It might become real.
The speed from concept to execution is one of the impressive things here.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Testing will continue, but Hyperloop One has much bigger plans for the future. The company’s goal is to have three production hyperloops completed by 2021.
Combining biological and non-biological engineering.
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
How Mushrooms Could Repair Our Crumbling Infrastructure. A fungus that grows on concrete and promotes the growth of calcium carbonate could help repair roads and bridges, materials scientists say. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608717/how-mushrooms-could-repair-our-crumbling-infrastructure/
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608717/how-mushrooms-could-repair-our-crumbling-infrastructure/
For your military SF medic needs.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
It sounds like science fiction: with a light zap of electricity, a tiny stamp-like device transforms your skin cells into reservoirs of blood vessels or brain cells, ready to heal you from within.
As the great C.L. Moore taught us, relationships and emotions make SF better. Here are some reflections on SF in which those elements are central.
Originally shared by Cora Foerstner
Future romance: how science fiction is predicting our relationships
#scifi #love
For my fellow steampunk authors who want to feature alternative computers in their stories.
Originally shared by HACKADAY
We’ve always been fascinated at the number of ways logic gates can spring into being. Sure, we think of logic gates carrying electrons, but there are so many other mechanical means to do the same thing. Another method that sometimes has a practical use is…
http://hackaday.com/2017/08/19/logic-gates-under-air-pressure/
To read later.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
“Thousands of years from now whatever we evolve into, whatever we become, we’re going to look back at these next couple of decades as the moment in time that the human race moved off the planet irreversibly,” Diamandis said. “It’s on our watch. It’s right here, right now that we’re becoming a multiplanetary species which is an extraordinary thought.”
Note the specific mention of a closed door on certain science-fictional scenarios (though who’s to say that door will remain closed)?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Gene Editing in Human Embryos Leaps Forward—Here’s the Science http://suhub.co/2wNjH3y
More humane drug testing.
Originally shared by Deborah Teramis Christian
“Organ on a chip” – wow!
https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/harvard-mit-liver-chip-narrows-gap-vitro-vivo-drug-tests-120088/
Jobs of the sort that are traditionally done by women – that is, jobs that require a human to respond to another human in a flexible way – are the hardest to automate.
Laura Gibbs will probably like this one (apart from the MOOCs).
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Why Education Is the Hardest Sector of the Economy to Automate http://suhub.co/2vSbjSX
This sounds like pseudoscience, but apparently it’s real. In mice, at least.