Within weeks, the kids had learned a fair amount of english, were creating games and movies, and spent most of their time with the tablets. Shortly after that, they figured out and got a WiFi access to the Internet, and were browsing the web for more information, classes in math, reading, etc. Some taught themselves to program the tablets to do entirely new things, etc.

So my conclusion is that children will accept, investigate, and enhance any technology you give them access to. They won't understand it all, but they will figure out how to use it for their own ends. Sounds like the basis for a good SF novel, heh?

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What would happen if a past civilization saw modern technology?

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Answer (1 of 2): > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) (edit) And as far as your point about "tablets," this has been explored in a det...

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If we had this type of technology in the past (1400-1700) what would we look like now? - October 4th 2018

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If we had this type of technology in the past (1400-1700) what would we look like now? - October 4th 2018

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We've had A LOT of brains in the past. But what if these historic nerds were even nerdier? What would we have now? What major advances would have happened then? And what peeps today would just be normal peeps, because what they discovered already was discovered?