Complex decisions that sapient beings must make.
What if great white sharks threaten sea otters? Dilemmas are on the rise in an increasingly disrupted environment.
- By David Shiffman on June 3, 2019
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Category: futurism
There’s a giant contradiction in the middle of the Arizona desert: an experimental city designed for thousands that now contains only a few dozen inhabitants.
For nearly five decades, a group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working to build a city that would inspire a new future of urban design. Today, the project is only 5 percent complete.
Called Arcosanti, the city was envisioned by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, whose dream was to create an advanced urban laboratory where everyday activities could be powered by Earth’s natural resources.
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Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff measures the depth of a grave as the remote sensing research project gets underway.
Amy Smotherman Burgess/Knoxville News Sentinel/Zuma.
Mundorff knew from her own searches for buried murder victims in the United States that investigators often fail locate hidden graves, but she didn’t expect it to be so difficult in Bosnia-Herzegovina: The country is smaller than Louisiana, and the whereabouts of 8,000 people remain unknown.
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Ford partnered with Agility Robotics to create Digit, a two-legged robot that could deliver your packages straight to your door in the future. Ford claims this robot can carry packages up to 40 pounds, navigate stairs, and go around unexpected obstacles.
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