Future of food: what's on the menu in 2050 (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)
Should insect protein become the dietary norm of the future, how will our descendants feel about our reactions to the first insect aisle in the local supermarket? Could we perhaps be the last generation to be seen as true meat eaters?
AI Can Already Design Better Cities Than Humans, Study Shows (www.sciencealert.com)
Why build megastructures? Just move planets around to make habitable worlds (phys.org)
How will you get along with the new person at work, when that person is a robot? (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Cobot: Coworker Robot. How do you think we will fare when the ‘new guy’ at work is a machine? As these machines become increasingly intelligent and closer to sentience, how will we share the spoils of our labour? Will we have the same rights in the workplace?
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 (mainichi.jp)
Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants—who’s in? (arstechnica.com)
Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves (www.sciencealert.com)
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
“He’s more machine now, than man” What will we do with obsolete brain implants? (ia.acs.org.au)
As the field of implantable brain devices moves in leaps and bounds, there will come a time in the future when we will need to consider obsolescence of these devices, and as the implants grow in complexity and scope, will we eventually have to redefine our idea of what it is to be human?
Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms (phys.org)
ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job (www.wired.com)
While we are locked once again in a heated debate about the future of our professions in the wake of ChatGPT, this article digs deep in to our past to reveal similar discussions surrounding of advancements in computer programming throughout history
Throwback Thursdays! 28/09 (m.imdb.com)
Let’s start a new thing! Throwback Thursday, a pinned weekly post where we can discuss past predictions and how accurate they were now that we are living in the future!...
Engineered compound shows promise in preventing bone loss in space (phys.org)
Scientists Reveal How Many People You'd Need to Colonize Mars (www.sciencealert.com)
Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law' (www.pcgamer.com)
Why the Pentagon’s ‘killer robots’ are spurring major concerns (thehill.com)
China plans giant particle accelerator-powered chip factory (interestingengineering.com)
Humans may soon understand how to communicate with animals. It could raise ethical dilemmas (amp.abc.net.au)
An interesting article describing the first very real steps towards a linguistic exchange of ideas with an animal; perhaps the non-human intelligence we have been seeking was right beside us the whole time
The boom of the anti-aging market: How to get people to live to be 120 (and in good health) (english.elpais.com)
RuPaul Building Fortified Compound to Withstand "Cycle of Destruction" (futurism.com)
Throwback Thursday! 05/10 (lemmy.world)
The weekly Throwback Thursday thread! A place to discuss past predictions of the future and their outcomes.