
The Dawn of the Space Mining Age
New legislation and interest from a number of private ventures could lead to extraction of valuable minerals from asteroids—and sooner than you might think
Richard Yonck is a futurist, author and speaker at Intelligent Future Consulting. He's guided businesses through the ever-shifting technology landscape for over two decades and writes extensively about the future and emerging technologies. Yonck lives in Seattle, where he is currently completing his new book, "Emotional Machines: When Computers Know What You Feel," which explores the growing role of emotion in artificial intelligence.
New legislation and interest from a number of private ventures could lead to extraction of valuable minerals from asteroids—and sooner than you might think
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A recent report from Europol's European Cybercrime Center includes a forecast that the world's first "online murder" will likely occur before the end of 2014.
In March, a team of researchers based in Antarctica announced they'd detected gravitational waves, faint echoes from the first moments of the Big Bang.
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