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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

For decades, our vision of the future has been stuck in a 1960s-era dream of science fiction embodied by The Jetsons and space travel. In fact, what if our vision of that particular technologically advanced future is all wrong? Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive?

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. We’re just trying to show futures that are not dystopian, so people have something to work toward.” She sees the contest partly as a way to provide hopeful visions of the future.

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Ford unveils Fusion Hybrid research vehicle for autonomous driving

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Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. The Ford Fusion Hybrid automated vehicle represents a vital step toward our vision for the future of mobility.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. So much of our world is based on technology, so we need to have a lot of voices to shape its future. “I High school student Julia Griffin wanted her comic to encourage youngsters to protect the environment.

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IEEE President’s Note: A Promise Is a Promise

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He escaped a future of being a struggling farmer and was able to build a successful business. Ethics serves as my ultimate guide for how I conduct myself both personally and professionally. A self-taught accountant without formal education, he lived in the impoverished countryside of southern Taiwan. He was also a vegetarian.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Laser printers.

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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

Look in one direction and you see one possible future with the native plantings and the lake with beautiful herons, egrets, ducks and other wildlife. But turn around and look the other way and it looks like something out of John Carpenter’s Escape from Los Angeles. .