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The death of the human experience?
It’s a geek-ruled world. Webster’s refers to a geek as “a person who is socially awkward… a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked.” You remember them from high school and college? They didn’t fit in. Not with the jocks, the hipsters, the class clowns, the bohemians, the gangsters or any other clique....
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The future of VR is being measured only by the business, medical and technology fields. Experts in those fields have determined how the technology will evolve, what effects it might have on physiology and the corporate profits that can be made. But there is no body of research, just as there wasn’t at the dawn...
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Living the dream
Reality is so 20th century. It was during the 1980s when its replacement began to emerge. With pricey computers and clunky graphics, the primitive technology of “virtual reality” projected graphic representations onto computer screens, showing scenes that would move or turn with you, creating the illusion that you’re physically in the middle of a parallel...
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Enhanced reality will occupy a larger and larger portion of the tech market through 2025. Optimists see that market reaching $150 billion by 2020, while more cautious assessments put it at half that by 2025. Most agree that AR, with its practical applications in logistics, medicine, education and military uses, will take up to 80...
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Hearing a Rembrandt, tasting a landscape
A blind mountain climber tastes his way to the summit. A deaf musician hears melodies on his skin. A color-blind painter listens to hues and shades. New technologies in “sensory substitution” are helping the brain replace one damaged sense with another that learns to step in and do the same task. These assistive technologies capitalize...
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The brain’s adaptability is opening a new field of research and development that will do for the mind what genetic engineering is doing for the body. Already, neuroscientists are finding that persons with parts of their brains removed can relearn lost functions by rewiring parts of the brain, just as stroke victims can regain movement...
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TV legend’s last dramatic role pays tribute to Zizi
Trend forecaster Gerald Celente, whose book, “What Zizi Gave Honeyboy,” was made into a film starring Doris Roberts in her last dramatic role, paid tribute to the Emmy Award-winning star on the news of her passing in April. “How grateful I am to have met Doris and for her wonderful portrayal of my aunt Zizi,” said Celente....
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Don’t dare question war
ANZAC stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps from World War I. But it now stands for a lot more. April 25 was ANZAC Day, Australia and New Zealand’s Veterans Day, and has been so for more than a century. It commemorates the landing by the ANZAC expeditionary force on the Gallipoli peninsula in...
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Trend Forecast
The Last War is one of the institute’s Top Trends for 2016. As this piece illustrates, speaking against war and for peace comes with consequences, spoken and unspoken. As we wrote in the Winter Trends Journal: “Despite incontrovertible evidence of spreading wars and escalating global tensions, in the worlds of entertainment, politics and media, there...