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Related: ImmortalitéHuman Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep time, in which the last 10,000 years are a short chapter in a long saga, you’d say: Things are pretty wild right now. In the most massive study of genetic variation yet, researchers estimated the age of more than one million variants, or changes to our DNA code, found across human populations. The vast majority proved to be quite young. The chronologies tell a story of evolutionary dynamics in recent human history, a period characterized by both narrow reproductive bottlenecks and sudden, enormous population growth.
38 Predictions About the Future Have you ever wondered what the future of humanity holds? We know you have, we do it all the time here at Mashable. And frankly, looking ahead is pretty much an integral part of human nature. Our friends at Information Is Beautiful Studio have compiled 38 predictions about the future of tech, science, and humanity in general — with an educated guess as to their odds of actually becoming reality. There are predictions for all kinds of tastes: your computer will have a sense of smell, Pinterest will be bought by Google, the appearance of the first human clones, the territory of the moon will be claimed by china, and many more. 5 Unexpected Factors That Change How We Forecast The Future When we think of "The Future," we have a tendency to think in terms of technologies. Whether it’s something as silly as a flying car or as banal as a new iteration of a mobile tablet, our images of what tomorrow will bring have a strong material bias. For everyday folks, this isn’t terribly surprising; our sense of what’s futuristic--whether via advertising or science fiction stories--zeroes in on stuff: robots, space ships, holograms, and so forth.
AQAL 2210: A Tentative Cartology of the Future Books discussed in this Section ~ Alexander, Christopher (2001) The Phenomenon of Life (The Nature of Order Bk 1-4 )CES Publishing, Berkeley, Ca. ~ Basseches, Michael Dialectical Thinking and Adult Development.Ablex Publishing Corp. Norwood, New Jersey. ~ Brown, Jason (2002) The Self Embodying Mind. agence de prospective et innovation En cours de réactualisation avec la collaboration de Marie-Laure De Langhe, experte en arts de vivres et tendances air du temps justes et durables. Maryline Passini is the founder and Managing Director of the operational and sensory prospective agency, Proâme, which includes a network of transdisciplinary experts, creators and artists. Operational, sensitive prospective trends enhance vision and inspire and extend brand imagery by detecting and linking up real trends. What’s most important is that these trends are then translated into innovation triggers, before being turned into unique, breakaway concepts and finally sublimed by words and aesthetics. The challenge is to see, imagine and create accurately, viably, durably, desirably and with singularity so that everything becomes obvious. Laboratoire : Maryline Passini works with a network (Proâme laboratory) of researchers, creatives, experts and multidisciplinary artists.
Timeline of the far future First, we brought you a prediction of the forthcoming year. Then we brought you a timeline of the near future, revealing what could happen up to around 100 years time. But here’s our most ambitious set of predictions yet – from what could happen in one thousand years time to one hundred quintillion years (that’s 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years). As the song says, there may be trouble ahead... To see more of our infographics, click here. Welcome to Post Capitalism (plus 5 layers of Corporate Transformation) The post is also available in Italian here. The Zero Marginal Cost Society In the last few days a number of, more or less enjoyable, articles introducing the latest book by Jeremy Rifkin, released earlier in March, saw the light on all the most important online newspapers worldwide. In his latest book called “The Zero Marginal Cost Society” the well-known American author recounts his vision: the eclipse of capitalism is coming soon and will be in favor of a completely new model that he dubs “the Collaborative Commons”. In one passage at the opening of the editorial oped that Rifkin published recently on several online outlets he says that “the capitalist era is passing” in a way that inevitable, and that the “new economic paradigm, the Collaborative Commons, is starting to “transform the way we live”.