Ideas for Change

A forum for new ideas, directions and discoveries.

Imagination has no boundaries

Near Light Speed Engines and the Dream of Interstellar Travel

What are our chances of interstellar and intergalactic travel?

The World in 2030 - Top Twenty Technologies

Game of Drones - Latest Ideas for Spy Planes

15 September, 2022

Starting a Revolution

14 September, 2022

The World Really is Getting Better

Who says? Well, Bill Gates

US v China: the Race to Build Even Faster Supercomputers

2 September, 2022

Creating New Foods in Space

4 September, 2022

Will Artificial Superintelligence Enhance or Threaten Human Existence?

Very real questions about who will be the master...

The Immortal Jellyfish - what we can Learn about Longevity

This analysis by Nebula, the video on-demand streaming service.

Looking for Love in the Metaverse

The latest place for dating

Are 15-Minute Cities the Future?

20 August, 2022

Latest Supersonic Passenger Jet

This is the successor to the Concorde

Longtermism and Saving Trillions of Lives

Future Warfare

It's already here.

Hypersonic Missiles

These are the latest escalation in the arms race. What are hypersonic missiles and why are the superpowers raicing to develop them?

Are We Living inside a Hallucination?

World's Fastest Supercomputers

Where are they and what do they do?

The US Far Right in 2022: What's Coming Next?

White supremacy groups influence American politics far beyond their numbers. On the anniversary of the Capitol riot, Jan 6, 2021, how has the far right evolved, and what can we expect in an election year?

Saving America

Can it be saved? From itself? It's amazing that such questions are now being asked.

Surveillance and the Metaverse

Is this the end of privacy?

Saving the Night Sky

New Zealand is helping to pioneer the preservation of dark skies for stargazing.

Civil War Looming in the USA?

They've already had one disastrous civil war, do they really want another?

Inoculation Against Media Disinformation

Estonia is leading the way with media literacy courses in schools.

World Population Growth

Will it be sustainable by the end of the century? Will climate change and food production affect the numbers?

Parallel Universe

Yes, there might be two or more of you in the multiverse.

Grasshopper Steak

The superfood of the future.

Go Fly a Kite - Might be the Best Way to Harness the Wind

Slaughterbots

Do they exist? Yet?

Developing New Covid Vaccines

The problems involved in developing new generation Covid vaccines that are more potent and mutation-proof.

Neom - the Saudi Eco City

Saudi Arabia is dreaming about building a city of the future in its desert. But would you want to live there?

The Planet Next Door

It's called Proxima d and it will likely be the first exoplanet that we will try to visit. Although we won't be swinging by anytime soon.

Privatizing the Moon

The Adam Smith Institute is proposing to privatize real estate in outer space. What? Real estate is expensive enough here, so what's the deal?

Homes Made from Giant Sewage Pipes

This idea, developed in India, might be more than just a passing phase.

Could Contact Lenses Become the Next Computer Screens?

The newest computer upgrade, perhaps.

Gravity Batteries

Can the they solve our future energy storage problems?

Teaching History by Way of Video Games

Yes, this is happening. But how reliably could video games and VR teach history?

China's Train Prototype Capable of 620kph

Facebook and Ray-Ban Smart Glasses: Will Anyone Wear Them?

Want to Beat the Market? Go Ask a Robot

Apple and Mixed Reality: the Next Big Thing?

Opera and AI

Can these possibly mix?

The City That Floats

An answer to rising sea levels.

The Rise of AI Companions

Japan's Deep Sea Turbine Plans to Harness Energy from the Ocean

Land Release and Landmines

Land Release is the latest methodology to clear minefields, now being introduced world wide.

Explosive Harvesting

Explosives can also be harvested in countries that have been devastated by war. These explosives are then melted, mixed and recast to make detonation charges that, in turn, destroy other, more dangerous, unexploded ordnance.

Destroying UXO

Mike Minehan, CEO of the Ideas Channel, talks about helping to get rid of the explosive remnants of war in Cambodia.

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