Will you be venturing out this evening with a loved one? Or will it be a romantic meal cooked at home …. with the additional chores of preparing, cooking and not forgetting washing up the dishes afterwards !! Well all this could soon be a thing of the past, with sensors built into autonomous cooking […]
Fast Future’s Life in 2025: “Say Hello Say Goodbye” Scenarios – The Technology Context Published on February 13, 2020 Rohit TalwarFuturist Keynote Speaker – Human Centred Digital Transformation By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, and Alexandra Whittington Across the technologically mature economies, citizens, society, businesses, and governments alike are becoming aware of the emergence of powerful […]
This Is What an AI Said When Asked to Predict the Year Ahead “What’s past is prologue.” So says the famed quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, alleging that we can look to what has already happened as an indication of what will happen next. This idea could be interpreted as being rather bleak; are we […]
5 Futuristic technologies that will exist before 2030
Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers.[1] It often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics.[1] Some common choices of structures to house vertical farming systems include buildings, shipping containers, tunnels, and abandoned mine shafts. The modern […]
Have humans evolved beyond nature – and do we even need it? Natural? Shutterstock Manuel Berdoy, University of Oxford Our society has evolved so much, can we still say that we are part of Nature? If not, should we worry – and what should we do about it? Poppy, 21, Warwick. Such is the extent […]
IORMA First Impressions IORMA First Impressions is the IORMA iLab experimental test zone for new IORMA innovations The first section of experimental trials concerns a new concept in video programs recorded in 2014 using a head mounted GoPro camera from the world-wide travels of David Wortley, IORMA Advisory Board Member. Please view the four trial […]
Four things the UK government must do to phase out petrol, diesel and hybrid cars by 2035 The future of British motoring? Bubble_Tea Stock/Shutterstock Ashley Fly, Loughborough University The UK government recently pledged to bring forward a ban on new diesel and petrol car sales from 2040, to 2035. The move surprised some, but perhaps […]
Explainable artificial intelligence XAI Quote of the day “Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated.”Go champion Lee Sedol explains why he’s retiring from professional play, after being beaten at the game by an AI system built by DeepMind. Explainable AI (XAI) refers to methods and techniques in the application […]
Could this be the image of the future? Rohit Talwar writes about dating: 2025 could signal the end of swiping right, as apps become fully automated using Artificial Intelligence. The next five years will see Artificial Intelligence and enhanced smartphone tech drive dating to a whole new level. Our health, attitudes, behaviours, on and off […]