In this edition: Autonomous trucks, the era of megachips, reviving dead organs |
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| The Skills and Classes of the Future |
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| ILLUSTRATION: FRANCESCO CICCOLELLA |
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Advances in technology will lead to new industries, new innovations and new jobs. And the students of the future will need to study specialized skills. From AI and the ethics associated with giving robots the ability to make sometimes life-or-death decisions to entrepreneurship in the metaverse, here are five coming classes for future college students. 📰 This article is part of The Future of Everything issue on education, which is rolling out online now and will be in the paper on August 11. 🤔 What new skills do you think students will need in the future? Send me your thoughts, questions and predictions by hitting "reply" to this email. |
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| ILLUSTRATION: MARK MILLER |
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The pressure to make chips faster and our devices more capable is unrelenting, and the chip industry is running into technical barriers trying to keep pace by shrinking transistors. Instead of keeping them small, semiconductor engineers are increasing performance by jamming chips closer together. What we're now seeing are mini-metropolises of silicon, in some cases reaching sizes rarely seen before in chips. WSJ columnist Christopher Mims looks at the emergence of the new 'megachip' age. |
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💊 The Future of Health. What emerging technologies are shaping the future of medicine? What changes need to be made to tackle today's most pressing health issues? Hear unscripted insights from visionaries at the forefront of medical innovation as they answer these questions and more. Join us online Sept. 14 at 12:30 p.m. ET for this complimentary event. Register here. |
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| PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: JOHN KUCZALA; ISTOCK |
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Autonomous-trucking company TuSimple has long been seen as the leader in the field, but a recently-revealed April crash could set back the company's ambitions. The accident underscores concerns that the autonomous-trucking company is risking safety on public roads in a rush to deliver driverless trucks to market, according to independent analysts and more than a dozen of the company’s former employees. A TuSimple spokesman said safety is a top priority for the company and that nobody was injured in the accident. |
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How Gene-Edited Crops Could be the Future of Feeding the World | Proponents say CRISPR gene-editing technology could help solve some of the world’s biggest food-related problems: salad greens could be more nutritious, fruits could taste better, and crops of all kinds could be altered to grow using fewer resources. But Agricultural technology companies still have to figure out how to overcome consumer skepticism. In this session from the WSJ Global Food Forum, leaders from two firms working to scale-up gene-edited foods discuss what it takes to get the new technology out of the lab and into supermarkets. | |
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“The future favors the big.” | — Charles Hayter, chief executive and co-founder of research firm CryptoCompare, talking about how two crypto exchanges have managed to increase their spot-trading market share amid the continuing crypto selloff. |
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PHOTO: LAURIE SKRIVAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: JOHN KUCZALA; ISTOCK |
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Online Privacy. Your home address and other personal information is just a search away. For many this is frustrating as we assume some level of privacy, and for others it can exacerbate harassment. Removing personal data requires patience and persistence, but here is how to get it done when you're ready. |
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Last week, we reported on how AI can be used to solve seemingly simple problems in businesses. Readers shared their thoughts: "AI will be most appropriate for applications in which many solutions are “good enough” and for which there is little if any downside of a sub-optimal or even an incorrect answer. Such applications include resource planning and allocation, scheduling and other logistics." —Anton T. Dahbura, Maryland "A potential benefit for AI might be to discriminate between various kinds of plastics and paper/cardboard such that recycling could accept any plastic and any cardboard, and allow recycling of corrugated cardboard." —Clyde Anderson, Illinois "Scanning food and predictably detecting decay or infection could be a very useful AI application. It can be used in food supply chains to scan produce and meat before it gets to the grocery stores, in the grocery stores and then in the fridge, right before point of consumption." —Ajay Dawar, California (Responses have been condensed and edited.) |
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With Innovative Bioreactor as Womb, Mouse Stem Cells Transform Into Organ-Filled Embryos (Science.org) Why Studying Bats Might Yield Insights into Human Life Extension (Spectrum IEEE) This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs (Wired) |
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Thanks for reading. I'm Soph Warnes, Audience Editor for Health & Science and The Future of Everything. Get in touch with me at Soph.Warnes@wsj.com. See more from The Future of Everything at wsj.com/foe. |
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