When completed in 2020, this will be one of the world’s largest planetariums.
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Category: futurism
The Plague Has Been Reported in Idaho: Here’s What You Need to Know
A case of plague has been diagnosed in Idaho, but you don’t need to cancel your trip to Boise just yet. This is not the first time plague has cropped up in the United States, and it probably won’t be the last. And officials know what to do when a case does pop up.
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How the Earth’s continents will look 250 million years from now
Speaking of Pangaea, this video shows how the present-day continents came to be formed from the Pangaea supercontinent about 240 million years ago, then shows what the Earth’s surface might look like 250 million years in the future, if the tectonic plates continue to move in predictable ways.
I hope this explanation is helpful. Of course all of this is scientific speculation, we will have to wait and see what happens, but this is my projection based on my understanding of the forces that drive plate motions and the history of past plate motions. Remember: “The past reveals patterns; Patterns inform process; Process permits prediction.”
Look at how quickly India slams into the Asian continent…no wonder the Himalayas are so high.
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The asteroid rush sending 21st-century prospectors into space
A race is on to mine billions of dollars in resources from the solar system’s asteroids, fuelling our future among the stars.
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Microsoft and Build 2018: Using AI-powered productivity to create the office of the future
Imagine meetings that document themselves using AI tools to add real-time translation and accessibility support. How much of that is the future and how much can you do today?
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Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee should know what he is talking about, when he says ‘Celebrity damages private life’. The person who is considered to be the inventor of the World Wide Web was on June 8, 1955.
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