Imperial College London's table of disruptive tech
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This methodology has put Smart Nappies, Wireless Energy Transfer and Autonomous Vehicles into the same 'happening now' category. Compared with them, Peer-to-peer energy trading & transmission and Automated knowledge discovery are considered 'experimental'. I'm not convinced the results are robust and they certainly don't indicate the degree of disruption that we should be expecting.
> Maria Jeansson, who worked on the project, said it was designed as a visual conversation starter.
I don't think it will be a very long conversation.
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So it's going to be 20 YEARS before we have any new materials. And when we have those new materials they're going to be a material that a company in Surrey is already selling today. Wat.
Imperial is my Alma Mater and frankly it's embarrassing when they do stupid publicity stunts like this.
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Bow before my might simple mortals.
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For fun a while back I was playing with the concept of self modifying bash.
A bash script that duplicates and modifies a random character/ adds a character in a random location, or deletes a character.
Then running the output and the original file.
Obviously I got a lot of broken scripts, my point is self writing software is possible, automated, well thought out edits are a long way off.
Because self-writing software can produce force fields...
I know this one is referring to Google's Project Loon, which uses balloons as relays to bring internet to remote areas, but I'd really like to see an Internet actually running on balloon power.
"I think we're talking about less than a decade, probably eight years until telepathy." The details of exactly how all this will work are a little murky, and Openwater says it needs to file for patents before it will publish a peer reviewed proof of feasibility and eventually launch a product. But Jepsen, who has also spent time at Google X, MIT and Intel, says the basic idea is to shrink down the huge MRI machines found in medical hospitals into flexible LCDs that can be embedded in a ski hat and use infrared light to see what's going on in your brain. "Literally a thinking cap," Jepsen explains."