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Study finds that people believe they’ll be happy in the future, even when they imagine the many bad things that could happen, because they discount the possibility that those bad things will actually occur. 
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Why do people so often make decisions that their future selves regret? One possibility is that people have a fundamental misconception about their future selves. Time is a powerful force that transforms people’s preferences, reshapes their values, and alters their personalities, and we suspect that people generally underestimate the magnitude of those changes. In other words, people may believe that who they are today is pretty much who they will be tomorrow, despite the fact that it isn’t who they were yesterday. More: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2013/01/the-end-of-history-illusion.html
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We all know certain smells can bring memories back to life. A christmas tree, your grandma’s baking scents or your first brand of deodorant can take your mind straight back to other times. But these smells can also help us to predict the future, science shows. Marijn van Wingerden has found the part of the brain that makes this possible.
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Smell the Future
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This video maps out Kurzweil's SIX EPOCHS OF EVOLUTION showing the exponential progression in the way the universe stores and processes information... what we see is a bootstrapping recursive complexification leading us towards some kind of intelligence singularity.
Created for Educational Purposes Only and non-commercial use by Jason Silva. Created to inspire.
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Biocomputers make maps, run logic gates, perform binary calculations and more.
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Think you could tell the story of the human race in only 100 pictures? That’s the challenge that MIT resident artist Trevor Paglen tackled when he conceived The Last Pictures five years ago. The goal of the project is to record a montage of human life and achievements onto a medium that can last until intelligent life in the distant future discovers it, even if it takes a billion years for them to find it.
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Joel Primack, Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC Santa Cruz speaks at the 2011 Technology Horizons Fall Research Exchange.
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Sci-fi is more than just a popular genre of fiction. It can also give an amazingly accurate insight into the future.
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The Story based on Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures. If we work really hard on our dreams sooner or later we will reach our goals. But what if one day our dreams go too far?
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The toilet's shortcoming goes unnoticed for many of us, but it is in fact unsustainable, impractical, and unaffordable for 40 percent of the world.
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Goodman perceives abundance not just in the way Peter Diamandis describes it, but also an abundance of ways criminals can severely damage the well being of society. He explains, “There is no operating system that can’t be hacked,” and as everything moves into the digital realm, we are serving the criminals a free lunch. With a few lines of code the world is at a hacker’s fingertips. Stolen passwords and government-led operations like Stuxnet are just the tip of the iceberg. Goodman points to the emergence of new technologies like 3D Printers and synthetic biology as just another way for criminals to do harm.
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Wireless Cities are Coming: Get Ready to Ditch Your Power Cords
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Leonard declares that the rise of smartphones and tablets represents the year's biggest transformative technology: "The decline of the PC is no longer subject to debate."
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'The future is now, it’s not a fetishistic obsession or architectural style. Building a city for 2050 should have started 50 years ago – we’re already late for managing our human investments, so le... Via addkerberos
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As told by Arthur C. Clarke's 1990 novel The Ghost from the Grand Banks, 2012 is the year that would see the Titanic resurrected from the ocean floor. But the year is now 2012, and the Titanic continues to sit 12,000 feet below the ocean surface, rusting more with every passing year (indeed, it's predicted here that by 2045, only the hull will remain). The likelihood that any of us will live to see a resurrected Titanic outside a James Cameron movie now seems very slim.
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Futurists are theorizing that robots will be cultivated to give humans life-extending orgasms, and some suggest that the scenario could be here as early as 2050.
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Friends, a new world is waiting for all of us. It is a world without want, where every need is satisfied by boundless resources. It is a world of friendship, where war does not exist. And when we get there, we'll achieve immortality. I'm not talking about Heaven, Nirvana, or some other religious tenet - I'm talking about the future according to Singularity University. But is it really as close as the Singularity folks say?
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Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay, and Mickey McManus are the authors of "Trillions", a new book about the future of the global economy. "Trillions" argues that we can't just design devices that help us to live better using data; rather, we have to design an entire living environment where those devices communicate with each other and with us. Only by building this interoperable network of humans and computers will we finally be able to exploit the massive potential of Big Data, and of ourselves.
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A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. This is their graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts. Please share if you enjoyed it! Cont...
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With cities running out of room, the world’s ever-expanding population may soon need to find new homes. But where? Sea, sky, or desert? We look at the alternatives
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What does the future hold for higher education? In this short animated film, we consider one set of possibilities based on current signals and trends.
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Most of today's continents (left) will migrate toward the North Pole and collide to form a new landmass called Amasia (right).
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July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Raymond Kurzweil, Chairman, CEO, founder at Kurzweil Technologies describes what he sees in the future of robotics, with a human-computer `singularity' by 2029 where computers will rival and supplement human intelligence. Via FutureCast
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