Thursday, December 2, 2010

What Comes Next: Experts Predict the Future (preview)

 Image: Jason Holley

 Ten experts in science and technology describe the revolutions they see as already happening or that will in the near future.Our lives already rely on fragile information networks, and will soon be constantly recorded.  We will be able to shape our own biology and to produce food for all in sustainable way.Breakthroughs in science will lead us to wean ourselves from fossil fuels, create new forms of life, explain the riddle of consciousness and understand what makes us human..

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The Age of Digital Entanglement


By Danny Hillis


On November 19, 2009, a single circuit board inside a computer router in Salt Lake City failed. The glitch cascaded, preventing air traffic control computers nationwide from communicating. Hundreds of flights were canceled. On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones industrial average inexplicably plummeted almost 1,000 points in minutes, only to mysteriously rise before the day ended. Had the “flash crash” not reversed itself, a global financial meltdown would have ensued.

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