In this edition: The utility of high-tech face masks, Elon Musk's Dogecoin tweets and self-driving cars with less motion sickness. |
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🤖 What are you waiting for? The Future of Everything Festival takes place online May 11-13. Together, we’ll look around the corner at the ideas triggering seismic shifts in how we live, work and play. You’ll collaborate with entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, scientists and thinkers so that you can plan for what’s next with informed projections—not predictions. The Wall Street Journal will deliver all of this and more, so join us and experience the future as it takes shape. Register here for your 3-Day Pass (complimentary for WSJ members). |
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| ILLUSTRATION: NUSCALE POWER |
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Mini Nuclear Reactors Offer Promise of Cheaper, Clean Power. Reactor makers are pitching smaller, modular systems that produce limitless emissions-free energy—but they may not be an easy sell. |
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Skiing Adapts to Climate Change. From artificial clouds to autonomous snow-grooming vehicles, here are 12 ways for ski areas to weather warmer temperatures and less snow. |
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| PHOTO: OYVIND GRAVAS/WOLDCAM/EQUINOR ASA |
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Metals That Work Like Magic | Trains that run from New York to California in a few hours, laptops that never overheat, and rockets that fly to Jupiter: These are some of the possibilities of superconductivity. After decades of failed experiments, a new discovery may have just gotten us a step closer. | |
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Listen on your smart speaker with these voice commands: Apple HomePod: "Hey Siri, play the Future of Everything" Amazon Echo: “Alexa, play the Future of Everything on iHeartRadio" "Alexa, play the Future of Everything on TuneIn" |
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“People don’t say, ‘I want to be known as an architect that has bathrooms in all our buildings.’ No, that’s just a given. Being green, being sustainable, being carbon-neutral, should just be what it means to be a good architect.” | — Tim McDonald, a principal at Onion Flats, an architecture firm building affordable, net-zero apartments |
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Better Data, Cheaper Tech Promise to Unlock Nature’s Secrets. Conservationists hope newly launched open-source tools will lend more insight into endangered species and the effects of climate change. |
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Last week, we reported on a Philadelphia architecture firm building carbon-neutral apartments on a budget. Readers shared their thoughts about changes coming to home construction: "There will be two major changes in single-family construction. The first will be that 'stick built' modules (rooms) will be assembled in a factory and transported to sites on electric semis. The second change will be the 3-D printing of interior and exterior walls using concrete. This will be especially important in hurricane-prone areas where the strength of an all concrete building is needed." —Richard Hayes, Michigan "I am concerned about disposal of toxic solar panels and car batteries. The solar panels have a useful life of 25-30 years and the car batteries are much less than that. I hope someone finds an economically feasible way to recycle these." —Sharon Stewart, Tennessee "I think we have no other choice but to design and build housing and communities in a more sustainable manner. Suburban sprawl and the suburban lifestyle are not only unnecessary and detrimental in respect to overuse of fossil fuel (the work commute, the shopping commute, etc.), the suburban lifestyle is detrimental to social sustainability. More ideal—essential—is a return to real communities where private living space is in closer proximity to jobs, shopping and places to socialize and connect with members of the community." —Elaine Phaneuf, Missouri (Responses have been condensed and edited.) |
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Volvo Aims to Ease the Queasiness of Riding in Self-Driving Vehicles (Read) Face Masks Go High-Tech, But Do You Need One? (Read) Rough Landing Expected for the Glut of New Small-Rocket Makers (Read) Elon Musk’s Dogecoin Tweeting Has Believers Barking for More (Read) |
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