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Robotic Camels; Think Tank Discussion
Recently our Think Tank was discussing robotic camels and how cool they are. It is amazing that robotics has come so far. The Japanese have a robot, which can run without falling over and now a Swiss Firm is making a Camel Riders, which can be used to race camels which is a big thing in the Middle East.Read more…Think Tank Topic; Digital Libraries and the Future of Books
We have all heard a lot on the news recently about books being made digital for all to read. Microsoft is doing a 20-million dollar project in Great Britain and Google is doing several libraries in the United States. There has been some controversy on this issue from authors who receive royalties and booksellers.Read more…Micro Solar UAV
Is it possible to build a plastic mini-unmanned solar powered micro-aircraft? An unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV with unlimited range and flying time, can you imagine that? So far scientists are getting there and have built bird sized MAVs Micro-Air Vehicles, which can fly for 9 hours or more.Read more…Costs in Carbon Nanotube Sheet Manufacturing Hurting Safety
The incredible properties of carbon nanotube technology means light weight material, transparency and strengths 50-250 times that of steel. This means added safety to aircraft, cars, buses and trains. It also means tremendous efficiencies in fuel.Read more…Pollution on Human BioSystem in Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotubes
One problem in manufacturing has always been worker safety. What will the future of OSHA look like in the United States? As other nations with no worker safety run forward in the Global Market they will enter their Industrial Revolution just like America did.Read more…Gravity Manipulation; Can We Trust Humans?
Humans are getting closer to being able to manipulate gravity, yet the question is can we trust mankind and their war mongering tendencies? Hell I don’t; how about you? But as I speak I have a brother who is a US Marine, with a flight contract, who is temporarily re-assigned to guard the Syrian-Iraq Border.Read more…Sensing Earthquakes with the Human Body and Mind
Animals seem to know prior to an Earthquake that something is wrong. More animals run away from home prior to Earthquakes than at any other time. One Earthquake researcher noticing his dogs behavior noticed this and now makes predictions based on the number of lost animal reports which he says can go up 20-fold days prior to a large Earthquake.Read more…Reverse 9-11 Calls for Emergencies
A rediscovered strategy for protecting against disasters is to use a massive calling system to warn people. It is a strategy called; Reverse 9-11 Calls for Emergencies. Luckily this is exempt from the Do Not Call Lists.Read more…UFO: Futuristic Concepts and the End of the World
I was sitting on the front stoop wondering if I should wash the pickup or pick the last of the tomatoes off my one vine that has produced about a zillion marble-sized tomatoes this summer.I learned last year that you only need one tomato plant in Idaho unless you want to supply (no derogatory remark here) Wal-Mart®. I accidentally picked a plant that pumps out those wee tomatoes that I didn’t like.Read more…Artificial Intelligence - Available Now
Whenever a person wants to present themselves as an industry expert, one credible approach is to paint a shining picture of future technology and what people can expect from hopeful visions of things to come. One potential that has long bothered me is the current general perception of artificial intelligence technology.There are a few key concepts that are not often included in the general discussion of creating machines that think and act like us.Read more…Holographic Projection Glide Paths
Holographic Technologies are getting closer to becoming reality and soon we can see the data on our computers in 3D, 4D and 5D. We will enjoy Virtual Reality on our 360 X-Box in our living rooms. Military strategists and war fighters can play out the battle in the virtual battlespace in advance and then watch it un-fold in real time.Read more…The Kolbrin Bible - Ancient Warnings of Modern Threats
Global warming has become a planetary crisis. We sense the worst is yet to come and the ancients tell us similar events have happened before. They've seen natural catastrophes we've yet to see, and lived through tribulations we've yet to endure.Read more…Business In 2010: A New Face of Marketing
The term “internet marketing” was virtually non-existent a short 8 years ago, now it is a growing phenomenon that is raking millions every year. Because of this expanding industry, the internet landscape it changing. Where are the changes going to be?Read more…What if We Discovered Another Intelligent Species Off Planet?
