Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: end of the world (as we know it); gene therapy; predictions; Nicholas Negroponte; more galaxies spotted; speed bumps and the need for speed.
Futurist predicts the end of the world (as we know it)
As jobs are automated out of existence, the division between the very wealthy and the very poor will grow — and any notion of a comfortable middle class will vanish. Read more…
A new, natural gene therapy, designed by nature
Scientists have developed a new gene-therapy technique by transforming human cells into mass producers of tiny nano-sized particles full of genetic material that has the potential to reverse disease processes. Read more…
Nicholas Negroponte – Predictions for the future, from the past
NASA just called a space taxi to go to the ISS
NASA is sending aerospace giant Boeing’s Starliner passenger spacecraft to the International Space Station early Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The ship is already sitting atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Complex 41. Read more…
Thousands more galaxies are being seen for the first time
Thousands of galaxies are visible in a new radio image of an area in the Southern Sky, made with the MeerKAT telescope. The numerous faint dots are distant galaxies like our own Milky Way, that have never been observed in radio light before. Read more…
Here’s what happens when you hit speed bumps – fast
A massive dish antenna is ready to go, from Africa
This dish antenna rises seven stories above an ancient seabed in the Karoo, a remote semidesert in South Africa. Later this year it will start scanning the universe for radio waves emanating from charged particles billions of light-years away, probing some of science’s deepest questions: Was Einstein right about gravity? Read more…
30 cows are afloat on a boat in the Netherlands – and why not?
Off the coast of Rotterdam, Netherlands, a bizarre floating farm is providing locals with a fresh supply of milk. The farm-boat-combo, created by an aptly-named company called Floating Farm, has been selling the milk of its 35 seafaring cows since May, CBC News reports. Read more…
If you like speed, then stop what you are doing and watch this…
(Compiled by Alex Leslie and edited by Tony Poulos)
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