Emerging Tech
“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”
Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.
“Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities.”
Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.
“You’ll be able to fly twice as fast as a Boeing or Airbus, and it’ll be like the cost of flying business today.”
A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.
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“Neurotech is not just about the brain,” says Synchron CTO Riki Banerjee, explaining how their tech can help with paralysis, brain diseases, and beyond.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That’s utter nonsense here.
From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.
It’s been 65 years since Richard Feynman saw “plenty of room” in the nano-world. Are we finally getting down there?
A National Center for Data and Evidence could supplement our archaic and expensive system and more accurately measure AI’s impact on jobs.
Behind America’s hunt for a superior semiconductor.
“We can build AI scientists that are better than we are… these systems can be superhuman,” says the FutureHouse co-founder.
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Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
AI software is rapidly accelerating chip design, potentially leveling up the speed of innovation across the economy.
Hang on to something — or ride the wave — because three big tech trends are about to converge.
Reusable rockets, moon landers, civilian astronauts, and more.
The best autonomous car may be one you don’t even need to own.
“The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived.”
Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.
The US needs 28 million EV chargers by 2030. Here’s how it can get there.
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The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.
Astro Mechanica’s “turboelectric” jet engines offer a way to transform both commercial flights and space launches.
A simple plate of vegetables has found the gaping blindspots in generative AI, and points the way to fixing them.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.