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The future as envisioned in 1967: The year 1999

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date August 5, 2023
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Year 1999 as envisioned in 1967 — In an image deeply steeped in the undertones of tradition and patriarchy, a woman is captured in the act of perusing meal options on a computer screen. Her role, a silent testament to society's longstanding conventions, reveals that even in a world of futuristic technology, her domain remains confined to the kitchen and the duties of housework. There's a palpable irony in the juxtaposition: the cutting-edge digital interface set against the backdrop of a regressive vision of womanhood. Instead of breaking free from the chains of conventional gender roles, she remains tethered to the time-honored expectations of preparing meals, managing the household, and attending to the minutiae of daily life. The image underscores the limitations that patriarchal constructs place on women, highlighting that even as the world advances technologically, prevailing gender biases and societal norms can remain distressingly unchanged.

In 1967, as space-age fantasies ignited imaginations across the globe, the then Philco-Ford, now Ford Motor Company, attempted to capture the future’s heart and soul in a brief cinematic journey. The film titled “1999 AD” catapulted its audience three decades into the future, offering a tantalizing glimpse of everyday life for a quintessential American family, the Shores. Viewing this projection of the future now, the film emerges as a treasure trove of intriguing insights – a harmonious blend of eerily accurate predictions and glaring blind spots, seasoned with the unmistakable charm of the 1960s.

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AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment. Are we finally close to the Fusion Power?

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date February 23, 2022
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Nuclear fusion: plasma inside the TCV tokamak. — Are we finally on the road to Fusion Power? Plasma inside the TCV tokamak.

To keep Earth from dangerous ongoing global warming, the world is looking for an energy source without CO₂ emissions. There is actually a dream candidate: successfully achieving nuclear fusion holds the promise of delivering a limitless, sustainable source of clean energy.

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How Robotics Can Revolutionize Sustainability

Post author By Evelyn Long
Post date July 22, 2021
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A mechanical engineer with sustainable agricultural robot in field. Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash

Climate change is a topic that’s discussed more and more frequently as the effects of human interactions with the planet begin to manifest. There has been a rise in natural disasters and temperature fluctuations. The previous balance that existed in ecosystems is now deteriorating, and the solutions to mitigate further problems are now delving into the realm of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Moon landing videos remastered

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date October 9, 2020
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Run by a Dutch restoration specialist who remastering historic videos using Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Dutch Steam Machine (Dutchsteammachine) channel has published remastered Apollo Moon landing videos, as well as some other vintage space videos, and the results are astonishing.

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Why We Need to Overcome Our Fear of AI

Post author By Morgen Henderson
Post date December 20, 2018
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NASA's Robonaut 2 — Robonaut 2, the latest generation of the Robonaut astronaut helpers, launched to the space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission. Robonaut 2 is the first humanoid robot in space. Although its primary job for now is teaching engineers how dexterous robots behave in space, the hope is that through upgrades and advancements Robonaut 2 could venture outside the station one day to help spacewalkers make repairs or additions to the station or perform scientific work. R2, as the robot is called, launched inside the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module, which was packed with supplies and equipment for the station and then installed permanently on the Unity node. Once R2 is unpacked -- probably several months after it arrives -- it will be operated initially inside the Destiny laboratory for operational testing. But over time, both its territory and its applications could expand. There are no plans to return R2 to Earth. Image: NASA

Futurists and technology advocates, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, often warn about the imminent dangers artificial intelligence poses to humanity. Many of these soothsayers ask we harken their cries of existential risk unless we wish to change an intelligence explosion. They claim such an event, often dubbed the Singularity, could create a superintelligent computer, leading to human enslavement via the likes of Skynet, from the Terminator franchise, or HAL 9000, from Space Odyssey.

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5 Ways Software Helps to Save the Planet

Post author By Our Planet
Post date December 3, 2018
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Space Ecploration and Artificial Intelligence — NASA's missions over the years have relied on complex human-controlled radio systems, but the agency is now openly investigating artificial intelligence to control its radios. These are so-called "cognitive radios" which could keep space networks up and running with increased efficiency and make astronauts available for more essential tasks. By applying artificial intelligence and machine learning, satellites can control systems without any problem, making real-time decisions without awaiting instruction. AI and ML can also lead to a reduction in radiation damage in comparison to current radio systems, making it last longer and gave astronauts more accurate data and also leading to the discovery of new landscapes without human help.

We all have heard about the influence that our technology-driven world is having on our planet – from industrialization to excessive resource consumption and carbon emissions. And when it comes to saving our planet from constant climate change, there are tons of main schools of thought. Some believe that with innovative economic and technological development, we’ll find a way to protect the ecological balance and clear out our environmental messes. The people on the other end of the spectrum believe that we should let nature takes its course and integrate only environmentally sustainable practices. Also, we should instead focus on reducing our resource consumption and conserving the natural environment.

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The Confluence Of Robotics With Space Research And Exploration

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 23, 2018
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Those of us who have grown up reading Asimov’s robot series are quite informed about what robots can accomplish. While that’s only a reel representation, it definitely points to an abundance of opportunities in the realm of space research.

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Kepler-90i, the 8th Planet Orbiting a Distant Star was Discovered [using AI and Kepler data]

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date December 15, 2017
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Kepler-90i surface (artist conception) — An artist's concept of the surface of Kepler-90i (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-351 l), a super-Earth exoplanet with a radius 1.34 that of Earth, orbiting the early G-type main sequence star Kepler-90 every 14.45 days, discovered using Artificial Intelligence and the data collected by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. It has an equilibrium temperature of 709 K (436 °C; 817 °F), similar to the average temperature of Venus.

Using data from the exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and a machine learning algorithm from Google, researchers discovered an 8th planet orbiting a distant star. The newly discovered planet is circling Kepler-90, a G-type main-sequence star (Sun-like star), 2,545 light-years from Earth. It is named Kepler-90i.

According to the press release from NASA, Kepler-90i is “a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days“. In this case, computers using Google’s machine learning algorithm, “learned” to identify planets by finding in Kepler data instances where the telescope recorded signals from planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets.