For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
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Big Think recently spoke with Nick Bostrom about how humans might find fulfillment in a post-scarcity world.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
To be successful, leaders would be wise to remember that AI isn’t a replacement for people; it exists to enhance their capabilities.
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
The tonal Native American language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.
Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece’s brightest minds.
In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.
Claims of a sudden infestation appear unfounded.
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
One possible vision of the distant future.
The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
The effects are even worse for women.
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
How will leadership and hiring practices be changed by the COVID-19 crisis?
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This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.