Nossa produtividade no futuro (Vídeo: 6:18)

Productivity Future Vision (2011). Este é o nome do vídeo, que mostra como será nossa produtividade no futuro. (...) Prever um futuro tecnológico, hiper-conectado e com a Internet integrando tudo (...), facilitando as atividades diárias, melhorando a concentração, fortalecendo as relações e (...) aumentando a produtividade no trabalho. (...) Observe que parte dos vídeos conceituais trabalham com produtos (...) "clean", ou seja, com design tão funcional, que (...) botões físicos ou outro tipo de agressão visual se torna desnecessário. Vide os produtos da Apple. Por Cleyton Carlos Torres, jornalista e blogueiro. Saiba mais em http://goo.gl/WJtMv.

2011 State of the Future

The Millennium Project’s 2011 State of the Future Report, due out August 1, finds that while people are getting richer, healthier, better educated, and living longer, and the world is more peaceful and better connected, half of the world is potentially unstable.

Food prices are rising, water tables are falling, corruption and organized crime is increasing, environmental viability for life support is diminishing, debt and economic insecurity are increasing, climate change continues, and the gap between the rich and poor is widening dangerously. People voting in elections, corruption, people killed or injured in terrorist attacks, and refugees and displaced persons are also identified as key problems. The world is in a race between implementing ever-increasing ways to improve the human condition and the seemingly ever-increasing complexity and scale of global problems. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/3oN8q.

Where we are winning. An international Delphi panel selected more than 100 indicators of progress or regress for the 15 Global Challenges. Indicators were then chosen that had at least 20 years of reliable historical data and later, where possible, were matched with variables used in the International Futures model. The resulting 28 variables were integrated into the State of the Future Index with a 10-year projection. (Credit: The Millennium Project)

Where we are losing (credit: The Millennium Project)

Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

Max Brockman introduces the work of today’s brightest and most innovative young scientists in this fascinating collection of writings, describing the very boundaries of our knowledge. Future Science features 19 scientists, most of whom are presenting their innovative work and ideas to a general audience. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/yfy80.

Autonomous machines, networks and robots will self-improve in the future

Autonomous machines, networks and robots will self-improve in the future by publishing their own upgrade suggestions on the Internet, says Sandor Veres of the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Engineering and the Environment. This leap to increased autonomy will be facilitated by machines and humans publishing information. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/U8W8l. 

Block diagram of knowledge generation, sharing between humans and machines, and its distribution via publications (credit: S.M. Veres).

Wireless power cut cord of patients with implanted heart pumps

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have tested a wireless power system for ventricular assist devices (mechanical pumps to give failing hearts a boost), or VADs. VAD were developed as temporary measures for patients awaiting a heart transplant. Technology has evolved and these ventricular assist devices operate in patients for years. Using the wireless system means no power cord poking through the skin, reducing the risk of infection and improving the patient’s quality of life. (...) Researchers envision a future where patients would install transmission coils in their homes and workplaces to create zones where the implant would receive uninterrupted power. (...) Know more at http://goo.gl/64Xqv.

Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future — and Locked Us In

Steve Jobs didn’t know what he had on hands when announced original iPhone as a “3 revolutionary products” — iPod, cell phone and keyboard-less handheld computer. Since Apple introduced App Store and opened it up to outside developers, iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions — now more than 350,000 and counting. Know more at http://goo.gl/BY74y.

Transcendent Man, the film about the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil

Transcendent Man by director Barry Ptolemy introduces the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, the renowned futurist who journeys the world offering his vision of a future in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are billions of times more intelligent... all within the next 30 years. Read more on http://goo.gl/uew03.

Forever online: Your digital legacy

May 3, 2011

Source Link: New Scientist

Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the Internet age. It includes: The fate of your online soul: We are the first people in history to create vast online records of (…).

BBC Horizon (1964) with Arthur C. Clarke

In 1964, Arthur C. Clarke makes some scarily accurate predictions about the future we now know, even to the latest breakthroughs of today and things to come. Most likely from the episode "The Knowledge Explosion" from the very first series, broadcast on 21st Sept 1964 - thanks to whoever found the info.

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