Summary Artificial Intelligence (AI), used increasingly, mostly relieves humans from boring tasks, so its hard to recognise. AI grew 270% over the last 4 years and is growing 54% year on year. The public believes AI will replace jobs but that is unlikely. It frees up humans to do what they are good at, being…
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Summary Cryptocurrencies, based on the blockchain, took off in 2021, at one stage reaching US$3 Trillion and this blog relates to likely future applications. You may have noticed the increasing newspaper commentary. Unfortunately, most reports are inevitably about Bitcoin because it is the original and biggest crypto. However, about 11,000 so called Altcoins (Alternatives to…
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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 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 –70∘C and Moderna’s at…
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Brief Summary 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 are based…
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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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