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Robots Must Pay For Their Crimes!
Traditionally when a robot injures someone or damages property we hold the robot's creator or owner accountable. But that notion is changing. On May 31, 2016 the European Parliament received a report from the Commission on Legal Affairs saying that, depending on circumstances, the ROBOT might be held responsible for its own actions!
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Fw:Thinking: The Internet of Things
In the future, the Internet of Things will impact our daily lives. Learn how the Internet of Things will work in this video from Fw:Thinking.
Fw:Thinking: Simple Decisions We Can Make To Fight Climate Change
Here are four small decisions we can make that, collectively, create a HUGE impact on our environment!
3D printing can be used to create everything from furniture to human organs. Learn about the present and future of 3D printing in this video from Fw:Thinking.
Fw:Thinking: The Future of Time
Defining time is a more complicated concept than it might seem. Learn about the future of time in this video from Fw:Thinking.
What is the future of water? Learn about the future of water in this video from Fw:Thinking.
Fw:Thinking: The Future of Big Data
Big data is the huge amount of information accumulated by online data centers. Jonathan Strickland examines the future of big data.
Fw:Thinking: Video Game Teaches You QUANTUM PHYSICS!
Video games are more than just a fun way to waste time. They've been scientifically suggested to make us smarter, and may give us skills we can apply in the real world.
Fw:Thinking: How the Internet of Things Will Change the World
When we launched this channel, our very first episode was about the Internet of Things, and how this technology might affect our day-to-day lives at home. Now, over 100 episodes later, we felt it was time to give this topic an update.
Fw:Thinking: The Future of Renewable Energy...is Coming from Drones?
Windmills are a thing of the past! In the future, renewable energy could come from wind harvesting drones. These devices are portable, and would require a lot less material to make. And where do we find this wind?
Fw:Thinking: What Will the Future of Football Look Like?
This year's season of American football will feature players wearing special sensors tracking the player's speed, distance and more! So what does this mean for the future of the sport?
FW: Thinking: Will Solar Power Be The Energy Miracle?
Our biggest sources of energy today are also big sources of carbon dioxide. Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, said It will take an "energy miracle" to tackle climate change and meet our energy needs in the coming decades.
Fw:Thinking: Working in the Office of the Future
Holographic bosses? Robot assistants? Virtual water coolers? Anything is possible in the workplace of the future!
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FW: Thinking: How To Make A Living When Robots Take Our Jobs
One of the big questions left to answer is how will we make a living in a world where more of our work is left to automated machinery? The robots aren’t exactly poised to displace everyone tomorrow but that day is coming.
FW: Thinking: Being Human In 100 Years
What will it be like to be human one hundred years from now? It's a hard question. Some fields of science progress at breakneck speed while others languish behind for what feels like an eternity (I'm looking at you battery technology).
FW: Thinking: Racing To The Future!
Toyota has created a cutting edge simulator designed to help racing teams become familiar with every track in all sorts of conditions. It’s an incredible machine. And simulations are playing an important role in our journey into the future.
FW: Thinking: Could We Build A Real Warp Drive?
Stars are insanely far away. Science fiction writers have solved the problem with the "warp drive," which allows future humans to travel faster than light, crossing the vast emptiness of space.
FW: Thinking: Would You Have A Romantic Relationship With A Robot?
With every passing year robots and artificial intelligence become more life-like and sophisticated. But how does that affect romance?
FW: Thinking: Proxima B: Another Earth Just Next Door
In August 2016 astronomers made a huge announcement: they had discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet right in our cosmic backyard. The world is called Proxima B, and it's located within Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth.
FW: Thinking: Will Robots Be Made of Living Tissue?
Although biomimicking robots may be the wave of the future, our technology isn't quite there yet. Until we make a few major breakthroughs in shrinking and powering portable mechanical parts, there's just no way that our robots can compete with the mo
FW: Thinking: Hacking People For Good
In the future a wave of biologic super-enhancements will make you and me faster, smarter, stronger and healthier… but what about BETTER?
FW: Thinking: Is It Time To Build Floating Airports?
Floating airports would solve some major problems that plague their land-bound cousins, offering virtually unlimited runway expansion to cities with very limited land area. Today we're looking at the crazy engineering ideas that could be the future o
FW: Thinking: Can We Use Genetics To Build NEW Species?
Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute sequenced the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides and coded it into a computer.
FW: Thinking: Robots Must Pay For Their Crimes!
Traditionally when a robot injures someone or damages property we hold the robot's creator or owner accountable. But that notion is changing.
FW: Thinking: Edible Electronics
From ingestible origami robots to password pills, this week we take a look at the weird future of literal technology consumption!
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