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Harvesting Vehicles’ Waste Heat

Posted on June 7, 2012
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An innovative car-exhaust mechanism could raise cars’ energy efficiency by 20%.

Preview of Future Inventions—Futurists: BetaLaunch 2012

Posted on June 6, 2012
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By Kenneth J. Moore

The World Future Society’s second annual innovation competition will allow WorldFuture 2012 attendees to preview a few of the life-changing and society-altering artifacts of the future.

From Smart House to Networked Home

Posted on June 6, 2012
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By Chris Carbone and Kristin Nauth

Two foresight specialists describe how tomorrow’s integrated, networked, and aware home systems may change your family life.

The Individual in a Networked World: Two Scenarios

Posted on June 6, 2012
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By Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman

Collaborative agent bots? A walled world under constant surveillance? Two information technology experts parse the future of human–network interaction.

The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020

Posted on June 6, 2012
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By Brian David Johnson

A futurist for Intel shows how geotags, sensor outputs, and big data are changing the future. He argues that we need a better understanding of our relationship with the data we produce in order to build the future we want.

E-Health Futures for Bangladesh

Posted on May 28, 2012
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Can e-health transform the nature of the Bangladeshi health system? If so, how? And who can deliver this vision? To answer this question, the Bangladesh Ministry of Health, and Bangladesh Enterprise Institute in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation promoted a three-day foresight workshop on the futures of digital or e-health. This continues Bangladesh’s leadership in the ehealth area. Participants came from a number of areas – e-health start-ups, hospital directors, leading physicians, professors of public health, e-health practitioners, international e-health experts, Ministry of Health directors and digital information/business providers.

More Eyes in the Sky

Posted on May 8, 2012
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While a solo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is starting to become a common sight over war zones and, to a lesser extent, over civilian communities, researchers in Germany are taking on the next great challenge: UAVs that fly in pack formations.

Engineering the Future of Food

Posted on April 11, 2012
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By Josh Schonwald

Tomorrow’s genetically modified food and farmed fish will be more sustainable and far healthier than much of what we eat today—if we can overcome our fears and embrace it. Here’s how one foodie learned to stop worrying and love “Frankenfood.”

A Thousand Years Young

Posted on April 11, 2012
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By Aubrey de Grey

An “anti-aging activist” identifies the medical and biochemical advances that could eventually eliminate all the wear and tear that our bodies and minds suffer as we grow old. Those who undergo continuous repair treatments could live for millennia, remain healthy throughout, and never fear dying of old age.

Nanobots to Fight Cancer

Posted on April 11, 2012
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Built from DNA, robots may deliver medicine where no doctor has gone before.

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