Business Week has 2014 predictions for 55 industries, interviews executives and leaders and predicts the $40 tablet

Business Week has a detailed look at 2014. They have a detailed look at 55 global industries, from tech to banking and energy to retail. The Aakash 4, a 7-inch Android tablet developed by British manufacturer Datawind and India’s Ministry of Human Resources Development. Datawind Chief Executive Officer Suneet Tuli said at a Wired conference …

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John Slough Personally Explains his Fusion Rocket and Fusion Energy Systems in Videos and Presentations

John Slough gives a presentation of his direct fusion drive rocket and his fusion energy system. * they create ionized gases in two regions * they create plasmoids (balls out of the ionized gases) * they use magnets to accelerate and collide the gas * they implode a metal liner around the plasmoids * they …

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John Slough Personally Explains his Fusion Rocket and Fusion Energy Systems in Videos and Presentations

John Slough gives a presentation of his direct fusion drive rocket and his fusion energy system. * they create ionized gases in two regions * they create plasmoids (balls out of the ionized gases) * they use magnets to accelerate and collide the gas * they implode a metal liner around the plasmoids * they …

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NASA quantum computer experts available for interviews next week

As of Nov. 13, 2013, NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California’s Silicon Valley will begin facilitating news media interviews about its new quantum computing efforts. In a partnership with Google and independent, nonprofit research corporation Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Ames has established the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) at its NASA …

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Solar – Electric Ion Engines Designed with Simple to Advanced Molecular Nanotechnology Requirements

Tom McKendree has written many major papers on the performance improvements that can be achieved by applying molecular nanotechnology to space systems. Tom McKendree is now working at Raytheon and has an updated analysis of solar electric ion engines using different levels of molecular nanotechnology (none, simple, complex and advanced) Technology Levels No MNT — …

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The most popular articles of Nextbigfuture

Nextbigfuture will be reaching 35 million pageviews at the end of this month and will shortly reach 14000 articles. Nextbigfuture has had 14,500 comments in the last 3 months. The All-time most popular Nextbigfuture articles are 1. Technical hurdles have been overcome for the first human head transplant. [343,000 pageviews, 6100 facebook shares, 346 tweets, …

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What is the monetary value of the ocean ?

Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is a co-editor of “Valuing the Ocean” a major new study by an international team of scientists and economists that attempts to measure the ocean’s monetary value and to tally the costs and savings associated with human decisions affecting ocean health. The study estimates that …

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Richard Obousy on Alcubierre and Casimir Warp Drives

Dr. Richard Obousy describes an advanced space-propulsion concept based on modifying the local cosmological constant to facilitate an expansion/contraction of spacetime around a spacecraft to create an exotic form of field-propulsion. This idea is analogous to the Alcubierre bubble, but differs entirely in the approach, utilizing the physics of higher dimensional quantum field theory, instead …

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$1.3 billion european graphene research project kicks off

Graphene Flagship – the EU’s biggest research initiative ever, and, according to the European Commission, ‘history’s greatest distinction for excellent research’– is closely linked to the Graphene Centre at Chalmers. With a budget of EUR one billion, the Graphene Flagship is tasked with taking graphene from the realm of academic laboratories into European society in …

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Canada could have more people and larger economy than Japan by 2080

The case for increasing Canada’s population to 100 million has been made in Canada’s leading newspaper the Globe and Mail in 2012. Canada should build its population to a size – at least 100 million – that will allow it to determine its own future, maintain its standard of living against the coming challenges and …

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