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Techno optimism, youth movements and city development, virtual travel, decoding consciousness, will A.I. become the new McKinsey, seaweed batteries, organoids, electronic noses, stimuli-responsive materials and solar geoengineering.
Will A.I. become the new McKinsey?
Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful
https://futurism.com/sam-altman-agi-fusion-world?
Classic case of techno-optimism. Let’s hope he is right. PS Hope is not a strategy.
Addressing Rapid Changes in Urbanscapes: A Tale of Two Cities
https://fulcrum.sg/addressing-rapid-changes-in-urbanscapes-a-tale-of-two-cities/
In Yogyakarta and Singapore, youth movements have sprouted to address the negative impacts of rapidly changing cityscapes.
Tourism in the metaverse: Can travel go virtual?
The travel industry is ripe for virtual disruption, and the metaverse presents a $20 billion opportunity
A Mysterious Surge of Brain Activity During Death Probes the Edges of Consciousness
Decoding Consciousness From the Dying Brain. You should read “Observer: A novel” by Robert Lanza, Quantum foam……
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey?
What an awesome question. What is the added value of consultancy in a world of fully democratised knowledge?
Boosting electric vehicle batteries with seaweed
Materials from Scottish-grown seaweed could hold the key to improving the lifespan and charge time of lithium-ion batteries, used for electric vehicles
When Lab-Grown Brain Organoids Challenge Our Definition Of Personhood
https://scienceblog.substack.com/p/when-lab-grown-brain-organoids-challenge?
How closely do organoids resemble actual human brains? Could they, in fact, be deemed individuals in their own right?
A new electronic nose identifies the quality of a red wine
https://www.inceptivemind.com/new-electronic-nose-identifies-quality-red-wine/30584/?
The e-nose can identify substances using a method similar to the human sense of smell.
Beakthrough smart material can change shape and color in response to multiple stimuli
It marks the first time that a stimuli-responsive material has been able to respond to two different stimuli.
The inside scoop on solar geoengineering
https://archive.ph/UE5BP#selection-309.0-309.40
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/synthetic-as-way-to-save-or-destroy-our-planet/