– Massive gene sequencing enables millions of varieties of thousands of varieties of crops to be completely understood to guide rapid cross breeding – Big data analysis enables understanding how to optimally combine desired traits – Robotic cross breeding enables dozens of desired traits to be successfully combined The result is a constant stream of …
Lester Brown, Julian Cribb and others who predict that the world will head into an era of food scarcity and rampant famine are wrong … again. Ehrlich and Malthus were wrong too They’re wrong, and their virulent strain of technopessimism—which is finding lots of resonance in the media these days—has been wrong for a long …
In 2008, Scott Aaronson said Even if D-Wave managed to build (say) a coherent 1,024-qubit machine satisfying all of its design specs, it’s not obvious it would outperform a classical computer on any problem of practical interest. This is true both because of the inherent limitations of the adiabatic algorithm, and because of specific concerns …
The southern half of the roof of the new Vikings football stadium will be comprised of a transparent ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) membrane supported by steel People might be familiar with ETFE from seeing it on the Beijing National Aquatics Center, commonly known as the Water Cube, during the 2008 Summer Olympics. “They talk about it …
1. Alex Selby has written his own specialist solver for one class of the McGeoch and Wang benchmarks that significantly outperforms the software (and D-Wave quantum annealing machine) tested by McGeoch and Wang on those benchmarks—and who provides the Python code. Summary Preliminary conclusions * FPTYTO ~= 10^5 faster than D-Wave (439 qubit) for Quadratic …
The technology exists to develop a ground based telescope with a 77 meter (250 foot) mirror at lower cost if it is used for narrow field study. It could do a survey of earth sized planets out to 60 light years The Colossus Telescope, a high-resolution, 77-meter multiple-mirror giant instrument, will have the ability to …
MIT researchers think they know why when you double a city’s population that its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. Not only does total productivity increase with increased population, but so does per-capita productivity. Increases in urban population density give residents greater opportunity for face-to-face interaction. Nature Communication – Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie …
Drones are projected to be mostly utilized for precision agriculture and public safety (police, medical and fire departments). One industry group projects an $82 billion economic impact from drones operating in the U.S. in 2015-2025. Precision agriculture management practices can significantly reduce the amount of nutrient and other crop inputs used while boosting yields. Farmers …
Broad group of China’s factory mass produced skyscrapers are a major disruptive technology. This will be a disruption of real estate with a profitable technology and sustainable business model Broad Group has plans to get 30% of the global construction market. It could take until about 2025 instead of 2020. The Global construction industry will …
How do you create disruptive change ? How do you identify targets for disruption opportunities ? What approaches can achieve sustainable advantage and disruption ? What does disruption really mean ? Disruption is not just better, cheaper and faster. What Disruption Really Means Just being “better, cheaper, faster,” does not mean they are disruptive. A …
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) has demonstrated that a live rabbit could wear contact lenses fitted with inorganic light-emitting diode with no side effects. This new class of hybrid transparent and stretchable electrode paves the way for flexible displays, solar cells, and electronics. UNIST scientists have combined graphene with silver nanowires to …