What would happened if human beings in their space exploration discovered another intelligent species off planet? Would that shake up the world? Would it cause the collapse of civilization, the collapse of the church and would it possibly throw mankinds civilizations and societies into chaos and controversy?Read more…Super Ships to the Stars
Mankind needs to propel itself forward and it is time to boldly go. But first we must build city sized super ships to head for the stars. Who dares to build these ships and carry the torch into the future?Read more…New Technologies And English Practice
Just a few decades ago English learners had to travel to English native countries to improve their English knowledge. This way of English practice was quite expensive and those who could not afford travel expenses and foreign accommodation had to find cheaper and easier ways for their practice. They would satisfy with reading English books, journals, magazines and articles in origin and speak to their friends and relatives who could somehow communicate in English.Read more…Nano iPod, Tiny mp3 Player and Music on the Brain
As the iPod Nano gets smaller and the mp3 players get to be the size of a quarter we will see more people sporting around town with music on the brain, but in the future we will see more miniaturization and we can only guess what is next?How about ear rings which are iPod or mp3 enhanced with your favorite songs? Perhaps activated merely by singing a verse of the song you like and the little tiny device starts playing all those songs on that tract that you have placed there, just like a CD Carrousel in your car trunk?Read more…Vibrational Beanie Bag Hand Grenade
I propose a new type of weapon which can be hand launched from our troops. This weapon will be a vibrational beanie bag which will act similar to a hand grenade. Inside the beanie bag will be small vibration to units, which will vibrate very fast at a frequency, which will shatter glass and cause harm.Read more…Genetically Modified Gum to Enhance Brain Strength and Intelligence
We need a new invention to help humans become smarter and help us over come the dummying down of our societies and civilizations. But how you ask? Well, we need to have Genetically Modified Gum to Enhance Brain Strength and Intelligence.Read more…Application of Immersed of Nano-Sensors in Soap to Detect WMD on Transportation Equipment
The Department of Homeland security is concerned with detecting weapons of mass destruction, nuclear radiation and other such things, which may end up in shipping containers or in trucks inside the continental United States. Most Homeland security experts and consultants agree it is impossible to check every single cargo container coming into the United States or every single truck, which drives up on the road.Instead we must rely on high-tech sensors, organic dog sniffers and electronic equipment, which allows us to look inside the containers as they drive by.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Future Concepts category
- Bind Your Own Customized Yearbooks - By: Jeff McRitchie
For small and medium sized schools, creating a high quality customized yearbook can often be cost prohibitive. The large companies that specialize in creating yearbooks for schools are not set up to handle small runs of just a few hundred yearbooks. As a result, smaller schools either have to pay a huge premium for their yearbooks or do without. However, there is now a new option for creating yearbooks that is far more reasonable for small and medium sized high schools. - Nursing Degrees Online - Registered - By: Parmod Bansal
Registered Nursing (RN) Jobs offer good money, the chance to make a difference in people's lives, and flexible hours. This rewarding career isn't easy and does require quite a bit of school, but you can study in a variety of different programs that offer you the flexibility to pursue your dream of becoming a registered nurse. - How to Find Lost Objects or People Using Radionics - By: Don Paris
Have you ever lost something? I’m sure you have. It can be so infuriating! - Clearing Negativity From Spaces Using Radionics - By: Don Paris
Have you ever walked into a house or room that “felt” really bad, or gave you the creeps? The space had nothing obviously wrong but you just couldn’t wait to leave? You may have picked up on the “bad vibes” or subtle negative energies in that space. - The Time is Ripe to Replace the UNO With a United Planetary Organization - By: Shriram Sharma
“That time has come when discrimination with reference to communities, social status, gender and nations, will come to an end. Entire world humanity will live like brothers and sisters.”- ARTHUR CHARLES CLARK“If in a particular country, if one or two court cases are fought, people will be amazed as to whether there is any individual who is full of hatred, cunningness and enmity. - Freedom And Education 2 - By: Bill Ellis
BE: Since my mindset is on alternatives-to-education I'll take "Learning & Freedom" as my topic for this forum and avoid the oxymoron of the other. This gives me two learning/freedom threads, to develop one is the freedom-to-learn ; the other is learning-to-be free.FREEDOM TO LEARNFreedom to learn has been a topic of a long list of critics of education including Froebel, Goodman, Illich, Holt, Friere and others. - Freedom And Education - Bill Ellis's Openting Statement For A Forum - By: Bill Ellis
From: tranet@rangeley.orgSubject: Opening Statement by Bill EllisDate: 02, January 1970 9:28:45 AM EST I start my input where I left off in my input to the forum on Education and Democracy. My concern then, and now, is that our terms are contradictory. - Smart Cards and Access Control - A Look Into the Not Too Distant Future - By: Roy Stephenson
Highly popular in Europe and Asia, smart cards are making a strong impact in America.Originally requiring contact with the reader in order to transfer information, manufacturers have begun building proximity, non-contact type cards that transfer bi-directional data utilizing RFID technology.By encoding the cards and the readers with 64-bit encrypted "keys", manufacturers are able to provide highly secure credentials for access and simultaneously open up a whole new world of possible applications for proximity cards. - A Net-Centric Future and the Future of IT - By: Lance Winslow
Many people such as science fiction writers and futurists talk about the future of information technologies. In these futures we often hear talk about the war between humans and machines. Many people such as conspiracy theorists are worried about the future of IT or information technologies and they say that say that soon information technologies will be running the world using artificially intelligent brains. - Delays in Innovation Initiatives Considered - By: Lance Winslow
Many times we hear of great new initiatives being sponsored and feel we are rounding a corner and looking towards a bright new future, yet eventually we see that things are not moving and we feel it is only hype and get frustrated. Sometimes delays in innovation are caused in the marketplace by competitive and political barriers.Often, there is a reason for this and that is because some innovation is so disruptive that it can cause instant chaos in a given industry or get in the way that things are currently done.