Scientists from the United States have simulated time travel using the IBM-Q quantum computer, writes Esquire. Based on their research, they concluded that there is no butterfly effect in the quantum world. The butterfly effect is a scientific term whose meaning is ...
The coronavirus pandemic, mass protests in the United States over the assassination of George Floyd, the intrigue lingering on the eve of the American elections ... It seems that a series of completely unpredictable events is taking place in the world that can change the course of history. However, associate professor of the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems of MGIMO, member of ...
In Sweden, mass chipping of the population began in the spring of this year. People implant a microchip between their thumb and forefinger, which replaces all plastic cards and all kinds of keys and passes that a person usually carries with him. And if a year ago in this way ...
People built bunkers in case of the end of the world, imagined a meeting with their own clone and were eager to meet aliens, but it did not work out. “Lifehacker” remembered what expectations of mankind excited the whole world, but never came true. The end of the world according to the Mayan calendar The probability of a catastrophe on a planetary scale ...
Составляя прогнозы, футурологи опираются на знания в социологии, экономики, физике, антропологии и инженерии. Приправляя всё фантазией. Иногда она заводит учёных слишком далеко. Издания «Лайфхакер» перечитали предсказания за последние 100 лет и нашли самые удивительные. 1. Пальцы на ногах исчезнут Вместо…
Of course, science fiction writers have long been flirting with the topic of virtual reality, growing artificial meat and more, but who thought about it seriously? Technology does not stand still, and an incredible future awaits us, according to Lifehacker. 1. Terraforming Technology that will help return the natural landscape...
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari has released a new book - "21 lessons for the XXI century." Harari's previous work, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humanity, became a New York Times bestseller and won several awards. If the author's previous books explained the history of mankind, then in the new work ...
If someone sometimes wonders how soon robots will become for us the same familiar thing in the house as a refrigerator, then Ray Kurzweil does not guess, but names the year - 2027. Why is he so sure of this? Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, futurist, writer, and Google CTO for machine learning and natural language processing. He is known…
A 13-year-old schoolboy from California, Savva Osipov, participates in electronics hackathons, invents and assembles various devices, and is also a starter - in 2016, he invented the WOWCube gaming device (Cubios Inc) and, together with his father Ilya Osipov, made a prototype of it on a 3D printer ...
Here every day the impossible becomes possible. The Internet and iPhones were invented here, cars with autopilot that carry passengers themselves are already being sold here, and for several years they have been working on a project to send people to Mars. “Forum”, by the way, has already written about private initiative...