SNS: The ERaCha Era: Living on the Edge of Radical Change

SNS Subscriber Edition
Volume 18, Issue 30
Week of August 10, 2015

In This Issue

Feature: The ERaCha Era: Living On The Edge Of Radical Change

• Robots Everywhere
• Internet Assistants
• AORTA At Last
• Pattern Recognition
• Instant Translation
• Augmented Reality
• Natural Navigation
• MALT
• Driverless Cars
• Solar World
• Ubiquitous Surveillance
• Real Medicine

Quotes of the Week

Takeout Window

• A Map of What the Chinese Deny Doing
• A New Theory of Network Effects: Percolation Explosions

Upgrades And Numbers

• No Grexit
• China’s Currency Manipulation
• A New Memory Technology
• Tunable LEDs Using Graphene

Ethermail

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You’re driving toward the Grand Canyon at a pretty good clip. It can be hard to see that cliff edge right in front of you.

There are many people working on looking forward today, with a number of descriptions of what they see, generally within their own chosen fields of interest. On a larger scale, Moore’s Law, and the shift to technology driving every sector of the economy, have united to create a different world, day by day, from that which came before.

This rate of change is exponential, and for that reason, almost impossible for us to grasp.