Exponential Growth Will Transform Humanity in the Next 30 Years

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As we close out 2016, if you’ll allow me, I’d like to take a risk and venture into a topic I’m personally compelled to think about”¦ a topic that will seem far out to most readers. Today’s extraordinary rate of exponential growth may do much more than just disrupt industries. It may actually give bir…

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メトロノーム同期(100個)

Un experiment mai degrabă înfricoșător: 100 de metronoame care se autosincronizează. Japoneze, desigur. 😛

複数のメトロノームを動く台の上に乗せてメトロノームを動かすと,やがて全てのメトロ­ãƒŽãƒ¼ãƒ ãŒåŒæœŸã—て同じタイミングで音を刻むことが知られています. 池口研究室では,メトロノームを乗せる台を左右から吊るすことで台が動くような実験装­ç½®ã‚’作成し,同期実験を行いました.本動画では100個のメトロノームが同じタイミング­ã§…

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Four Questions For Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus’s research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Prior to joining MIT, Rus was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College.

You have said before that you believe robots will be as commonplace as smartphones. How do you envision robots to be used in people’s everyday lives?

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Mashable

Senzațională realizare: un dispozitiv ce pulverizează celule stem prelevate de la un pacient ars, direct asupra plăgii. Procedura ar duce la vindecare în câteva zile, fără cicatrici! :O

This gun squirts stem cells and helps burn victims regrow their skin in just a few days.

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‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed

Cea mai spectaculoasă formă de generare a curentului electric: într-un diamant artificial plasat în apropierea unei surse de radiații. De exemplu în apropierea unor reziduuri radioactive, cu care oricum nu avem ce face…

New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.

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