1. Charging superconductors will get a lot more efficient and cost effective 2. Superconducting magnets could achieve 50 tesla in about 5 years 3. Superconducting wire should cost about 4 times less on a price performance basis in three years 4. Superconducting motors should be in a few hundred or a few thousand vehicles by …
Here is the AWARE2 Multiscale Gigapixel Camera website This program is focused on building wide-field, video-rate, gigapixel cameras in small, low-cost form factors. Traditional monolithic lens designs, must increase f/# and lens complexity and reduce field of view as image scale increases. In addition, traditional electronic architectures are not designed for highly parallel streaming and …
DARPA plans to offer a $2 million prize to whomever can help push the state-of-the-art in robotics beyond today’s capabilities in support of the DoD’s disaster recovery mission. DARPA’s Robotics Challenge will launch in October 2012. Teams are sought to compete in challenges involving staged disaster-response scenarios in which robots will have to successfully navigate …
Guest Post by Joseph Friedlander Bolonkin has stated, All useful things, which we see around us everyday, were developed from new concepts, ideas researched in the rather recent past. This fact is gracefully, eloquently, and comprehensively outlined in Robert Friedel’s A CULTURE OF IMPROVEMENT: TECHNOLOGY AND THE WESTERN MILLENNIUM (MIT Press, 2007). Joseph Friedlander summarizes …
Among the predictions that I made in 2006 (about 6 years ago) were two predictions on China’s economy. China second largest economy in straight currency conversion measures 2013-2015 China largest economy in PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) terms 2009-2012 China overtook Japan in 2010 in terms of being the second largest economy in currency conversion measuers. …
The Nextbigfuture nuclear launch gun has been described several times. It is a one pulse variant of a project orion external pulse propulsion system. It is simple though dramatic: Dig a kilometers deep shaft—a salt layer would be easiest to penetrate (some exist 3.5 kilometers thick) —build at the bottom a giant shell, from components …
FARS News – Israeli sources confirmed that the terrorist attack which killed a senior Iranian scientist in Tehran on Wednesday was a joint operation carried out by the agents of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, and the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). The magnetic bomb which was planted by an unknown motorcyclist under the …
Gary Michael Church makes the case for reviving project Orion on the Lifeboat Foundation blog (H/T Centauri Dreams) Psychological limits of human beings limit space journeys to a few years. Chemical propulsion is not capable of taking human beings to the outer solar system and back within those crew limits. The solution is a reaction …
This site has looked at a revised list of technologies for a Mundane Singularity This article will focus on what should be the developments in those areas that will have the biggest impact by Dec, 2016. The Mundane Singularity still has a normal adoption and deployment cycle. So the impact will increase over time. ie. …
This site has looked at a Mundane Singularity before and often about getting to higher rates of economic growth and wealth. Previously I talked about a Mundane Singularity with how much : 1. Economic abundance 2. Radical life extension 3. Physical and Cognitive enhancement 4. Blood Stream Robots 5. Supermaterials 6. Open Access to space …
