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Quantum computing already exists, but on a truly miniscule scale. We’ll probably have molecular computers before true quantum ones, says the physicist.
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The Internet, the European Union, and the Olympics are all signs that, within the next 100 years, mankind will become a truly planetary civilization.
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Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process.
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Discovering the Theory of Everything would be the crowning achievement of modern science, allowing mankind to master time and space.
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There are no more evolutionary pressures driving gross human evolution, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to genetically re-engineer ourselves in the future.
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Theoretically, there could be people and planets made out of antimatter rather than matter, but where are they?
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By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.
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When you freeze human tissue, it may appear to be preserved superficially, but the ice crystals that form create massive cell damage, causing many cell walls to rupture.
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Malcolm Gladwell pours cold water on the promise of search technology, which he says is fixing many problems “that aren’t really problems.”
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Peter Diamandis says that innovation is in the hands of small companies, not large corporations and governments that are risk-averse. Garry Kasparov argues the disinclination toward risk would rob us […]
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If Social Media is the breakthrough development of Web 2.0, what is next in search for Web 3.0 and beyond? Peter Diamandis speculates on the evolution of search in the […]
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Is the promise of search technology just a lot of hype, as Malcolm Gladwell suggests, or will our ability to employ breakthrough technologies in search, as Peter Diamandis argues, make […]
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Can we make a better engine? Yes. Is the state of search technology the reason we haven’t found a cure for cancer? No.
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Many kids are vaccinated at age two, the same age at which autism is often first noticed. But the “evidence” that one causes the other doesn’t wash.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin does not actually have much support, says Kasparov. He believes a social revolt is inevitable, but what type of regime will fill the vacuum?
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While in the West people are fighting to win elections, Russians are fighting to have elections, says the former presidential candidate.
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Spaces between words were only invented around 800 or 900 AD, before which reading was a more cognitively intensive act. The advent of eReaders threatens to revive this complexity, says […]
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If you want to change your brain, you have to change your habits—but good luck avoiding the Internet in this day and age!
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The Internet might actually be diminishing our capacity to form long-term memories.
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The map, the mechanical clock and the printing press are all examples of “intellectual technologies” that have reshaped the way humans think. And the ways of thinking that we learned […]
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A conversation with the technology writer.
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One day we might be able to download our consciousness into a computer chip, preserving our personalities forever—but first we will have to better understand brain architecture.
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Kasparov’s archrival excels when he is on the defensive rather than attacking. But ultimately, “the combination of my strengths was superior to the combination of his strengths,” says Kasparov, who […]
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Embracing intellectual messiness goes against our instincts and training as educated people, but writers and artists should accept and understand it as crucial to the creative process.
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When you look beneath the surface of the everyday, you realize how radically different and unexpected other people’s experiences are from your own.
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What the world craves is differentiation—the things that other people could never have imagined on their own.
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