Atoms are the new bits
Check out Wired’s lengthy exploration on how business is about to change due to new technology like 3D printers, production on demand and networks:
In the next industrial revolution, atoms are the new bits
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Little shop of robotic horrors
“”If the system fails, the grid goes down and all humans die, these robots could go on living so long as the flies don’t go with us.”
New Scientist reports about designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau’s new household robots fueled by mice and insects. We are instantly in love!
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Re-Engineering the Earth
“As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that’s the scariest part.”
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