The Future Farm is Vertical
In the area of eleven per cent of our human family is currently suffering as a result of undernourishment, eight hundred twenty one million people or approximately one in nine Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Technology
The High Cost of Automated Electric Vehicles
The automated car is the most dramatic technological advance to the automotive industry since its inception and it will be economically devastating. Continue Reading →
Who an Automated Car Should Kill is the Wrong Question
The Trolley Problem, a thought experiment in ethics presented in 1967 by Philippa Foot, is a way of testing if our judgements are utilitarian. The problem proposes a trolley on Continue Reading →
3D Printing; Prospects and Pitfalls
Industries could be reshaped, if not crushed, by in home printing of consumer goods, entire factories of people could find themselves displaced. Continue Reading →
Vertical Farms Can Feed the World
We can feed more than ten billion people on our planet using vertical farms, there is no need for anyone to be suffering malnourishment. Continue Reading →
How Science Fiction can Save our World
Our technology is uniquely suited for this task of human transformation as it is an extension of ourselves and our intelligence, and therefore it is a part of us. Continue Reading →
How the Media Controls Your Reality
The influences that surround us drive our experience by moderating the information presented to us. This unique combination of information shapes our own personal world, constructs our reality. Continue Reading →
Product Longevity in a World of Consumption
Product Longevity is incompatible with capitalism as we know it. How do we address this from a sustainability perspective? Continue Reading →
Automation Will Change the World Sooner Than You Think
Far-off notions of intelligent androids performing our every wish are the least of our worries. Automation is set to displace workers in many areas with little advance in technology. Continue Reading →
Technology Won’t Save Us From Ourselves
Human technology is almost beyond comprehension; we have advanced so quickly in a short space of time leaving most of us unaware of our true capabilities. Continue Reading →