Visualizing the Future of 2020
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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.
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…
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…
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…
Fiik Electric Skateboards Pushing Limits Like Never Before
Dan and Matt Quinn, brothers from Australia have been engineering premium quality electric skateboards for years. Fiik boards come with lithium-polymer battery packs, anti-lock brakes, LED safety lights, and a stepless digital throttle. The company’s…
Shedding Light on the Sahara Forest Project
A new Kickstarter campaign “Green Deserts — The Saltwater Revolution” got underway last month to raise $35,000 to fund a new documentary produced and directed by Per Liebeck and his colleagues at Copenhagen Film Company…
