Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he remains "very optimistic" about the future of humanity on Earth, according to CNBC. Bill Gates spends a lot of time sounding the alarm about global existential threats such as climate change and future…
A supercomputer designed to predict patterns in human civilization has made a terrifying prediction that life as we know it will end by 2050. More about this was told by the Daily Star. The supercomputer was created in 1973 by university…
Quotes from the speech of the famous historian Yuval Noah Harari in Davos in 2020 are provided by New Time. The world order is now like a house in which everyone lives, but no one fixes it. He may hold out for a few more years, but if we...
Artificial intelligence has already begun to have a big impact on the world, and this scares developers, according to HITEK. Artificial intelligence specialist, founder of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor Stuart Russell, said that his colleagues are "scared" ...
Marketers claim that there are people who are willing to pay a lot of money for so-called superfoods, for example, for ooze (thread) from a pond. Writes about this BBC. According to the UN, the world's population will grow to 2023 billion by 8, but recent studies show ...
35 years ago, on the eve of 1984, the Canadian edition of The Star, impressed by George Orwell's "1984" prophetic dystopia, asked the famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov to write a forecast article about what, in his opinion, awaits humanity in 2019. The year was not chosen by chance. Orwellian masterpiece ...
About 91 million people a month build cities and universes in popular video games. Urbanists look at these human resources with envy and hope. Imagine what happens if you channel the passion of gamers to solve real-life urban problems? This was found out by the Lifehacker edition. A big plus of gamification is how it allows you to get as much involved in the world as possible ...
Scientists have concluded that humanity has already affected the global carbon cycle more strongly than the asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Writes about this Mail.Ru. Experts analyzed the data collected in the framework of the Deep Carbon Observatory program. They tracked changes in the carbon cycle over the past 500 million years. In the past, carbon streams ...
The Israeli medieval historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of the world bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He spoke about his vision of future work and how a person will change ...