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Elon Musk: If Humans Are to Survive, We Must Merge With Machines

Elon Musk thinks that, as AI technology and automation continue to replace jobs and more traditional technology, humans will become obsolete and need to merge with machines. Since computers can communicate at speeds well beyond an organic organisms' capacity, Musk thinks that creating a symbiotic relationship between us and our tech will give us the edge we need.

February 14, 2017
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Technology

The Truth About Unemployment

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Stop worrying about outsourcing. Start planning for automation.

February 14, 2017
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Technology

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Energy-Generating Fusion Devices Move Closer to Reality

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A physicist has developed an update to the software used to design stellarators, the magnetic cages that confine plasma for use in fusion reactors. This innovation has the potential make building new stellarators cheaper and less time-consuming, which brings the dream of practical nuclear fusion energy closer to reality.

February 14, 2017
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Renewable Energy

Super Materials Are Leading Us to a New Age in Science

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This super material is ultra-light, 200 times stronger than steel, electrically conductive, biodegradable, and can be formed into practically any shape imaginable. Once we can find a way to produce graphene in greater quantities, it could be used for everything from phone screens and headphones to supercomputers and cyborgs.

February 15, 2017
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Could This Idea From Futurama Solve Climate Change?

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An old episode of Futurama featured a weird climate change solution: to occasionally drop a massive ice cube into the ocean. Despite being a ridiculous and wildly inefficient solution, it is apparently a scientifically feasible fix.

February 15, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Climate Change

200 Coders and Hackers United to Save NASA’s Climate Data From Deletion

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In one day, a group of 200 hackers, coders, and students saved 8,404 NASA and DOE webpages onto the Internet Archive and downloaded 25 gigabytes from 101 public datasets. Access to this valuable information is essential if we want to continue to make scientific progress, especially in the field of climate research.