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Vanessa Bates Ramirez is senior editor of Singularity Hub. She’s interested in renewable energy, health and medicine, international development, and countless other topics. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a return to normal. We want to be able to go out again, see our friends, and be in public places without feeling likeContinue reading “Fixing What’s Broken: If We Build a Moral Economy, the Future Will Be Better”

Paul Cureton is a drone pilot and Senior Lecturer in Design at ImaginationLancaster and member of the Data Science Institute, Lancaster University, UK. Drones, personal flying vehicles, and air taxis may be part of our everyday life in the very near future. Drones and air taxis will create new means of mobility and transport routes.Continue reading “How Drones and Aerial Vehicles Could Change Cities”

John Grant is a lecturer in soil science at Southern Cross University. He has a doctorate in science looking at how the physical and chemical properties of soil impact tree growth. Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And atContinue reading “The Moon’s Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years”

Edd Gent a freelance science and technology writer based in Bangalore, India. My main areas of interest are engineering, computing and biology, with a particular focus on the intersections between the three. One of the biggest barriers to electric vehicle adoption is the fear of running out of juice before you get to your destination.Continue reading “Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive”

Jason Dorrier is managing editor of Singularity Hub. He did research and wrote about finance and economics before moving on to science and technology. Imagine a collection of books—maybe millions or even billions of them—haphazardly tossed by publishers into a heaping pile in a field. Every day the pile grows exponentially. Those books are brimmingContinue reading “Google AI Researchers Are Dreaming Up a New Species of Search Engine”

Vanessa Bates Ramirez is senior editor of Singularity Hub. She’s interested in renewable energy, health and medicine, international development, and countless other topics. Bitcoin has steadily grown in popularity since its inception in 2009. We hear about how many people are getting rich quick from it, and how much energy it’s consuming, and how complexContinue reading “How Cryptocurrencies Can Influence the Future of Freedom”

Scott Simonsen is currently doing research and editing for the UN. He’s most interested in sustainable energy, global politics, and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin gets all the attention, especially since it recently rocketed towards $20,000. But many other cryptocurrencies exist, and more are being created at an accelerating rate. A quick look at coinmarketcap.com shows over 1,400Continue reading “There Are Over 1,000 Alternatives to Bitcoin You’ve Never Heard Of”

Luke Heemsbergen, PhD, Media and Politics, Deakin University. A couple of days ago, the musician Grimes sold some animations she made with her brother Mac on a website called Nifty Gateway. Some were one-offs, while others were limited editions of a few hundred—and all were snapped up in about 20 minutes, with total takings ofContinue reading “NFTs Explained: What They Are and Why They’re Selling for Millions of Dollars”

Aaron Frank is a writer and speaker and one of the earliest hires at Singularity University. Earlier this year, a digital artist conned unsuspecting NFT collectors to highlight a vulnerability in the way cryptographically secured assets are managed online. The anonymous artist, known by their twitter handle @neitherconfirm, sold a collection of stylized portraits asContinue reading “How to Embed Trust Into the Foundations of the Internet”

Gaia Vince, writer and broadcaster specialising in science and the environment. On the evening of 17 February 2018, Professor Mary Beard posted on Twitter a photograph of herself crying. The eminent University of Cambridge classicist, who has almost 200,000 Twitter followers, was distraught after receiving a storm of abuse online. This was the reaction toContinue reading “Why good people turn bad online”