The Atlantic – It is commonly believed that Japan was the economic juggernaut of world trade of the late 1980s, which, we are told, has been mired in stagnation ever since. The argument is made that Japan is technological know how behind the made in China boom. Question 1: Given that Japan’s current account surplus …
Economist – Expectations for India’s economic growth rate have been sliding inexorably. In the early spring there was still heady talk about 9-10% being the new natural rate of expansion, a trajectory which if maintained would make the country an economic superpower in a couple of decades. Now things look very different. The latest GDP …
Greencarcongress – Honda will change the design and manufacturing processes to make their card 10% lighter Cars that are lighter are more fuel efficient Some of Honda’s new manufacturing methods involve welding outer panels to the frame, rather than assembling the ceiling, side and other panels, to reduce the use of bolts and reinforcing materials. …
China will allow commercial use of IPV6 internet in 2015 IPV6 can have speeds up to 10 gigabytes per second and have a trillion times more internet addresses for new types of applications. Clarification (H/T to commenters) – The next-generation IPV6 network is faster because of the underlying physical infrastructure, wires/fibers and hardware. The speed …
1. Energy Revolution – Mass produced fission, fusion, and maybe cold fusion 2. Memristors and other significant computing and electronic improvements. 3. Robotics 4. Urbanization Broad Group skyscrapers, Tata flat packed buildings 5. Space 6. Supersmartphones, exoskeletons and wearable systems 7. Hyperbroadband 8. Energy Efficiency – superconductors, thermoelectrics, improved grid 9. Additive manufacturing 10. Not …
Wired – Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud — a web service that spins up virtual servers whenever you want them — and this nonexistent mega-machine outraced all but 41 of the world’s real supercomputers. Cycle Computing setup a virtual supercomputer for an unnamed pharmaceutical giant that spans 30,000 processor cores, …
Now through 2021 Foxconn and Heartland Robotics and other companies will be driving costs down and capabilities up for robotics for manufacturing and home usage. There should be 100 million to 1 billion highly functional robots by the end of 2021. There will be a new category of robot using smartphones and tablets as the …
In nanopore sequencing, an electric field pulls ions in the water and strands of DNA through a minuscule protein hole or a hole in a solid-state membrane. Because the pore is not much wider than the DNA strand, when a strand passes through the amount of ionic current is altered. Each of the four nucleic …
Technology Review – bouncing wireless signals off the ceiling could boost data transmission speeds by 30 percent. Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to be moved between different machines through relatively slow wiring. In theory, this bottleneck …
1. The Japanese government and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan plan to reconsider Japan’s pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. “Achieving the target has become impossible in any way,” a government source said, because the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has made …
Smoking is a well-known risk factor for lung cancer, but nearly 25% of all lung cancer patients have never smoked. In a study published online today in Genome Research (www.genome.org), researchers have identified a previously unknown gene fusion event that could explain a significant proportion of lung cancer cases in never-smokers, and might serve as …