The D-Wave 2000Q is no longer the only quantum computer out there. After spending years in the realm of theory and even more in development, quantum computers are about to define and conquer their niche in the data-crunching market. Alibaba, China’s rival to Amazon, recently announced that it’s offering quantum computing services to its cloud...
Author: Gerald Celente
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The Aussie’s breakthrough will be the first of many, bringing quantum computing into the realm of practical affordability and everyday use. It may be a decade or more before you have one on your desk, but they’re on the way. Quantum computers will become essential in drug discovery, cybersecurity, astrophysics, and other work in which...
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Carbon dump continues
While U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the Dept. of Energy to “prepare immediate steps” to stop the closing of dirty and unprofitable coal plants, the global trend continues to move away from fossil fuels. At the end of May, the 300-year-old Royal Bank of Scotland announced new funding policies that cut off loans for...
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Coal is kaput as a major fuel source. Developing countries will still rely on it to a degree, but even their internal populations will be increasingly restive about using a dirty, expensive source for power. The move to the exits for oil and gas investors is speeding up. The bigger the funder, the more concern...
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Major step forward in slowing Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s has two main indicators. In one, amyloid proteins form clots that muddle communication between brain cells. In the other, proteins called tau, which normally carry nutrients to brain cells, start to tangle in dying cells and block the flow of nutrients, speeding up cells’ death spiral. Researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine...
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Human clinical trials are years away. But this opens a new pathway of research that shows promise in slowing, and perhaps even halting Alzheimer’s, once symptoms have shown themselves.
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The digital doctor will see you now
Artificial intelligence has passed China’s medical board exams. Now it’s time for AI to start working with patients. The need is urgent: there are only 1.5 doctors per thousand people in China, compared to 2.5 in the US. That makes Chinese physicians less concerned about AI stealing their jobs, and more concerned about just getting...
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AI is becoming capable of not only making routine medical analyses and decisions, but also of making difficult diagnoses that require subtle interpretations of evidence. Because AI’s memory can instantly access thousands, or even tens of thousands of cases and their outcomes, it has an increasingly fine sense of what evidence is available in order...
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Clean water shortage
Confirming one of Gerald Celente’s major long-term predictions, NASA says that finding enough fresh water will be humanity’s major challenge of the 21st century. The conclusion was drawn from data gathered by tracking global freshwater trends from 2002 through 2016, though NASA’s Gravity Research and Climate Experiment. The study also found that freshwater losses are...
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Water infrastructure will be one of the most urgent and lucrative areas of investment, but it remains fraught. Especially in low-income communities, people have been sensitized to being abused by for-profit water companies. The most trouble-free investment opportunities will be found in the developing world, in modest-scale projects having local input.