Electric Cars Become Fully Practical by …

Electric Cars Become Fully Practical by 2020 Discover how companies in Denmark are making wind-powered charging stations for electric cars. Freshly charged batteries are exchanged for drained batteries in less time than it takes to…

Computers with artificial intelligence ( …

Computers with artificial intelligence (AI) will be able to learn and think. They’ll be able to handle complex tasks such as navigating a car through traffic or diagnosing a complex illness. Venture capitalist and PayPal…

The ‘Holy Grail’ of Computers Become …

The ‘Holy Grail’ of Computers Becomes a Reality The advent of human-level artificial intelligence—a machine capable of the richness of expression and nuance of thought that we associate with humanity—promises to generate tremendous wealth for…

Holographic 3-D TV Tomorrow’s 3-D tel …

Holographic 3-D TV Tomorrow’s 3-D televisions won’t require special glasses or even screens. Mathematicians in Finland have produced a blueprint for instruments that would project floating 3-D images by means of nanomaterials that bend light…

Invention Becomes Automated Tomorrow’ …

Invention Becomes Automated Tomorrow’s inventors won’t toil away in workshops painstakingly building, testing and refining their creations. Instead, the Edisons of the next decade will spend their days writing descriptions of the problems they want…

Bioviolence Becomes a Greater Threat—I …

Bioviolence Becomes a Greater Threat—In the next decade, biological technologies that were once at the frontiers of science will become available to anyone with minimal scientific training. Emerging biotechnologies, such as genomics and nanotechnology, will…

WiMAX Networks Will Soon Create Country- …

WiMAX Networks Will Soon Create Country-Wide Wireless Internet Access—Often described as “Wi-Fi on steroids,” WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) will cover entire countries with a vibrant, high-speed wireless communications network. Internet access and other…