A Real-Life Tricorder Is Now Available For You To Buy And Scan Yourself | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Today, the Scanadu Scout tricorder is available for pre-order on Indiegogo. It’s a chance for early adopters to check out Scanadu’s technology, and an opportunity for Scanadu to gather some of the data it needs for FDA approval.

A Real-Life Tricorder Is Now Available For You To Buy And Scan Yourself | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Today, the Scanadu Scout tricorder is available for pre-order on Indiegogo. It’s a chance for early adopters to check out Scanadu’s technology, and an opportunity for Scanadu to gather some of the data it needs for FDA approval.

Source: fastcoexist.com

Beware the Coming War Against Personal Photography and Video
Lauren Weinstein, petapixel.com
Are you ready for the imagery war — the war against personal photography and capturing of video? You’d better be.The title of this piece actually isn’t entirely accurate. In some ways, this war isn’t just coming, it’s already begun. Forces are lin…

Fear is a powerful force which often leads us astray… Western societies are now threading a dangerous path and will continue to do so if we don’t change from controlling, masculine and exclusive strategies to female, dialectic and more inclusive approaches.

Beware the Coming War Against Personal Photography and Video
Lauren Weinstein, petapixel.com

Are you ready for the imagery war — the war against personal photography and capturing of video? You’d better be.The title of this piece actually isn’t entirely accurate. In some ways, this war isn’t just coming, it’s already begun. Forces are lin…

Fear is a powerful force which often leads us astray… Western societies are now threading a dangerous path and will continue to do so if we don’t change from controlling, masculine and exclusive strategies to female, dialectic and more inclusive approaches.

emergentfutures:

Rodrigo Nino, CEO of Prodigy Network, spoke at PSFK CONFERENCE 2013 about building a crowd funded skyscraper in the city of Bogota, Colombia. 
 
Full Story: PSFK

emergentfutures:

Rodrigo Nino, CEO of Prodigy Network, spoke at PSFK CONFERENCE 2013 about building a crowd funded skyscraper in the city of Bogota, Colombia. 

 

Full Story: PSFK

futuretechreport:

The future of Google Glass?

Digital creative agency Playground knows that Glass is in its early days, but they imagine a future in which Glass helps with navigation, shopping, hobbies and much more. And according to Playground, “All of our examples are actually possible right now. Smartphones (batteries not included) have enough raw processing power to run this software today. If only current batteries were ten times more efficient and there was a robust native hardware API for Glass. Well, it’s coming. Sooner than we think.”

via the content brief

Interesting to get some concrete scenarios on possible uses of Google Glass. 

Source: thecontentbrief

For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change ⇢

By EDUARDO PORTER, nytimes.com

If there were one Amer­i­can indus­try that would be par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about cli­mate change it would have to be insur­ance, right?

From Hur­ri­cane Sandy’s dev­as­tat­ing blow to the North­east to the pro­tract­ed drought that hit the…

Does Every City Need A Chief Resilience Officer?
Emily Badger, theatlanticcities.com
For cities, devel­op­ing a plan for “sus­tain­abil­i­ty” no longer sounds like enough. The word car­ries with it an envi­ron­men­tal con­no­ta­tion (we need to live along­side nature in a “sus­tain­able” way). And the absence of sus­tain­abil­i­ty…

Does Every City Need A Chief Resilience Officer?
Emily Badger, theatlanticcities.com

For cities, devel­op­ing a plan for “sus­tain­abil­i­ty” no longer sounds like enough. The word car­ries with it an envi­ron­men­tal con­no­ta­tion (we need to live along­side nature in a “sus­tain­able” way). And the absence of sus­tain­abil­i­ty…

saveplanetearth:

400 PPM: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Reaches Prehistoric Levels @ Scientific American via tcktcktck 
Comment: That cannot be good.

saveplanetearth:

400 PPM: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Reaches Prehistoric Levels @ Scientific American via tcktcktck 

Comment: That cannot be good.

Source: saveplanetearth

Can Science Fiction Writers Inspire the World to Save Itself? ⇢

scientificamerican.com

By Ariel SchwartzThe Hieroglyph project asks sci-fi writers to stop creating dark dystopias, and instead showed us visions of a better future, so that we work harder to get there.Science fiction has often predicted scientific advances, but what…

IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
Bruce Upbin, forbes.com
IBM‘s Wat­son, the Jeop­ardy!-play­ing super­com­put­er that scored one for Team Robot Over­lord two years ago, just put out its shin­gle as a doc­tor or, more specif­i­cal­ly, as a com­bi­na­tion lung can­cer spe­cial­ist and expert in the arcane…

AI which according to measurement being superior to doctors is now being diffused into the reality of health care… Can’t wait to hear the reactions!

IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare
Bruce Upbin, forbes.com

IBM‘s Wat­son, the Jeop­ardy!-play­ing super­com­put­er that scored one for Team Robot Over­lord two years ago, just put out its shin­gle as a doc­tor or, more specif­i­cal­ly, as a com­bi­na­tion lung can­cer spe­cial­ist and expert in the arcane…

AI which according to measurement being superior to doctors is now being diffused into the reality of health care… Can’t wait to hear the reactions!

Zipcar’s Co-Founder: Carsharing Is An Exponential Solution To Climate Change ⇢

Ariel Schwartz, fastcoexist.com

Robin Chase thinks that the sharing economy can put an end to all our problems. But how do you get the sharing economy to the developing world?The latest climate change statistics are beyond depressing—so upsetting that you might want to take a…

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