Author: Gerald Celente

With over 400 billion cups of coffee consumed every year, coffee remains one of the world’s most popular drinks. According to the International Coffee Organization, the consumer base is growing on a global scale, particularly in China, India, and Latin America. And java drinking continues to explode in the U.S. While coffee is booming among...

Our brains are being re-shaped. Make no mistake about it. We humans have most likely invented our last great tool, computer intelligence. This machine intelligence, known as AI, is now capable of teaching itself in ways computer engineers and neuroscientists can’t fully anticipate. And, it’s expanding at such exponentially high speeds that most of its...

In 2020, robots will be celebrating the centennial birth of their name, and their species. How they celebrate will be up to the humans that program the micro-computers which direct their actions. Or, it may be up to them. Coined for a mechanical, science fiction character in a 1920 Czech play, the term Robot means...

Want to get an idea of when you’re going to die? Ask Google. The omnivorous data-collecting company fed an artificial intelligence program 46 billion bits of data, including odd scraps such as notes written on patients’ charts, on more than 216,000 patients in hospital. The program can be used to double-check doctors’ diagnoses. But its...

Gene therapy has gone into business. Two commercial plants are now manufacturing and selling therapeutic cells, derived from human stem cells, that could spark genetic fixes for a range of chronic conditions. Until now, these regenerative cells have only been lab creatures, not merchandise. In March, Osaka-based Sumitomo Dainippon opened a 30,000 square foot, $340-million...

People born with certain congenital metabolic disorders are unable to make a key enzyme that processes proteins. Those proteins can build up and become toxic, causing mental and developmental disorders. To avoid that fate, sufferers have to be diagnosed early and adhere to a highly restricted diet. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University have found...

We’ve already seen artificial intelligence reason its way through data to make savvy medical diagnoses. Now IBM’s Project Debater software has shown its ability to sort through information, to structure persuasive arguments and counter opposing ones. In June, the software squared off with Dan Zafrir, Israel’s national debate champion, to test two topics. The first:...

New research is creating implants that alert us to cancer and dental disease. At ETH Technical University in Zurich, researchers have created a framework of genes that is integrated with human cells, and then implanted in a particular spot under the skin. The framework constantly checks calcium levels in the blood; unusually high calcium levels...

It’s called agrophotovoltaics: putting solar panels on stilts above cropland and allowing farmers to gather energy while they grow crops. In experiments in Vietnam and Chile, it’s working pretty well. The method puts solar panels in rows above farm fields. The panels are high enough to let animals and farm equipment pass below, with enough...