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Curing Blindness, Robotaxis & 120 IQ AIs: Mind-Blowing Breakthroughs
Your Weekly Dose of “Data-Driven Optimism”
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autonomous vehicles
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Waymo Robotaxis Are Giving 100,000 Rides a Week. It’ll Soon Be More.
By Jason Dorrier After years of overly aggressive forecasts about self-driving cars, here’s a statistic that snuck up on us: People are now hailing...
September 19, 2024
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You will not own a car in 10 years.
The era of the internal combustion engine (ICE) car is ending. We may have reached “peak ICE.”
October 22, 2020
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Abundance Insider: October 28th, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Google's quantum computing breakthrough, a new gene-editing technique, and NASA's collaboration with Caterpillar on...
October 28, 2019
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Abundance Insider: September 6th, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Agricultural drone swarms, first-ever remote heart surgery, and Insilico Medicine's AI-driven drug discovery.
September 06, 2019
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Abundance Insider: August 30th, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Stratospheric drones, a new space elevator design, and CRISPR-controlled materials for drug delivery.
August 31, 2019
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Abundance Insider: August 23rd, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Intel's new AI chip, Starship's college-based delivery bots, and a major breakthrough in determining protein...
August 23, 2019
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Abundance Insider: August 16th, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: NYC's first driverless shuttle service, universe-generating supercomputers, and the new legal debate of...
August 16, 2019
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Forging a >50% renewable electric economy by 2030
By 2030, more than 50 percent of the U.S. economy will run on electricity derived from renewables. What are the implications as we shift the U.S. and...
June 30, 2019
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In ten years, you will not own a car....
The era of the internal combustion engine (ICE) car is ending. We may have reached “peak ICE” production this past year.
June 23, 2019
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Abundance Insider: June 14th 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Amazon's commercial delivery drone, lab-grown stem cell heart patches, and a new artificial reef.
June 14, 2019
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Exponential China - Something You Can't Ignore
The rise of China as an epicenter of rapid-fire innovation and technological disruption is more important than ever before in transforming each and...
June 09, 2019
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Abundance Insider: June 7th 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Fake news AIs, the world’s first 1 GW energy storage project, and an ocean mapping breakthrough.
June 08, 2019
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Abundance Insider: June 1st, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Self-driving USPS trucks, CRISPR in space, and multilingual robot writers.
June 01, 2019
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Disrupting Real Estate & Construction
In the wake of the housing market collapse of 2008, one entrepreneur decided to dive right into the failing real estate industry. But this time, he...
May 26, 2019
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Top 5 Energy & Transportation Breakthroughs (2019 - 2024)
The energy and transportation industries are being aggressively disrupted by converging exponential technologies.
May 12, 2019
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Future of Cities Part 2: Visions of the Future
Tomorrow’s cities are reshaping almost every industry imaginable, and birthing those we’ve never heard of.
March 10, 2019
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Abundance Insider: January 11th, 2019
In this week's Abundance Insider: Roll-up TVs, next-gen smart supermarkets, and a new Gigafactory breaks ground.
January 11, 2019