OpenTangent

I've made many predictions, many of which are completely off the mark. One of them however is almost guaranteed in my opinion: massive, modular, 3D printed mega-buildings. In the not too distant future we will all be living in self sufficient mega-buildings. One structure will contain city sized populations along with all the businesses, utilities and recreational facilities one would expect in a city and they will be able to be built, repaired and expanded relatively quickly and easily. These advanced construction processes will lay the foundations for a very bright future indeed.

James Stevens delves deep into the mind of Watkin Tudor Jones to reveal an empathetic genius.

Blame is an attempt to determine who should pay reparations for something that has gone wrong. By sending people to jail we are essentially passing our shared responsibility of social stability on to an individual who can arguably be considered a victim themselves.

Don't let Barnaby Jack 's death be in vain. We need a global recall of wireless life sustaining devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and defibrillators. The software on these devices must be completely open source so that third parties are able to review and patch the inevitable vulnerabilities.

In the following video Robert Sapolsky demonstrates how detrimental hierarchy is as a social mechanism and how equality, rather than obedience, promotes progress of a species.

The partially mummified remains of a humanoid creature dubbed Ata was discovered in the Atacama Desert in 2003.

I've always said that role models are unhealthy for character development because one tends to overlook negative traits in influential and charismatic people. I might rethink that statement because one person in particular shares my perspective with regards to ethics, technology and society almost entirely. That person is Jacob Appelbaum .