In 2016, robots become mainstream. Moreover, they begin breeding, transforming many aspects of daily life. Robots now are doing hundreds of human chores, from monitoring an elderly shut-in’s mood swings to searching for lost hikers. In the months ahead, we’ll become even more aware of their presence — and abilities — as more tasks, both simple and...
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The synergy of robotics and artificial intelligence is leading to a near-term future in which robots assume an accelerating number of humans’ rote tasks. But we already are confronting the reality that robots can learn and communicate faster and more efficiently than humans can. This is leading us to a future in which robots not only are self-aware,...
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The Personalized City
A recent visitor to Venice Beach, California, was parking his car when he was approached by a young man who handed him a business card. The card was for a service that would park someone’s car to spare them the trouble and time of prowling the streets for a space, then deliver the car to...
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In 2016, the trend of cities to accommodate the young, old, needy and time-pressed will create even more new businesses and new markets as part of an urban renaissance throughout the developed world, particularly in the US. But new stresses and conflicts will be created as new waves of migrants — including Americans — are...
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Crusades 2000 could destroy us
It’s official. The West has launched Crusades 2000. If the first nine were not enough to satisfy the bloodthirsty and fanatical, the 10th Crusade will deliver death, mayhem and massacre on a global scale that only ruling presidents, prime ministers, chancellors, fellow politicians, the presstitute media and a sick-minded public could get off on. Go...
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Following terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, and Brussels closing down for several days during a high-terror alert, anti-Islam/anti-Muslim sentiments not only have gained strength across Europe, but more European nations will join the US in its Crusade to “degrade,” “destroy” and “eradicate” the Islamic State “cancer” in the Middle East and Africa. On...
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Drawing Points
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The “Change the World” shtick is a front
Elated as they stood in the cold on a November evening in 2008, packs of millennials celebrated the election of their new president. Barack Obama was the great hope of a great new generation, the largest in the world at 78 million strong. The millennials held their “HOPE” signs high. Fifty-one percent of them voted...
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Over the last 50 years, we’ve seen a steady decline in trust in politics and institutions, especially in the western world. The millennial generation is, as of today, the most untrustworthy cohort since such things have been tracked. Early Millennials, born from 1982-89, have shown to be disinterested in political action and social advocacy. They...
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Science breaks the blood-brain barrier
Drugs that could fight cancer and other conditions in the brain have long been prevented from entering that tightly guarded place by the blood-brain barrier, a densely interlocked network of cells lining the brain’s blood vessels to screen out harmful substances. Recently, scientists at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto broke through that cordon for...