Worldwide debt increased to $281 trillion and worldwide debt-to-GDP ratio is now over 355%. The Institute of International Finance’s global debt monitor estimated government support programs were half of the rise, while global firms, banks and households added $5.4 trillion, 3.9 trillion and $2.6 trillion respectively. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis the debt-to-GDP jumped 10 …
A European consortium was launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. This will be a four-year 15 million euro projecte named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon). It will be coordinated by CEA-Leti and will lay the foundation for the EU’s industrial-scale implementation of semiconductor quantum processors and position Europe as a global …
A visionary EU 6G research project, called RISE-6G, will create next-generation wireless connectivity. RISE-6G will design, prototype and test smart and energy-sustainable technological advances based on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) that will enable programmable control and shaping of the wireless propagation environment. They expect to deploy by 2030. They will use surfaces of diode-based antennas …
CEA-Leti scientists have opened a pathway to large-scale integration of Si-spin qubits using existing flip-chip processes with die-to-wafer 3D-interconnect technologies developed in-house. They determined electrical characterizations at cryogenic temperatures of chip assemblies made with 3D interconnects such as SnAg microbumps and direct Cu bonded pads from Cu/SiO2 hybrid bonding process. SnAg microbumps have the advantage …
Researchers were able to communicate with people who were in REM sleep and asked them math problems and yes/no questions to prove the person was responding to questions and was communicating. Researchers asked an 19-year-old American participant to subtract six from eight while he was in a lucid dream, and he correctly signaled the answer …
China has a sodium-cooled, pool-type fast reactor. It was refueled and had maintenance at the end of July 2020. It completed a power test phase last year. The reactor has a thermal capacity of 65 MW and can produce 20 MW in electrical power. The CEFR was built by Russia’s OKBM Afrikantov in collaboration with …
You have chosen not to invest in Tesla and missed more than a 100 times runup in stock price. Now you are still “scared” to invest in Tesla. You think maybe the other car makers will catch up. A car expert, Sandy Munro, tells you that legacy carmakers will not catch up. They needed to …
The 2019 revision of the World Population Prospects (WPP), the United Nations projected that the world’s population would grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.9 billion in 2100. These figures are based on the “medium variant” projection, which assumes a decline in fertility for …
The Tesla Factory in Berlin is looking very close to finishing the first main buildings and they have made great progress installing equipment. The Tesla factory in Texas is also making great progress. SOURCES- Tesla, Youtube Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com (Brian owns shares of Tesla) Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …
How quickly will all cars and trucks become electric? How quickly will we have thousands of reusable rockets? We can see the future being developed but the speed of transformation and the speed of the next transformation depends upon how successful we are in reinventing the factory. In 2016, Tesla and Elon Musk said they …
Nextbigfuture has covered many of the ideas of Alexander Bolonkin. Bolonkin He was a Russian-American scientist and academic who worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries. He died on Christmas day 2020 at the age of 87. Bolonkin held 17 patents. He proposed the idea of domed cities as a protection against nuclear …