Companies hire futurists to spot new media and marketing technologies. Futurists need to be deeply insightful about people, groups, markets, business models and business. New extinction events are arising. My view is that some of these things existed and we just did not know about them. The threat level is not rising by that much, …
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Government census and statistics agenciesUS census bureauUS statsStatistics CanadaList of international statistics agencies the Economist magazine, EIU publications and Economist Intelligence Unit Studies on Wealthy people in the world World Wealth Report 2005 by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini High-Net-Worth Wealth Grows Strongly at Over 8 Percent, Surpassing $30 Trillion in 2004, According to Merrill …
Last month an essay that I wrote on what will happen to employment after nanofactories are created appeared in the February nanotech-now report. In March, an essay about predicting the future and a set of predictions that I made will appear in the nanotech-now report. Over several articles on this site I will post up …
there is an interesting article at a longevity site. It discusses what happened with Drexler and MNT. The attacks on Drexler – and on advanced nanomedicine at one point –were really quite beyond the pale. It was all a part of short-termistposturing on the part of certain pigs scrabbling at the governmenttrough; pretty despicable stuff. …
Process for creating organized nanotube arrays developed This process could allow polymer/nanotube mixes to retain more of the strength and superior characteristics of nanotubes. A team of researchers has developed a new process to make flexible, conducting ‘nano skins’ for a variety of applications, from electronic paper to sensors for detecting chemical and biological agents. …
Chemistry professor Weitao Yang and two post doctoral associates proposed a computer-assisted way to find novel and superior materials. “linear combination of atomic potentials” (LCAP), is a property of all molecules. LCAP accounts for energy relationships between electrons and associated nuclei in the atoms making up all possible molecules. Using LCAP would enable targeted searches …
Efforts to link nanotubes have usually begun with the most familiar kind, cylinders whose structure is equivalent to one or more rolled-up sheets of a layered crystal like graphite. Now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, have found a completely new …
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s mobile phone giant, has achieved 2.5 gigabits-per-second packet transmission in a fourth-generation radio access field experiment. This speed is 6,510 times faster than the current third-generation FOMA mobile series, the Sankei Shimbun reported Friday.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who recently reported that DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes could serve as sensors in living cells now say the tiny tubes can be used to target specific DNA sequences. Potential applications for the new sensors range from rapid detection of hazardous biological agents to simpler and more efficient forensic …
Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have succeeded in growing mature taste receptor cells outside the body and for the first time have been able to successfully keep the cells alive for a prolonged period of time (10-14 days). The establishment of a viable long-term model opens a range of new opportunities to increase …