Greetings from Thailand (Koh Samui). Combing business with pleasures.
Today’s topics to consider are self growing heart valves, quantum machines, plagues, cyborgs, and supersoldiers, gold collar workers, Vision Pro, self drying tomatoes (while on the vine), 5 game changing technologies, unframing the future and bio screens.
Time to take a position on mixed reality.
New heart treatment helps the body grow a replacement valve
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/250993/new-heart-treatment-helps-body-grow/?
What if the body’s natural repair mechanisms could be harnessed to build a living heart valve, right where it is needed?
A Laser Breakthrough Could Change Quantum Machines Forever
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a46574461/what-are-qumodes/?
Many quantum computers use qubits to manipulate and store quantum information, but another quantum unit known as “qumodes” relies instead on photons to carry information.
Biotechnology in Warfare and Battle – and the Human Body as a Warfighting Domain
Plagues, cyborgs, and supersoldiers.
Why Gold-Collar Workers Are Some Of The Most Well-Paid, Prestigious Professionals
As generative artificial intelligence continues to become more prevalent in the job market, positions that necessitate human creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking are becoming more relevant and valuable than ever before.
What the Vision Pro Could Mean for the Future of Mixed Reality (and Apple)
https://lifehacker.com/tech/what-the-vision-pro-could-mean-for-the-future-of-mixed-reality?
It is time to take a view on AR/VR and mixed reality.
New type of cherry tomato self-dries while still on the vine
https://newatlas.com/science/self-drying-cherry-tomato/?
A new type of cherry tomato has been selectively bred to dry right on the vine. The tomatoes contain microscopic cracks in their skin.
Five Game-Changing Technologies Nearing Their Tipping Point
https://www.bcg.com/capabilities/digital-technology-data/emerging-technologies/expert-insights?
Synthetic biology, quantum computing, fusion energy, direct air capture, and CO2 to X—are nearing inflection points in the next one or two decades.
Unframing The Future
https://www.creativedestruction.club/p/unframing-the-future?
The crisis of futures, imagining the end of capitalism, algorithmic trends, who does the future belong to, and towards a natural future
Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/31/bacteria_runs_doom/?
Biological screens. Think exponential.
