During the past year, perhaps, all of us caught ourselves thinking that the events around are very reminiscent of a movie. A mysterious virus and an unknown disease that swept the whole world and radically changed the lives of people - why not the plot of a fantastic film about the future? AND…
Once the coronavirus recedes, doctors and officials will exhale, and it will be possible to plunge back into the noisy stream of social life. But we have to admit that after the COVID-19 pandemic, the world will no longer be as we know it. Writes about this Burning Hut. Digital Totalitarianism American ...
Scientists from the United States have simulated time travel using the IBM-Q quantum computer, writes Esquire. Based on their research, they concluded that there is no butterfly effect in the quantum world. The butterfly effect is a scientific term whose meaning is ...
Cars that talk to each other, roads that power your electric car, and other inventions can forever change the city's transport infrastructure and our management experience. How the city of the future will look like, we can imagine quite well from the covers of science fiction books ...
“The divisions between races will shrink more and more. Nowadays people get to know each other on the Internet and do not pay attention to skin color or eye shape. Of course, some of the characteristics will remain, and you will still notice if you come to, say, Asia. According to ...
The coronavirus pandemic, mass protests in the United States over the assassination of George Floyd, the intrigue lingering on the eve of the American elections ... It seems that a series of completely unpredictable events is taking place in the world that can change the course of history. However, associate professor of the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems of MGIMO, member of ...
Sometimes film directors turn out to be true clairvoyants. This is delightful, and sometimes even frightening. Lifehacker has compiled a list of 13 films that predicted the future. 1. Forbidden Planet Original title: Forbidden Planet USA, 1956. Science fiction. Duration: 98 minutes. IMDb: 7,6. What is the movie about…
In Sweden, mass chipping of the population began in the spring of this year. People implant a microchip between their thumb and forefinger, which replaces all plastic cards and all kinds of keys and passes that a person usually carries with him. And if a year ago in this way ...
People built bunkers in case of the end of the world, imagined a meeting with their own clone and were eager to meet aliens, but it did not work out. “Lifehacker” remembered what expectations of mankind excited the whole world, but never came true. The end of the world according to the Mayan calendar The probability of a catastrophe on a planetary scale ...
When making forecasts, futurologists rely on knowledge in sociology, economics, physics, anthropology and engineering. Seasoning everything with fantasy Sometimes it takes scientists too far. Lifehacker editions have re-read the predictions over the past 100 years and found the most amazing ones. 1. Toes will disappear Instead of ...