Sveta McShane
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Why the World Is Still Getting Better—and That's Likely to Continue
You won't hear it on the news, but we’re actually living in the most peaceful, abundant time in history, and things are likely to continue getting better. → Read More
How to Train Thousands of Surgeons at the Same Time in Virtual Reality
Recently, I wrote about how the future of surgery is going to be robotic, data-driven and artificially intelligent. Although it’s approaching fast, that future is... read more → Read More
Engineering Will Soon Be 'More Parenting Than Programming'
"What's a crazy idea you believe in that others don't agree with?" Peter Diamandis posed this classic question (which originated with Peter Thiel) during an interview with Steve Jurvetson at Singularity University's first ever Global Summit. A successful venture capital investor, Jurvetson is known as someone with a keen ability to spot important technological trends before others catch … → Read More
In the Future, Our Favorite Animal Products Will Be Animal-Free
A couple years ago, a friend told me he didn’t eat meat because he believed that in the future advanced AI would learn from us... read more → Read More
In the Future, Our Favorite Animal Products Will Be Animal-Free
A couple years ago, a friend told me he didn’t eat meat because he believed that in the future advanced AI would learn from us and treat humans the way we had treated less powerful species. He said he didn’t want to give AI any reason to treat him the way most humans treated the animals … → Read More
Chisels to Genes: How We'll Soon Grow What We Used to Build
“At the end of the day, as a society, we need to stop manufacturing everything and grow everything.” — Jason Kelly, Founder of Gingko... read more → Read More
Chisels to Genes: How We'll Soon Grow What We Used to Build
“At the end of the day, as a society, we need to stop manufacturing everything and grow everything.” — Jason Kelly, Founder of Gingko Bioworks Most people would agree we still have much to learn from nature. Nature is vastly more efficient at recycling and reusing matter than humans have been. The whole field … → Read More
The Netflix of Finance Suggests Stocks Based on Where You Shop
We would all love to take better care of our finances. But the sad truth is, many of us don’t. In the past several decades, we’ve seen the average American’s... read more → Read More
The Netflix of Finance Suggests Stocks Based on Where You Shop
Exponential Finance celebrates the incredible opportunity at the intersection of technology and finance. Apply here to join Singularity University, CNBC, and hundreds of the world’s most forward-thinking financial leaders at Exponential Finance in June 2017. We would all love to take better care of our finances. But the sad truth is, many of us don’t. … → Read More
The World Will Be Continuously Upgradable When Everything Is Connected
One day in the future, we’ll look back in wonder at how our physical objects used to be singular, disconnected pieces of matter. We’ll be in awe of the fact... read more → Read More
The World Will Be Continuously Upgradable When Everything Is Connected
Exponential Finance celebrates the incredible opportunity at the intersection of technology and finance. Apply here to join Singularity University, CNBC, and hundreds of the world’s most forward-thinking financial leaders at Exponential Finance in June 2017. One day in the future, we’ll look back in wonder at how our physical objects used to be singular, disconnected … → Read More
Ray Kurzweil’s Four Big Insights for Predicting the Future
Self-driving cars, virtual reality games, bioprinting human organs, human gene editing, AI personalities, 3D printing in space, three billion people connected to the Internet…. These incredible technological feats are all... read more → Read More
5 Great Lessons on Scrappy Innovation for Big Companies Like GE
Kevin Nolan, CTO of GE Appliances, spent 28 years at General Electric, “trying to do innovation,” as he puts it, before giving up. He finally accepted he couldn’t do it,... read more → Read More
The Personal Factory Is Here—and It Will Bring a Wild New Era of Invention
The software startup launching out of a garage or a dorm room is now the stuff of legend. We can all name the stories of people who got together in... read more → Read More
Machines Won't Replace Us, They'll Force Us to Evolve
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” - John Culkin (based on Marshall McLuhan’s ideas) Something big is happening in design and engineering.... read more → Read More
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future
Over the last several decades, the digital revolution has changed nearly every aspect of our lives. The pace of progress in computers has been accelerating, and today, computers and networks... read more → Read More
Why We Should Teach Kids to Code Biology, Not Just Software
Almost ten years ago, Freeman Dyson ventured a wild forecast: “I predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next fifty years at least as much... read more → Read More
This Amazing Computer Chip Is Made of Live Brain Cells
A few years ago, researchers from Germany and Japan were able to simulate one percent of human brain activity for a single second. It took the processing power of one... read more → Read More
Goodyear's Awesome New Spherical Tire Design For Autonomous Cars
What will the cars of the future be like? It’s fun to imagine how new technologies and design trends will influence future cars. Car bodies of the future might be... read more → Read More
UK Will Use CRISPR on Human Embryos — a Step Closer to Human Genome Editing
"It is human nature and inevitable in my view that we will edit our genomes for enhancements.” —J. Craig Venter This week, Kathy Niakan, a biologist working at the Francis... read more → Read More