Summary The Metaverse is an artificial 3D setting in which anyone can mix with other people from anywhere via avatars in a setting anywhere in the world. See also AR/VR blog. Much work is being done to replace avatars with real world holograms of the participants. Covid remote working has accelerated the development to make…
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Summary Big businesses such as Google long ago started changing the way people work. They ditched 9 to 5, allowed employees to take holidays when they want them, work when they want. Google provides free facilities to eat (gourmet food all day), rest, play, meditate, sleep. Also to exercise in a variety of gyms, holiday,…
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Summary Climate Change has been debated for decades. It has long been known by experts and now accepted by the majority of the public, that the science is settled. Most first world countries are taking action. Technology is and has been developed to clean up the atmosphere from greenhouse gas emissions shown in the chart…
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Summary Future Covids and Vaccines: The rapid availability of vaccines for Covid19 shows how far the technology has progressed. Previously, mainly due to red tape for approval, it took about 10 years. Most successful are the mRNA (messenger RNA – synthetic and genetically engineered) types from Pfizer and Moderna. But Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be stored at…
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Brief Summary Quantum Computing: The computers we use today (Classical Computers, CCs) use transistors which can be off or on, 2 states, ‘go and no go’ or 0 and 1. Quantum (Quantum means the smallest possible unit of any physical property) Computers (QCs) use cubits relying on subatomic particles, ions, photons, electrons and atoms. QCs…
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What is CRISPR? 4 scientists developed CRISPR to edit DNA in 2012. This was recognised as the breakthrough of the year in 2015. Its first application is to eliminate hereditary diseases, either in a person’s body and/or eliminating it from all future children. After that, it may be used to eliminate most diseases. It has…
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What is the Khan Academy? In 2004, Salman Khan began tutoring his younger cousin, Nadia, in maths over the internet, then other cousins. Such was the interest from YouTube watchers, he quit his job as a hedge fund analyst to start the not for profit Khan Academy full time. Salman “Sal” Khan aged 44, son of…
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Introduction Growing acceptance by voters of data from climate change experts is pushing most first world governments into action. Also, last year saw a huge shift by industry, some realising court actions will make them act and/or shareholders will desert them, see Events … below. Others see the profitability and new job opportunities. They need…
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A Huge New Industry IoT will be a US$1.1 Trillion industry in 2021, so big that we should find out more about it. There will be 50 Billion ‘Things’ by 2030, with 5G driving market growth. While it is a strange title, ‘Things’ refer to anything that can be measured. By connecting these Things to…
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Video Gaming – What is It? I knew very little about video gaming until my 9 year old grandson told me last week he woke at 2am. He was so excited he couldn’t get back to sleep, so I asked why. Apparently his father (my son) said he could try a borrowed Nintendo Switch at…
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While not particularly related to Hydrogen, for those who think technology development is not increasing exponentially, consider this from Brownstone Research. “A quantum computer has solved in 3 seconds, a problem that the world’s most powerful ‘Super Computer’ would take 10,000 years”! Now to our blog subject. Why Hydrogen? Increasing pressure from climate change is…
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Evolving Future The 38 predictions below were sent to this blog by email but the source is unknown. While some are over dramatic and exaggerated, they are generally true. Only the timing is unknown. The changing world is for the vast all ways, not just those listed below. For Example, Omitted Are, How: “38 Interesting…
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What is CBDC? Stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. About 80 countries are considering a CBDC to better control money. It would be produced by each country’s Central Bank (CB), sometimes referred to as Federal or Reserve Bank. China is experimenting with the digital yuan because they want to stop the $US dominating world trade.…
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What’s Good about Nuclear Fusion? The ultimate energy source, safe, clean and virtually limitless: 1 kilogram of hydrogen fusion fuel = 10,000 tonnes of coal, a ratio of 1: 10 Million It is available 24/7, so way better than solar, wind, hydrogen, etc. However, producing it is difficult and it may be a long way off. But…
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What is AI? AI Artificial Intelligence: This subject is so important, it will be dealt with in several blogs. This one is introductory and general, but later blogs will deal with applications in more detail. Scientists have been working on AI for a long time with spasmodic, stop start progress. It is unseen to most…
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Introduction In the US, big money is being invested in Vertical Farming (VF). For instance, Bowery Farming backed by Google’s Alphabet and Square Roots, founded by Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal. Also the innovative startup InFarm which has leafy greens growing right at the selling face, in supermarkets. VF is a fertile space for development right…
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CRISPR I am so ancient, I don’t even buy green bananas, but there is hope – read on! You may not have heard of CRISPR (pronounced ‘crisper’, an acronym for “Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats”) but scientists can now edit genes in plants, animals and humans. With CRISPR, they can make these edits…
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