Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.

Kepler 22B Is Habitable But Would Take 23 Million Years To Reach

This week noted scientist Stephen Hawking made a controversial remark stating that in order for humans to survive over the next millennium we must establish colonies in space. Two big hurdles stand in the way…

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Junkyard Jumbotron: Multi-Display Screens Have Never Been Easier (Video)

The MIT Center for Civic Media, co-founded in 2009 by Director Chris Csikszentmihailyi, a founder of MIT Media Lab, is home to engineers, scientists and artists developing new media and information technologies that are free…

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Ten Advancing Technology Breakthroughs For 2013

1. Supergrids Come of Age A recent breakthrough in grid technology could make DC power lines practical in 2013. At an ABB Swedish lab researchers have developed a high power DC circuit breaker. For over…

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Can Fusion Energy Generate Unlimited Clean Energy by 2017?

The phrase “shooting for the moon” has for centuries been used as a symbol of something utterly unattainable; fusion energy, once thought to be fantasy is now locked in the crosshairs of a Lockheed Martin…

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World’s First Manned Electric Powered Helicopter

The Achievement In 2011, Pascal Chretien, an electric and aerospace engineer from French based Solution F, achieved the first untethered electric powered helicopter flight in history. The achievement seems modest in that he hovered 1…

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World’s Most Powerful Microscopes Mapping The Brain

I recently visited Professor Jeff Lichtman of Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Center with a small group of journalists, to learn about the Human Connectome Project which is mapping the human brain and its 85…

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World’s Largest Aqueducts, Moving Billions Of Gallons Of Water Daily

Two of the more interesting tunnels that humans build are transportation tunnels for trains and cars and water aqueducts supplying large cities. The largest existing aqueduct in the world is the Thirlmere Aqueduct in North…

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NASA Contractor GGB Develops Innovative Two-Piece Double-Flanged Bearings

GGB Bearing Technology: A World of Bearings One of the most important mechanical inventions of all time was the wheel because it lessened the force of friction involved in movement. Bearings, based on the wheel,…

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$1 Billion In Digital Currency, Is Bitcoin Electronic Gold?

New Virtual Currecy Bitcoin is a virtual digital currency payment system for worldwide payments with low or zero processing fees and no intermediary financial institutions such as a central bank or central organization. Bitcoin was…

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One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020

According to scientists, humanity has begun its next major shift: we are now entering the “Hybrid Age”. Across the entire range of scientific and technological disciplines changes are occurring that were unimaginable a few decades…

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Author Archives: David Russell Schilling

About David Russell Schilling

Kepler 22B Is Habitable But Would Take 23 Million Years To Reach

Junkyard Jumbotron: Multi-Display Screens Have Never Been Easier (Video)

Ten Advancing Technology Breakthroughs For 2013

Can Fusion Energy Generate Unlimited Clean Energy by 2017?

World’s First Manned Electric Powered Helicopter

World’s Most Powerful Microscopes Mapping The Brain

World’s Largest Aqueducts, Moving Billions Of Gallons Of Water Daily

NASA Contractor GGB Develops Innovative Two-Piece Double-Flanged Bearings

$1 Billion In Digital Currency, Is Bitcoin Electronic Gold?

One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020

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