With so many being forced to go out of their way and spend more time on the road in their cars, it seems lunacy for this scheme to remain in the long-term. There are plenty ways of introducing measures to reduce pollution and encourage communities to use more human-powered or public transport, this is not it.
As Bill Gates' plan for filling the atmosphere with dust particles to in order to combat climate change moves another step closer to reality, it continues to draw attention [and some alarm] from the scientific community. Now, more of the world's top tech moguls are generating their own noise for the latest in geo-engineering, with a project set to reduce the acidity of the world's oceans.
There are many emerging technologies out in the world with boundless potential for both good and bad. It is vital that our nations and governments learn from previous failings to understand technology, resulting in embarrassing courtroom scenes and redundant legislation.
Initially touted as a potential miracle-cure for any number of diseases, there is still no evidence of any long-term affects that gene editing may have on an individual during a lifetime, and that's before looking at the bigger question of "should we" be making these changes at all.
As some of the major sporting leagues across the globe prepare to return this weekend, what are some of the top tech changes that were implemented for the covid-19 lockdown conditions and will they remain once spectators are allowed back into stadiums and into seats?
Art is not predictable, it is not something that can be automated and while it can be re-created by machines, these pieces lack the intangible element that defines art. Art requires humans and humans require art.
With IoT and 5G converging to enable devices from your kitchen fridge to alarm clock and even teddy bears to be "online" there is - or should be - a real concern over security of communications between these systems.
AR can teach you the steps for a symphony but if we live exclusively using these tools how will we cope when the off switch is flipped?
This lawsuit, if successful could herald a new age of accountability, sending a shockwave throughout every aspect of sport, with companies having to consider the use of all data pertaining to the stars on show.
With greener everything being championed it's time to consider exactly what our own impact on the digital world is. Data isn't free and we're all responsible for keeping it lean.
With screens left blank until the system's programmed analytics pick up an anomaly, what potential answers to mysteries are lurking on this dark-data that never sees the light of day?
Every year we are offered a slew of new “tech” and “trends” set to “revolutionize” the security industry.
But I’ve found the security industry to be incredibly slow to adopt and take advantage of new technologies, many never making it past a “cool idea”, a proof of concept or simply words and articles filling column inches to make a point that the industry has its finger on the pulse, but why is this?
Doesn't sound much like the introduction to The Terminator, The Matrix or any other sci-fi dystopia, but listen to Elon Musk or the late Stephen Hawking discuss "the singularity" and it seems like these low-level activities would be a precursor to more dangerous and broader leaps that will eventually lead to technological servitude.
Is it so much to as for a science show to stick to science? Or if it *must* bring politics into the discussion to have equal representation or at least a modicum of accountability for the poorly thought through comments that seem to litter their broadcasts?
It seems unlikely that the level of data being freely handed over without a choice to opt-out in Hangzhou would be tolerated in many Western communities, but could we be halfway down the road towards this future already?
Satellite imagery could be put to use, to model the trends year-on-year of the vegetation, temperatures, rainfall and even factors like urbanisation all in order to provide informed trajectories for the next "Sussex-Sparkling"
In the most "Black Mirror" version of this scenario, the state could create partnerships with all tracking technologies, make it a requirement of trading in the country and connect all systems into an aggregator that would provide everything required for "TwinWorld".
With football beginning to embrace technology in more sections of the sport the scouting of new talent seems a potential area to make fast progress…
With history once again showing that the youth are the ones who dictate future trends, what should be considered the "video gaming" of today? What is the thing that parents are sick of their kids being glued to that just might be the next mega-industry to rise up in the coming decades?
Technology can bring some of the most exciting and far reaching developments to the human race, and may well be the answer to ensuring our future. We just need to make sure those developments don't come at the cost of our humanity.
