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Scenario prompts 10 May 2024
The topics are 50 transformative trends, superconductors, desalination, printable sensors, automated AI warfare, mycelium, AR headsets, designer molecules, dissolvable circuit boards, X-price (carbon), molecular biology and robotic army dogs.
Automated warfare? Good or bad?
Anticipating the Future: 50 Transformative Trends Expected by 2050
Anticipating the future requires a keen understanding of emerging trends across various domains. In this comprehensive exploration, we delve into 50 transformative trends expected to shape our world before 2050, encompassing technological breakthroughs, societal changes, environmental shifts, and more.
Quantum breakthrough sheds light on perplexing high-temperature superconductors
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-quantum-breakthrough-perplexing-high-temperature.html
Superfast levitating trains, long-range lossless power transmission, faster MRI machines—all these fantastical technological advances could be in our grasp if we could just make a material that transmits electricity without resistance—or “superconducts”—at around room temperature.
10 New Water Desalination Companies Supporting Blue Economy
https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/new-water-desalination-companies/
An in-depth exploration of 10 new water desalination companies addressing global water scarcity challenges.
The Roadmap to Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Daily Life
https://nano-magazine.com/news/2024/4/2/eci6iguylgachrr8afnejy2nu5shbc
An innovative professor is at the forefront of pioneering efforts towards achieving a future where sustainability and intelligent technology converge, thanks to advances in printable sensor technology.
The Future of Automated AI Warfare
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/the-future-of-automated-ai-warfare
Automated military systems aren’t a deterrent, they are simply part of the AI arms race.
Magical mushrooms: How mycelium is changing industries beyond food
https://sifted.eu/articles/mushroom-tech-mycelium-loop-biotech
Founders share how their mycelium startups could replace some of the world’s most polluting products
Stanford engineers develop ‘killer app’ of holographic heads-up displays
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/stanford-ai-hologram-3d-views-glasses
Researchers have successfully developed an artificial intelligence (AI)- powered holographic imaging augmented reality (AR) headset. While only a prototype at this stage, if refined, it could change various fields, from gaming to training and education
Designer molecules: the promising future of a newly constructed polymer
Researchers developed a brand-new polymer that is stable, biologically safe, and can be monitored in the body.
Engineers create dissolving circuit boards that can be recycled over and over again
Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste problem in the world. Instead of burning it to recover gold and copper, this new method separates the components for reuse.
A $100 million carbon-removal competition enters its final stage
The Elon Musk–backed Xprize competition announced 20 finalists to advance breakthrough solutions for CO2 removal using air, rocks, land, and oceans.
Google’s AlphaFold 3 AI predicts the very building blocks of life
https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-alphafold-3-ai-predicts-the-very-building-blocks-of-life/
Advanced deep learning techniques promise to rapidly advance our understanding of biology at the molecular level, and could enable scientists to pursue novel therapies for a wide range of diseases more efficiently than ever before.
Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command is currently evaluating a new generation of robotic dogs.
