The CTO of Broadcom believes that standard CMOS transistors will stop scaling around 5 nanometers and networking speeds may not reach petabit speeds. “Moore’s Law is coming to an end—in the next decade it will pretty much come to an end so we have 15 years or so,” Samueli told several dozen Silicon Valley technology …
Here is a projection of world nominal GDP by country using an extrapolation of IMF GDP forecasts through 2018 China’s GDP growth will slowdown after 2018. China’s GDP growth has been slowing the last few years. The projection does give an estimate of the trends in shifting GDP by country. Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
The McKinsey Global Institute identifies 12 technologies that could drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years. Applications of the 12 technologies discussed in the report could have a potential economic impact between $14 trillion and $33 trillion a year in 2025. This estimate is neither predictive nor comprehensive. It is based …
Jonathan Markley provided a report on the Starship conference to Transterrestrial. Futurist Peter Schwartz Schwarz sees 4 possibilities for interstellar ships: 1. Generation ships 2. sleep ships 3. relativistic ships 4. download ships Forgotten types 5. Radically life extended crew 6. Breakthrough physics Freeman Dyson Freeman Dyson sees bio-tech as the way of the future …
Early information from Bigelow Aerospace finds private companies are interested in using a permanent moonbase by the 2020s. A study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows ‘a lot of excitement and interest from various companies’ for moonbases and other space projects. The projects range from pharmaceutical research aboard Earth-orbiting habitats, to missions to the …
Makani Power is being acquired by Google. The Makani Airborne Wind Turbine is a tethered wing that generates power by flying in large circles where the wind is stronger and more consistent. It eliminates 90% of the material used in conventional wind turbines, and can access winds both at higher altitudes and above deep waters …
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Google plans to develop and fund wireless networks in emerging markets as part of a plan to connect a billion or more new people to the Internet. Google plans to team up with local telecommunications firms and equipment providers in the emerging markets to develop the networks, as well as create business models to support …
The Final report of the Mankin Solar power satellite (SSP) satellite NASA NIAC phase 1 study. Nextbigfuture had an interview with Mankin back in June 2012 John Mankins, a longtime U.S. SSP advocate, presented an update on an advanced concept under study with NASA funding known as Solar Power Satellite by means of Arbitrarily Large …
Carnival of Space #303 is up at everyday spacer Large asteroid (285263) 1998 QE2 approaches earth, with the media having fun with the number of cruise ship lengths it is in diameter. Astroswanny captured it from iTelescope.net’s Siding Spring observatory. Chandra Xray telscope blog – A Hidden Population Of Exotic Neutron Stars The Meridiani Journal …
Scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects that float in free space. The easy-to-build lens could lead to improved photolithography, nanoscale manipulation and …