This is an idea whose time is coming, but it requires that we value citizens over corporations.
Originally shared by Jane Rakali
May 1st is coming up, a day to share links and promote the idea of Universal Income worldwide. This article describes what it is, how it can be paid for and the benefits.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-we-should-all-have-a-basic-income
After some publication delays, my first professional sale, “Taking Pro,” is out in this anthology.
What happens when scientists who’ve taken their own pro-sociality treatment encounter a senator who’s only out for his own benefit?
Via Singularity Hub, a story from 27 April that sounds like it should have been published 26 days earlier. I’m profoundly skeptical that this approach is feasible, but if you waved your hands hard enough you could probably sell it in a story.
Linda Teppler might like this one.
Originally shared by Arduino
FarmBot.io’s open source CNC machine is helping automate small-scale food production.
(via Make:)
The importance of this advance should not be eclipsed by the fact that the article blithely ignores: if you’re turning CO2 into fuel in order to then burn it again, you are not, in the long term, reducing atmospheric CO2.
Originally shared by CM Stewart
https://futurism.com/new-breakthrough-work-finally-lets-us-trigger-artificial-photosynthesis/
Originally shared by ExtremeTech
Incredible.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/248380-new-prosthetic-arm-powered-bluetooth-brainwaves
Critique is hard to take, sometimes. It’s also hard to give, or at least hard to give well. These are some good basics.
Notably missing from this analysis, because he doesn’t fit into the tropes: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan, who isn’t cured (his disabilities grow worse through the series), doesn’t become notably resentful, doesn’t become a villain, and isn’t either sexless or, really, a sage.
It would be nice to have more examples – I know there are a few, but when the main go-to example that everyone mentions is a series that started in the 80s, we’re failing to pick up the gauntlet.
Originally shared by Walter Roberson
Mike Reeves-McMillan​
CRISPR, originally a defence developed by bacteria against viruses, could be repurposed to target antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
CRISPR Pill May Be Key in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance http://bit.ly/2q5YApV
Not all of these necessarily fit with my style, but they’re food for thought nonetheless.
Originally shared by Bublish
#Authors are you having trouble developing an idea into a great story? http://ow.ly/7NI330bb6D4 #amreading #writingtip