Where can you get 27 of the coolest technology links, all collected in one blogpost?
That’s right. Only here, on Our Technological Future.
Very realistic and lifelike water simulation
Self-assembling gel stops bleeding in seconds
SuperBus Answers to Your Texts
Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads
Antimatter and matter combine in chemical reaction
Physicists make atomic clock breakthrough
Symbian forecasts the death of the PC
Study: Stem Cells Could Treat ALS
MIT technique reveals inner lives of red blood cells
Digital age may bring total recall in future
Portable ‘lab on a chip’ could speed blood tests
Scientists say cancer-killing virus developed
St Mary’s pilots ground-breaking tumour treatment
Electronic chip, interacting with the brain, modifies pathways for controlling movement
Software generates video news bulletins
Team develops DNA switch to interface living organisms with computers
One for the Ages: A Prescription That May Extend Life
Computing, 2016: What Won’t Be Possible?
The quantum world is about to get bigger
Rerouting Brain Circuits with Implanted Chips
Researchers teach computers how to name images by ‘thinking’
Hey Jan!
Sweeeeet posts. I was getting a little bored after a week of just archives!
(Just kidding – i know you’re probably a pretty busy guy)
But I just wanna say that I was impressed by the water simulation – it’s obviously an enormous computational cost to model fluids in motion; they say it’s “home software” so it must use come clever algorithmic tricks to run on anything other than a megacluster.
Jan, in your opinion, do you think we will have accurate models for say, global weather systems or human organs by the end of the decade? or is this too optomistic in your opinion?
I’m not sure about those simulations that you propose. The problem will not be computing power. A few years from now, anybody will be able to buy supercomputer-like power for a few cents per hour, thanks to advances in grid computing.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
The main problem lies in understanding how our organs work and then coming up with the software to simulate them.
Ofcourse, work on e-cells is already being conducted worldwide.
I’m not sure about the end of this decade. I’m pretty sure science will get it done well before the end of the next, though.
Jan-Willem
We have a ZCorporation Spectrum Z510 where I work (I’m a design engineer). It’s a Santa Claus machine – but his elves make everything out of crumbly foam.
Still, it’s way cool to design something at my workstation, go to lunch, and hold it in my hand when I get back.
Of course, the foam is just the start. When 3D printers can make metal parts, our company will be able to make much better products and save a metric assload in manufacturing costs.