Seemingly Crazy Predictions for the Near Future

Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you’re aging. That's according to Ray Kurzweil, a futurist with a successful track record of predictions, and just one of the predictions he made at the World Science Festival last week in New York.

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LEDs: The Technology That Will Soon Replace The Light Bulb

In case you didn’t know it, Thomas Edison’s invention, in use for more than 100 years to illuminate virtually everything, is quickly heading for the exits. What will eventually take its place is the light-emitting diode (L.E.D.) bulb, made up of tiny light sources the size of a head of a pin that use a fraction of a regular light bulb’s electricity

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World's first commercial bionic hand

The world's first commercial bionic hand has grabbed Britain's top engineering prize.

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No Signs of Intelligent life on Earth, Says Stephen Hawking (Video)

Stephen Hawking opens up to Discovery News correspondent Irene Klotz. In this fascinating question and answer period Stephen Hawking says the human race has no future if we don't go into space and he hopes there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe because there are no signs of it here on earth

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