Some day you may see a workman replacing a location sign designating Silicon Valley. In its place the new sign could read Nanotube Valley, or maybe Graphene Gulch. That is improbable at best, but could be more accurate. Researchers are anticipating the day when it will be impossible to further miniaturize [...]
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Futurist and scientist/inventor Ray Kurzweil welcomes the new year with predictions of how technology will change humanity by 2020. Solar power on steroids, longer lives, the chance to get rid of obesity once and for all, and portable computing devices that start becoming part of your body rather than being held in your hand are among [...] Professor Leon Chua There is a new word lurking in the arcane language of electronics that may describe a breakthrough in the science of artificial intelligence. It is “memristor”.The more familiar elements of electronic circuits are resistors, capacitors and inductors. An electronics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, Leon Chua, was convinced there was a [...] Tim Berners-Lee Is Web 2.0 a distinctly different application of Internet technology or, as Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee described it a “piece of jargon”? This is a serious question for marketing executives grappling with issues about where to spend advertising and promotion dollars in puzzling economic times.Initially the Web was used as a way of publishing [...] Forler Massnick For about 90 years the leaders of society have been implored to THINK, most notably by IBM which adopted it as a slogan. That’s not good enough for today’s tumultuous times, according to the author of a book on the subject. The imperative watchword today is RETHINK. It keeps showing up [...] Innovation is a subject frequently on the agendas of board meetings. In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Jeffrey Cohn of the consulting firm Spencer Stuart, who has been studying this subject for many years, wrote, ?most companies do a magnificent job of smothering the creative spark.? Eliminating these five common mistakes can go a [...] Tired of recharging the numerous electronic devices that have become an esssential part of your lifestyle, and the snarl of wires involved? You can take heart in a ferment of technical development occurring at MIT where they have demonstrated wireless power transfer, and Texas Instruments where self-charging electronics and energy-efficient microchips are in the news. MIT refers to its concept as WiTricity (wireless electricity), making it possible for cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable elecronics to charge themselves without ever being plugged in. It is accomplished by coupling resonant objects of the same frequency. The technology is rooted in well known laws of physics. |
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