The future is the indefinite time period after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that it will exist for the whole of the future, or temporary, meaning that it won't and thus will come to an end.
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Medicine's blockchainification is imminent, say researchers
Analyzing 40 PubMed journals for blockchains revealed a continued and growing interest from the healthcare research and medical ...
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4 cryptocurrency trends to watch out for
“It’s the next big revolution, just like the internet was.” “No… it’s a bubble!” Love it or hate it, ...
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Designers, don’t be afraid to let robots design
In 1961, Alan Perlis, an early pioneer in computer science, advocated that computer programming should be a requirement of ...
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Paying for a service doesn’t guarantee it won’t sell your data
In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and congressional hearings, there’s a palpable sense that the pressure ...
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Prime Day is bad for Amazon’s brand
Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as a way to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a one-day sale with the aim of overshadowing Black Friday. The sale was available only to Prime members and over the years has become a premier shopping day that grabs media attention and drives competitive ...
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This odd gadget wants to help you lose weight using your... breath?
The Lumen analyzes your metabolism through your breath, using a process called the Respiratory Quotient. Its app then recommends ...
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Alexa isn't the shopping behemoth Amazon hoped it would be
Voice shopping was supposed to be the future. Remember? Both Amazon and Google touted a world where barking a simple command ...
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Analyst: Renewable energy will be 'effectively free' by 2030
Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS believe that by 2030, we could all be living without much of a carbon footprint -- ...
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Blockchain doesn't kill people, but smart contracts can, law professor says
Smart contracts, like the ones featured by Ethereum’s blockchain, represent simple machine intelligence, and one academic ...
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A new Spotify initiative could spell trouble for record labels (or kill Spotify)
Billboard first let the cat out of the bag in June. In an exclusive, the publication revealed that Spotify had been chasing ...
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An old physics demon could be the future of quantum computing
Demons from quantum computing's past may be no match for the current wave of research at the cutting-edge of physics and ...
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A hands-on approach to designing for kids
This article aims to share a series of advices, stemming from lessons learned from designing for kids over a period of 12 ...
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Apple acquires Shazam and announces it'll now be ad-free
Apple has officially acquired the musical identification app, Shazam. The hardware giant has also stated that the app will ...
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Without coaching our privacy, does Google even have a business?
Google is on a seemingly-ceaseless crusade to turn every one of its users into an open book that it can exploit for valuable ...
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Smart cities are for the rich — we need to change that
Chandigarh, the capital of both India’s Punjab and its neighboring state Haryana, is a very special city. It rose from ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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5 lovely predictions on how Alexa will change our behavior
Happy birthday Alexa! Four years after her birth as a new kind of house servant, let’s blow out the candles, take a deep breath, and talk about the future of speaking. I believe that us humans and how we speak is going to fundamentally change with the rise of voice assistants. Many ...
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How we can turn plastic waste into green energy
Using “cold plasma pyrolysis”, plastic waste could be turned into green energy. It can convert waste plastics into hydrogen, ...
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The earth's fate isn't on individuals — it's on society
Saving the planet shouldn't be on each individual, as history has shown. In order to secure our planet's fate, society needs ...
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6 reasons why you should make your ‘digital consultants’ work on-site
In the future, all companies will be tech companies. Traditional firms must upgrade their technological capabilities to match ...
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London is making life way too hard for mobility tech companies
The urban mobility market has come a long way since London’s first horse drawn bus service in 1829. Even in the last five ...
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The Facebook ad-pocalypse is coming, so spend your budget on creativity
Brands pour billions of dollars into Facebook advertising, but the social media giant isn’t going to last forever. So, ...
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This women-led space program is crowdfunding Kyrgyzstan’s first satellite launch
The female-led Kyrgyz Space Program is crowdfunding for their country's first satellite launch through Patreon. The team ...
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8 expert predictions on what will define tech in 2019
On the imminent death of native apps, and seven other trend predictions.
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What happened to our VR future?
The latest innovation from Oculus -- the Oculus Quest -- was supposed to take the digital world by storm, but a relatively ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share pictures of our child on social media. I was completely opposed, and we got into a heated argument. The argument lasted most of the ride home. I didn’t understand ...
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How AI will make the world safer for sex workers and their clients
Sex worker rights are human rights. That's why it's time to put our technology to work making the world a safer place for ...
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Report: People are going to have a lot of sex in self-driving cars
It's clear that driverless cars will revolutionize the way we get from Point A to Point B. Perhaps less obvious is how it'll ...
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Gig workers are forced to educate themselves to survive
Today’s gig workers don’t just include your local Uber drivers or handymen on TaskRabbit. More knowledge workers are ...
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Google’s underrated Discover feature can change how we surf the web
In October, Google made an important change to its mobile homepage. In place of the traditional page, with a search bar and ...
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How opportunistic regulation can stifle innovation in blockchain
At the blockchain conferences and blockchain industry discussions over the last two years I had many chances to listen to ...
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Meet Silicon Valley's most unlikely venture capitalist
It's very difficult to find an hour of Arlan Hamilton's time — besides for running Backstage Capital, a VC firm "investing ...
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Yale teaches robots not to mess with people's stuff
A group of computer scientists from Yale University created a machine learning paradigm for robots to understand the very ...
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TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...
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TNW presents the greatest gift guide in the world... ever
We've trawled through a gamut of gadgets, gear, and hardware to help you find the ideal gift for the special person in your ...
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Why most of 2018's tech predictions were wrong
At the end of each year, tech journalists and everyday consumers love to speculate about the types of technology that the ...
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2018 proved that computer vision is the most powerful manifestation of AI
You probably use computer vision every day and don't even think about it. Enjoy checking out the latest Snapchat filters? That's ...
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The real-life gruesome experiments that inspired Frankenstein
On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, ...
