Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
October 13th, 2016Via: The Intercept: The year is 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown. According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings […]
National Guard, State Police Descend on 81-Year-Old’s Property to Seize Single Pot Plant
October 6th, 2016Via: Daily Hampshire Gazette: All that remains of the solitary marijuana plant an 81-year-old grandmother had been growing behind her South Amherst home is a stump and a ragged hole in the ground. Margaret Holcomb said she was growing the plant as medicine, a way to ease arthritis and glaucoma and help her sleep at […]
Pacific Garbage Patch Far Worse than Previously Thought
October 5th, 2016Via: Guardian: The vast patch of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean is far worse than previously thought, with an aerial survey finding a much larger mass of fishing nets, plastic containers and other discarded items than imagined. A reconnaissance flight taken in a modified C-130 Hercules aircraft found a vast clump of mainly plastic […]
Not The Onion: ‘A Robot Baby Intended to Make Lonely People More Happy’
October 3rd, 2016Via: Independent: Toyota has created a tiny robot baby that it hopes can make lonely people more happy. The company’s Kirobo Mini is meant to help provide a companion. It looks like a baby – and could even serve that purpose for people in Japan, where it will be sold and where falling birth rates […]
First Evidence of Deep-Sea Animals Ingesting Microplastics
September 30th, 2016Via: Science Bulletin: Scientists working in the mid-Atlantic and south-west Indian Ocean have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep sea animals including hermit crabs, squat lobsters and sea cucumbers, revealing for the first time the environmental fallout of microplastic pollution. The UK government recently announced that it is to ban plastic microbeads, commonly found […]
Luxury Bunkers for L.A.’s Superrich
September 28th, 2016Via: Hollywood Reporter: Everyone I’ve talked to thinks we are doomed, no matter who is elected.
Power Outage Grips Entire State of South Australia
September 28th, 2016Via: Stuff: The entire state of South Australia is currently without power, with the region in the grip of what could be one of the most extreme weather systems to hit in 50 years. A mass blackout began on Wednesday afternoon, with the a “weather event” behind the unprecedented outage. Premier Jay Weatherill said the […]
North Carolina: State of Emergency Declared After Second Night of Riots
September 22nd, 2016Via: BBC: The North Carolina governor has declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlotte, as unrest continues over the police killing of a black man. Violence erupted for a second night after Keith Lamont Scott was shot dead by a black officer on Tuesday. One protester is in a critical condition after […]
Power Out Again
September 20th, 2016I was just working on an off grid proposal for a solar customer… When the power went out. It’s a sign! Anyway, I’m taking the night off from Cryptogon. Green tea: Check Phone state of charge 54%: Check Audiobook loaded on phone: Check
“Disruptive Tidal Wave”: Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All U.S. Jobs by 2021
September 19th, 2016Via: Guardian: By 2021, robots will have eliminated 6% of all jobs in the US, starting with customer service representatives and eventually truck and taxi drivers. That’s just one cheery takeaway from a report released by market research company Forrester this week. These robots, or intelligent agents, represent a set of AI-powered systems that can […]
