Visualizing the Future of 2020
View the full size PDF document here or double click on chart at bottom of this page! The following chart and categories were created by Richard Watson author of “The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to…
World’s Largest Canal Will Bring Water to Parched Northern Chinese Cities by 2018
IndustryTap has written about the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, China’s Three Gorges Dam, and China’s High-Speed Rail (HSR) project and its planned extension to Europe as a new Silk Road. Now China is breaking ground on…
Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours
Knowledge Doubling Curve Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today…
Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion May Have Been Prevented by Limit Switch Technology
Wednesday night a fire broke out at 7:00 pm at an industrial fertilizer plant owned by Adair Grain Inc. in West, Texas, a town of about 2,600 people, just north of Waco. As many as…
VC Ready to Drop $200 Million into Google Glass Startups
Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame is ready to bet on Google Glass, in the only way that matters, with boatloads of money. His venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…
What Did the Cameras See? Boston Marathon Bombings
Security cameras will likely hold the key to unraveling the bomb attacks in Boston, experts say. Often lambasted as failing to deter crime, security cameras certainly come in handy during the investigation. Video of the…
Looking for CAD Models? GrabCAD has them for free.
GrabCAD collaboration platform, at 350,000 members, is building the largest mechanical engineering team in the World Founded in 2009 in Estonia by Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk, GrabCAD, now headquartered in Boston, MA, is a…
Advanced Threat Detection, Seeing Everyone and Everything
Oncam Grandeye (OCG) a leading security industry company has developed a technology allowing companies in many industries, especially those needing Security and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), to intelligently integrate the entire surveillance process to produce…
Detroit Electric SP:01 Boast 155 MPH Top End and 3.7 Sec 0-62 MPH
Emissions-free motoring has a new high-performance champion following the unveiling today of the Detroit Electric SP:01, a limited-edition, two-seat pure-electric sports car that sets new standards for performance and handling in the electric vehicle (EV)…
NASA Capturing an Asteroid, Too Late for Dinosaurs but Might Save You
A number of organizations worldwide are planning to capture asteroids in order to protect the earth, harvest resources and maybe even create a base from which to launch missions to Mars! The first candidate for…
